Alex Donno discribes Miami's missed opportunities and self-inflicted wounds in their 41-31 loss at North Carolina.
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00:00 looked as though the defense, Miami's defense in this 41 to 31 loss, they were going to
00:04 pick up where they left off. It was 17 to 14. Miami had the lead at halftime. Now you
00:10 had another self-inflicted wound early in that second half, a bad center quarterback
00:16 exchange. Matt Lee snapped it way to the left. Tyler Van Dyke couldn't corral it on the turf
00:23 turnover in North Carolina's favor. They get the football in Miami's territory, but the
00:28 defense was able to get the stop. Now, part of that was North Carolina penalties, holding
00:33 calls, but Miami was able to get the football back. All that they lost in that turnover
00:39 was field position essentially. But then the Hurricanes had to shoot themselves in the
00:44 foot again. Guys, this is the type of stuff you cannot survive. When after getting the
00:50 football back, Tyler Van Dyke throws an interception that gives the Tar Heels the football basically
00:57 in the red zone. It was at the 21, 22 yard line. And again, they tried to self-sabotage
01:02 did the Tar Heels. They faced a third down and 20 and were able to turn that play into
01:09 a touchdown. North Carolina scored touchdowns on third and twenties and third and 18 situations
01:16 in this football game. The crazy thing is guys, if you had told me this stat line before
01:21 the game, if you told me that Carolina would commit 14 penalties for 147 loss penalty yards
01:29 and still win the game by 10 points. And by the way, it wasn't really as close as 10 points
01:34 because Miami was able to score some desperation touchdowns late in the game. But if you told
01:38 me North Carolina would win despite 14 penalties for 147 yards, you tell me that pregame, I
01:45 tell you you're crazy. But then if you tell me that the Miami hurricanes have two interceptions
01:52 from your quarterback, who's now thrown five INTs in his past two games. If you tell me
01:59 that you have an assistant coach, Lance Guidry, who gets you a 15 yard penalty for storming
02:06 onto the field when they were trying to call a timeout and that costs you a touchdown.
02:10 If you told me that Miami hurricanes would fumble inside the freaking goal line, when
02:14 they're about to score a touchdown, then I'd say, you know what? That sounds about right.
02:19 And the other thing that we saw play out was you can only expect your defense to be perfect
02:26 or close to it for so long against an offense that good when your own offense keeps committing
02:32 unforced errors and can't give you a breather off to the side. Because folks, I give North
02:37 Carolina a lot of credit because what wasn't working that well for them in the first half,
02:43 which was the running game outside of a couple of Drake May scrambles started to work for
02:48 them in a big way. I was very anxious to see how Miami would do against Omari and Hampton,
02:54 the North Carolina running back, because heading into that game last night, Miami had given
02:59 up exactly zero hundred yard rushing performances. OK, best rushing defense at the time. I don't
03:06 think they are anymore, but best rushing defense at the time in college football. Hampton goes
03:11 twenty four carries one hundred ninety seven yards and a touchdown. That's eight point
03:15 two yards per carry for North Carolina's top running back. And guys, as you could see,
03:22 Miami's defense was starting to get tired in that second half. North Carolina's offensive
03:26 line was starting to push that pile and get even extra yards for Hampton. And it allowed
03:32 North Carolina when they were having success running the football up the middle, they could
03:36 start to call end around gadget play type of stuff and gash Miami on the perimeter as
03:41 well. You know, Tez Walker recently cleared to play North Carolina wide receiver. I know
03:49 he's good. Shouldn't have been that good.
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