Two things I took away from this unfortunate experience.
1st: We need to be more cut throat in the second half of blow outs next year if we’re on the bubble.
It was obvious to me that over the last month of the season Miami realized they could create a talking point against us by running up the score against common opponents like Stanford, and Pittsburgh and against both of those two in particular it was obvious that we took our foot off the gas a little bit in the second half, and made those scores look way closer then they were.
Our coaching staff needed to realize that the H2H result was going to matter a lot , and that we needed to find style points anywhere we could and in my opinion dropped the ball.
2nd, we needed to be on the attack this week in the media. We hardly heard from anyone ND all week other then Pete for a 5-8 minute hit on Pat’s show and Coach Freeman from what looked like a hotel room in zoom interviews. Reports he was in New York? I’m not sure.
That just wasn’t good enough!
It feels like our administration, and coaching staff got completely blindsided today and that is just unacceptable.
Cristobal did every interview they would allow him to this week, and had his mentor Saban on the biggest show in college football stating the case for Miami over ND saying they kicked our ass which was not at all true!
Miami boosters were flying planes in grapevine, the ACC played the Miami vs ND game twenty straight times on ACC Network. It was an all out blitz that sadly worked.
We needed someone out there explaining to the masses how our defense has changed since that week 1 matchup, and how our metrics showed we were a top (3) team in the country.
It just wasn’t good enough, and it fucked us.
Hopefully we learn that for years in the future.
