Heard that stat this AM on ACCN’s Packer & Durham show, courtesy of co-host Mark Packer, who credited the info to Pick Six Preview.

As Packer then noted using his familiar catch-phrase:

“Let that marinate a second.”

As is, Miami has now lost 10 of its last 11 bowl games.

Let that marinate another second.

Go Canes!

There is some really ROTTEN sonofabitch out there the made us play Klempsun and Bama within 365 days.

having to sit and watch this choking from Pope and Wiggins and not get a chance to play. Shame on the coaches for playing the wrong WR's over and over

Especially being paid, what, $4M per year?

CEO of a Fortune 500 company?
CPA?
Attorney?
Doctor?
Professional Athlete?

Amazing the level of incompetence/failure that this coaching staff, and specifically Manny, can get away with week after week, without any consequence of being fired, demoted, re-assigned, etc. And it happened with other coaches too like Golden-Turkey Tits.

This University has the highest tolerance for incompetence/failure by its football employees than any other University I can think of right now, and I'm unaware of any other profession in America where it also exists.

We have what we need on this team to do it. Pope and Wiggins should leave or be benched, we gotta play the bigger receivers. We need a center that can move better when blitzed and a true left guard that holds the point of attack,center doesnt hold point of attack well either.

The football is like a cold. Clifford Franklin the only one catching it, Clifford Franklin the only one coming down with it.

when it was in the air. You don't have to be a super gifted WR with soft natural catching hands. YOU JUST HAVE TO WANT IT MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE ON THE FIELD!

We all know people on here will have a short memory once the Spring rolls around.

As a cheerleader or a politician. Why the hell is he high-fiving Pope after he drops a perfect pass. He also was great at talking out of both sides of his mouth.

This title kills me!

Anyway, many of you know I'm a stats geek! If you knew that, you know what to expect here. Also, I used CFBStats, FWIW. Also, for those of us that still have NIGHTMARES of the 2003 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in 2003, OSU here means Oklahoma State University, not Ohio State (I can't type OSU without saying a curse word....SHIT!!!).

• Scoring Offense
  • Miami - Ranked 27 at 34/G
  • OSU - Ranked 57 at 29.5/G
    • Advantage Miami by 4.5 points
• Scoring Defense
  • OSU - Ranked 33 at 22.4/G
  • Miami - Ranked 44 at 26/G
    • Advantage OSU by 3.6 points
• Rushing Offense
  • OSU - Ranked 36 at 194.7/G
  • Miami - Ranked 65 at 163.2/G
    • Advantage OSU by 31.5 yards
• Rushing Defense
  • OSU - Ranked 60 at 160.5/G
  • Miami - Ranked 83 at 180.6/G (Note: 139.1/G allowed before that embarrassing fiasco against UNC. But it counts!! Baker gotta go!)
    • Advantage OSU by 31.5 yards
• Passing Offense
  • Miami - Ranked 30 at 269.4/G
  • OSU - Ranked 58 at 233/G
    • Advantage Miami by 36.4 yards
• Passing Defense
  • OSU - Ranked 35 at 205.2/G
  • Miami - Ranked 60 at 226.8/G
    • Advantage OSU by 21.6 yards
• Total Offense
  • Miami - Ranked 36 at 432.6/G
  • OSU - Ranked 40 at 427.7/G
    • Advantage Miami by 4.9 yards
• Total Defense
  • OSU - Ranked 40 at 365.7/G
  • Miami - Ranked 65 at 407.4/G (Note: 366.2/G allowed before we went on vacation on December 12th at 3:30 pm EST. Baker gotta go!)
    • Advantage OSU by 41.7 yards

Other notable stats:

• Punt Return - OSU (we rank 123rd)
• Opponent Punt Return - OSU
• Penalties (# and yards) - OSU
• Turnover Margin - Miami (ranked 24th vs. 75th for OSU)
  • OSU is in the negative by a bit
• Sacks - OSU is 10th with 3.2 while Miami is 16th with 2.8
• Sacks allowed - OSU (both suck - 95th and 110th))
• TFL - Miami (both are awesome - 4th and 8th)
• TFL allowed - OSU (back to sucking. 111th and 120th)

Based on worthless stats (since the game is not played on paper):

Miami wins 28 - 27
OSU rushes for 187 vs Miami's 162
Miami passes for 237 vs OSU's 230
Miami has 8 penalties for 71 yards while OSU has 7 for 60 (lol at this one)
Miami recovers 2 TO's to OSU's 1
Miami sacks OSU 3 for 17 yards while OSU sacks Miami 3 times for 20 yards
Both have 8 TFL for 31 yards.

Now...back to work.

I am going to use the questions for discussion from the questions thread

so many good ones

WTF
simple exercise
100 balls minimum a day

Navaughn Donaldson played and how he did. If he didnt play, then why not?

