This was def a big loss for us…
Hopefully they’re shut out again, or better yet not make the post season
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Appears 18 players from Toledo following Candle to UCONN
They said let me the hell of out of here. We want to watch Geno!!
Duke and Mensah have reached an agreement, and now he can take Miami’s 6 million.
https://x.com/On3/status/2016151251294052451?s=20
Didn’t deserve it’s own thread, but one of our games was named one of the Top 100 of the 2025 season by ESPN. Unfortunately it was UNLV.
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Do we plan on adding any more players from the portal? Status of Glass and Reynolds?
It still boggles my mind that UNLV won that game. I believe it was 9 straight 3rd conversions at one point near the end of the game. Stop any one and you win.
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And we still win if we dont fumble after getting that first down
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Looks like Reynolds deleted his portal post on X. So I’d guess he’s staying
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One thing you can say about Coach Chuck. He is consistent.
Consistent predictable offense
Consistent predictable defense
His core belief of ‘you win through executing the fundamentals was correct 20 years ago’, but all the losses were not due to special teams slipping or issues at QB
When you listen to Coach Steele you consistently hear the 5 key points below which are the fundamentals.
Based on common themes in successful collegiate sports programs, a college head coach relies on these 5 key elements to win games:
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Talent Acquisition and Recruiting
The foundation of winning is having players who can compete at a high level. Coaches must constantly identify, attract, and sign talent that fits their system and culture. -
Building a Strong Team Culture
Successful coaches create an environment that fosters discipline, accountability, and a “growth mindset”. A strong culture ensures that the team operates with a purpose larger than individual success and maintains a, united, resilient team. -
Player Development and Coaching
Once talent is acquired, it must be developed. This involves enhancing technical skills, increasing athletic capability, and developing high-level “football/basketball IQ” in players, ensuring that the team improves throughout the season. -
Strategic Game Planning and In-Game Adjustments
This involves having a clear, effective identity in all phases of the game (offense, defense, special teams) and the ability to make rapid adjustments during a game based on the opponent’s tactics. -
Building Trust and Relationships
Coaches must build trust with their players, staff, and administration. A strong, trusting relationship ensures that players buy into the team vision, which is crucial for motivation and performance under pressure.
The difference between Coach Martin and Coach Steele makes analytics his 6th player.
Today incorporating the 5 fundamentals may only make you competitive. To win we must successfully incorporate in game analytics to make immediate calls on offense and defense. Based on how slow offensive plays come onto the field my concern is we may not be using analytics the way a UNLV would use analytics. We must adapt or be content with 7 win seasons.
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It’s a new world, one that I can’t see Chuck embracing.
IK. It makes me Grumpy. 
People are mostly predicable. I found this out studying subordinates, peers and managers who would fight tooth and nail to avoid it.
Something like 80-90% don’t like change because, to them, change may mean extra work, it may mean they can’t do the work and or, heaven forbid it may risky, even if it saves them time, improves accuracy ir competitiveness, lowers cost and eliminates risk.
A company I worked for hired a former steel executive and our business was manufacturing digital printers. It was a surprise when he pulled out the cookie cutter and tried to replicate everything that worked in the steel industry. It seems obvious it probably wouldn’t work as one was a low margin commodity and the other a high margin technology product. Fast forward 24 months, he was shown the door.
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I’m pretty sure that site you linked to is parody. If you read the entire article, it starts saying some pretty outlandish things.
Regarding your broader point, do we even know how much analytics either coach uses? Analytics is such a broad term. You have to collect the data, clean it, organize it, model it and apply it. Does Miami have a data science or analytics person on the football staff or athletic department? I didn’t see one on the staff directory. Just may not have the resources.
Anyways, go RedHawks.
Kinexon is a legitimate company; it’s a legitimate article.
Agree otherwise.
When will new transfers be finalized?
Cheers to all!
I didn’t explain my point very well.
Coach Steele has brought up his reliance on analytics.
I’ve asked ChatGPT and Grok how many schools use the services, as they are purchased as a subscription. You are correct the power teams also have a full time analytics person. I posted an article how Michigan uses analytics and the pressure the guy is under to use both subscriptions and in house data to manage a game.
By the way, one of the searches claimed 120+ schools use analytics for basketball.
But my point was if play calling has patterns, analytics will quickly correlate a coaches play calling to specific on field situations. Just a guess, but statistically it is difficult to have the number of successful third down plays we witnessed in the UNLV scoring drive. Another guess is the OU beating we suffered the year before last was courtesy of someone picking up play calling patterns or someone had our signals. But this would be a rudimentary analytic, not the type where a service knows precisely when a players shooting percentage or defense declines with on court minutes without a breather or if they pass more often to one player or another.
All - many good points re CM and play calling - the bottom line is CM and his “ no change “/ predictable D and his whimsical / random O play calling has run its course - he refuses to hire a true OC , insists on calling the plays , refuses to develop a short possession passing game plan, overly relies on low percent “ chunk “ deep pass plays, refuses to develop a consistent ground game , etc. He is an above average recruiter ( although last year’s portal class was poor and we had a number of decommits among our HS recruits) and a good overall manager of the team under his leadership we will not have any meaningful OOC wins and only be a slightly above average MAC program. As I have said before my financial support will go to other sports and other parts of Miami and nothing to FB until CM changes his approach to game day prep and execution- I would urge others to do the same.
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Did glass change mind he no longer in portal on 247 sports
I hope so. I think he can be a significant contributor at Miami this year if he stays.
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Think we are done with the portal?