Virginia thoughts

Last Tuesday, Jacory Harris was talking about how he and his teammates kept playing down to opponents. For the first time all year, the Canes showed us they could play a complete game. Yes, there were gaffs. Virginia took advantage of two blocked punts and an interception to score 17 points. But UM dominated in the second half and rolled to a 52-17 victory because it was the superior team and played like it.

A few more quick thoughts before I head down for postgame interviews...

> Thearon Collier's 60-yard punt return in the second quarter was without question the play of the year thus far. Collier channeled his inner Ted Ginn, running backwards and across the field before turning on the afterburners. He got three huge blocks on the return to spring him -- including ones from Ramon Buchanon and Chavez Grant that made the crowd at Land Shark Stadium "Oooh" and "Ahhh" during the replay on the Jumbotron.

> While there is plenty of good to talk about from this game, there is still work to be done. Virginia's two punt blocks were break downs on blocking schemes and will be a point of contention in the Canes film room this week. Brandon McGee also took a real bad angle on Rashawn Jackson's 34-yard touchdown run that put Virginia up 10-3 in the first quarter. I also thought Mark Whipple took a chance early on with the flea-flicker and Jacory Harris made a terrible read throwing the ball into triple coverage toward Aldarius Johnson. But that was about it. This way by far UM's best overall game.

> It was nice to see Graig Cooper return from his ankle injury and shine. He finished with a career-high 152 yards rushing including a 70-yard burst and three-yard TD run in the fourth quarter. Miami pounded the Cavs for 268 yards on the ground as a team. That's making up for the 21 carries at Wake Forest.

> Safety Jared Campbell had a few nice pass breakups. That's good to see considering it doesn't look like Ray Ray Armstrong isn't coming back anytime soon. He was on the sideline with a knee brace. Linebacker Sean Spence had one too. Eric Moncur had his left leg in a soft cast. Lucky for UM, it didn't look like anybody else suffered injuries Saturday. Although Joel Figueroa did point down to his ankle in the third quarter. He stayed in the game.

Comments

[Caneman12]

Alonzo highsmith is horrible. He shouldn't be our fourth string qb let alone backup. We are trouble guys

[Chewycanes]

R u nuts??? Highsmith looked good

[Caneman12]

My point is he needs more reps in a game like this.

[Less Unhappy with Another Subpar Year]

Agree with everything, Manny. Also nice to see Highsmith, the backup OL, Streeter and others get some playing time late in the game just like the old days. We need to get to work on the deficiencies, but this game was a nice break from the past few weeks and clearly a step in the right direction.

[Caneman12]

I'm talking about all the throws I've seen him throw. That came out wrong. I'm not upset about his performance. I'm worried of his lack of playing time.

[202cane]

Rick "Doc" Walker who called the game for Raycom Sports must read this board. He was dead on too. He said the "fans" that complains about this team must be brain dead.

[MTX-Cane]

Welcome aboard!

Keion Payne, a 5-foot-11, 160-pound defensive back from St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), has committed to Miami-Florida.

Payne, who holds nearly 30 offers, also considered Ohio State, Florida, Florida State and Tennessee as finalists.

[Canesjunkie]

Well we see what happens when we play with enthusiasm.

I didn't like the flee flicker play either, there was no reason to call that in the first half.

The OL looked provided good protection. I also liked that the protected Jacory when his helmet was ripped off.

McGee will make mistakes, I would expect that from a freshman. Hopefully he learns from Brandon Harris.

[david]

Wish they would let Highsmith throw it a bit more. Also, his name is A.J., Caneman. Alonzo is his father... and he was a frickin stud. Maybe you should be a 4th string commenter....

[MTX-Cane]

Great game!

I think only practicing 1hr a day really helped this team. Even though they were missing alot of players on the D side, they just looked fresher. Quicker to the ball and more aware of what was going on.

Great call Shannon!

[Canesjunkie]

Doc Walker needs to the shut up. He watches highlights, we watch games. If noone demands excellence, it won't happen.

You see what this team is capable of if they show up to play. Don't watch 3 hours of Canes football and tell me I have no right to complain. Look at what we did to Georgia Tech and compare that effort against last week before you say we can't complain. Look at today v. last week. That's was the same 'injured' team that was making plays.

