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We have been paying for the supposed sins of the 80's forever and when I hear a gator or nole fan use the word thug I ask them if they can count and if they can then total up their arrests compared to ours, enough said.
 
The biggest bias was the administration of THE U itself. They have always had their elitist noses up in the air and it did not start with JJ. It started with Howard who they doubled crossed in his effrots to get on campus stadium. The football program's success came from the kids themselves and not from some hand out elitiest program. That drove the snobs up a wall. They could not tolerate innercity kids having such success on their own without the necessary behoven status to some sponsoring agency. Had black kids from some federal or national grant program, or a school where its status was based on donor gifts and tax dollars, been treated like the Canes at the Cotton bowl the outcry of racism would have been unmatched in history. But since our kids had lifted themselves by hard work without government assistance that was different. They deserved none of the usual protection granted "community organizers." I, for one, was never prouder of the kids and the team that day. Never have refs done so much to cheat with so little effect. It could have been 1000 years in penalties and we still would have crushed UT. Nowhere in college sports had a progam been owned by the players before or since and that was what could not be tolerated. It was the President and AD of THE U that were the embarrashment at that time not the players. The real coaches of the day was Barry Switzer, he just admitted OU could not beat the Canes so he was not going to play them anymore. Even Tom Osborne came and paid homage by sending his staff down to Greentree to relearn how to play football. Never did one person ever complain about the FSU player back then. They did all the same things THE U did, even embarrass all the big time programs. But you see, that was a state funded school and had a proper coach who was crdeited with the success, not the players. WE ARE WHAT [[_]] FEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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Miami Hurricanes fans have long complained about the media’s supposed anti-Canes bias.
Is it true? Do certain experts, analysts and entire media enitities have it in for Miami?
You bet.
One only needs to turn on ESPN or open a Sports Illustrated to see the undercurrent of hostility that many media members have towards Miami.
Convicts. Thug U. A “rengade” program.
These are the buzzwords used by college football people to describe the Hurricanes football program. The question should be where does all this hatred come from?
When the Miami Hurricanes exploded onto the college football scene in the early 1980’s, they were the Boise State of that time. Prior to that, they had won nothing of significance. Even the academics of the school were a joke. Many called it Suntan U.
Then Howard Schnellenberger was hired as head coach. He looked around and saw the plethora of football talent in the South Florida prep football scene. His recruiting philosophy was based on heavily recruiting the “State of Miami.” These South Florida players didn’t play football the way they did in Texas or Ohio or Pennsylvania. These weren’t respectful, God-fearing farm boys. These young men had grown up in the inner city. They had witnessed shootings, beatings and drugs. They had grown up listening to hardcore rap music. These weren’t your father’s football players. They played with attitude, with swagger, with anger. When they scored, they danced. When they tackled you, they laughed. When they beat you, they made sure you knew you’d lost.
The college football purists, the ones who had grown up with Bear Bryant, Woody Hayes and Joe Paterno were horrified. College football is played with a certain decorum, they cried, forgetting Hayes punched an opposing player. College football is played with respect for your opponent, they cried louder, forgetting the number of times Bryant publicly insulted the Auburn Tigers. College football is played with sportsmanship, they cried ever louder, forgetting Paterno once ran up the score on Pittsburgh for the heck of it.
The screams become louder as Miami pounded perennial media darlings Notre Dame, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
Miami did little to help its case with scandal after scandal making headlines. After a while, one began to wonder if these instances would be so scandalized if they had happened at Nebraska? Alabama? Michigan? Doubtful.
Miami will always be viewed as the unwelcome interloper and hated pariah of college football. The Canes of old would channel that hatred and use it as motivation. Can these Hurricanes do the same?

Read more at http://www.rantsports.com/ncaa-foot...rricanes-is-real-but-why/?uU18thdMTAjMTKAv.99
 
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