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Great interview. We just need to forget the Cooper thing because there's obviously alot to it and nothing is going to get him here now. Good to have Luke not saying bad things about us since he is a Cane fan too and a coach at a local power.
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Lets see him help with jojo, still a fake too me.
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Dammit mane
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I think he is just a super fan. No one has mentioned that he understands every kid not getting an offer he just wants the top 11 players from south Florida to go to Miami while cherry picking talent from other states.
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Cooper wasnt coming here.
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Great interview. Luke is a long time Cane fan and we can cut him some slack. He gets over the top sometimes; I think it is to get attention. I think he was smarting over Randy getting the boot and took his chance to get in some licks. Ice had personal issue with losing job(I can understand that). Both have been good for THE U and I hope they are over it and realize they do not own THE U. Golden seems to be above holding a grudge, which is a good thing because he could easily cut those schools off(Randy did that to many HS in the area.) Luke and Ice need to appreciate that and get on board hard. If they are all about their kids, they will because while Al doesn't seem to hold a grudge, he clearly thinks he can win with kids from anywhere and is showing a growing ability to get them(he has set up camp in GA). It would certainly help if Luke and Ice impressed their kids with how Duke planted the flag early and firm. It looks like Al is fiilling this class out early. Hope Luke and Ice remember that if some of their kids are left out because they didn't get on board before the bus left the station.
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Here are some hall of fame tweets
(The Negative Recruiting towards Chad Thomas)
LUTHER R CAMPBELL@unclelukereal15h
UM FANS YOU WANT THE TOP PLAYER'S TO COME TO THE U. DO YOU PART BUY TICKETS TO THE GAME GIVE THE KIDS A REAL COLLEGE GAME EXPERIENCE
(Continue to suck off our old coach)
unclelukereal1
RT @theCANEofTUCKY @unclelukereal1 He took over junk and turned the program around, man went 16-9 his last 25 and J12 got hurt or been bette
unclelukereal1
RT @theCANEofTUCKY @unclelukereal1 we got to get Randy Shannon back at Miami, terrible Al Golden
2/6/13 11:42 PM
(Calling/implying our admin racists)
LUTHER R CAMPBELL @unclelukereal1
@An0nym0us_one I'm not going to say S about UM because when I do I'm racist I'm upset the black coach got fire. When it come to the U no com
LUTHER R CAMPBELL @unclelukereal1
Some UM fans an Radio talk show host r ok with UM getting beat as long as the coach ant black.
(Great Rumors)
BonecrusherDan Sileo @DanSileoShow
@unclelukereal1 Thursday Al is talking to The Tenn folks...as i said he would be interviewd for this gig
The anti-Golden Articles
In the New Times, in case it wasn't posted already:
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke analyzes the Miami Hurricanes' sudden aversion to Florida high school football players.
The University of Miami football program rose to prominence by recruiting gift ballers like NFL Hall of Famer Warren Sapp, two-time Super Bowl winner Ray Lewis, and the late great defensive back Sean Taylor, to name a few of the dozens of great Hurricanes who went on to have stellar professional careers. Those days seem over.
In 2010, during his first press conference as head coach Al Golden, promised Canes nation that Florida was his battleground state. He proved it a year later when his first recruiting class featured 18 student-athletes from the Sunshine State. "We want to be 80 percent Florida," Golden told the Miami Herald then.
Now, Golden has completely reversed course based on marching orders he's getting from university president Donna Shalala. During the head coach's three year tenure, as the cloud of the NCAA investigation into the Nevin Shapiro scandal hung over the program, the U has been purging the football team of talented Florida kids. While the players are being punished, nothing has happened to the former Miami sports administration that allowed the rogue booster to do as he pleased.
First, Olivier Vernon and Marcus Fortson, two underclassmen born and raised in the 305 accused of accepting improper benefits from Shapiro, skipped their senior years to enter the 2012 draft. Two other juniors from inner-city Miami schools also left early.
Then Golden kicked linebacker Ray Ray Armstrong off the team for allegedly being dishonest during an internal investigation that he had dinner with a sports agent. Two sophomores who graduated from Miami area high-schools left the team in January.
