A few folks screamed ‘upset alert’ but in the end, it was a massacre in Manhattan. Kansas State methodically dismantled Miami on Saturday afternoon to the tune of, 52-13. The Wildcats pounced on the Canes early, from every direction and never let up. UM had a few early chances to stop the bleeding, didn’t, and things continued to unravel.
Just like last year, it was more Collin Klein and John Hubert, doing what they do so well. Klein was a meticulous 9-of-11 through the air, for 210 yards, with a touchdown and an interception, while rushing twenty-two times for 71 yards and three scores.
Hubert was also effective, with nineteen carries for 106 yards and a touchdown.
Bill Synder was again masterful with his game planning. Where Miami always fancies itself a program built on speed, attitude and swag, Kansas State is methodical, effective and rooted in fundamentals.
Klein and Hubert use their legs to wear down defenses and just when everyone thinks yet another run is coming, instead a well-timed, perfectly-executed pass. No Wildcats receiver had more than three receptions in the romp over the Canes, but anytime Klein went to Tyler Lockett or Tramaine Thompson, both parties made it count.
Kansas State opened with a thirteen-play, 65-yard drive. The Wildcats took almost seven minutes off the clock, wearing down the Canes’ defense. Klein and Hubert did most of the heavy lifting on the drive.
On a 2nd-and-9, Klein found Thompson for a seventeen-yard pick-up and a few plays later, on 2nd-and-7, Klein did it with his feet, rushing for sixteen and setting up a 1st-and-Goal from the seven. Klein wound up punching it in from a yard out on 3rd-and-Goal.
Miami looked ready to respond on it’s opening possession. After two plays went nowhere – a quick Stephen Morris to Phillip Dorsett pass and Mike James run – Morris then found wideout Allen Hurns for ten yard on 3rd-and-9.
On the ensuing first down, James lost a yard and on second, Morris went back to Hurns for a twenty-two yard gain, though the excitement was short-lived. Hurns went down hard, was taken to the sidelines and treated for concussion symptoms. He never returned.
James took back-to-back and facing a 3rd-and-1, Eduardo Clements entered, barreled for the first down, fumbled and it was quickly picked up by former UM linebacker Arthur Brown. Kansas State took over on its own forty-two and Miami’s drive was over.
Thompson rushed for six, Klein rushed for zero and on 3rd-and-4, back to the air as Klein hit Thompson for a thirty-yard gain. Lockett picked up sixteen on a run a play later and Klein ran it in from six yards out on 1st-and-Goal. Just like that, another 14-0 hole for the Canes.
Miami went back to Duke Johnson on the next possession, as well as different wideouts with Hurns sidelined. Morris found Rashawn Scott for six and on 3rd-and-1, a quick pass to tight end Clive Walford went for fifty-six yards, before he was run down at the KSU ten.
Johnson ran for one, Morris took a six-yard sack and on 3rd-and-Goal from the fifteen, Morris’ attempt to Scott was tipped, with Miami settling for three.
The loss of Hurns, the Clements fumble, Walford getting run down and the Morris sack were the difference between 14-3 and possibly a 14-14 tie at the end of the first quarter, much like the comeback at Boston College the previous week.
In a game where Miami needed to go toe-to-toe in effort for a shootout-style win, the Canes left points on the field and self-imploded. After Kansas State answered with a field goal of their own, bringing it to 17-3, another UM drive stalled.
Morris attempted a pass to Johnson that went off the freshman’s fingertips. Had he reeled it in, a good chance the freshman would’ve gone eighty yards for the score. In a flash he was past half the defense, but Johnson simply couldn’t haul in Morris’ quick strike. Another missed opportunity.
From there a two-yard loss on a Johnson rush, a nine-yard personal foul on Brandon Linder and on 3rd-and-21, a four-yard sack on Morris, setting up a 4th-and-25 punt from the five, giving Kansas State the ball at the Miami thirty-eight.
A quick pass for four, a few runs and on 2nd-and-12, Klein found Curry Sexton for the twenty-seven yard touchdown – his lone grab of the day.
24-3, Wildcats when Morris-to-Johnson could’ve pulled it to, 17-10.
Miami got one last shot in the first half – a methodical drive that went seventy yards, but again wound up in a field goal, despite big passes and pick-ups by Scott and Dorsett, as time was running out and points were needed.
And so the rest of the afternoon seemingly went for the Canes. Miami continuously found ways to self-implode while Kansas State would grind and grind, setting up the big play en route to more points.
