If we're to make assumptions about newly minted Miami offensive coordinator Mark Whipple based on his most recent gig, here's what we're looking forward to at Miami: year after year of crippling dropped passes from middling wide receivers, an utter inability to convert third and short, plus a nearly annual trip to Tampa/Charlotte/Jacksonville/wherever to lose the ACC Championship Game to some squad that used to have no business in big games. Good news, N.C. State fans!
Of course, it wasn't just his work with the perpetually doomed Philadelphia Eagles that landed him the positions. More notable credits include coaching up Ben Roethliberger and running one of the FCS's more prolific offenses at UMass, winning the championship in 1998.
A concern, of course, is that Whipple isn't coming cheap, and in these troubled economic times, anything related to money has to be preceded with "in these troubled economic times." So can they now afford to fill their defensive coordinator with someone capable and who doesn't already work for them?
Fortunately, they've got someone with a bit of experience in that field in Randy Shannon, but more obligations probably aren't what the now third-year coach needs.