[MiamiCanes]

There are always a group of haters! This week : caneman

[PenFlaCane]

Today we looked like CANES, and I dig it. Jacory fired up the crowd when that defender ripped his helmet off, and he got po'ed, and Jason Fox knocked the s-h-i-t out of another guy who was about to fall on JH. That's what we've been missing. I also like the way the ball was spread around, and not just wr's, but the rb's as well. PEOPLE WE HAVE A VERY DANGEROUS TEAM when they want to be. Enjoy today Canes, and get ready for UNC. It's time we payed Butch back too. GO CANES!!!!!

[PenFlaCane]

Wake just the lead, WOO HOO!!!!

[bobjohnson]

Am I the only one who loved seeing Jacory get fired up after his helmet was ripped off? I know we all love his calm/coolness, but that was the first time we saw his true fire. C-A-N-E-S CANES!

[bobjohnson]

Canesjunkie and Penflacane... I couldn't have said it better. We need to demand excellence!

[CanesFanStuckInCali]

SPECIAL TEAMS COACH PANUNZIO HAS TO GO!!!! We can't protect our punter, we can't block a punt for the life of us even though we have some of the best athletes in the country, and our kickoff coverage has been inconsistent and average at best. He's a significant part of the reason we lost against Clemson and VaTech and a huge part as to why so many of our games have been close (e.g. FSU). He's the common factor, so get him out of there Randy! With our level of talent and a little creativity, there's no reason to have ZERO blocked punts and so few TD returns on punts and kicks. After our OL, which did pretty good today, special teams is our biggest weakness.

Good game today! Calling the flea flicker after very efficiently getting into the red zone the drive before was completely unnecessary, but at least we came back. Whip's unpredictable but sometimes that unpredictability works against us.

GO CANES!! (AND GO WAKE FOREST DEAMON DEACS!!! BEAT GA TECH!!!!!)

[Naturalist]

How about Wake Forest 17-10 over G Tech at the half

[PenFlaCane]

Come on Deacs. Seriously though, we need to focus on UNC. Butch has got us 2 in a row, and we need to pound them. Maybe we'll get some more guys back for injury too. Hey ANYBODY, what happed to Travis Benjamin? Don't tell me he's injured too?

[mainecane]

god teams wins 52-17 and from some of the posts youd think they lost. Im getting so tired of the so called canes fans who only complain. Thats all they do. If you win 52-17 aj highsmith a true freshman who was suppose to be 4th string till 2 guys transfered out not wanting to back up jacory. Give the kid a break god. special teams needs to not give up blocks ill agree but im so tired of the negative attitude some of you have. this team is 7-2 they are better then last year. This team still starts alot of true sophmore, redshirt freshman and true freshman. they still lack depth. Oh and arthur brown and company who cant find the feild need to take some of the blame themselves. Look at spence when you put in the work and get it shannon will play you. i think the coaches are doing a good job overall and people need to relax. Most people coming in were predictin miami would start 1-3 or 0-4 with there schedule and to maybe win 8 games. this team has overachieved most weeks in my opinion giving how young they are. Give randy and this team a break and be happy they are on there way back.

[Da []_ _[] is back!]

Seriously I can't believe someone actually complained about our backup QB. We just won big! How about Coop's great game??? Punt Return TD? No, no.... the backup FRESHMAN QB..... WOW these kids don't deserve fans like that. They deserve better.

GO CANES!

[DenverCane]

Quick thoughts:

* Play of the game? Fox protecting Harris after that ridiculous facemask. That's what I call senior leadership--would easily have been worth the 15 yards

* Okay, Collier had the real play of the game. Nice to see the Hester specter making a visitation. AND he did that in a punt block formation with zero protection back deep

* Our five-deep running back rotation looked strong. Sorry that Baby James is ending his college years in such an underwhelming manner, but kudos to Coop, Berry, Mike James, and Chambers

* I liked the flea-flicker call. If it had gone for a TD, everyone here would have been praising The Whip's unpredictable, gutsy schemes

* Great to see the second (third/fourth) stringers getting action

* To everyone who's been clamoring for Arthur Brown: he's on the field for all of two plays before getting hit with a 15 yard penalty. There's a reason he hasn't seen the field

* Haters can say what they want, but I think Brandon Harris is at least a 2nd round pick by the time he leaves, probably a 1st rounder. Kid has great instincts

Fantastic win. Let's put up another 50 on Butch & Co. Go Wake Forest!

