Miami crowd

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dallastx

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WOW, is that a misleading headline. The crowd for Miami's home game Saturday was estimated at 300. That's right, 3-0-0, no zero dropped. Hope they had lots of recruits on the sideline. I have seen pictures, but can't find now to post.
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Thug U always had more of a posse or an entourage than a real fan base. I know this group of kids wasn't even alive back in the day that their trashy, cheating, thugish team was dominating college football, but I can't help feeling like justice is finally done.
 
They sold their souls for the better part of two decades with illegal recruiting, Gangsta drug thug element to the point it brought violence in-around the program, Academic fraud, and basically just being complete low class ***-clowns.

You could basically say they were the OU of the east.

So this is well deserved. Bet they don't cover the cost of the smoke.
 
They need to rebuild their program from the ground up without the outside influence of cash and hookers, and build an on-campus stadium like SMU and UH have. Retake the team in the name of the students and alumni and maybe one day become relevant.
 
You'd have to be a senior citizen like me to recall that Miami tried to be a legitimate college program for years, and got nowhere with that. Matter of fact, the only two real big names to come out of there in those days were quarterback George Mira and defensive end Ted Hendricks, the mad stork.

It wasn't until Howard Schnellenberger arrived on campus and began seriously recruiting the southside hoods that Miami began getting good. Still, the better players brought the thug element with them, and Miami became the favorite team for rappers and cocaine cowboys in south Florida. Jimmy Johnson took that image up a notch before moving on to the Cowboys, and Butch Davis rebuilt the 'Canes half a decade after Johnson left.

Scandal, unfavorable publicity, and recruiting violations and investigations have served to bring the team back to earth, and it doesn't look like Miami's headed back to being "the U" anytime soon. Some would say that's justice served.
 
For those that think Thug U should get an invite to join the Big XII, this picture should be enough to think otherwise.
 
Anyone remember their (literal) beat-down of us (how many personal foul penalties?) in that Cotton Bowl game circa 1991? Karma is a *****.
 
Hey it got better after the game. It started sleeting
on the drive home.

One thing I remember other than freezing and
getting slaughtered was this was the game with
those over sized tickets. They were huge for some
reason, like three times bigger than regular tickets.

You just had to carry those things around, wouldn't
fit in your wallet or pocket without folding them. Was that the only time the Cotton Bowl ever had
tickets like that?
 
Miami is notorious for poor home crowds. No real surprise, but it does make that smoke entrance look a little silly...

I was at that game working for the Texan, and I remember Miami going after our players as they came out of the tunnel and thinking "this is not going to end well..." And then Samuels got laid out on the opening kickoff, and you pretty well knew it was going to be a long day. The Horns were definitely intimidated from the start.
 
Another thing I remember about that game was our players wearing parkas and huddling around the sideline heaters, trying to get warm. The 'Canes, on the other hand, were in shirtsleeves and strutting around like they didn't feel the cold.
 
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