CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- The penalties are piling up for Miami.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- The penalties are piling up for Miami.
The second-ranked Hurricanes were flagged 16 times for 134 yards against Florida, including four for unsportsmanlike conduct. They have 26 penalties for 198 yards in two games -- numbers that concern coach Larry Coker.
He scolded his team Sunday, a day after the Hurricanes rallied from a 23-point deficit to beat the 19th-ranked Gators 38-33. Coker said Tuesday that correcting the problems will be an objective for Saturday's game against struggling East Carolina, which has been outscored 88-10 in two losses.
"We addressed it pretty hard," Coker said. "The perception is that we're undisciplined and we're not very smart. That's the furthest thing from the truth. We really stress discipline and we have intelligent kids. But now we have to act that way and play that way."
They didn't against Florida.
Devin Hester removed his helmet after returning the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown -- a 15-yard penalty assessed on the ensuing kickoff that resulted in good field position and led to a field goal for Florida.
Late in the second quarter, with the Gators driving, safety Sean Taylor hit receiver Carlos Perez out of bounds. The 15-yard penalty gave Florida a first down and set up a field goal with 11 seconds to play in the half.
Miami had more mental lapses in the second half.
After Ryan Moore caught a 6-yard touchdown pass from Brock Berlin to cut Florida's lead to 33-31 in the fourth quarter, he bowed to the crowd. The Hurricanes wanted to attempt a 2-point conversion, but Moore's penalty backed them up 15 yards -- forcing them to kick an extra point and preventing them from tying the game.
Although Miami scored again, Coker made sure his players knew that Moore's penalty could have been much more costly.
Moore and Hester, both freshmen playing in their first big game, apologized to coaches and teammates during Sunday's meeting.
"I was wrong," Moore said. "It's all on me."
Added receiver Kevin Beard: "I don't think they'll do that again."
The Hurricanes picked up a fourth unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after taking the lead -- again because someone took off their helmet. This one also resulted in good field position for the Gators, whose final drive ended with an interception.
"We were in that frenzy because we had taken the momentum," Coker said. "The crowd was in it, we were smelling some blood. We were sharks at that time, and we really started to energize ourselves. The enthusiasm, I think we were lost in that. From a coaching standpoint, you like that. You want to get lost in that, but you still have to play by the rules."
Yellow flags are nothing new for the Hurricanes, who led the Big East and set school records with 124 penalties for 1,055 yards last season. Only Rutgers (107) and Temple (100) also eclipsed the century mark in fouls.
"There's a very fine line between taking away the enthusiasm of the game and being robots," Coker said. "You don't want to take the enthusiasm out of the game. That's very, very important.
"The one thing we've told our players is you've got to do it together. I'm not talking about bowing as a group. They can hug, they can jump up, they can high-five. But it needs to be a genuine celebration with each another."