The same month, Golden rescinded a scholarship offer to Booker T. Washington offensive lineman Denver Kirkland, which came as a shock. Back in March, during a high school coaches' convention in Orlando, I was in the room when Golden and his staff told the coaches at Miami Central, Carol City, Booker T., Norland, and Northwestern, that he would never pull a scholarship offer he made to a student-athlete.
Even though Golden reinstated his scholarship offer to Kirkland, the young man signed with the University of Arkansas.
On National Signing Day this past Feb. 5, he only landed five players from Florida. Golden lashed out at the NCAA for hurting his recruiting of blue chip players, but there are more than enough talent-rich high school student-athletes in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach that can help the Canes compete for a national title.
Golden also passed up an opportunity to hire Miami Central head coach Telly Lockette, who has built a program that has gone to the state championship three straight years. Adding Lockette as UM's running backs coach would have given the Canes the inside track on all the top recruits in south Florida moving forward.
Instead, Golden gave the job to ex-Hurricanes free safety and current team football operations manager Hurlie Brown.
The University of Miami has done everything possible to get the NCAA to back off. The school has even punished the current players, who had nothing to do with the scandal, by self-imposing bowl bans the last two years. The student-athletes are the only ones falling on the sword. They should not get any penalties.
If anything, the NCAA needs to focus on the guy who was at the center of the Shapiro controversy, but fled Coral Gables just as the investigation was getting underway. I'm talking about Kirby Hocutt, Miami's former athletic director who left to take the same job at Texas Tech. Shapiro had him in his pocket.
I'll never forget the time I met the disgraced booster in his suite at Sun-Life Stadium. Hocutt popped into say hello and Shapiro ordered him to fire then-head coach Randy Shannon. Hocutt was well aware of Shapiro's bull**** and didn't do anything about it. The NCAA should give him the death penalty by banning him as athletic director for life.
The way things are headed, the men's basketball team will be in the Final Four before the football team competes again for a national title.
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Luke's Gospel
Jacory Harris Deserves Credit and an Apology For Racially Biased Sportswriting
By Luther Campbell Tue., Oct. 25 2011 at 8:26 AM 25 Comments
Categories: Luke's Gospel
Luther "Luke" Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Campbell wonders when Jacory Harris will get his due.
The sports media in South Florida is really one-sided. None of the sports talk show hosts -- Joe Rose, Jorge Sedano, and Sid Rosenberg -- has anything to say about University of Miami quarterback Jacory Harris.
Now that he is performing well, these guys should give him his due. They can't deal with a young African-American doing an excellent job. Last year and before this season began, I read a lot of articles and blogs that claimed all the players whom former head coach Randy Shannon had recruited from Miami Northwestern High School were failures. That's a bunch of BS.
Those seven kids will play in the NFL when they leave school. Just look at the magic that Harris is creating with his former Northwestern teammate Tommy Streeter, a phenom at wide receiver whose time at the University of Miami was wasted by the previous offensive coordinator, Mark Whipple. Indeed, Whipple is the reason Harris played so poorly prior to this year. But you never heard the Roses, Rosenbergs, and Sedanos criticize Whipple with the tenacity they exhibited when going after Harris and Shannon.
UM alum Michael Irvin had a message for the media: If you're going to criticize me, praise me with the same intensity. I want see them praise Harris with the same force they used to vilify him. South Florida's sports reporters need to wake up. Jacory Harris deserves the type of credit that ESPN is giving San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith, who is white.
Everyone wrote Smith off before Jim Harbaugh became his coach this year. Now the young man is leading a 5-1 team and finally living up to expectations. Harris deserves the same type of coverage. But he won't get it because the lily-white sports pundits don't want to see kids like him succeed. To them, black quarterbacks are inept. Sportswriters and talking heads have a tendency to make African-American athletes the villains.
It doesn't help that there are only a token number of black sports journalists in the industry. Heck, there are no African-American sportswriters at the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, or Palm Beach Post covering the Hurricanes or Dolphins, with the exception of Omar Kelly. Just look at how the media has treated Miami Dolphins coach Tony Sparano.
