A six-pack of Hurricanes notes on a Wednesday: ▪ At least one UM coach hopes cornerback Trajan Bandy’s ejection for a targeting penalty — and other ejections for similar infractions across college football this season — will be ammunition to change that rule. It’s an absurd rule to require that players be thrown out of the game if they make a tackle leading with their helmet. “Trajan, coming up on that tackle, had his eyes up, threw his outside arm getting ready to wrap up on the guy. That’s football,” defensive coordinator Manny Diaz said. “Now, if that’s going to be a penalty, that’s fine.

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That should be a 15-yard penalty. That should not be a disqualification. There’s not another sport where we disqualify a player for a technique that had no malintent. It’d be like throwing a guy out of an NBA game just for a foul.

There should be different levels of flagrant. I’ve said that before. I’m just talking to the wall right now, no offense. But I do think it’s unfair for defensive players in that scenario. Diaz added: “I don’t blame anybody for following the rules as they are written right now, but there should be two types of targeting penalties. I think we’ve done a good job No one coaches tackling without the head harder than we do.

We’re a dedicated shoulder-tackle team. “The only player we’ve had get a concussion since we’ve been teaching this way was when an offensive player lowered their head into us last year. I think globally, we’ve done a good job of taking that egregious hit over the middle out of the game. But on a bang-bang play like this the game’s not played in super slow-mo now.”. ▪ Mark Richt was more positive in his postgame assessment than some might have expected, but he conceded on WQAM’s Hurricane Hotline that “there were a lot of mistakes made. Every time you watch the film [you see them]. We could have done this better, should have done this better.

Everybody wants perfection. But there’s no quarterback that’s ever perfect. We all pour our lives into this. When things don’t go well, it hurts.” Richt mentioned, incidentally, that the blocking from the receiver position Sunday wasn’t “what we’re used to. We’ve got to get better at that.” ▪ Richt loves what he’s seeing from sophomore receiver Jeff Thomas, who had 132 yards on five receptions.

“He has grown up a lot,” Richt told WQAM. “He works harder in practice. When you come out of high school, there’s a different level of effort it takes to become consistently great. There was one crossing route kind of behind him and he could have said, ‘tough catch, but I made two or three other catches’ [but he still made the effort to catch that ball]. His effort, his route running as a ball catcher [are better].” ▪ Richt, on freshman receiver Brian Hightower’s 32-yard touchdown catch: “He’s done that at practice, too.