Bennubird
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With so much of our attention on our current concerns and disappointments, I thought it would be a good time to share a little of the history of our program. I found this Sport Illustrated article while doing research on Kary Baker, one of our former QBs. Some of you will undoubtedly find that though it was written almost 40 years ago it sounds prophetic. For others it will help you understand our "Canes against the world" mentality. As you'll see that attitude was not unfounded, and it was not just the football program who felt that way. You also get to see the shift in our head coach's approach to recruiting that would help set the stage for what would follow and precipitate our raise to college football dominance in the early 1980s. I had assumed those changes only came with Coach Howard Schnellenberger. Not so. Coach Schnellenberger was just a better coach than his forerunners. The article is dated October 27, 1975. Below I have pasted the first paragraph of the article with a link.
For those of you who were around then or who know that era you might want to share your reflections or insights with the board.
Finally, last week was my 30th anniversary of being a Cane. I first fell in love with UM in 1983 at Wallace Wade Stadium watching Miami pummel the then hapless Duke Blue Devils. I have a lot of great memories over the course of that thirty years for which I'll never forget and am extremely grateful. Even now, it's Great to be a Miami Hurricane! Come what may I am a Cane for life.
(First paragraph pasted without quotes - Credit SI)
Stop Mooning Over Miami
On the day before last week's game with Houston, the president of the University of Miami, Dr. Henry King Stanford, sat in his sunshine-bright office and talked good-humoredly about the varying fortunes of the Miami football team. He told of how the team had earned the "sheerest admiration of our campus community." Of how its "heroic struggles" against alien hordes (mostly Oklahomas, Nebraskas and Colorados) had "unified" the entire school. Of how the sportscasters and writers who pick at Miami football the way barnyard chickens pick at a wounded hen—to use his own native Georgian analogy—had only strengthened team resolve. And by way of summing up, Dr. Stanford then said that reports of the death of football at Miami, at age 50, were not only exaggerated but subversive, "a myth promoted by our recruiting competitors."
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Be sure to take a look at the bottom of the page at the number of SI covers that have had the subject CFB and then look at how many have been about Miami.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1090406/index.htm
For those of you who were around then or who know that era you might want to share your reflections or insights with the board.
Finally, last week was my 30th anniversary of being a Cane. I first fell in love with UM in 1983 at Wallace Wade Stadium watching Miami pummel the then hapless Duke Blue Devils. I have a lot of great memories over the course of that thirty years for which I'll never forget and am extremely grateful. Even now, it's Great to be a Miami Hurricane! Come what may I am a Cane for life.
(First paragraph pasted without quotes - Credit SI)
Stop Mooning Over Miami
On the day before last week's game with Houston, the president of the University of Miami, Dr. Henry King Stanford, sat in his sunshine-bright office and talked good-humoredly about the varying fortunes of the Miami football team. He told of how the team had earned the "sheerest admiration of our campus community." Of how its "heroic struggles" against alien hordes (mostly Oklahomas, Nebraskas and Colorados) had "unified" the entire school. Of how the sportscasters and writers who pick at Miami football the way barnyard chickens pick at a wounded hen—to use his own native Georgian analogy—had only strengthened team resolve. And by way of summing up, Dr. Stanford then said that reports of the death of football at Miami, at age 50, were not only exaggerated but subversive, "a myth promoted by our recruiting competitors."
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Be sure to take a look at the bottom of the page at the number of SI covers that have had the subject CFB and then look at how many have been about Miami.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1090406/index.htm