And Manny, you're the best, but the irony of you misspelling "gaffe" is classic.

[Digger]

We weren't saying "ooohh" and "ahhh" were saying "BOOOM!" on the punt return

[shane]

I doubt anybody will wonder why Arthur Brown doesn't see the field after today. In the last series he over ran two plays (one badly), missed a tackle and had a 15 yard face mask penalty. Oh yeah he's a stud. The coaches just aren't preparing him or utilizing his talents. what a joke. This guy was totally overrated.

[sebas13]

hey guys what's going on at canesport.I seen that Keion Payne committed .But now I see post
about Joshua Shaw and Linkenhiemer . I dont subscribe I just wanted a heads up !!

[sebas13]

does anybody subscribe to canesport? They are posting about joshua shaw and linkenhiermer .
I'm trying to see if its worth getting excited about ?

[Derrick]

can we stop jumping all over the Canes for their performance against Wake Forest last week? the Deacs are now tied with Georgia Tech at 24 with 4 minutes left in the game...LET'S GO DEACS!

[Cane_Hopeful]

Arthur Brown : He wasn't overrated - he dominated high school ball and was rated accordingly as a high schooler. Brown hasn't lived up to the same potential in college yet, but he is a team mate and devoted Miami Hurricane.

Stop bashing any player who makes a commitment to the U - He is family now.

Maybe U were overrated - what have you done in your career?

[Derrick]

also I'm noticing that Whipple's unbalanced formations tend to be very susceptible to pass rush off the edge and we know how he loves to shift offensive linemen before the snap...I'm wondering if maybe he should try breaking the huddle in some unbalanced formations and then shift into balanced to neutralize the pass rush off the edge...it seems like they only really shift INTO unbalanced but shifting OUT of it could avoid some sacks I think

[Canesjunkie]

Arthur Brown is going to make mistakes when he gets in the game. He hasn't played LB in college yet. Doesn't mean he shouldn't play. If anything, it means he should play more often.

Unreal, the gets one penalty and he's a bust. And it was a bad call.

[CanesFanStuckInCali]

LET'S GO WAKE!!! LET'S GO WAKE!!!

I'll seriously crap in my pants if the Deacs can pull it off!!!

GO CANES!!!

[Canesjunkie]

Derrick..

The most disturbing thing about the Wake game was our lack of intensity, not the result.

[dccane]

CanesFanStuckInCal I agree with you completely. Pannunzio cannot coach. He is a holdover from Coker staff and he is totally incompetent.
This team is very dangerous and starting to really become balanced. every area has improved but ST's.

[202cane]

Arthur Brown : He wasn't overrated - he dominated high school ball and was rated accordingly as a high schooler. Brown hasn't lived up to the same potential in college yet, but he is a team mate and devoted Miami Hurricane.

Stop bashing any player who makes a commitment to the U - He is family now.

Maybe U were overrated - what have you done in your career?

Posted by: Cane_Hopeful | November 07, 2009 at 06:33 PM

Great post!

[Chewycanes]

Wake and GT in OT go WF

[Canadian Cane Fan]

Wake Forest Tech in OT... Go Wake Forest!!!!

[202cane]

WF won...

[202cane]

WF won...

[Chewycanes]

Oh well no acc championship this year

[202cane]

Oops. I spoke too soon. Damn! lol

[Derrick]

That was a pathetic effort by the WF defense on 4th and 1...how do you not push into that line like it's the last play of your life...it looked like those guys just stood there and let themselves get blocked

[Canesjunkie]

Tech won. Credit to Wake, they played us and GT back-to-back tough.

When was the last time we played back-to-back good games? FSU and GT?

Better be ready to bring it to UNC.

[Canesjunkie]

Notre Dame lost to Navy? OMG, Charlie Weiss should be cleaning his office out right now.

Hope Urban Meyer goes there and puts us on the schedule. It would totally bring that rivalry back.

[Chewycanes]

So where do we end up in the standings? AP-13 BCS-14

[Canesjunkie]

Jimmy Graham looks better every week. Is he the starting TE now? Kind of makes me rethink Pannunzio. Specials stink, but he's done well with Graham and Epps.

[CanesFanStuckInCali]

Too bad Wake couldn't pull it off. I knew they would lose but a part of me kept wishing I was wrong.

