We want to go to there
After sitting on this, I’ve come to realize this is a horribly unfair schedule, relative to the conference. The ACC must hate affirmative action. They must be in cahoots with The Man. This is worse than the original reference to Murder Incorporated. This is Captain Willard realizing he has to kill Colonel Kurtz. He doesn’t want to. He loves the guy. Admires him. Respects him. Wishes he could serve under him. But orders are orders, and dems da breaks. We can’t all slide through life as a snail on a razor blade.
Nah, I keed, I keed. Kurtz wanted to die.
In actuality, this is a fantastic opportunity. Miami can regain some huge national exposure from doing well early on. Everyone, and I mean everyone, will be writing off this young and raw group with two newly hired coordinators. This team wasn’t going undefeated anyways. Randy can band the entire team around this schedule and low preseason expectations. Hopefully we can see a whole season reminiscent of the 2005 Va Tech game. Total beat downs from unsuspecting opponents and national media.
The real problem is for the Canes fans. For the next 6 months, I don’t know if Miami will start 0-4, and have a totally lost season come the first week of October, or be 3-1 and sitting pretty in both the ACC and national title race. Miami can go 6-6 next year, look light years ahead of this past season, and no one outside of South Florida will realize it. But, you know what? I want these big games. I want to be the talk of the preseason. High risk, high reward thing. Miami is getting back to the great OoC opponents in the coming years: home and homes with Ohio State, Nebraska, Pittsburgh, Kansas State, and Cincinnati, with the second half of the Florida contract still to come as well.
Well, there is only one logical conclusion. The ACC must not want one of its two marquee programs in the title game. I guess they like being the laughing stock of the country, namely the BCS Big 6. When Va Tech and BC play to 5,000 people, and ABC has to crop their wide shots for 3+ hours to hide it, they must all chuckle in their booth, loving the fact they are paid to endorse this atrocious shit.
All roads lead to Tampa.
I agree with you 100 and 10 fucking percent. The U can reemerge on the national scene with this schedule. Randy can rally the troops with the underdog philosophy.
Remember the ‘01 Penn State game? The Canes were underdogs and went to Miserable Valley and beat the shit out of ‘em 33-7? The rest of the season (and my insane freshman year) was history (greatest football team in the history of college football).
Miami was an underdog for that game? I know it was on the road and all, but Miami was coming off being ranked #2 in the country the previous year, and returned practically everyone. You sure DenverCane?
Now I’ll have to look this up.
I’ll have to look it up too. I was at that game and wouldn’t be shocked if Miami was a road dog, but it wouldn’ve been like a 1 1/2 to 3 point spread.
Remember, that was the game where the player who had been paralyzed led the Lions into the slaughter, er, I mean stadium. Wish I could remember his name, it was cool to see and the place was absolutely nuts. They had also just renovated and increased capacity at the stadium. It was like 107,000 and man, was it loud…until about 5 minutes into the first quarter when, as one Penn State fans realized that Big Ten ball doesn’t compare to SoFla speed. That was the the most fun I’d ever had at a ball game not held at the OB… until the Rose Bowl against the Huskers. Best part of the night was hearing the crowd roar “We are Penn State” down a bazillion to 7 late in the game. I mean, how do you not laugh your ass off in pity at that, but at the same time harbor a dirty sense of admiration in realizing that they are plain and simple better fans than we are?
Anyway, I know it’s kinda off topic, but ahh the memories…
Any Miami game anecdotes are always welcome g8rh8r.
Yeah, I can’t find the exact spread for the game. But Penn State was coming off a 5-7 year, with a 6th place finish in the Big Ten. No way they were favored over the #2 preseason team, returning paralysis or not. I’d have to guess Miami was giving 10 points on the road.