Miami (FL) Hurricanes (1926-2003)

[BigWoof31]

This merits and NFL investigation. If Goddell is serious about the image of his league - Rolle needs to be punished for this. It's stereotyping of the worst kind.

UM Staff should come out publically against this and U Administration should condem it.

 

[BigWoof31]

But who am I kidding - they'll probably just hit Joe Stone Crabs, pound rum runners and do coke off of strippers boobs.

 

[Poe McKnoe]

"These boys are hurting. Most of all, they're hurting themselves and they're hurting the program. I think they need to get that attitude back. Go steal a couple of cars, go break into a couple of houses. Do whatever it takes just to get that attitude back. Go out there and do something bad, it doesn't matter. We'll forgive. Just bring that attitude back to the 'U'. We need it."

This truly is among the most ludicrous comments I've ever read. I can only hope this was taken out of context... maybe it was said in jest or something...

I think the blogger had a better idea.... win some [censored]ing games.

[bad joke] Let him go, he's on a Rolle. [/bad joke]

At least he didn't say anything crazy.

 

[BB73]

Sebastian the Ibis can't fly in-state? Does that make him Sebastian the I-Bus?

I'm certain that no other programs in the South will use this story in negative recruiting tactics.

cbssports

In effort to save money, Hurricanes cancel two in-state flights

CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Mindful of the ongoing economic downturn, Miami's football team will charter buses instead of planes this fall for trips to Central Florida and South Florida.

The decision by coach Randy Shannon will save Miami $140,000, athletic director Kirby Hocutt said Tuesday.

"You know how the economy is right now. It's really tough," Shannon said. "I look across a lot of the programs in the country and everyone's making these cuts. So it's a financial benefit to us, and it works out in terms of the time situations as well."

Originally, the school planned to fly for those trips to Orlando and Tampa, cities that both are approximately three-to-four-hour drives from the Hurricanes' campus. But in an uncertain economy, Hocutt has told his department to spend wisely, part of a newly installed 44-point plan to get the Hurricanes through what he called "a critical economic time."

"The economic situation that we face within our athletics department is no different than businesses across our state and our country are facing," said Hocutt, whose department announced some layoffs last month.

Cont'd ...

 

[BB73]

New DC for the 'Canes. The fourth one since the '06 season.

Lovett will lead Miami defense

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- Here's how highly Miami coach Randy Shannon thinks of John Lovett: He picked Lovett to lead the Hurricanes' defense.

That means, Shannon chose Lovett over himself.

Lovett was formally hired Thursday as Miami's fourth defensive coordinator in the last 26 months, after agreeing to take the job earlier in the week. His most recent stop was North Carolina, where he spent the last two years as a defensive assistant and special teams coach.

"We got our guy," Shannon said.

It'll be a hectic next few days for Lovett, with spring football at Miami beginning on Feb. 24. But Shannon said last week he believed any new hire would likely need only a couple of weeks to get ready for the offseason practice schedule.

And Lovett intends to make the transition as easy as he can: He's keeping some of Miami's defensive calls, so his players don't have to learn an entirely new language.

Cont'd ...

 

[OregonBuckeye]

Babies need their bottles still.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=13&f=2927&t=4080433&p=1

 

[NFBuck]

Babies need their bottles still.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=13&f=2927&t=4080433&p=1

Truly pathetic.

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

Great thread!

I remember the tension was palatable.

Mmm...tension.

I will never forget the "Cheat in the Dessert"

Me either. I ordered two scoops, and only got one. Heartbreaking.

OSU had no business beating us and I blame us for not going out there to destroy them from the get go like we did against Nebraska.

To make matters worse, I married an OSU fan and guess what her dad and I talk about every time I see him.

