UF/Miami get approval to bump opening game back a week to 8/24

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On WQAM’s Hurricane Hotline, linebacker Shaquille Quarterman assured that this season “is going to be very different from last season. The mat drills have been the best in the couple years I have been here. The mentality we had across the defense is spreading across the whole team. Once it sets in, we’re going to be dangerous.”
Fixing to be some thuggin' going on in Miami. They got the new attitude. Can't wait for them to pick a fight pregame like they did against LSU in the Peach Bowl then proceed to get curb stomped again. The days of Miami intimidating anyone have been over for more than a decade now.
 

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Fixing to be some thuggin' going on in Miami. They got the new attitude. Can't wait for them to pick a fight pregame like they did against LSU in the Peach Bowl then proceed to get curb stomped again. The days of Miami intimidating anyone have been over for more than a decade now.
Two decades nearly.

I recall their Tshirts the first time they came to Bobby Dodd after expansion. "We may be in your league, but you're not in ours."

It took them 4 years to beat us the first time and longer to win the Coastal. Still haven't won the ACC.
 

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Two decades nearly.

I recall their Tshirts the first time they came to Bobby Dodd after expansion. "We may be in your league, but you're not in ours."

It took them 4 years to beat us the first time and longer to win the Coastal.
They actually murdered us in 2004, bit I like your spirit! The Miami MLB was practically taking the snap. Our blocking was so bad Reggie was reduced to QB keepers since we could run nothing else. He got the crap beat out of him that day. Proud he stood in there.
 

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They actually murdered us in 2004, bit I like your spirit! The Miami MLB was practically taking the snap. Our blocking was so bad Reggie was reduced to QB keepers since we could run nothing else. He got the crap beat out of him that day. Proud he stood in there.
Was that the 30-3 game? Rashaun Grant busted a huge run to around the 20 right after kick off and we settled for 3. That was a terrible game to go to.
 

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Was that the 30-3 game? Rashaun Grant busted a huge run to around the 20 right after kick off and we settled for 3. That was a terrible game to go to.
Yes. Their defense dominated our line. We could block nobody. Their MLB was nearly taking the handoff. It was awful. The game was never in doubt.
 

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Yes. Their defense dominated our line. We could block nobody. Their MLB was nearly taking the handoff. It was awful. The game was never in doubt.
One could almost say we really weren't in their league. But yet that was their first year in the ACC, right?
 

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It was.

Greeting the team at Bobby Dodd at 4 a.m. the next year, after whipping them in Miami when they were #3, made up for it.
That was another "rock" defense game. Reggie had horrible numbers but yet we pulled another defense-based game out of our ass. I know that it's hardly ever mentioned here but if we had a typical NCAA QB from '05-'06 the landscape of GT football would have looked a lot different in that era. Ball peaked in '03 (couldn't really ask more) and yes, he always had heart. That doesn't win games.

What I mean say is that Collins very likely know how essential we need a very good QB and a balance on defense. How Gailey couldn't recruit just one still astonishes me. CPJ could do it some years but that defense, though.
 

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I suppose I blocked that one out of my memory. I remember now. *shiver*
 

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It was.

Greeting the team at Bobby Dodd at 4 a.m. the next year, after whipping them in Miami when they were #3, made up for it.
And the whiteout where the front came through and turned things cold near the beginning of the game. The Miami players huddled around non functioning heaters, so I hear, as we were busy kicking their ass.
 

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I’m not following. Do teams not practice right before the season?
The rule, at least it used to be, was that your preseason practice start date was set based on the date of your first game. Everyone didnt start the same day, which is what it should be.
 

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The rule, at least it used to be, was that your preseason practice start date was set based on the date of your first game. Everyone didnt start the same day, which is what it should be.
They count backwards from the first game to the allowable start date. Basically the NCAA has given them an extra week of practice and an extra bye that no one else gets.
 

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I’m not following. Do teams not practice right before the season?
The NCAA approved this in January 2018:

"Teams can now count 29 days from their first game to determine the earlier preseason practice date. And schools will not be required to give players a day off during preseason workouts — until classes start or one week before the season opener."
So by moving their opening week back to "week 0," UF and Miami just got an extra week of preseason practice, and will now have an extra bye week during the season.
 

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So by moving their opening week back to "week 0," UF and Miami just got an extra week of preseason practice, and will now have an extra bye week during the season.
If I understand correctly, I think it would be more accurate to say they get an extra week of in-season practice. Everyone gets the same amount of preseason practice, but their season is now a week longer, with an extra bye week, than everyone else. I think.
 

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If I understand correctly, I think it would be more accurate to say they get an extra week of in-season practice. Everyone gets the same amount of preseason practice, but their season is now a week longer, with an extra bye week, than everyone else. I think.
Fair enough. They get to start preseason practice a week ahead of everyone else, and I think bye week practice guidelines are pretty much the same as preseason, no mandatory days off and less restrictions. So it's not just an extra week of regular in-season practice. practi way, still an extra week.
 

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Since we don't play da U until middle of October, I wouldn't consider it to be much of an advantage against us. But Miami plays UNC week two, and the Tar Heels face USCe the week before. If I was UNC, I'd be unhappy that a division opponent arranged an extra week of practice and a bye going into the game.
 
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