Miami Silver Lining - Constructive (critical) Observations Thread

Another Fall Saturday and another reminder of just how far this Virginia Tech football program has fallen. I suspected that the post Frank Beamer era (not sure how long of an era I anticipated) would be a struggle, but I didn't think the bottom would fall out. We've all discussed ad-nauseam why we are where we are, but in the end it doesn't really matter. What matters now is how we get back up. So lets collectively highlight any silver-linings and constructive (critical) observations from the game yesterday. Below are a couple from me:

Defense: Mansor Delane & Jalen Stromen are probably the two brightest spots on the entire defense, and they are both Freshmen. Something to build upon? Other than that, we simply have a gross lack of talent.

Offense: Not much on a positive note honestly, but the first drive looked promising. Unfortunately the combination of pre-snap penalties (here's looking at your Parker), clock mismanagement, horrid OL play and inconsistency from the WR group derail almost every single drive.

Special Teams: Whew... we need a punter.

Generally speaking, I watched a decent portion of the Duke - UNC game and it was disheartening. Our coaching staff simply needs to be better and there's no two ways about it. All of the issues mentioned above, that are controllable things, have not gotten better and we are 7 games into the season - had we seen improvement on these issues it's likely we come out on top of one or all three of the ODU, Pitt & Miami games and we'd all be feeling slightly better about the situation we have.

If I were the staff I'd take the rest of the season to get as many promising young guys on the field as possible. It's clear we aren't going to win another game with these persistent little poisonous issues that have infected the team.