Miami Notes

MIAMI'S PASS OFFENSE TARGETED
Well, Miami passed for 99 yards against Houston. We know Tenuta will work on bigtime blitz schemes, but can he actually get some sacks. No doubt having Henderson back could make the difference.

BERLIN GETS BRUNT OF COKER'S CRITICISM
Coker was pretty hard on his QB:

When asked whether he was frustrated by Berlin's inaccuracies, Coker said: ``Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean, you have guys open, you have to hit them. This is major college football. When you have people open, you have to make the plays.

With UM leading 7-0 after Anthony Reddick blocked a punt for a touchdown, Berlin went deep and had an open Sinorice Moss. The ball sailed way over his head.

''You have to make that play,'' Coker said. ``Again, the first play was a good call and it was well executed. There was just no pass and catch and that's the fundamental part of it. It's a junior high play. If we make that play we're in good position to go and score a touchdown early. We just didn't do it.''

''A fifth-year senior quarterback cannot give the opponent a touchdown before the half,'' Coker said. ``You never like to go into halftime on the negative end of momentum.

``That's totally a foolish play we can't have.''

TECH USES WEEK OFF TO FOCUS ON PROBLEMS
Dang it, I hate comments like this from Reggie Ball:

"You go from being king of the world one week to a zero again the next week, especially when you stink up the place like we did," Tech quarterback Reggie Ball said. "We just keep learning."

Reggie, GT couldn't be "King" if Clemson hadn't HANDED us the opportunity. By all rights Clemson should have won that game. You're king of the world when the end of the season rolls around and you are playing in a MAJOR bowl.

Note Gailey is not happy with the turnover situation:

"You just keep harping on it and harping on it. At some point, you've got to do something to quit turning the ball over. Either we quit calling passes or we fair catch every punt," Gailey said. "Whatever the case is, we're not going to turn the ball over."

SPURRIER SHOULDN'T BE LACKING FOR SUITORS

NEW ACC, BIG10 SLOW OUT OF GATE

ACC HAVING RUN ON SPECIALTY BACKS
Interesting look at ACC's many specialty running backs.