Saturday’s showdown in Manhattan was a reality check for Miami fans who simply wanted to believe that talented youth could find a way to overcome. That proved the case in Chestnut Hill as Johnson stole the show and other true freshmen made an impact.
Talented true freshmen will shine, but there remains a downside; at times they are going to play like the rookies they are.
Kansas State’s success is no accident. Look up and down that depth chart and it’s upperclassman-heavy. Klein is a senior. Hubert a junior. Thompson a junior. Harper a senior. Same with the defense, where the entire front seven are all seniors, with the exception of one lone junior. The second is also three seniors and a junior.
Two seasons ago, the Wildcats were a 7-6 squad and the year before that, 6-6. Klein was on the bench those two seasons and didn’t start until his junior campaign in 2011, where he led Kansas State to a 10-3 season, all three losses coming against top ten teams – Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Arkansas.
This upperclassman-heavy bunch will be challenged this year as well, traveling to Oklahoma and West Virginia over the next few weeks before taking on Texas Christian, Baylor and Texas in the final weeks of the season – and a safe bet this Kansas State squad will reach a solid bowl – possibly the BCS – and that Klein will be a Heisman finalist.
You look at a top-heavy team like Kansas State and you hope that’s where Miami is two years from now, barring the talent is coached up, the recruits keep coming in and that Al Golden irons things out as head coach of this program.
Defensive coordinator Mark D’Onofrio is taking a beating two weeks into the season and it’s hard to argue against a frustrated fan base yet to see any stoppage after two games. Miami gave up 32 points and 537 total yards to Boston College, in the opener, while surrendering 52 points and 498 yards at Kansas State.
Eight quarters. 84 total points. 1,035 total yards.
D’Onofrio, Golden and a handful of players continue beating the drum regarding assignment football and too many guys out of position. Hard for the average armchair quarterback to truly assess this, but in breaking down the Miami depth chart – especially defensively – some of the holes are blatantly obvious.
Starting up front, the Canes’ defensive line has gotten zero pressure on the quarterback all season and outside of sophomore Anthony Chickillo, where are the big time players on that line?
Outside of Chick, Miami started senior Darius Smith, sophomore Olsen Pierre and r-junior Shayon Green. Back-ups include freshman Jelani Hamilton, freshman Earl Moore, sophomore Jalen Grimble, r-freshman Corey King, sophomore Kelvin Cain and freshman Tyriq McCord.
The Canes are so depth-challenged on the line that the return of r-juniors Luther Robinson and Curtis Porter are so anxiously awaited, they’re being treated as the second-coming of Vince Wilfork and Jerome Brown.
Denzel Perryman is the man in the middle at linebacker, but those on each side or behind him are yet to live up or make their name. Eddie Johnson is a r-freshman who started at outside last weekend and made some plays as he continues to learn, while r-senior Ramon Buchanan was on the other side, but has since been lost for the season.
Miami is now relying on the likes of junior Jimmy Gaines, junior Tyrone Cornelius, sophomore Gionni Paul, sophomore Thurston Armbrister and freshman Gabe Terry.
The second might be even weaker as it’s a mishmash of newbies or a few upperclassmen who never saw much starting time, for one reason or another.
Thomas Finnie is a sophomore, but currently looks like Miami’s most complete corner – which isn’t saying much for senior Brandon McGee. Ladarius Gunter is JUCO transfer year one in the new system, while true freshman Tracy Howard and Antonio Crawford have been thrown into the fire early, due to a lack of depth.
At safety, true freshman Deon Bush is taking away playing time from junior Kacy Rodgers II, while senior Vaughn Telemaque has made a few mistakes and will now miss Bethune-Cookman due to injury, meaning more playing time for r-junior A.J. Highsmith and freshman Rayshawn Jenkins.
Highsmith is a converted quarterback and Gunter played last season at Fort Scott Community College in Kansas, yet it being heavily-relied on. Again, this is a secondary that started Mike Williams last year, a Wake Forest transfer who wasn’t even first-team with the Demon Deacons.
A far cry from the 2001 season when three defensive backs were taken in the first round the following spring.
This isn’t an upperclassman-heavy defense with a few talented young bucks plugged in here or there. This is a defense whose two biggest players are phenom sophomores that started as freshmen – and maybe by the time a Chickillo and Perryman reach year four, this defense will be stocked up and possessing the necessary talent to get it week in and week out, but until then, it’s a make-the-most-of-what-you-got type situation.