Gator Bowl here we come. (Unless Duke can pull off their biggest win ever, which IMO is not happening! Wake had a better shot at GT and couldn't get it done).

NC is next. Would be AWESOME to finally beat Butch! They're gonna play us hard but the Canes should win.

GO CANES!!!

[Joan Rodriguez]

where's pedro HATERRRRRRRRR not saying much today.

[Jason]

Manny is great, but for a writer his grammar is horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SC Cane]

I thought it was a good game for the canes. Couple problems with the blocked punts being the most obvious. Hopefully they can get that figured out real soon. Nice to see the D standing tall again that's for sure! Go canes beat UNC!!!

[Gatoren gern essen poo!]

I know this is old news but I found it funny that Urban Meyer would criticize the SEC officials even though he has been benefiting from their horrible calls. Wasn't he the same whiner that insisted on the SEC ref's calling the game against UM last year?

Anyway, good showing by the Canes today. They were sloppy on special teams but nice to see it all worked out.

On another note, the trolls were blasting away with their statements about how Navy beat Wake. Well, I guess you can't underestimate Navy since they beat the golden domers today. Maybe they're not that bad.

Watching the Cal vs Oregon St. game. Dude on Cal scored a touchdown but was knocked out when he landed. Rough hit. I hope the kid is ok.

Anyone have any information on Keion Payne? Would love to see what he said after his commitment.

[Gatoren gern essen poo!]

I just saw it was Javed Best. He tore us up in the bowl game. Getting carried off on a gurney. I hope he's ok. it didn't look good.

[Nealtrom]

GREAT WIN..NOT A GREAT PLAYED GAME...THE CROWD WAS WHAT 40K? NICE TURNOUT AGAIN MIAMI...CALLING BROWN HORRIBLE IS LIKE CALLING HIGHSMITH HORRIBLE...BOTH NEED GAME TIME...THE D WAS FANTASTIC TODAY...THE OLINE GOT PUNKED AGAIN..I WAS HAPPY WITH THE WIN..WHEN THIS TEAM FIND ITS PATH IT WILL BE DANGEROUS...INJURIES AND PENALTYS ARE STILL KILIING US...DONT GET ME STARTED ON SPECIAL TEAMS....7-2 LOOKING TOWARD TO UNC,,THERE AWFUL..I HOPE IT IS 3:30 GAME...GO CANES

[2b]

Keion Payne just said hes been a silent since the summer, and he just felt like going public today. When asked if Linder will commit, he just said "wel see".

[Brooklyn CaneFan]

I wonder if there are any more silent commits with there being Clements and now Payne. These are two solid players that shall help Today was a solid victory W, it was good that Highsmith was able to gain some more valuable playing time.

Now is time to prepare for North Carolina which will provide a better change than VA, one game at a time.

[RICK TRUTH SPEAKER]

I LOVED THE WAY "ICE" HANDLED HIMSELF WHEN HIS HELMET WAS RIPPED OFF HIS HEAD. I LOVED THE WAY HIS O LINE CAME TO HIS RESCUE. THESE BULLS, UH, HURRICANES ARE FOR REAL. "ICE , YOU WERE ASSERTIVE, BUT NOT AGGRESSIVE. GOOD JOB. YOU'RE A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A GREAT LEADER. PSALMS 41

[g8rh8r]

Good game, big win. I just can't get over that Clemson game, though... Fudge!

Carolina will be tough, USF should be a good test. Let's hope Randy keeps going easy in practice and the kids keep showing up fired up to play each Saturday. 10-2 and a nice bowl game, hopefully against ND, would certainly look like a pretty successful season and a real nice improvement. Given how we've closed out the last couple season, I'm hoping these kids will really want to prove that they can close strong, regardless of what is or isn't on the line as far as conference, etc.

Had no problem with the flea flicker. It wasn't a risky play call, it was poor decision making by Jacory. He doesn't seem to be growing much from game to game, but that's kind of understandable given how they only have 20 hours of practice time each week. We need a QB coach. Hire Dorsey!!! But, if he can improve as much from this season to next as he did in this past offseason, oh boy!

Let's go Canes!!!!!!

[Sarasota_'Cane]

Man o man did we destroy let me repeat DESTROY UVA. They may have lost to William and Mary but who gives a rat's(go panthers) ass. INT12 for Heisman and if a lot of teams continue to lose in the top ten, we may not play auburn in the chick fila bowl.

chicken on one side, beef on the other

[Sarasota_'Cane]

Anytime you have to openly ROOT for Wake Forest you know you have a good program. I recall USC, UF, LSU, and Texas all rooting for WAKE..

