I was going to do my whole "Whatchya gonne do when Graig Cooper runs all over you, Brother?!" thing....or maybe throw in Jacory Harris throwing all over GTech, but I'm just going to be straight up, no gimmicks.

Yes, I'm a diehard Miami fan, however, I can look at Miami games objectively and pretty much be right on. I've stayed away from dropping money on (or against) Miami for the last 4 years so. I can tell you that things have changed this year. This will be my 2nd straight game dropping $$$ on Miami. People need to understand that the Canes had the worst possible guy running their offense over the last two year. Patrick Nix was HORRIBLE! Randy Shannon finally did something right and hired Mark Whipple to take over the offense. This guy has a  plethora of experience at both the college and NFL level. You saw him exploit mismatch after mismatch vs. Florida State a few weeks ago. If you are one of those saying that "Florida St ain't shiiiittt" because J'Ville took them down to the wire last week, then think again. They clearly were hungover after devastating loss to Miami and didn't give a f*ck about that game but they were able to pull it out at the end to win it. All that being said, Miami FINALLY has an offense and a QB again! Shannon has put together some stud recruiting classes and they have studs at QB, WR and RB now. They will put up points on G. Tech, I promise you. For those of you concerned that G Tech put up 472 rushing yards on the Canes last year, let's consider a few things. Miami started true freshman all over the field last year and went up against legit D1 players with with their High School bodies. There have been talks about how the defense got bounced around last year, but they are now bigger and stronger and vowed to stop the run. These true freshman has no idea wtf a spread option was, and they had a little time to prepare for it last year. This year is different, as they are more seasoned and have had 10 days to prepare for this spread option attack. The other thing that people are missing is that Miami brought in John Lovett as their new D-Coordinator. As I wasn't real impressed with him vs. Florida State, I shall remind you that Lovett is from North Carolina and please look at the results from the UNC vs. G Tech game last year. If you don't want to go search for it, I'll just tell you that UNC won that game last year 28-7, which means Lovett and his defense held G Tech to just 7 points. So I feel secure that Miami will more than hold their own vs. G Tech's spread option this year.

I could probably go on, answer questions for you etc. , and I may just do that tomorrow. Anyway, I see some cappers that I really respect jumping on G Tech +5.5 and I see plenty of people following them. I'm NOT saying that they won't be right with their picks! But I'm saying that I think they are wrong. Too much emphasis on last year and the previous 4 years, guys. Miami finally got some studs back in there and finally found a great offensive coordinator that knows how to use those studs. Miami will most likely lose a few games this season, especially if their secondary doesn't get better. However, I don't see this year's Miami team losing to a one dimensional running team. Just won't happen, in my opinion. The defense has grown up, gotten bigger and stronger, and they almost know what they are doing now. Let me add that the Canes get back two starters in the secondary that didn't play against Florida State, due to injury, and they also get Moncur back on defensive end, who didn't play vs. FSU due to injury. The point of this board is to try and help people win money, and I personally think that Miami is the play this Thursday night. I will keep riding them until Vegas catches up on the fact that the Canes have an offense for the first time since Dorsey and company were walking the grounds in Coral Gables.

Miami -4.5 (what i got it at) or -5.5 over Georgia Tech.