Stanford has to be feeling good about themselves. Which Miami team shows up? Any grit? I’d like to hope so, maybe I am not quite in Madstork territory but…
Thinking 28-10, mostly comfortable throughout. But not a blowout. Boring win. Which maybe itself would not be the greatest sign.
I just want a complete game from both sides.
I predict a blowout win as the butt hurt Canes come out with fire in their eyes. Canes win 42-14.
Yeah, I’m with Bikki on this one. This has to be a statement game for us. How we respond to losing to UL will be huge. A lackluster game with the same ole issues doesn’t show much promise for the rest of the year. A game with some schematic changes, fundamental football, says alot.
I am sick of everybody acting like parrots saying, “we weren’t executing.” They weren’t executing against Louisville because Louisville was executing exceptionally well on defense and kicking our asses. Running the same plays time and again and consistently failing is a complete absurdity.
The next most inane statement is “this is our offense, and this is what we do.” There is no room in this statement for pragmatism. Whatever happened to if this doesn’t work, we’ll try something else, perhaps even try something we’ve never done before. In college football, there is a place for creativity.
One thing Shannon Dawson is absolutely right about is squandering possessions. Normally a college football team gets the ball just a dozen time on offense during the course of a game. Against Louisville, we had the ball only for 11 series. Five of our possessions resulted in turnovers. Other drives were killed by penalties. We ran only 60 offensive plays when we should have run 80 or more. Regarding penalties, the fair catch penalty against Mali was an atrocity, for Mali looked like he was on his way to a touchdown. The officials owe Mario a letter of apology for that call. I think perhaps they didn’t know what to do after making the call, realizing they had erred, so they let it stand.
Dawson is an intelligent guy, and when things are working his way, he calls a pretty good game. However, Dawson seems resistant to making adjustments when things aren’t working. Dawson is saying this is what we do, try and stop us. Miami is predictable, and Louisville, not us, was the team making the right adjustments.