Man o man though, I was at the game...Louder then church on tuesday. Can I get an AMEN?

[Sarasota_'Cane]

I just heard the Sapp, Ray Lewis, The Roc, Ed Reed, Andre johnson, and Edge were all NOT rooting for WAKE.

false hopes on one side, dreams on the other.

[The Wi-Fi under the bridge ain't so good]

where's pedro HATERRRRRRRRR not saying much today.

Posted by: Joan Rodriguez | November 07, 2009 at 07:33 PM

That guy lives under the julia tuttle causeway.

[Footballrocker52]

'inner Ted Finn?' I'm sorry, I have to disagree. More like inner Devin Hester

[Cane4Life]

Decent turn out at the game. The crowd has got a lot to learn though, during the 2nd half when we had the ball, they kept doing the wave making all kinds of noise. It's just funny to me how when we had the ball on offense in the 2nd half the crowd was loud and when Virginia had the ball it was quiet for the most part.
It also amazes me how when we win big no one gives Coach Shannon any credit. If the game was closer all the "fire Randy now" guys would have been on here. For those of you who donly like to scream "Randy sucks", "Fire Randy now", here are a couple of points:

1) Coach Shannon made a great tatical move late in the 1st quater by calling a timeout with 2 seconds left. He forced Virginia to punt into the wind and we got great field position due to that and scored a touchdown.

2) The defense has just given up 7 points in the 2nd half of the past 2 games (on an all out blitz against Wake). That means that Coach Shannon and Lovett are making great halftime adjustments.

3) Coach Shannon (as a poster already mentioned) made an adjustment in the practice schedule. The team appeared to have fresher legs in the 2nd half.

4) We still have 3 games left to play and have not won more games this year than last, but it appears that Coach Shannon, after a heart breaking loss to Clemson (who as a matter of fact has won 4 in a row and is looking really good) went on the road and beat a very under rated Wake Forest team (they almost beat the #10 team in the country on the road)with a great 4 quarter comeback. We then destroyed the same team that beat us 48-0 at home 2 years ago, the same team that we had to go to overtime to beat last year. To me, that shows inprovement in the team and in coaching.

Again, there is still a lot of football to be played, but I just felt like throwing so kudos to Coach Shannon for those of you in the "fire Randy now" crowd.

[Unstoppable.]

Wake is sooo bad ahh haters? They took GTech to OT and NAvy beat ND.

The marquee moment for me, was the city coming out of our players to try to defend our QB when he had his helmet ripped off. It almost became a street brawl. I saw glimses of the old UM there. That spaeked the team. that is the nastiness that we need to see back and to bring it to NC.

Sc-ew Butch Davis and the horse he rode on. many of you wanted him back. He is nothing but a turncoat, a liar and a traitor. He can keep his tar heels. He will never be a winner since he left UM, where he won nothing.

O-line- brought it
Brandon Harris- brought it
Our running game- I see 3 beasts in Coop, Berry and Chambers. JJ is probably done.

This team is unstoppable. Only UM can stop UM. Like with horrendous punting, coaching. Thatinlcudes that ill-advised flea flicker.

lets see. F_U beat Vandy
Alabama beat ranked LSU
LAst week texas beat ranked Ok State

#1 Ala
#2 Texas
#3 F_U
#4 Boise St
#5 TCU
#6 GT
#7 Miami

[360Cane]

Props to Shannon for cutting practices and moving them to the afternoon. U could definitely tell the difference out there on the field today. Let's continue this...

To see AB at MLB and #24 CG at OLB is a prime example of what we are missing. We lack depth still, especially when you have to play a 180lb DB at LB.

Man, I cannot wait until we are at the point that players are scared to get hurt because they know they may never get their job back. Oh, the good ole days...

We won't be reloading like that for at least another year. Love what Shannon is putting together.

GO CANES!!!

[Unstoppable.]

Attendance was over 45,000-48,000 (ESPN). Not bad.

[CanesFanStuckInCali]

I totally forgot that Panunzio also coaches tight ends. On the Chris Hayes special on ESPN he was only listed as "MIAMI SPECIAL TEAMS COORDINATOR."

