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Did you watch the VT game?

I think that a lot of Miami's issues are mental/emotional. They certainly have the athletes to have performed better than their record. I am hoping we don't let them get a touchdown or a significant lead early and gain confidence.

I'm glad that CBK saw the same things I did when rewatching the punt coverage. Doesn't mean they are fixed, but at least we understand some of the problem(s). The only aspect I take issue with is that he praised our kicker for his distance. Distance is generally a good thing but not always...

Seeing this took me back to the issue I had in the Analytics thread that showed our D regressing with the VT game. Something isn’t right with the models.

The EPA must be the key. It can seem counterintuitive though. And the especially magnitude of the change. Eyeballing the scatter charts (whose scales don't always make sense as they repeat the same values on their axes), our D went from about -0.11 (good) to about -.03 (a bit above average)...

"We played VT, and I think we're both lower after playing each other than before--guess it's not a zero-sum game." I get that the offense showed improvement, which is obvious. But for our defensive ranking, this doesn't make sense to me. It's saying that despite the prior week's massive...

Obviously there are deeper issues, but Key commented that the flu bug had ravaged the line during the prior week; I think at least one starter was out for the game and others had limited or no practice. I can imagine that this could have affected our stamina and focus. Hopefully we will be in...

I re-watched the punt-6 return because it was featured on ESPN.com's game summary. There were a couple of blocks that contributed to our guys overrunning the play, but I didn't think they rose to the level of a penalty (full disclosure - I haven't read the actual rule on this). We did so much...

This is exactly what Mark Richt was dinged for - as a former QB and OC, he tended to focus on recruiting great skill position players. This won them a lot of games, but couldn't get them to the top. Kirby has focused on fixing this and it shows. That said, I think class rankings still deserve...

Agree but I seem to remember we had problems with UVA as well.

Seeing this again reminds me of something I noticed - am I the only one who thinks that our tackling was generally better overall in the VT game compared to UVA/FSU? I thought perhaps it was due to the quality of the competition but not sure.

You may be right about presence to a degree. I do think (or maybe imagined) that pre-injury Sims was showing incremental improvement in his pocket awareness and decision-making, which had been a weakness.

Whoever we bring in as head coach, I think that their coordinator/assistant hires can be equally as impactful. Was scanning the Miami boards for insight into what their fans think is going on with their program – some have pointed out that in their opinion, they have a bunch of individual...

Apologies if I misinterpreted your reference; thought we were on the HC candidate topic.

Hard to believe, seriously? Key came on board on or about Jan 10, less than a month before final signing day and weeks after early signing day. How many quality OL do you think were left unsigned? I'm not on the Key bandwagon, but lets at least give him a fair evaluation.

Wish some of that "it" would rub off on our TE's.

I have also not watched any of Miami's games, but on paper, they should be much better than their record. It seems Miami’s starter (Van Dyke) may be out. It also seems they have been regressing through the season regardless of QB, so I’m hoping their trend continues. I mean, Duke hung 45 on...

Had to look up Jason on RR.com. He's majoring in Nuclear Engineering, so assume walk-on. So yes, self-recruited. Pretty amazing that he graded out best. Not sure if that is good or bad news.

Great logic; you beat me to saying exactly this.

Can't argue with that. The buck stops with the coaches.