DaytonBuck
I've always liked them
whatever frenchy Les. Shocking that an admitted Miami homer would trash OSU.
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whatever frenchy Les. Shocking that an admitted Miami homer would trash OSU.
Why aren't some of these guys in jail? Or at least out on bail. If this had happened on the streets that"s where they would be.
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scooter1369
HTTR Forever.
Its easy to make a case when you just write the accusation and not the results of the case.
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DaytonBuck
I've always liked them
I'm suprised there's no Terry Porter conspiracy mentioned
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Column: The 'U' can blame its past for some of its problems
By Mike Beas
THE HERALD BULLETIN (ANDERSON, Ind.)
ANDERSON, Ind. ? Michael Irvin didn?t swing a helmet or a fist. Didn?t shove or curse an opposing player. Neither did Jeremy Shockey, Warren Sapp, Kellen Winslow II, Jimmie Johnson or either Blades brother.
Perhaps instinct urged them to when subjected to video evidence of the latest embarrassing pockmark on the University of Miami?s football reputation, but last week?s WWF meltdown against Florida International came courtesy of a new generation of Canes.
Players not yet born when Bernie Kosar?s pinpoint sidearmed passes drove defenses batty. Players who wouldn?t know Howard Schnellenberger from Howard Hesseman. Players who when they sign to play for the Hurricanes immediately wander into a fog of expectations.
Expect to win. Expect to dominate. Expect to intimidate.
It?s the ?U?, baby. Not the University of Miami. The ?U?.
At the moment South Beach?s favorite member of the alphabet could stand for a number of things, none of which are flattering.
There is undisciplined, a heading the renegade Miami program always seems to fall beneath. Don?t forget underachieving. The Canes harvest blue-chip recruits out the wazoo, yet haven?t amounted to squat since losing to Ohio State in the 2002 national championship game.
This next one must really sting: unranked.
Coach Larry Coker?s 2006 squad is marginal at best, handwriting on the locker room wall that says old Lar should begin cleaning out his desk if he hasn?t already. Though no announcement has been made, Coker is more gone than Ozzy Osbourne?s gray matter.
No way can we possibly point to the exact moment Miami made its ?U?-turn south, though I refuse to be convinced some of the program?s more-influential alums didn?t lend a hand.
Every university teaches history, but at Miami five national championships and countless All-Americans brings with it more than delicious memories of Nebraska?s failed two-point conversion and wayward field goal attempts of Florida State placekickers.
Irvin, now 40 and seven seasons retired from his Hall of Fame-worthy NFL career as a receiver with the Dallas Cowboys, has remained an occasional voice in the ear of modern-day Canes, as have other former ?U?-ers who starred in the Orange Bowl during the program?s glory years.
Are these players to blame for this season?s substandard showing? Of course not. However, at the ?U?, swagger is handed down from generation to generation, and that didn?t help matters during the Canes? recent melee.
Granted, Florida International started the fight, but Miami wasn?t about to lose the fight.
Especially on the Canes? home turf. Don?t believe me, ask Lamar Thomas, a former Cane who at age 36 tripped over his loyalty and wound up fired from his job as a color commentator for Comcast Sports Southeast.
Thomas? on-air statements were idiotic, the worst being, "Why don?t they just meet outside in the tunnel after the ball game and get it on some more?"
One wonders if Irvin, Shockey and Winslow II were thinking like thoughts, but were wise enough to do it when cameras weren?t rolling.
It?s the ?U? way, you know.
Column: The 'U' can blame its past for some of its problems
By Mike Beas
THE HERALD BULLETIN (ANDERSON, Ind.)
ANDERSON, Ind. ? Michael Irvin didn?t swing a helmet or a fist. Didn?t shove or curse an opposing player. Neither did Jeremy Shockey, Warren Sapp, Kellen Winslow II, Jimmie Johnson or either Blades brother.
Perhaps instinct urged them to when subjected to video evidence of the latest embarrassing pockmark on the University of Miami?s football reputation, but last week?s WWF meltdown against Florida International came courtesy of a new generation of Canes.
Players not yet born when Bernie Kosar?s pinpoint sidearmed passes drove defenses batty. Players who wouldn?t know Howard Schnellenberger from Howard Hesseman. Players who when they sign to play for the Hurricanes immediately wander into a fog of expectations.
Expect to win. Expect to dominate. Expect to intimidate.
It?s the ?U?, baby. Not the University of Miami. The ?U?.
At the moment South Beach?s favorite member of the alphabet could stand for a number of things, none of which are flattering.
There is undisciplined, a heading the renegade Miami program always seems to fall beneath. Don?t forget underachieving. The Canes harvest blue-chip recruits out the wazoo, yet haven?t amounted to squat since losing to Ohio State in the 2002 national championship game.
This next one must really sting: unranked.
Coach Larry Coker?s 2006 squad is marginal at best, handwriting on the locker room wall that says old Lar should begin cleaning out his desk if he hasn?t already. Though no announcement has been made, Coker is more gone than Ozzy Osbourne?s gray matter.
No way can we possibly point to the exact moment Miami made its ?U?-turn south, though I refuse to be convinced some of the program?s more-influential alums didn?t lend a hand.
Every university teaches history, but at Miami five national championships and countless All-Americans brings with it more than delicious memories of Nebraska?s failed two-point conversion and wayward field goal attempts of Florida State placekickers.
Irvin, now 40 and seven seasons retired from his Hall of Fame-worthy NFL career as a receiver with the Dallas Cowboys, has remained an occasional voice in the ear of modern-day Canes, as have other former ?U?-ers who starred in the Orange Bowl during the program?s glory years.