As the TEs unit has exceeded all expectations coming into this season (when we thought we had NO tight ends only to realize during the season that we have two studs in Epps and Graham and a huge contributer in Tervaris Johnson), maybe Panunzio shouldn't get sh-t canned. Maybe we should just relieve him of his special teams duties and have him focus exclusively on TEs. Both units might be too much for him and with special teams being such an important unit, one that can make or break a game and even a season, then someone that's better at that unit should take over.

But who? I say we hire somebody OR delegate the task to someone already on staff. Lovett has special teams experience but running the defense is already a huge task (one he's not handling with flying colors). As far as I know, no one else on our coaching staff has special teams experience. Panunzio runs this unit by himself and Don Soldinger did a good job of running special teams before him fro 2001-2005.

Any candidates or other ideas to fix our special teams?

Canes are playing amazing football with the exception of two units--special teams and OL. If we can fix these units by next year, we'll be a scoring machine. And if year 2 under Lovett is better than this year, we'll be in the BCS championship game.

GO CANES!!!

[CanesFanStuckInCali]

I totally forgot that Panunzio also coaches tight ends. On the Chris Hayes special on ESPN he was only listed as "MIAMI SPECIAL TEAMS COORDINATOR."

As the TEs unit has exceeded all expectations coming into this season (when we thought we had NO tight ends only to realize during the season that we have two studs in Epps and Graham and a huge contributer in Tervaris Johnson), maybe Panunzio shouldn't get sh-t canned. Maybe we should just relieve him of his special teams duties and have him focus exclusively on TEs. Both units might be too much for him and with special teams being such an important unit, one that can make or break a game and even a season, then someone that's better at that unit should take over.

But who? I say we hire somebody OR delegate the task to someone already on staff. Lovett has special teams experience but running the defense is already a huge task (one he's not handling with flying colors). As far as I know, no one else on our coaching staff has special teams experience. Panunzio runs this unit by himself and Don Soldinger did a good job of running special teams before him fro 2001-2005.

Any candidates or other ideas to fix our special teams?

Canes are playing amazing football with the exception of two units--special teams and OL. If we can fix these units by next year, we'll be a scoring machine. And if year 2 under Lovett is better than this year, we'll be in the BCS championship game.

GO CANES!!!

[ooster]

i think its funny arthur brown plays 2 plays and everyone rips him apart like a pack of wolves. geeze give the guy a chance at least.

[718]

Beautiful win!
Collier's return is highlight #2 of the night on ESPN (#1 was horse racing, whatever)

All about the U

we've crossed the tipping point - it's coasting from here on out

[CanesFanStuckInCali]

Coasting my arse! We beat a pretty pathetic team and we lost to two good though not elite teams. Most experts and even Randy agrees that we're not there yet as far as any of our units.

IMO, to win out this season, we need:

1) energy to complete the season (shorter practices will hopefully take care of this)

2) no more injuries (it was said during the game today that we haven't had the same 11 on defense play in two consecutive games all season.. da fu-k!?!)

3) consistent OL play (we haven't seen this unit play two good games in a row since games 1 and 2 against FSU and GT... we did good today against the team that got beat by a bunch of marys but can we repeat against a tough NC defense?)

4) improvement on special teams (we ran one back today but had not one but TWO punts blocked... we do this against a team with a decent defense and we lose that game... NC is currently the #7 defense and USF #28 (not to mention Duke at #33) so we got our work cut out for us!)

We're no where near cruising. We'll have to fight hard during the next three games or we'll lose one, perhaps more. WE CANNOT SLEEP ON ANYONE!

I think we can pull of a 10 or 11 win season, but we need to work on our weaknesses. I can understand why the OL is inconsistent... we're just not talented in that unit, although we're getting better. The same CANNOT be said about special teams. From what I see, we use plain vanilla schemes to block punts, and when we're punting ourselves, we look like deer staring at headlights. I love this team and i see plenty of improvements but we need just a little bit more from our OL and special teams to become unstoppable.

GO CANES!!!

[johnny]

Alonzo highsmith is horrible. He shouldn't be our fourth string qb let alone backup. We are trouble guys

Posted by: Caneman12

well he's all we got at backup, taylor cook and cannon smith transfered, remember? he won't be playing until his senior year anyways.