Golden continues backing D’Onofrio, his defensive coordinator at Temple prior to their run at Miami, and both his teammate and co-captain when players at Penn State. Their friendship and bond is obvious, but the fact remains that something has to give. If guys continue ‘freelancing’ or not playing assignment football, how does D’Onofrio reel this in? If they’re not understanding simple schemes, how do you drill it home so that they do?
When you look at the rest of Miami’s schedule, there are some teams that will put up some yards and some points on these Canes. Georgia Tech. Notre Dame. Florida State. Virginia Tech. It could make for a very long season. Especially weeks like this last one where the offense sputtered.
Miami brought a game-plan into Boston College and it worked. The no-huddle, hurry-up offense was effective. A defense burned early by the slant underneath figured out what was going wrong and changed the course of the game with a Perryman pick-six. The defense also created turnovers game one, whereas they couldn’t get a stop on Kansas State. (The Wildcats first and only punt came with under a minute remaining in the game.)
Ten one-game seasons remain and Bethune-Cookman, sadly, can’t be taken lightly. The Wildcats actually held a 7-0 lead on the Canes going into the second quarter last year, though Miami outscored them 45-7 the rest of the way.
From there, a road trip to Georgia Tech and a triple-option offense that should already be giving D’Onofrio and his defensive players nightmares.
One more time, for the record; this is going to be a very long season. Fans are tired of ‘youth’ as an excuse, but of eighty-one scholarship players, thirty-five are freshman – which accounts for 43-percent of this year’s team.
Miami only has eleven seniors, a class that took a hit when Tommy Streeter, Olivier Vernon, Brandon Washington and Marcus Forston all left early. Running back Lamar Miller also left, but would’ve only been a junior.
There’s a long-time Hurricanes mindset regarding ‘reloading’ instead of ‘rebuilding’, but truth be told – that hasn’t been the case in over a decade and for a program hovering in ‘rebuild’ mode, the losses of Streeter, Vernon, Washington, Forston and Miller are that much harder to absorb.
There were also the four defenders Golden booted months into his Miami tenure – linebackers Travis Williams and Kevin Nelson, and defensive backs Jamal Reid and Devont’a Davis – all four of which would’ve provided some depth and experience this season as upperclassmen.
This is going to be a slow climb back, U Family. No other way to put it. This 52-13 loss was the most points put up on a Hurricanes team since 1998 when Syracuse beat Miami, 66-13 in the unofficial Big East Championship game.
The Orangemen went 8-4 that season and were no true powerhouse, but with Donovan McNabb, completely dominated the Hurricanes in the Carrier Dome.
Miami bounced back from the loss with a 49-45 upset of No. 2 UCLA the following week and finished the season 9-3, including a 46-23 win over NC State in the Micron PC Bowl.
This marked the fourth year in the Butch Davis era and that young squad boasted names like Edgerrin James, Reggie Wayne, Bubba Franks, Santana Moss, Dan Morgan and Ed Reed – the majority of which were still newbies in 1998.
Miami went 9-4 the following season, grew up a little and from there went 11-1, 12-0, 12-1 and 11-2.
It should also be noted that after giving up a combined 134 points to the Orangemen, Bruins and Wolfpack, Davis fired fourth-year defensive coordinator Bill Miller and hired Greg Schiano to run the Canes’ D the next two years, before Rutgers came calling.
It’s a process, Hurricane Nation. Hard as that is to swallow, it’s the truth. A decade’s worth of poor coaching and leadership isn’t cleaned up overnight and while quality kids are being brought on board, it’s simply going to take a few more classes like this to put Miami on a true path to success.
Still, that doesn’t mean the path has to be littered with 39-point losses and poor defensive showings where quarterbacks stockpile footage for their Heisman reels, leading their offenses to 500-yard outings.
After two weeks Miami ranks 114th in total defense, 109th in scoring defense and 89th in rushing defense; they type of numbers that better give this coaching staff nightmares between now and when they find a way to finally stop the bleeding. – CB
Actually. Miami got it’s ass beat 51-13 at the hands of Oklahoma in Norman only 5 years ago.
… yes, Miami fell 51-13, one-point less than 52-13 at Kansas State, meaning that 66-13 at Syracuse in 1998 was a worse loss, points-wise.
Defense looks like they don’t know where they belong on the field. No mention of Ryan Williams? He was able to.get rid of the ball quicker than Morris, and had our only TD pass. Taller QB’s definitely have better field vision. I hope Golden gives him a chance to play. None of the ranked teams played each other this weekend…so many “easy” games…amazing they can keep their rankings….never heard of some of these schools!
