October 15th, 2006
It (was) great, to be, a Miami, Hurricane...
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But my god. Butch Davis's work legitimizing the Hurricanes as a respectful college program has been completely erased, both in terms of play and behavior. How is Larry Coker still there? Ten years later, and all of the sudden SI looks like they were right.
UCF losing to Pitt by 50 doesn't seem so bad anymore. I'd rather have that than the garbage going on down in Coral Gables. It's college athletics. These are 18,19,20 year old kids. A fight in a sporting event, sure, that's one thing. Full on assault with potentially dangerous weapons and stomping players heads? Send these kids back to the streets of South Florida where they came.
And don't get me wrong, FIU is just as much to blame for this as Miami is. In fact, more so, they started it. But the reactions of Lamar Thomas in the press booth just epitomizes everything that was wrong with Miami when the program was on the verge of being shut down. How did he not mature any in the last ten years? You'd think after single handedly losing the national championship for Miami back in 1994, he'd be a bit humbled. If not then, his sub-par NFL career should have done it. But hey, being a local sports announcer for your alma mater instead, is, you know.. pretty cool too.
Fire Coker, Fire Lamar, pull these kids scholarships and focus on winning football games against teams a little bit better than FIU. Please.
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(Page 1)1. Wow I saw this on Saturday in a bar without sound. Now I wish I still hadn't heard it. That's some pretty irresponsible broadcasting.
Let's get some perspective, this is college sports. Sure, there are rivalries, but getting into the criminal range is not exactly healthy. This isn't the NBA, the NCAA shouldn't be rewarding kids for being thugs, so I definitely agree on pulling their scholarships.
Posted at 10:32AM on Oct 16th 2006 by Mike
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