[canesfansc]

Come on give Highsmith a break. The guy has never had a chance to play and seldom gets work with the first team. I thought he did quite well for his 1st time in a game.

Hats off to Shannon/Lovett. They did a great job with our defense today. I'm not a fan of Lovett but I must say he did a good job game planning UVA. The guys stayed in their lanes and looked ready and not confused and out of place as we've seen lately.

I think the change in practice hours has made a huge impact on the players mental and physical approach. They looked rested, faster and whole lot more enthusiastic about being on the field. This approach definitely showed positive results with the defense.

Enjoy the win guys and deal with the remaining games one at a time. UNC is going to bring it on defense. You know Davis, the "Michelin Man," is noted for that. He loves beating MIA but I think he's going to be in for a surprise this year. Good Luck, Canes!!!

[Da []_ _[] is back!]

Highsmith came in here a safety. Our 2nd and 3rd string QBs choked their way to Rice and Memphis....we should be commending the kid for his ability to adjust and do what's best for the team. I'm guessing next year he'll return to safety and become an emergency QB.

There's a lot of kids on this team that have proved to be team players:

Shields (WR to DB)
T. Johnson (DB to TE)
Highsmith (S to QB)
Bailey (DE to DT)
Graham (BBall to TE)

Give these guys some love. They're doing what they can to get on the field and produce.

[uKnow]

Well not everybody has a conference that pretty much makes sure their top teams go undefeated...i.e. officiating....I am sure we all know who that is. I guess what I am wondering, is why you are always so concerned with what is going on here at the U. Is your life really that boring,I mean there is a whole world for you to go experience other than sitting behind your computer and making yourself look stupid. If you take the proper steps towards maybe getting into shape, seeing a dermatalogist about the greasy, zit faced moron you have become. Those along with some other steps might help you become a member of society, and hell, a female might even look your way, which might help you take out your aggression elsewhere.

[Unstoppable.]

Kehoe you are a joke of humanity. Go away.

UM players: studs all around. props to the O-line.

[CaneFan87]

Defense only allowed 7 points. The score would have read 52-7 if not for blocked punt and bad read by jacory. I'm okay with that. Luckily we don't have to worry about overlooking UNC since you don't have to look very far back to realize we haven't beaten them in a few years... I'm traveling to DC for a pre law seminar & thinking about driving down to chapel hill to support. Go Canes!

[Canes311]

Ke "ho"...u say the U has fallen. Is 2 losses better than 6 or 7? Come on math major...as far as the game is concerned I was very happy to see us bounce back and for once not play to the level of our opponent. O line did a great job and the D stepped it up. It was also nice to see our secondary get any aweful "pass interference" calls. It seemed every time the other team threw an incomplete pass it was because of ticky-tack intereference. Big game next week...we need to show up and dominate! Go Canes baby!!!!!

[coach Ro]

Arthur Brown looked good but you can tell he needs more playing time. Hopefully he puts in more time, so that next year we can have a great Linebacker group.

[Dyrty Dawg]

Actually, according to AJ himself, he weas recruited as a QB. Before he even got on campus he said he was told he will be a QB. It's his dad who feels he will have a better future as a Safety. But RS wants him at QB.

[Purple Drank]

Shields (WR to DB)
T. Johnson (DB to TE)
Highsmith (S to QB)
Bailey (DE to DT)
Graham (BBall to TE)

NO DEPTH

[Dyrty Dawg]

Depth is coming. That's why the future is bright. So many times it was said that the team has 50 + Freshmen & Sophomores. Include the 25 + kids coming in depth is on its way.

[SEC What?]

Big Bad SEC? New AP poll SEC 3 ranked ACC 4 ranked

[green]

Anytime you have to openly ROOT for Wake Forest you know you have a good program. I recall USC, UF, LSU, and Texas all rooting for WAKE..

Posted by: gaturd agent provocateur | November 07, 2009 at 10:23 PM

U nipped wake who nipped stanford who nipped oregon …

NIPPED IN THE BUD

[green]

U v. unc set for 3:30p ABC

STOMPING GROUND

[Pedro]

Well THE EWWWWWWWWWW got lucky again. Well unc will stop all this nonsence.

Unc and butch will have all of you guys crying next week.

Go Tarheels!!!

[Pedro]

Coach Shannanigans sure knows how to recuit. Arthur just like Forston and spence are all BUSTSSSSSS.

