The truth about Miami's offense...

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floridajacket

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I know after the Clemson game, we're all very apprehensive about Georgia Tech. Reggie's injury is a huge concern of mine and absolutely the main concern for Tech right now. Reggie against Clemson wasn't the same Reggie in the first six games. He couldn't rush straight up for yards. His feet were so happy that I thought they were in Disneyland.

But our relatively minor offensive problems do not change this one simple fact: Miami has one of the worst offenses in Division I-A. I'm not talking about for the talent they have. I'm talking about straight up, comparing them to the Louisiana-Lafayettes of the world.

Overall stats are pretty much useless, as they don't account for who a team has played. Here's each DI-A team Miami has played, with a ranking of the points scored against that opponent:

FSU
Clemson 27
NC State 24
Duke 24
Boston College 24
Troy 17
Miami 10
Rice 7

Louisville
Kentucky 28
MTSU 17
Cincy 17
Syracuse 13
Miami 7
Kansas St. 6
Temple 0

Houston
La Lafayette 31
Southern Miss. 31
Rice 30
Oklahoma St. 25
Grambling State 22
UTEP 17
Miami 14
Tulane 7

UNC
Clemson 52
Furman 42
South Florida 37
VPI 35
Miami 27
UVA 23
Rutgers 21

Florida International
Miami 35
Bowling Green 33
Arkansas St. 31
North Texas 25
South Florida 21
Maryland 14
MTSU 7

Duke
FSU 51
UVA 37
VPI 36
Bama 30
Miami 20
Wake Forest 14
Richmond 13

Some Notes:

- I'm pretty sure the score was 14-0 Miami over FIU when the brawl happened. Miami scored most of those points after FIU was gutted by ejections.

- Against Duke, only the starting FB was suspended on offense. The defense had two corners and the SS suspended, but they also forced Duke turn it over five times. I repeat, Duke turned it over five times and Miami still only scored 20 points.

Not in the worst times of Reggie-led offense did we score so few points. Coker is an aboslute embarrassment to the ACC and should be on top of Stewie's worst coaches list. I can only guess that he won the MNC with one of the most talented football teams in CFB history, where the previous coach both recruited for a certain scheme and Coker kept playing it.

They have no discipline and get called for multiple careless penalties every game. For example, the helmet-swinger Reddick got called for late hit personal foul later in the game on a punt return.

Clemson had a great OL with four seniors, one junior and the best two backs in the ACC running behind them. They simply played GT straight up man-for-man without pretense because they had the talent to do that.

Miami's OL is so much worse than Clemson that it's a crime to mention them in the same sentence. They've lost any type of blitz blocking they had last year and Wright has been absolutely mauled by the pass rush in every game.

I was borderline confident going into the VPI game because of the three new OL for VPI. I didn't exactly predict a loss, but I wasn't very optimistic against Clemson because of their veteran OL. Miami's OL is far worse than VPI's and I don't think the defense has matched up so well in any game this season except for the Samford game.

We can talk about GT's offense versus Miami's defense later, but it would take a truly epic meltdown by whoever's playing QB to lose this game. Despite everything in me that doesn't want to jinx this game, I can't see it any other way.
 
My only concern is the 'roadmap' aspect of this game. For each of those other games, Miami was creating their own gameplan. For this one, Clemson spoonfed them an offensive gameplan that they have the players to implement. It's a drop-in, turnkey solution to their offensive problems.

I'm not confident in this game, and I will be very very pleased when we win.
 
beej67 said:
My only concern is the 'roadmap' aspect of this game. For each of those other games, Miami was creating their own gameplan. For this one, Clemson spoonfed them an offensive gameplan that they have the players to implement. It's a drop-in, turnkey solution to their offensive problems.
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You sure hit the nail on the head, the Clemson loss was the type of loss that clearly showed where we are suspect, every offensive coordinator that plays us from now on will increase the number of runs between the tackles against us and Miami will be no exception. More so now with their personnel (the second coming of Edgerrin James in Javaris) and their lack of offensive creativity.
 
floridajacket said:
Coker is an aboslute embarrassment to the ACC and should be on top of Stewie's worst coaches list. I can only guess that he won the MNC with one of the most talented football teams in CFB history, where the previous coach both recruited for a certain scheme and Coker kept playing it.
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Coker's staff today versus the MNC season is totally different. He doesn't have a single offensive assistant now that he had then.
 