Win or lose, I will always back my Canes. People forget that former big powers like Michigan and ND haven’t really done anything in a longer period of time.
Williams came into the game with 5:30 left in the fourth quarter, with the Canes down, 52-6. Safe bet Williams wasn’t seeing much of a defense at that point of the game.
Williams had all spring ball to himself to win the starting job and didn’t. Morris won the job and two games in, pretty lame to lay blame at his feet. Not Morris’ fault the line failed, allowing five sacks, as well as players dropping balls. Honestly, that one he put in Duke’s hands could’ve gone eighty yards for the score EASILY had the freshman looked it in.
From here on out I will have a bottle of vodka by my side when watching Canes games. Here’s a new drinking game: take a shot of your libation of choice whenever the opposing team converts a 3rd down on Miami’s defense. At least the liquor will numb the pain
… that’s been me with the Crown the past five years, brother. Keep on keepin’ on.
Piss poor defensive game plan. Morris throwing balls behind the receivers and where did our run first offense go? Its sad for a team like kstate to run,the same exact plays as ladt year and our corners are so far off the ball they cant make plays no spy on the qb so he can run at will and since when can miami not defend the optio.. I’m all forr golden to be the coach but get rid of dontknowhowtocoachio and tell coach fitsh to run the damn ball. Reopen the qb battle because morris throwing every ball off the back shoulder is bullshit. I love my canes but this team has 4&8 or worse written all over it
You’re missing the key ingredient; both of Miami’s lines got owned. When their defensive line kicks the ass off of your offensive line, you’re not going to run the ball. You also can’t be a “run-first offense” when you blink an find yourself in a 14-0 hole or down 24-6 at the half.
As for the Kansas State offense, they ran at will as their offensive line owned the non-existent Miami defensive line. If the Canes front seven could get an ounce of pressure, Klein wouldn’t have looked all-world.
D’Onofrio isn’t doing himself any favors right now, but when you look at the lack of talent, depth and upperclassmen maturity on that side of the ball, it’s hard to put all of this on the defensive coordinator. No game breakers over there like Fisch has on defense, a la Johnson, Lewis, Hurns, Dorsett and Morris.
As for the quarterback battle, Ryan Williams had SPRING BALL all to himself to win the job, and still couldn’t secure it. If he was ‘the guy’ coaches had every reason to pull the trigger and give it all to him. He couldn’t lock it down and Morris stepped up. Fans have to deal with it.
Miller,Streeter,Vernon, Washington and Forston are to take some blame for whats happening. Selfishness,lazy,greedy, no pride in your school.They thought about nothing but themselves.To leave early and you are a superstar is one thing but to leave and you have not developed into a first or second round talent is plain foolish.Streeter looked like a fool after being drafted so low. Miller also,after the agent and uncle sam gets theirs they make what I make.What were their parents thinking?I teach my kids to finish what you start.Miller and Streeter needed all four years.They let the U family down.Punked out ran out on their brothers instead of help making the U a more powerful team.Guess they just didn`t get it.
Well put and again, all those guys are part of a culture that was everything wrong with the modern-day Canes. Even for the ones that left, there are some who remain with a similar mindset.
Love that you bring up the parents as that’s something I oft touch on in this blog. Still can’t believe that Streeter’s father allowed him to go or that Armstrong’s father defending his son’s immature behavior.
When you see some of these kids – 18 to 21 – making such boneheaded mistakes, and then see how their parents respond, it makes it all that much more understandable.
Here’s to a new era of Hurricanes that actually “get it”.
After last week performance,Bethune-Cookman scares the living day light out of me…..Smh.
… understood, but at least we know Miami will move the ball offensively against Bethune. Miami should win with a score comparable to last year’s.
I have absoutely no faith in that defense,they looked sad!
tip of the cap for another great write-up
. . . i like the perspective you bring
. . . what was weird in watching the game last saturday, was the more-or-less surety, that if the canes didn’t get a turnover, they were going to get scored on . . . i really hope something can change around on that side of the ball
This D-Line is a joke. No pressure on the QB and our CBs playing off with no press = what is happening. I think Stephen Morris has played extremly well hes not turning the ball over and managing fisch’s game plan perfectly (how many drop balls do the receivers have this year). I say play as many young guys this year as we can the more beatings they take will hopefully make them a stronger group for the next couple of seasons. This group of frosh has alot of pride. Reminds me of the early Butch Davis years. D. Bush, Perryman, Chickillo, E. Johnson, T. Howard, E. Moore have all shown me something in 2 games. Relax people its only game 2….