He has gone 7-9 the past two seasons, but he always got a pass because he's a "nice guy." No one was calling for his head until the Dolphins started the season 0-4. It is a double standard I find repulsive.
(The Negative Recruiting towards Chad Thomas)
LUTHER R CAMPBELL@unclelukereal15h
UM FANS YOU WANT THE TOP PLAYER'S TO COME TO THE U. DO YOU PART BUY TICKETS TO THE GAME GIVE THE KIDS A REAL COLLEGE GAME EXPERIENCE
(Continue to suck off our old coach)
unclelukereal1
RT @theCANEofTUCKY @unclelukereal1 He took over junk and turned the program around, man went 16-9 his last 25 and J12 got hurt or been bette
unclelukereal1
RT @theCANEofTUCKY @unclelukereal1 we got to get Randy Shannon back at Miami, terrible Al Golden
2/6/13 11:42 PM
(Calling/implying our admin racists)
LUTHER R CAMPBELL @unclelukereal1
@An0nym0us_one I'm not going to say S about UM because when I do I'm racist I'm upset the black coach got fire. When it come to the U no com
LUTHER R CAMPBELL @unclelukereal1
Some UM fans an Radio talk show host r ok with UM getting beat as long as the coach ant black.
(Great Rumors)
BonecrusherDan Sileo @DanSileoShow
@unclelukereal1 Thursday Al is talking to The Tenn folks...as i said he would be interviewd for this gig
The anti-Golden Articles
In the New Times, in case it wasn't posted already:
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke analyzes the Miami Hurricanes' sudden aversion to Florida high school football players.
The University of Miami football program rose to prominence by recruiting gift ballers like NFL Hall of Famer Warren Sapp, two-time Super Bowl winner Ray Lewis, and the late great defensive back Sean Taylor, to name a few of the dozens of great Hurricanes who went on to have stellar professional careers. Those days seem over.
In 2010, during his first press conference as head coach Al Golden, promised Canes nation that Florida was his battleground state. He proved it a year later when his first recruiting class featured 18 student-athletes from the Sunshine State. "We want to be 80 percent Florida," Golden told the Miami Herald then.
Now, Golden has completely reversed course based on marching orders he's getting from university president Donna Shalala. During the head coach's three year tenure, as the cloud of the NCAA investigation into the Nevin Shapiro scandal hung over the program, the U has been purging the football team of talented Florida kids. While the players are being punished, nothing has happened to the former Miami sports administration that allowed the rogue booster to do as he pleased.
First, Olivier Vernon and Marcus Fortson, two underclassmen born and raised in the 305 accused of accepting improper benefits from Shapiro, skipped their senior years to enter the 2012 draft. Two other juniors from inner-city Miami schools also left early.
Then Golden kicked linebacker Ray Ray Armstrong off the team for allegedly being dishonest during an internal investigation that he had dinner with a sports agent. Two sophomores who graduated from Miami area high-schools left the team in January.
The same month, Golden rescinded a scholarship offer to Booker T. Washington offensive lineman Denver Kirkland, which came as a shock. Back in March, during a high school coaches' convention in Orlando, I was in the room when Golden and his staff told the coaches at Miami Central, Carol City, Booker T., Norland, and Northwestern, that he would never pull a scholarship offer he made to a student-athlete.
Even though Golden reinstated his scholarship offer to Kirkland, the young man signed with the University of Arkansas.
On National Signing Day this past Feb. 5, he only landed five players from Florida. Golden lashed out at the NCAA for hurting his recruiting of blue chip players, but there are more than enough talent-rich high school student-athletes in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach that can help the Canes compete for a national title.
Golden also passed up an opportunity to hire Miami Central head coach Telly Lockette, who has built a program that has gone to the state championship three straight years. Adding Lockette as UM's running backs coach would have given the Canes the inside track on all the top recruits in south Florida moving forward.
Instead, Golden gave the job to ex-Hurricanes free safety and current team football operations manager Hurlie Brown.
The University of Miami has done everything possible to get the NCAA to back off. The school has even punished the current players, who had nothing to do with the scandal, by self-imposing bowl bans the last two years. The student-athletes are the only ones falling on the sword. They should not get any penalties.
