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Under 30 UM Fans….

I’m 47, and in many ways I think it’s even worse for us who witnessed the great years. If all you’ve ever witnessed is incompetence, heartache, and misery it’s easier to accept it because you don’t understand how good it used to be. Basically, an “ignorance is bliss” mentality. Honestly, it used to bother me way more than it does now though. I don’t know if it’s old age or what, but I’ve long passed the point of anger/depression and crossed into apathy/acceptance. Every dumb, idiotic, horrendous thing that can occur to a football program has happened to us over the last 20+ years so nothing surprises me anymore.
 
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DoctorKrazey said:
I’m 47, and in many ways I think it’s even worse for us who witnessed the great years. If all you’ve ever witnessed is incompetence, heartache, and misery it’s easier to accept it because you don’t understand how good it used to be. Basically, an “ignorance is bliss” mentality. Honestly, it used to bother me way more than it does now though. I don’t know if it’s old age or what, but I’ve long passed the point of anger/depression and crossed into apathy/acceptance. Every dumb, idiotic, horrendous thing that can occur to a football program has happened to us over the last 20+ years so nothing surprises me anymore.
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Same
 
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Genghis Cane said:
have had to endure nothing but torture their entire lives.

At least some of you older guys remember the glory days. What the **** do guys like me have left to hang our hats on?

This is legitimately the only team I care about. I don’t watch other sports and the NFL is meh at best. Year in and year out, it’s the same nightmare. Different plot, same ending.

The last time I watched Miami win a game in person, I was 8 years old. I live 5 minutes from the Dome and thought this was the year I could enjoy my team live. Nope. A friend of the family even gifted my wife and I box seats. How did it end? Me….left staring into the abyss as their fans rush the field and another one of our seasons goes down the toilet.

It was so bad that my one friend who always gives me a hard time when UM loses, actually put his arm around me and said, “I’m so sorry, bro.” That’s how pathetic It must have looked seeing me dejected as a bunch of drunk Cuse fans kept screaming in my ear.

This team has done nothing but rip my soul out repeatedly for 20+ years. If you are under the age of 30, like me, you understand. But if the university is going to attempt to be competitive going forward, something has to change. Because with each passing year, you risk losing more and more people who are smart enough to realize this is not worth the time, money, and stress. There is only so much we can take.

Love ya all. Go Canes.
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I have a lot of respect for younger generations of Canes, because you have tasted all the bitter and none of the sweet. I was born in a year we won a natty, I was cognizant of the ascent in the late 90s-early 00s, I have seen the best this program has to offer and it took hold of me like a drug takes hold of an addict. My week was dictated by whether the rush of emotions was going to bring euphoric bliss or manic withdrawals.

You all are the generation after the zenith has been reached and well after the empire has fallen. Now you have to relive the tales of the past through us, rather than have lived them yourselves. You’re Greek children under Roman occupation, sitting on the steps of the Parthenon as the elders bleat about how we defeated the Persians and leased the Mediterranean to whomever we chose. You have no legacy of your own, no moments that you felt with your own hands or bellowed in your own voice. I have words and phrases that I associate with specific moments that I lived through, they galvanized my fandom and built my belief. I saw “big time players” as it was spoken by Santana in living color, and it made me an absolute maniac for this U. I have been Michael Irving on the sidelines my whole life, and yet, “I have made of my heart a stone.”

Even with a gallery of monuments from the past, and I have still turned my back on the Parthenon. I have no idea how you all endure this scourging willingly.
 
Imagine becoming a fan during the Natty game the refs gave to OSU. Then every year after watching the product slowly dwindle into nothingness only to have a fluke year every five or so years fall a part each November. All us "baby cane" fans (ie fell in love in the 2000s) know is pain. God bless those who were fans in 01 my love for football in general started in 02 🤦‍♂️
 
canemachine said:
Imagine becoming a fan during the Natty game the refs gave to OSU. Then every year after watching the product slowly dwindle into nothingness only to have a fluke year every five or so years fall a part each November. All us "baby cane" fans (ie fell in love in the 2000s) know is pain. God bless those who were fans in 01 my love for football in general started in 02 🤦‍♂️
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Yup, really my first legit memory is the 02 national championship game against Taint. All I’ve known since has been pain.
 
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Sure everyone similar had friends go to other schools like uf and fsu have stuff to brag about. I have nothing to fight on this century. Aside from 01.
 
I just been torture. 29 years old. And it feels like I’ve only gotten to experience the OB curse.
One year a good O with a bad D, the next a bad O with a good D.
This year: best offense in school history… and of course we have possibly the worst D in school history.
Only glimpses here and there of something special.
Will always love this team, but I’m just in a numb pain at this point
 
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To explain how we old timers felt, it was never about winning or losing. It was the effort and players would put out so much effort even the few losses were acceptable because you knew the players felt worse then we did. I referred to it as "PLAYING LIKE A HURRICANE". How could you fault players who sacrificed so much and gave out so much effort in every game. Players today on the sideline seem to not even recognize what is going on. They celebrate nothingness, they dance when they are losing. In my day you always expected a win until the clock expired. Imagine going to the Orange Bowl and winnng every game 58 times without a home loss. Nine years of winning. The original OB was special, Hard Rock could be but we fans need to see explicit effort from the entire squad, offense, defense, special teams, and even the Ibis. The Ibis was incredible when Routh was in the suit, he made mascots famous. Effort, effort, effort was the key to dominance and until current Hurricanes own it, it may never be the same.

Edit Note: Opponents FEARED those Canes!
 
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GrassyOG0311 said:
What’s funny to me is that even during the probation years, which seemed like it took forever to get through (really only 2-3 years of true irrelevancy), I recall that it was understood that once probation was over, they’d be back on top. Shoot, by 1998-99, you already saw a resurgence. Never thought it would take this long. Happy to have been a young guy in 91 and forward to remember those years.
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Such a good post. I remember being in the parking lot of the Rose Bowl after the 01 NC, thinking, we did it, after this horrible run we finally one again. It was like a 5 year hiatus 😆
 
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