[Dyrty Dawg]

Haters have a reason to be worried. They know what's around the corner. Only reason to get their shots in now. Won't be able to do it much longer.

[green]

NO DEPTH

Posted by: gaturd agent provocateur | November 08, 2009 at 12:47 PM

This is absolutely unbelievable. Next year, we'll have:
Lamar Miller
Damien Berry
Mike James
Darion Hall
Eduardo Clements
Storm Johnson
John Calhoun
Craig Cooper (surely he'll go pro now...)
Dont forget Lee Chambers

Posted by: Naturalist | November 04, 2009 at 08:15 PM

http://miami.scout.com/a.z?s=13&p=8&c=1&nid=3815200

include Maurice Hagens …
perhaps, Patrick Hill redshirts …

EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES

[SEC is a joke]

haters and jealous mongers are mouthin off because they are scared. Its like the scared dog that barks and barks when he is being threatened. Its obvious.

U nipped wake who nipped stanford, who nipped oregon who nipped usc who nipped ohio st who nipped penn state. And wake nearly nipped tech even though they were nipped by Navy who turned around and nipped Notre Dame!

The only ones who can't claim to nip anyone are the pathetic Gaturds, who played 2-8 vandy last night and looked pa-th-etic, and still have to play 2-7 FIU, and will end up playing FS-who which will likely be 5-6 when they go to the swa(du)mp to play them.

For the life of me, I cannot see why the media is so transparently biased. Alabama just beat top ten ranked LSU and got no credit for it, yet F_U played sorry Vandy and stayed on top.

Let me remind folks- Georgia Tech plastered 50+ on Vanderbilt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MTX-Cane]

Wouldn't this be fun!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/ncaa/11/08/college.football.poll/index.html

[CaneBoss]

MTX-Cane, Man do I wish!

[T]

Manny, you might be tempted to do one of those why we should fear North Carolina columns this week, but you need to reconsider and say why they should fear us. It's payback time. Miami haven't beaten them in 3 or 4 years it's time for NC to get their just do. So this week headline should be WHY NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD FEAR MIAMI!

[SEC is a joke]

MTX-cane that would be juicy. The entire bracket is full of incredible matchups. But I would wait till the end of the season- MAximum games played=11 including conference championships. Then use the BCS at the end of the year to rank the top 8 teams. The top 2 would play basically 3 more games for a total of 14 games. As it is, many teams pay about 13 games total now. The top BCS bowls can be incorporated into the formula. The national championship game would be its own different bowl, played 1-2 weeks before the superbowl. 16 teams would be toomany games (15 total) which for college players probably would be too many- injuries, school, etc), plus it would conflict with the superbowl.

As far as the latest BCS. What is it with the media and USC? They get ROMPED by Oregon. Oregon gets ROMPED by Stanford, and USC barely beats Az, I mean makes no sense.

[dlu]

Good game for the offense, went back to te's , rbacks with the passes, along with the receivers. Nice running plays, also.
Some better defensive schemes.

[Canesjunkie]

OL has actually done a decent job this season. They are better at run blocking than they are at pass blocking, but they are showing heart.

[Chris]

With all the injuries Miami has incurred this year, it's almost amazing they have been this consistent and have maintained their winning ways. Save Clemson, which we have seen can hang with almost anybody, give the CANES and Shannon props.

[sidcane]

WHY is every one picking on Highsmith? in the first game he played in he went 3 for 3 and something like 46 yards but noone praised him. So why bash him for a 1 for 3 showing. Thats like 66% comp.

[Sarasota 'cane]

WHY is every one picking on Highsmith? in the first game he played in he went 3 for 3 and something like 46 yards but noone praised him. So why bash him for a 1 for 3 showing. Thats like 66% comp.

Posted by: sidcane | November 08, 2009 at 09:46 PM

On top of that Sid, they were "jail-break" blitzing Highsmith on evey play! I thought he did great. Our O-line and playmaker's had his back leading up to the touchdown. That kind of gametime experience is very important if Hghsmith is going to learn the speed of the college game.

Go 'canes!

[SEC?]

SEC Officials suc

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/andy_staples/11/07/lsu.alabama/index.html?eref=sihp

[Canesjunkie]

It's good that they got Highsmith some snaps. The kid needs a lot of work, doesn't mean he can't play. Just remember, we didn't recruit him to play QB.

We have to whip on Butch.