GO CANES!!
GO CANES!
Absolutely a joke, but as I said in other threads, this program has been in trouble a while and simply does not have the ability to just shake off the early departures of Marcus Forston and Olivier Vernon, the graduations of Micanor Regis and Marcus Robinson or the lack of an extra year granted to Adewale Ojomo. That’s FIVE major players the Canes lost and could absolutely use right now — three of which deserved to / should’ve come back.
Golden needs to do his best Davis and start stockpiling talent and keeping the program afloat until Miami can truly compete again. Beating into the dirt, but until people get it, dude took over a team 35-29 before he got here. What did people REALLY expect year two? Especially with so many early departures and old-culture guys bailing the program?
you will be sleep by halftime.
Colin klien has the Longest Delivery Ive seen since Tim Tebow. Its hard to believe we couldn’t make him beat us with his arm. Either way…if Bethune reaches 100 yards of total offense in the first quarter Coach D will pass Lebron as the most polarizing figure in Mia.
As much as that’s true, even more amazing he could’ve had a delivery five times as long and the Miami defensive line still wouldn’t have laid a hand on him. Dude had eleven attempts with nine completions and one interception. Every pass was the perfect called, well-calculated and even better-executed.
Cane MOD, I know that Miami has beacoUp RS-frosh and true frosh getting the minutes. But that’s just another ENABLING, lame excuse!
For instance, UCLA started a freshmen QB and also started THREE freshmen on the O-line and defeated an OVERRATED Nebraska team- Albeit in Pasadena, California. And at least FOURTY percent of Division I college football teams start FRESHMEN on the defensive L.O.S.
What ALL of major college football knows, is that the Canes have an absolute INEPT defensive coordinator, whom apparently doesn’t KNOW how, or may be is too damn stubborn, to FIT THE defensive schemes into his players strengths and what not.
The coach is ANTIQUATED and just don’t know how to deal with TOP NOTCH B.C.S. offensive coaches and Boston College, a team MISSING two KEY offensive starter, gave the GAME PLAN to Miami’s opponents in 2012. Enter the Kansas St. Wildcats!
It’s call K.I.S.S. baby and D’ Onofrio just don’t understand what he got into being on teh Miami sideline. See last season for another GLARING example!
Bon jour
Heard the UCLA / Nebraska analogy a bunch this week but it doesn’t hold water.
Yes, a lot of freshmen started – but there are also upperclassmen. Senior running back. Senior wideout, junior wideout and senior tight end. Two juniors starting on the defensive line. Two juniors starting at linebacker (and one senior). Two senior cornerbacks and a senior safety.
Had Miami returned Vernon, Miller, Streeter, Washington, Forston and Ojomo, the “youth” angle wouldn’t be so played up. Conversely, if the Canes had more overall depth, the program wouldn’t cry the blues so much about five early departees and a kid not granted a deserved extra year.
UM’s defensive line is beyond green this year and with Robinson / Porter out, the losses of Forston, Vernon and Ojomo hurt even more.
When Hurns went down, would’ve been nice as hell to have a Streeter lined up on the other side.
When James was struggling to get yards, the addition of a Miller puts less pressure on Duke to be a superstar immediately.
As for all this anti-D’Onofrio stuff … again, his defenses started tightening up as year one rolled on — and then a program that could ill afford to lose anyone lost five defensive linemen (Regis and Robinson graduated) … lost a leader in Spence at linebacker, forcing freshmen to step up.
Any progress D’Onofrio started making late last year went RIGHT out the window when losing so many guys who started getting the scheme.
– Gave up 259 total yards to Florida State and 16 offensive points. Noles passed for 196 and rushed for 63.
– Gave up 249 yards and 3 points to South Florida. Bulls passes for 133 and ran for 116.
– Gave up 349 yards to Boston College, despite four interceptions. Canes gave up 17 offensive points, 196 passing yards and 153 on the ground.
One last time, progress was made as the season rolled on — but things are backsliding this year due to a lack of depth, upperclassmen and key starters from last year. Miami simply could not absorb the depth from last year’s losses and will need time to let freshmen jell.
Calling for D’Onofrio’s head two games into year two is a joke. Will he be “the guy”? Don’t know yet. Maybe. Maybe not. But screaming to fire the guy now is knee-jerk and wrong. Like Golden, he deserves time to get it right, based on what he inherited.