If anything, the NCAA needs to focus on the guy who was at the center of the Shapiro controversy, but fled Coral Gables just as the investigation was getting underway. I'm talking about Kirby Hocutt, Miami's former athletic director who left to take the same job at Texas Tech. Shapiro had him in his pocket.
I'll never forget the time I met the disgraced booster in his suite at Sun-Life Stadium. Hocutt popped into say hello and Shapiro ordered him to fire then-head coach Randy Shannon. Hocutt was well aware of Shapiro's bull**** and didn't do anything about it. The NCAA should give him the death penalty by banning him as athletic director for life.
The way things are headed, the men's basketball team will be in the Final Four before the football team competes again for a national title.
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Luke's Gospel
Jacory Harris Deserves Credit and an Apology For Racially Biased Sportswriting
By Luther Campbell Tue., Oct. 25 2011 at 8:26 AM 25 Comments
Categories: Luke's Gospel
Luther "Luke" Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Campbell wonders when Jacory Harris will get his due.
The sports media in South Florida is really one-sided. None of the sports talk show hosts -- Joe Rose, Jorge Sedano, and Sid Rosenberg -- has anything to say about University of Miami quarterback Jacory Harris.
Now that he is performing well, these guys should give him his due. They can't deal with a young African-American doing an excellent job. Last year and before this season began, I read a lot of articles and blogs that claimed all the players whom former head coach Randy Shannon had recruited from Miami Northwestern High School were failures. That's a bunch of BS.
Those seven kids will play in the NFL when they leave school. Just look at the magic that Harris is creating with his former Northwestern teammate Tommy Streeter, a phenom at wide receiver whose time at the University of Miami was wasted by the previous offensive coordinator, Mark Whipple. Indeed, Whipple is the reason Harris played so poorly prior to this year. But you never heard the Roses, Rosenbergs, and Sedanos criticize Whipple with the tenacity they exhibited when going after Harris and Shannon.
UM alum Michael Irvin had a message for the media: If you're going to criticize me, praise me with the same intensity. I want see them praise Harris with the same force they used to vilify him. South Florida's sports reporters need to wake up. Jacory Harris deserves the type of credit that ESPN is giving San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith, who is white.
Everyone wrote Smith off before Jim Harbaugh became his coach this year. Now the young man is leading a 5-1 team and finally living up to expectations. Harris deserves the same type of coverage. But he won't get it because the lily-white sports pundits don't want to see kids like him succeed. To them, black quarterbacks are inept. Sportswriters and talking heads have a tendency to make African-American athletes the villains.
It doesn't help that there are only a token number of black sports journalists in the industry. Heck, there are no African-American sportswriters at the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, or Palm Beach Post covering the Hurricanes or Dolphins, with the exception of Omar Kelly. Just look at how the media has treated Miami Dolphins coach Tony Sparano.
He has gone 7-9 the past two seasons, but he always got a pass because he's a "nice guy." No one was calling for his head until the Dolphins started the season 0-4. It is a double standard I find repulsive.
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The above post is a small taste and a quick google search.
The above post is a small taste and a quick google search.
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Consigliere, I respect you as a poster but you come across as someone under the age of 25 with this ish. I have said it once and I will say it again..Going to war with Luke and Ice Harris will get Al NOWHERE. If Luke extended an olive branch as a sign of peace why knock it out of his hand? Al is not on Nick Saban or Urban Meyer status where he can turn his nose up at local coaches who could help him because they "Were mean to him and said really bad things about him".
Butch didnt need Luke but guess what? Butch had clout, championship rings, and the mafioso status down here. Al has none of these as of yet. You gotta earn that from these coaches or they will NOT help you get these kids. And at this point that would not be good for Al especially in a pivotal time period for the program.
I dont know what happened with Amari Cooper. I dont think anybody knows. You hear different stories all the time. But I will agree with the poster that said WE DID NOT recruit him as hard as we are recruiting Ermon Lane or as hard as we did Stacey Coley. We F'd that up but we gotta move on from that. Al learned from that im sure.