mm42 said:
Coker's staff today versus the MNC season is totally different. He doesn't have a single offensive assistant now that he had then.
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Yep, this years staff is absolutely dreaded by most Miami fans down here, the old staff had guys like Don Solinger (RB's coach), Art Kehoe (OL Coach) and Dan Werner (Off Coordinator) but they were (allegedly) the scapegoats for the loss to LSU in the bowl game last year, since Coker's buyout clause was too large for the administration to eat. These guys were institutions at the U, they are over at Ole Miss now and it will be interesting to watch their progress after their true freshmen get a few more years in the system and Brent Schaeffer gets more than one month of preseason time to learn the offense. But back to this years' Miami staff, they are changing a lot of things and the fans aren't sold on what they are doing, specially when you take out the old tight end over the middle play on cover two that made Miami tight end U for a long time.
 
beej67 said:
My only concern is the 'roadmap' aspect of this game. For each of those other games, Miami was creating their own gameplan. For this one, Clemson spoonfed them an offensive gameplan that they have the players to implement. It's a drop-in, turnkey solution to their offensive problems.

I'm not confident in this game, and I will be very very pleased when we win.
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Clemson's gameplan was no secret. It's not like the interior OLs of our other opponents didn't try to block our DTs. Clemson just blew them off the LOS one-on-one and had an OL to spare for Wheeler.

By contrast, Maryland during our last minute goal line stand double teamed both of our DTs. Clemson's OL is simply so much better than any we will face this season.

IMO, the Clemson game is just giving us unduly low expectations for the Miami game just like the VPI game gave us unduly high expectations for the Clemson game.
 
beej67 said:
My only concern is the 'roadmap' aspect of this game. For each of those other games, Miami was creating their own gameplan. For this one, Clemson spoonfed them an offensive gameplan that they have the players to implement. It's a drop-in, turnkey solution to their offensive problems.

I'm not confident in this game, and I will be very very pleased when we win.
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Everyone should already know how to counteract a pass-blitz already. The difference was that Clemson had the talent and discipline to enact that gameplan effectively. Also, it's important to remember that our defense only gave up 7 points (or 10; I can't remember), in the first half. The blowout happened because they had been on the field the entire game due to the lack of offensive production.

I'm really looking forward to this game. GO TECH!

I have my doubts that Miami can do this, and that's why I tentatively picked us to win this one.
 
The plan doesn't matter if you don't have the personnel, and Miami has not shown the ability to blow people off the ball.
 
Great write-up. I agree that our defense should definitely give us a great chance to be in this game. My only concern is that our offense will be demoralized coming off of last week's game. I don't think this will be the case, but it's still a concern.

Hopefully, we'll be able to control possession with our running and short-passing games. This should take some pressure off of Reggie.

GO JACKETS! FIGHT! WIN! DRINK! GET NAKED!
 
So, I hear that "Drink! Get Naked!" was unofficially added to "Fight! Win!" It had already started by my freshman year, so that's how I learned it. I thought it had always been there until a friend's older sister had about the same response, TechGator.

If you listen close enough, the entire student section yells it. Keep an ear open this Saturday.
 
GTROY said:
If you listen close enough, the entire student section yells it. Keep an ear open this Saturday.
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I will try to listen out for it after we score, on the TV. So how long has this "amendment" to the fight song been in existence?
 
TechGator1066 said:
I will try to listen out for it after we score, on the TV. So how long has this "amendment" to the fight song been in existence?
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Since at least 2003, thought it seemed established by then...
 
TechGator1066 said:
I will try to listen out for it after we score, on the TV. So how long has this "amendment" to the fight song been in existence?
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I could tell that something was being shouted after:

GO JACKETS! FIGHT! WIN!....

I just thought I was getting too old to hear it!:laugher: I will listen for it Saturday. It's nice to have an "educated ear". ;)
 
Players don't get demoralized by one game, they get pissed off. The worry I have about our offense is Reggie's health. If he can run effectively we'll be fine. If not, I hope the coaches have more of a plan to adjust for that than they did against Clemson.
 
Since at least 2003, thought it seemed established by then...
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My impression is that it was in the process of "catching on" in the late 90s.
 
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