I watched the game. I wish I hadn’t. I’m stressed out and pissed off.
The epitome of a FUGLY win.
This is why I stopped watching Miami games live.
Cristobal must want to shoot himself after games like this.
Hang in there Stork! Enjoy your evening!
They had the game in hand and let off the gas.
Who cares what the final score is?
Win.
Garbage time happens…We smoked em
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The game was over at 28-3. Game was actually over at 14-3. Mario needs to put his foot on teams throats and finish them. Eventually that shit is going to catch up to you. Miami is a top 2-3 team in the country this year.
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Do you point at Dawson or Cristobal for this? Or both? Someone is making a conscious decision. Hetherman doesn’t strike me as the type to let up. Maybe I’m wrong.
Anyone else think Herbstreit wanted FSU to come back?
He kept going on and on and on about a comeback being possible…maybe just for Corso!
Yeah, we looked UGLY in the 4th quarter
I said this after Notre Dame. Mario needs some Jimmy Johnson in him and he doesn’t have it. Miami had by far the better game in week one. In the 4th, we close ranks, start running the ball and kick FGs. Next thing you know it’s tied. Never should have been. Same last night.
This is either a team with no killer instinct or a coach with no faith in his team’s ability to finish off an opponent. Which is it?
And yes, it will beat us at some point. 27-24 and 28-22 are a joke for how lopsided the games were.
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I just think its a new team that needs to learn to finish. FSU in 2014 had this issue early on. Then they hit all cylinders and beat the breaks off most teams. I do think this will end in the next game or two. One score after 28 and fsu quits.
Can make the argument if they call Bain, Blount, and Mesidro getting tackled on every play at any point during the 4th that FSU would have been “finished”
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Maryland and Frank Reich would like a word. For that matter so would BC and Doug Flutie.
Both of those games were in late November, 1984. That was fun.
Miami almost never gets holding calls. That has been going on forever.
Miami can’t leave it up to the refs ever. Occasionally, Miami will get the benefit of calls but 90% of the time, they don’t. That cost Miami at least 2 NC’s.
Miami went into “playing not to lose” mode on both offense and defense in the 4th quarter and almost lost because of it. Thank God for the onside kick receiving team because they saved the day.
On all 3 occasions!
This pattern of going conservative and safe is going to be our end against the best of the best. It’s a pattern for sure…outside of that, keep getting better. That 4th quarter was fuking excruciating, my goodness. Last cam shot I saw was a pissed off Bain on the bench after the game.
Cristobal per the Herald,
“I would say three quarters of dominant football,” Cristobal said Monday, “and one quarter that wasn’t up to the standard.”
The Hurricanes dominated from the start and built a 25-point lead against their in-state rival in a ranked matchup but had to hold on for the eventual 28-22 win as FSU scored 19 unanswered points in the fourth quarter at Doak Campbell Stadium.
“That’s not the way we finish,” Cristobal said.
“Certainly something that our players immediately recognized after the game,” Cristobal said. “Of course, they’re always fired up about a win up there, but there was a certain sense of, ‘You know what? We’re better than that.’ … We cannot allow ourselves as a program, me, as a coach, to not play the full 60 minutes and overtime if necessary. Can’t ever do that.”
“A good lesson learned, some good deep diving into the film and the what’s, the hows and the whys to get better,” Cristobal said, “and we go from there.”
Doesn’t sound like a guy who gets it. To my ears, coach speak platitudes. Hope I am wrong.
For three quarters, Miami put on a demonstration of Godzilla-like dominance. Mario wants a physical team, and for three quarters the Canes were more physical than they’ve been in two decades. Bain, Mesidor, Blay, and Moten were crushing them.
Ahead 28-3, what the hell happened? All of sudden, we couldn’t catch up with Castellanos, a true football warrior with cat-like reflexes. Time after time, he was encircled, but managed to somehow escape. The bodies coming at him would have crushed him, but the collision never occurred.
Every game this year, this has happened to us. Things stop working. We’re penalized. We go three and out, and our adversaries breathe new life. So, when the game ended Saturday, the exhilaration of a formidable victory was muted by the fourth quarter swoon. I felt grateful when the clock ran out, for FSU came charging back. Time for Mario and Co. to hit the film room and figure out what the hell happened.
Going back and watching some clips, FSU OL was holding basically the entire game. It’s like the refs did what they could to let them back into the game.
Give me a break Johnson lost 9 games at miami. 5 in year one. You really think he’s like Mario? Larry Coker he wasn’t. Once he got his D, he wanted to bury teams. Guess it happened enough to him at Oklahoma State that he wanted to start dishing it out. Mario needs that quality but it doesn’t seem in him. Hope it don’t kill us.
Johnson’s teams blew leads all the time.
And he lost a lot of big games. Notre Dame, Penn State, Tennessee, etc.
The ACC is much tougher than the Big East ever was.
And Johnson inherited a stacked with talent NC team. What did Mario inherit? That’s right, a crap team of losers.
Some have convenient memories.