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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Miami Report Card
By Pete Conrad
Miami at Cincinnati
Pass offense
C
Daniel Raudabaugh picked up some good passing yardage, he completed 28-of-42 passes, which is excellent, and it was good to see wide receivers Chris Givens and Armand Robinson make touchdown catches. But the one interception and 72-yard return by Mike Mickens was the single biggest play of the game. Still, the pass protection was pretty good.
Run offense
D
Not impressive. Thomas Merriweather really had to struggle against a strong UC defense to get his 50 rushing yards on 17 attempts. Near the Bearcats’ goal line, there was nothing.
Pass defense
F
As Miami linebacker Joey Hudson said, “for the second year in a row their second-string quarterback started against us and beat us.” Tony Pike sure didn’t look like a second-string quarterback, completing 20-of-24 passes with three touchdowns and no interceptions. And he was not sacked once. And senior Dominick Goodman, who is hardly a secret at wide receiver, was ridiculously wide open on a 49-yard gain early in the first quarter.
Run defense
B
John Goebel and Jacob Ramsey gained some solid yardage against the RedHawks, but nothing spectacular. Martin Channels, Ben Bennett, Morris Council and Hudson combined for four tackles for loss.
Special teams
B
John Goebel had a 43-yard kickoff return to start the game in not a nice way for the RedHawks. On the other hand, Nathan Parseghian was 2-for-2 on field goal attempts, including a 41-yarder, which makes him 7-for-8 for the season. And the nation’s leading punter, Reily Township’s own Jake Richardson? Four punts, a 49.0 average. That’s spectacular and his average still drops a shade.
Intangibles
D
The RedHawks seemed like they were in a fog over the first half of the first quarter. It’s starting to be a pretty serious problem.
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Momentum swings help, then hurt RedHawks
By Pete Conrad
At first, it looked like the key play of the third quarter, maybe the key play of the game.
Miami had pulled to within four points of Cincinnati when Daniel Raudabaugh completed his second touchdown pass of the night at Nippert Stadium, this one a 34-yard toss to Chris Givens, to pull the RedHawks to within four points of the Bearcats, 24-20.
And then seconds later, a gutsy move by the RedHawks. An on-sides kick. And it was recovered by Miami’s DeAndre Gilmore at the UC 46-yard line. The momentum had changed, it seemed. The RedHawks were destined to surge ahead, it seemed. This was to be their night, it seemed.
But there is something about the Bearcats’ defensive secondary. It’s pretty good. Mike Mickens intercepted a Raudabaugh pass and raced 72 yards for a touchdown.
Late in the quarter Ben Guidugli caught a 24-yard touchdown pass from Tony Pike. Earsly in the fourth quarter the Bearcats lead 38-20. The on-sides kick doesn’t seem so big now.
By the way, an oddity. After three quarters, both Raudabaugh and Pike had passed for 199 yards.
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Make that 17-10, er, 24-10, er 24-13
By Pete Conrad
By Pete Conrad
Daniel Raudabaugh’s second-quarter touchdown pass made the score UC 17, Miami 10. I had it incorrectly as 17-14.
What was I thinking? This Miami offense scoring back-to-back touchdowns against UC? So far this season, through a total of 10 quarters, Miami has exactly two touchdowns against Division I-A teams.
Of course, the 17-10 score didn’t last long. UC responded with a 20-yard touchdown run by John Goebel, and Nathan Parseghian ended the half with a 41-yard field goal for the RedHawks.
At halftime, it’s UC 24, Miami 13.
Still up for grabs.
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Miami playing ball control
By Pete Conrad
The Miami RedHawks are hanging with the Cincinnati Bearcats at Nipper Stadium by dominating one statistic.
Time of possession.
Although the RedHawks fell behind 17-3 when Tony Pike threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Mardy Gilyard with 11:27 left in the second quarter, Miami responded with a 13-play, 71-yard touchdown drive capped by Daniel Raudabaugh’s 10-yard strike to Armand Robinson.
It was the second straight long drive for the RedHawks, who had driven 76 yards on 14 plays to give themselves a first-and-goal from the UC 1-yard line, only to be stopped on three straight plays and have to settle for a Nathan Parseghian field goal.
After Raudabaugh’s touchdown pass, Miami held the advantage in time of possession 15:56 to 7:38.
With 3:12 left in the first half the Bearcats are clinging to a 17-14 lead.