These coaches are trying to fit the defense to the one they plan on running long-term, which means there will be some bumps and bruises along the way as they work to get that right.
Coach D hasn’t had just 2 games to get his defensive schemes together – he’s had 18 games. He is not getting it done, and I’ve resigned myself to the fact that for us to win we will have to outscore teams. The D was bad last year and it has continued this year. If the D Line is getting ZERO pressure on the QB, then blitz and at least be aggressive if we’re going to lose to a team. You have to shake things up during a game to get the opposite OC uncomfortable. KState did the same exact thing last year and it was like Coach D didn’t know what to expect. However many scholarships we have left for 2013 should be used on all DTs, because we need some new blood on the interior. Until we get our lines together, we are going to struggle.
I don’t really have much to say about Duke’s drops other than he’s a RB not a WR. That guy is the biggest game-changer we have and we need to continue to try to utilize him as best as we can. He went in motion and flared out to the flat a few times and Morris never threw it to him, which seemed to be easier catches for him if he had gotten the chance. I say we stay with the Hurry-Cane offense as much as possible because we seem to function better in that mode. We’re going to have to win shoot-outs for the foreseeable future.
John – 6-6 last year and 1-1 this year is fourteen games, but get your point. Still, hard to be critical. Inherited a pretty bad team last year, but the defense started coming around a bit down the stretch – after starting the year with random suspensions, holes and different line ups.
Then year two comes around and the Canes D has to do it without Marcus Forston, Jojo Nicolas, Adewale Ojomo, Micanor Regis, Marcus Robinson, Sean Spence and Olivier Vernon — seven guys who were a big part of last year’s defense — and we’re critical two games into season two?
Honestly, where might UM’s defensive line this year be with Forston, Ojomo, Regis, Robinson and Vernon helping with the pass rush, as opposed to the guys we have? (Not to mention Robinson and Porter sidelined.)
I think coaches knew what to expect from Kansas State — I simply think there were personnel issues that prevented the Canes from doing what needed to be done.
As for Duke, alas yes, a running back and not a wideout. Just saying, the kid looked all-world and like he could do no wrong at Boston College. The drops at Kansas State were simply proof that the kid is mortal and the example was given to show that true freshman can look like Heisman candidates one week and, well, true freshmen the next.
Lastly, I would assume the mindset behind the lack of a hurry-up at Kansas State had everything to do with their methodical drives and a desire to not get the defense back on the field after a quick UM score.
The first KSU drive was upwards of seven minutes. Miami needed to chew some time off the clock before letting Kansas State back out there. As it was, the UM drive lasted three minutes before the fumble and the defense was right back out there, giving up a five-play, fifty-eight yard touchdown drive that took the Wildcats 2:21.
The hurry-up works against a Boston College, where law of averages, you’ll get some stops. Different ballgame at Kansas State, where Bill Snyder and his team will grind you down all day with the run, with the lone attempt at chewing time off the clock and tiring you out.
I can’t count. You’re right.
… John, the way things have gone lately, it felt like eighteen games!
EARLY DEPARTURES TO THE NFL HAVE KILLED US…WISHED GOLDEN WOULD HAD THE BALLS AND SMARTS TO LET D’FORINO OR WHAT EVER THIS FAKE, PRETENDING ,WANNA BE IN CHARGE, LIKE MITT ROMNEY DEFENSIVE COACH GO!!! ( SORRY I GOT CARRIED AWAY… LOL). I LIKE MORRIS BUT OUR WRS HANDS ARE NO GOOD AND THEY SEEM TO NEVER BE OPEN!!!!!! WE ARE GONNA GET JOHNSON KILLED…DUKE IS ALL WE GOT AND DEFENSES SEE THIS NOW… OUR OC IS THE BEST COACH WE GOT!!! MAYBE I CAN AT LEAT THANK GOLDEN FOR HIRING HIM….
You’re all over the map, man, but laughed my ass off at the ‘fake, pretending, wannabe-in-charge like Mitt Romney’ part.
We have got some good young talent.and I do mean young.Going up against Kansas was a really great high school team against a mature college team.Put them up against Alabama and they would receive the same ass kicking we did.they have to grow up.the guys that left really did a disservice to their school.Streeter out for the season was not ready for the NFL.How can they come back and look the guys they left behind in the eye.Because it was up to them to groom the guys behind them to keep the machine running.I think Earl Moore could be the next QBKilla.just stay and develope your skills.