Why does an all star second baseman like Steve Sax all of the sudden become unable to throw the ball to first base? Why did David Duval go from being the top player in golf to not being able to make a cut because he can't keep the ball out of the woods? How do kickers go from being the best in the business to not being able to hit an extra point? Why do guys with perfect free throw form shoot 50% from the line? Their mechanics don't change; their mindset does. It's mental, but I'm not sure what a coach can do once it starts except move on to other players down the depth chart. These WRs see a ball coming their way and instead of thinking "this is my moment to shine" they are thinking "damn I hope I don't drop this".

Why does the "other team" we play ALWAYS makes the plays!? It can be 7-5 Washington State, 6-6 California, La Tech ... or Oklahoma State. I know we like to rag on Blake, Manny ... the status of our beloved program, but aren't we in a better position than 80% of the other programs? We could have played 2-8 South Carolina in the Independence Bowl just now ... and somehow Miami would have lost on a last second FG 21-24. Just frustrates me watching Mike Gundy for example ... yeah, he'll lose to Oklahoma 9 out of 10 years, but he'll beat everyone else.

The non-call on Brevin PI...4th down...GTFOH after the hand fighting in the endzone on a non-catchable ball against us...wtf...imo that was a 10 to 14 point swing....THAT WAS BY FAR THE GAME CHANGER...horrible calls vs UM all game but that was HUGE

Hope his knee isn’t as bad as it appears.
Most likely blew out a ligament planting his right foot on a cut back.
This kid is a stand up leader, respected by teammates.
He lost his father in February,
He decides to come back and play under Lashlee year 2 and this happens???
Fate is so unpredictable
Heres to a quick and speedy recovery!!!
Classy young man!

Anytime I see them play someone decent they are falling on the ground, dropping passes, getting spooked. The kids are soft and entitled.

To win in college football you need men not little boys. You need tough MFs with no fear. Santana Moss & Randal hill were little but they were men. Solid as a rock, physical, scrappy. This p#ssy Pope can have all the high school stars he wants, he is trash.

wiggins is in the mold of Horace Copeland, Lamar Thomas but he is a b!tch. Hi C and Lamar were skinny greyhounds that were flying all over the place...always mixing it up. never seen them back down from a fight for a ball. Wiggins gets touched and just falls down.

these kids are like little league players. I’m sick of bitches like this embarrassing this program and those greats.

I never thought I’d find a softer WR than Lance Leggett....well now I found 2.

take their scholarships away, hit the portal

There’s the guy who is responsible for making our AD accountable. He could care less about results and accountability. Depstein@jadesuites.com.... Send him an email and ask him if he would hire an executive at Jadesuites without a proper search....

I’m just curious, at any point leading up to this game, did you think we might actually win? I just felt the inevitable would once again occur as it did but I actually thought we’d get blown out. Team played hard but is just flawed in too many areas and spotting any team 21 points and then playing a 45 min game is a tough task. Credit to kids like Kosi and Brevin but it just wasn’t enough.
I just had a feeling that there was no way we would win a bowl game and I actually advocated for us to decline the invitation because it didn’t matter who we were going to match up with, I didn’t think we would win and I was unfortunately right. This was a HUGE game that we could not afford to lose or, in reality, we could not afford to play. Absolutely awful that King got hurt after doing the right thing and committing to come back! Hard to catch a break right now.

This season is what we can expect moving forward, right? I'm seriously not seeing anything more.

Snap Counts in the WR room mean something. Wiggins had 63. Mark Pope had 70. That means 2 things. Non of them positive. 1) either Manny, as we’ve seen, hates playing the younger guys like poison. In spite of their having horrific nights, and very pedestrian careers? Or 2) the WR’s in the room are dumber than rocks....AND were inappropriately given schol

here’s the grades for last night...
LB COREY FLAGG - 79.0 GRADE from PFF
Flagg had 41 snaps during the bowl

Flagg finished the game rated #2 best among ALL Canes in last night’s game. He had 2.5 tackles and graded out as the best run defender, according to PFF, earning an 84.9 run defense grade and a 77.5 tackling grade.

And here is where I am beginning to think Manny Diaz may not be the guy. At least not in any way connected to the Defense. Maybe as strict CEO? Flagg and starting middle linebacker Bradley Jennings Jr. split the snaps fairly evenly.

How is that even possible? Jennings didn’t finish anywhere in the top 10! And yet he split snaps evenly with Flagg? WTF?

You don’t hear them...do they not care?

Love Ed Reed...but what truly has he contributed besides being a “figure head?”

Any Thoughts or Opinons?

CANT GET OUT OF OUR OWN WAY.

HELL YEAH!!! We cheated and won and I want to win again. Pay players,buy cars and line up the pu$$y! I'll take 1 championship every 4-5 years vs what we have now. I'm doing my part here in GA. Every lil monster i see i try and sell the U to the parents lol. Done paid 10-15 light bills for single moms all in the name of the U lol. Who here doesn't care how it happens as long as we win a championship in 3 years. My hand is raised HIGH🙋🏾‍♂️🖐🏾🙌🏾...

PS# Sorry,not sorry.