Prop Joe said it best. Luke loves UM. ***** whoever the coach is. And putting all our cards on the table, as a black man, I am willing to admit that the only reason he didnt bash Randy was because he was black. Luke is from the ole skool. Even my father who is 70 told me thats just the ole skool black mentality from the 1960-70s. He wasnt gonna go against Randy in public right or wrong because he was a black coach. Call him a racist. Call him whatever you want. But get the ***** over it because Randy sucked anyway and he is gone now. Al is here and if Al is willing to forgive so am I.
Butch didnt need Luke but guess what? Butch had clout, championship rings, and the mafioso status down here. Al has none of these as of yet. You gotta earn that from these coaches or they will NOT help you get these kids. And at this point that would not be good for Al especially in a pivotal time period for the program.
I dont know what happened with Amari Cooper. I dont think anybody knows. You hear different stories all the time. But I will agree with the poster that said WE DID NOT recruit him as hard as we are recruiting Ermon Lane or as hard as we did Stacey Coley. We F'd that up but we gotta move on from that. Al learned from that im sure.
Prop Joe said it best. Luke loves UM. ***** whoever the coach is. And putting all our cards on the table, as a black man, I am willing to admit that the only reason he didnt bash Randy was because he was black. Luke is from the ole skool. Even my father who is 70 told me thats just the ole skool black mentality from the 1960-70s. He wasnt gonna go against Randy in public right or wrong because he was a black coach. Call him a racist. Call him whatever you want. But get the ***** over it because Randy sucked anyway and he is gone now. Al is here and if Al is willing to forgive so am I.
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The past is the past. Luke is a Cane fan and everyone gets upset on twitter and types before they think it happens to everyone and it happens here. Theres no doubt Luke is a Cane just because you say something negative about your team doesnt make you less of a fan. Im sure people have said something bad about your own or disagree with her but at the end of the day shes still ya moms.
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Jassid82,
I am not under 25. My age has nothing to do with this, I have one rule in regards to my program.
Don't bash the program PERIOD!
Critique or make comments (when warranted) all you want but don't bash the program especially publicly. This pains me to say it but Uncle Luke is a public figure and for some reason people listen to him on twitter. Recruits read his tweets and can be influenced by the BS he spews.
This is my problem with him, for someone who loves UM he sure does his fair amount of PUBLIC BASHING.
What kind of UM supporter suggests the admin is racist? Completely untrue by the way. Are you aware these comments are really damaging?
Nobody is talking about if Luke helps the program, nobody is taking about whether Luke is capable of some good. I don't like him for the simple reason he stabs us in the FRONT in an open forum. His articles are garbage and embarrassing (to him) and his tweets are disgusting.
Does this not make sense, is this to complex? Why does someone who LOVES UM, openly bash the university.
I am fine with critiques, I am fine with comments, I am completely disgusted by the bashing and there is a major difference.
I am not under 25. My age has nothing to do with this, I have one rule in regards to my program.
Don't bash the program PERIOD!
Critique or make comments (when warranted) all you want but don't bash the program especially publicly. This pains me to say it but Uncle Luke is a public figure and for some reason people listen to him on twitter. Recruits read his tweets and can be influenced by the BS he spews.
This is my problem with him, for someone who loves UM he sure does his fair amount of PUBLIC BASHING.
What kind of UM supporter suggests the admin is racist? Completely untrue by the way. Are you aware these comments are really damaging?
Nobody is talking about if Luke helps the program, nobody is taking about whether Luke is capable of some good. I don't like him for the simple reason he stabs us in the FRONT in an open forum. His articles are garbage and embarrassing (to him) and his tweets are disgusting.
Does this not make sense, is this to complex? Why does someone who LOVES UM, openly bash the university.
I am fine with critiques, I am fine with comments, I am completely disgusted by the bashing and there is a major difference.
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While we don't want to be alienating Luke, his past comments and verbal tantrums when he doesn't get his way and when coaches don't recruit who and how he thinks they should, makes it clear that with him you have to be on your guard and not completely trust him. He would stab Golden in the back in a second if Golden has the "nerve" to see things differently than Luke.
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Thanks for this info!
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