Miami 13-0 next year. It’s inevitable
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=>Last year was a team that could have made a major splash. Could have had Larvadain, Amos, etc. that transfered out in the portal.
The Covid year team prolly would have won at least 10 games with the talent and schedule (7 home games).
If you are losing your best players, it makes it even harder.
Shit, we lost 6 verbal commits who decommitted in favor of P4 schools. We losing them before they even get here.
I do not truly buy there is a Chuck floor or ceiling. It is about talent. Chuck did not win at Miami until he was able to rebuild the team as a few years. Get lucky with some recruits, we could have a few double digit win seasons.
For us MHT old timers, people here were saying the same thing about Hoepner’s “ceiling” until 2003. Then Ben leaves and Miami reverts back to the good, but not great 8-5 2004 season.
The best jockey does not win the Kentucky Derby riding a mule.
If give Chuck tOSUs talent, Miami would be competing for a natty. Give Chuck UMass’ talent, Miami goes oafer.
Fans gives football coaches too much credit and blame for Xs and Os. People who lnow football, people who understand football, know it is power size, and speed of the players, and a talented QB that win games consistently.
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I totally agree with you that for Chuck Martin it’s about the talent on the roster and not X’s & O’s. We have enough evidence to know this to be true
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This is what I said last summer so I suppose we met my expectations. I also had concerns about the depth of the RB room and lack of experience in the QB room that turned out to be well-founded.
=>Next year I am sure we will be 13-0.
Then we will kick the extra point.
I think the coach sets the tone for the expectations. CM doesn’t have high expectations
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Right now his expectation is to play for MACs and nothing more. For me at this moment, Miami met expectations by getting to MACCG. When the CFP expands to 16 next year, the MAC will have a legit shot to get in, but probably not by auto bid. Beating these mid-B1G teams, a 10-win season and a MAC title would get us in. If/when, that’s going to be my expectation. Since Saylor is still on the CFP committee, that’s what he should be crying for.
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That will take quite a change in CM’s mindset in terms of prepping and preparing the team to try to defeat OOC foes from P4 conferences. Maybe a little less “they are so big, fast and strong" talk B4 the game, too.
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I think Saylor just completed his third year on the committee and is not a member next year.
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That ship has sailed. He will not be at Miami.
I did not expect to lose 6 games, including 3 MAC games. Especially 3 MAC games. Did not come close to expectations.
Last 2 seasons ,Miami played a FSC team + UMass and a awful Kent team.
Hard to imagine how a season inclusive of
- two non-competitive losses to teams in the basement of the Big 10;
- blowing a 2 TD lead in the 4th quarter at home to UNLV; and
- a relatively non-competitive performance in the MAC title game
could be considered successful to anyone on here.
Was anyone happy with 2007 under Shane (where we took a Big 10 team to double OT and beat a Big East team)?
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=>And yet it was!
Random side note: Who remembers the Akron game that year? Were there more total end zone interceptions than first downs? And the only score was a defensive TD in which Clayton Mullins appeared to be offsides and the refs missed it.
Yanksalex- well said - how any rationale person could be happy with this season including a terrible game plan for the MAC championship game is hard to understand
In fairness, many of us answered Blues’s question as to whether the season met our expectations of what this season would be, not whether we were satisfied with the realization of those expectations.
MadTV > SNL
Team had no returning starters on offense and a few on D . No excuse for the meltdown vs UNLV or Finn being a total ASS.
But team got to the MAC Championship game and is going to a nice bowl.
Things could be worse like 2017
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