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DC Bill Young left for Ok St. Miami is coordinator-less on both sides of the ball. Shannon stated (paraphrased) that he would look for the best possible DC candidates and that if he didn't find someone he liked he would do it himself. I think they are close to hiring an OC.

I bet Tenuta would love to have this job, especially since Nix is gone.

Thoughts???
 
I always wondered how our offense would do against a Tenuta defense...
 
Are rats leaving the sinking ship or just your usual turnover? I beleive I had rather coach with Weis at Nd than the U with Shannon. Neither being pleasant.
 
Hah, and some people were saying Miami would win the coastal next season. If they do now then whoever they hired would be badass
 
2 things... Bill Young got 315k to be defensive coordinator at his home school. pretty nice cash for DC job--and he has ties there.

Have heard a few rumors of Willie Martinez of UGAg going back to Miami -- as that is his home school.
 
How good are Miami's linebackers? Only way Tenuta could go there and look good is if he has some massive talent in the defensive backs. As for playing against Tenuta, I don't think Coach Johnson would have trouble throwing paper to the blitz rock that Tenuta always throws.
 
BuzzMD said:
2 things... Bill Young got 315k to be defensive coordinator at his home school. pretty nice cash for DC job--and he has ties there.

Have heard a few rumors of Willie Martinez of UGAg going back to Miami -- as that is his home school.
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That was being discussed on 105.5 today, Doc, is ther where you heard it?
 
ramblinwise1 said:
That was being discussed on 105.5 today, Doc, is ther where you heard it?
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Yep...listen to Shanks every day. Shanks was talking about it yesterday as well. Thankfully we have Skip and Russ on there to balance him out on occasion. And I try to call in a time or two.
 
From some of the articles I've been reading about other places $315K isn't all that great for a coordinator any more.
 
As for playing against Tenuta, I don't think Coach Johnson would have trouble throwing paper to the blitz rock that Tenuta always throws.
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More to the point, PJ doesn't mind throwing paper over and over and over if it's working. See our first drive vs UVA this past year.
 
beej67 said:
More to the point, PJ doesn't mind throwing paper over and over and over if it's working. See our first drive vs UVA this past year.
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Just curious (cause I don't remember) did we stop doing that right before we started losing?
 
Just curious (cause I don't remember) did we stop doing that right before we started losing?
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Drive 1:

Sweep
Sweep
Sweep
Midline
Sweep TD

Drive two:
Fake the sweep on play action for a pass - TD.

Then they adjusted their defense, and we started turning the ball over a bunch. We did try the sweep again three or four times that game, but it never went for more than about 4 or 5 yards.
 
beej67 said:
Drive 1:

Sweep
Sweep
Sweep
Midline
Sweep TD

Drive two:
Fake the sweep on play action for a pass - TD.

Then they adjusted their defense, and we started turning the ball over a bunch. We did try the sweep again three or four times that game, but it never went for more than about 4 or 5 yards.
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Not contradicting you but 4 or 5 yards is a decent grab. Means a first down ever 2-3 plays. But I know what you mean they did adjust and (from my shoddy memory, or maybe a game I wanted to forget...) they probably manhandled our O line as well.
 
Well 'never went for more than 4 or 5' also meant there were a bunch of 2s and 1s in there.

We exploited their angles when we lined up in the tight formation, then couldn't later, so we switched formations. Didn't find anything that worked amazingly well, but still easily would have won if it weren't for a bunch of dumb turnovers.
 
That's a good point, misread that statement.

About the turnovers, someone somewhere on this website said that when we didn't turn the ball over in games it was because we had a lot of long runs.
Long runs = short drives = less chances to turnover.
I think though that it's more like our long drives ended in turnovers when we were losing or didn't have the momentum, so to speak. We had decent drives against FSU, for example, but they were after we forced a 3-n-out/previously scored on long run/gained turnover.

I think the key thing (that may be youth related) is that we turn the ball over when the chips are down on the long drive.
 
I think we'll see better execution this year...Nesbit and crew will have a lot more practice time under their belt and that should reduce the fumbles.
 
gthog61 said:
From some of the articles I've been reading about other places $315K isn't all that great for a coordinator any more.
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True. But coaching at a place you have ties + a much more stable coaching staff--i.e. head coach ain't on the hot seat + $315k is good.
 
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