Starting the countdown to Saturday Night here is what we know about Miami:

Head Coach—- Al Golden-has a good pedigree. Played for Penn State as a Tight End & for the New England Patriots. Spent a year at Penn State as linebacker coach. Spent 5 years at Virginia as the DC followed by 5 years at Temple in Phila. as the Head Coach.

His record at Temple 26 W’s vs. 33 L’s and a Bowl Game loss which is nothing short of a miracle. He was pursued by many schools and landed in Miami. In 2011 he was 6-6. For 2012 he is 4-1. This guy can coach period.

2012 Stats:

• W vs. Boston College 41-32
• L vs. Kansas State 52-13 (KSU currently ranked # 7)
• W vs. Bethune Cookman 38-10
• W vs. North Carolina State 44-37 shootout

So outside of KSU they can put up the points. Their QB Morris can run and pass and he is accurate. He can throw bombs on the money and he has fast receivers.

The question is–can the ND defense stuff the run and get to Morris? Morris is like Denard Robinson except he is an accurate passer and very good on the long pass. I expect Miami to score more than 14 points in this game and if it turns into a shootout ND will lose. If Miami can jump out with a couple of quick scores it might be all over for ND.

The ND offense must put a lot of points up to help the defense for sooner or later the defense is going to get burned. This is a big big game for ND to continue the momentum as they come to the hardest part of the schedule. But we also have a big problem in that we have no offense or offensive identity and can barely get to 21 points. Miami is just going to load the box and double Eifert and dare Golson to pass.

Coach Kelly has the QB situation ass backward–he should start Rees and let Golson play the Tebow role. This kid is just not ready. If Golson knew he wasn’t going to start he could at least sleep the night before and not get himself all knotted up waiting for a night game. Just ease him in situationally.

Kelly just has to do something with the offense soon and make no mistake about it–the players want Rees, you can tell by their body language when he comes in. If he has no plan to run Golson what good is he in this offense.