Are these players to blame for this season?s substandard showing? Of course not. However, at the ?U?, swagger is handed down from generation to generation, and that didn?t help matters during the Canes? recent melee.
Granted, Florida International started the fight, but Miami wasn?t about to lose the fight.
Especially on the Canes? home turf. Don?t believe me, ask Lamar Thomas, a former Cane who at age 36 tripped over his loyalty and wound up fired from his job as a color commentator for Comcast Sports Southeast.
Thomas? on-air statements were idiotic, the worst being, "Why don?t they just meet outside in the tunnel after the ball game and get it on some more?"
One wonders if Irvin, Shockey and Winslow II were thinking like thoughts, but were wise enough to do it when cameras weren?t rolling.
It?s the ?U? way, you know.
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Da U sticks together.
Miami may have been without 13 of its best fighters this weekend, but alum WR Santana Moss filled in nicely. A DB in press coverage flattened Moss, and then trotted away after the play was over. Moss got up, chased him down, and headbutted him to the ground... from behind no less.
Miami may have been without 13 of its best fighters this weekend, but alum WR Santana Moss filled in nicely. A DB in press coverage flattened Moss, and then trotted away after the play was over. Moss got up, chased him down, and headbutted him to the ground... from behind no less.
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The brawl that drew no penalties
JEFF SHAIN
[email protected]
For all the flak heaped upon UM officials for the underwhelming penalties stemming from the Orange Brawl, check out the fallout at Dartmouth and Holy Cross.
By comparison, UM president Donna Shalala comes out looking like Sheriff Buford Pusser.
Twelve days have elapsed since the Big Green and Crusaders rumbled at midfield following Holy Cross' overtime win. The next player suspended -- heck, identified -- will be the first.
Dartmouth waited four days before even issuing an apology for what took place on its home field. ''The actions displayed [Oct. 14] were not in keeping with acceptable standards of behavior at Dartmouth,'' athletic director JoAnn Harper said in a statement.
Ya think?
Harper did forward results of an internal investigation to Dartmouth's dean for review. Hey, it was better than anything from Holy Cross, which quickly stated no action would be taken.
''We did not see anything from any Holy Cross players that warranted disciplinary action,'' spokesman Charles Bare said last week.
Well, OK then. Initial reports said players were thrown to the ground and kicked. Other accounts described it as little more than a hockey fight.
What is not disputable, though, is that campus security and local police were needed to restore order. ''We would break up one group, then another group would flare up,'' Hanover (N.H.) police chief Nicholas Giaccone said.
Sound familiar?
This isn't to applaud the sanctions handed down at UM. At the very least, Brandon Meriweather should have joined Anthony Reddick in extended purgatory for his Stomp-a-Mole impersonation.
Rather, it's a bit distressing to see a member of the Ivy League -- which prides itself in holding its head above the fray of big-time athletics -- come off as do-nothings.
This is a league that eschews athletic scholarships. That opts out of the Division I-AA playoffs. That staunchly maintains a 10-game schedule while other I-AAs play 11.
Ivy League officials, though, have left the follow-up in Dartmouth's hands. Same with the Patriot League, to which Holy Cross belongs.
Part of the problem is that unlike UM-FIU, there is no video to identify culprits. Even team videographers had turned off their cameras when play concluded. But it's hard to believe coaches and managers don't know at least some of the offenders.
Cloak-and-hide, though, appears to be in order.
The brawl that drew no penalties
JEFF SHAIN
[email protected]
For all the flak heaped upon UM officials for the underwhelming penalties stemming from the Orange Brawl, check out the fallout at Dartmouth and Holy Cross.
By comparison, UM president Donna Shalala comes out looking like Sheriff Buford Pusser.
Twelve days have elapsed since the Big Green and Crusaders rumbled at midfield following Holy Cross' overtime win. The next player suspended -- heck, identified -- will be the first.
Dartmouth waited four days before even issuing an apology for what took place on its home field. ''The actions displayed [Oct. 14] were not in keeping with acceptable standards of behavior at Dartmouth,'' athletic director JoAnn Harper said in a statement.
Ya think?
Harper did forward results of an internal investigation to Dartmouth's dean for review. Hey, it was better than anything from Holy Cross, which quickly stated no action would be taken.
''We did not see anything from any Holy Cross players that warranted disciplinary action,'' spokesman Charles Bare said last week.
Well, OK then. Initial reports said players were thrown to the ground and kicked. Other accounts described it as little more than a hockey fight.
What is not disputable, though, is that campus security and local police were needed to restore order. ''We would break up one group, then another group would flare up,'' Hanover (N.H.) police chief Nicholas Giaccone said.
Sound familiar?
This isn't to applaud the sanctions handed down at UM. At the very least, Brandon Meriweather should have joined Anthony Reddick in extended purgatory for his Stomp-a-Mole impersonation.
Rather, it's a bit distressing to see a member of the Ivy League -- which prides itself in holding its head above the fray of big-time athletics -- come off as do-nothings.
This is a league that eschews athletic scholarships. That opts out of the Division I-AA playoffs. That staunchly maintains a 10-game schedule while other I-AAs play 11.
Ivy League officials, though, have left the follow-up in Dartmouth's hands. Same with the Patriot League, to which Holy Cross belongs.
Part of the problem is that unlike UM-FIU, there is no video to identify culprits. Even team videographers had turned off their cameras when play concluded. But it's hard to believe coaches and managers don't know at least some of the offenders.
Cloak-and-hide, though, appears to be in order.
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scooter1369
HTTR Forever.
And unlike UM, Dartmouth and Holy Cross players don't have an existing rap sheet to use against them
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