 

[berryfan]

That's not the first disaster in the desert for the Canes. Many remember the Penn St. game of 1987. Both games taught an important reminder to play full out and not underestimate your opponent. Miami was hungry the previous year against Nebraska, and tOSU the following year of course was extremely hungry having not won a national title in a good while. I have a bit of Canes fan in me, but they just flat out played poor that game and literally had to scrap as best as they could (they did give a heroic effort to get back into it), but it's a game of inches and I remember a thread somewhere, maybe here or elsewhere, showing a number of other plays that could have been called against Miami, but weren't. They were quite fortunate.

I am still amazed at the game against Penn St. I think Testaverde had like 6 interceptions in that game and still they hung in there.

I always hear talk down here about how they want to go the Canes of yesteryear. And they talk about the late 80s teams.

However, I never saw a UM (I am sick and tired of scUM fans calling themselves UM) team more hungry than the 1983 team that won 31-30 against Nebraska for the national title. That team had character and heart against one of the most explosive teams ever.

 

[Jaxbuck]

but it's a game of inches and I remember a thread somewhere, maybe here or elsewhere, showing a number of other plays that could have been called against Miami, but weren't. They were quite fortunate.

The last offensive play for OSU in regulation. Krenzel throws to Gamble and the ref misses defensive holding and a completion. If he gets either one of them right OSU gets a first down, kills the clock, never punts and Miami fans (no offense) are left to try and find some other way to rationalize how they ever lost that game.

IMO Miami fans owe the refs for giving them something to focus on instead of spending all that time wondering how they lost 17-14 in regulation to what they thought at the time was an undermanned OSU team.

As we now know, both teams had essentially a 2 deep of future NFL players. Miami had more star power but OSU had more depth of talent.

 

[JCOSU86]

The last offensive play for OSU in regulation. Krenzel throws to Gamble and the ref misses defensive holding and a completion. If he gets either one of them right OSU gets a first down, kills the clock, never punts and Miami fans (no offense) are left to try and find some other way to rationalize how they ever lost that game.

This has become what I call "internet truth", repeated over and over but possibly not right. How much time was left on the clock when the Gamble play happened? How many time outs did Cryami have? What was the Field Position? I don't remember any of this, but I seem to remember if OSU got the first down, Miami still had 1 TO. There was like 2 minutes left. I think the best they could have done is get it under 1 minute before they punted. They needed another First Down to run out the clock.

 

[BB73]

This has become what I call "internet truth", repeated over and over but possibly not right. How much time was left on the clock when the Gamble play happened? How many time outs did Cryami have? What was the Field Position? I don't remember any of this, but I seem to remember if OSU got the first down, Miami still had 1 TO. There was like 2 minutes left. I think the best they could have done is get it under 1 minute before they punted. They needed another First Down to run out the clock.

There was 2:18 on the clock after the Gamble play.

 

[jwinslow]

The ensuing PR (and clip on Hawk) immediately got them into FG range, so OSU would have had to run out the clock on O to end the game. Miami had at least 1 timeout remaining.

 

[Jaxbuck]

This has become what I call "internet truth", repeated over and over but possibly not right. How much time was left on the clock when the Gamble play happened? How many time outs did Cryami have? What was the Field Position? I don't remember any of this, but I seem to remember if OSU got the first down, Miami still had 1 TO. There was like 2 minutes left. I think the best they could have done is get it under 1 minute before they punted. They needed another First Down to run out the clock.

We went over this a million times after the game, I forget the exact details but it would have taken it down to the last few seconds. No one can ever say exactly because you don't know the exact number of seconds they run off the clock on a live play.

Even if OSU still had to punt it would have been completely different. We would have been closer so Groom could have just kicked it through the end zone and left UM on the 20 with no time outs and less than 30 seconds to play.

It was aggregious no call that would have put the game away. We recovered from a bad call they didn't.

 

[berryfan]

Miami has to remember, you have to play 4 quarters of football. The Buckeyes did just that. I remember Miami teams of old playing just like tOSU played that night, and Miami would win. The Miami teams I used to know just didn't show up. I had the hunch going into the game the Miami fans thought it would be a fight at first, but eventually Miami would take it, but they didn't expect a blowout like last year against Nebraska.