New preferred walk-on at LB

Jan 3, 2018

Darian Stephenson, originally class of 2016 from Westminster Christian, is transferring from Navy to Miami as a preferred walk-on and enrolls next week.

Stephenson had multiple D1 offers before a knee injury in the summer heading into his senior season.

He tore his ACL at FIU camp, which caused programs to lose some interest. Stephenson was a versatile LB prospect that a few major staffs (including Miami) were planning to track during his senior year before that injury.

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90scane

Jan 3, 2018

Pre-injury, better looking than McCray.

JgDaCane

Jan 3, 2018

90scane said:
Pre-injury, better looking than McCray.

how much better?

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Golsen82

Jan 4, 2018

Peter Ariz said:
He can play right away. Potential ST guy

Need DT guys! Even if they're walk ons

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Dingaan1828

Jan 4, 2018

MedleyCane said:
Canemang said:

Moar Jags

2018 National Champs

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Don't be a moron.

Too late for that.

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ace

Jan 4, 2018

TheMatador said:
Pentagon Cane said:

TheMatador said:

Pentagon Cane said:

TheMatador said:

I remember when we used to play Navy regularly and they beat us regularly. Last game I remember was around 1970 and they beat us.

They were especially good during the Joe Bellino-Roger Staubach era. They were usually as good as or better than we were.

My father told me, years ago, about how he would take the train from NY to Philadelphia to see the Army-Navy game. He had no connection to either school, although he might have been an enlisted man in the Army during WWII and I know that often those who served in one of the branches also supported the sports teams for that branch's academy. My father probably took that trip sometime in the 1940's. Also, sometime in the '40's, my father attended UM and wrote for the student newspaper.

The service academy teams were national powers back then.

Here's a trivia question: In the 1940's, one of the outstanding college QBs played at both Army and UM. Who was it?

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Arnold Tucker. Was Assistant AD in 70s. Good friend of my father. Retired Colonel. Irony is he commanded my flying squadron, 16th Special Operations Squadron, in Vietnam. Great guy. I think he is still alive.

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Right. I believe he is in college football HOF. Was he assistant AD at West Point or UM?

You know which Army assistant, who coached Tucker (and the legendary Glen Davis and Doc Blanchard), later ended up at UM?

Easy question.

Did you work at the Pentagon? Had a good friend who was in the Naval Reserve who did reserve duty at the Pentagon for years. He was president of the UM alumni group in D.C. in the '80's. He died a few years ago.

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Tucker is in College HOF. Andy Gustafson. Gus used to park in my grandfather's garage in downtown Miami. Yes, ran a division on the Air Staff as my last job in 2007.

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Good answers. Another UM trivia, another easy one. Wisconsin QB family connection to UM. Bet a lot of younger fans don't know. Almost a legacy. What is it? You know, for sure.

John Hornibrook (I think Tom "Silky" Sullivan and Chuck Foreman were in that same backfield) of florida flop fame; don't know the exact relationship between them

Pentagon Cane

Jan 4, 2018

ace said:
TheMatador said:

Pentagon Cane said:

TheMatador said:

Pentagon Cane said:

Arnold Tucker. Was Assistant AD in 70s. Good friend of my father. Retired Colonel. Irony is he commanded my flying squadron, 16th Special Operations Squadron, in Vietnam. Great guy. I think he is still alive.

Click to expand...

Right. I believe he is in college football HOF. Was he assistant AD at West Point or UM?

You know which Army assistant, who coached Tucker (and the legendary Glen Davis and Doc Blanchard), later ended up at UM?

Easy question.

Did you work at the Pentagon? Had a good friend who was in the Naval Reserve who did reserve duty at the Pentagon for years. He was president of the UM alumni group in D.C. in the '80's. He died a few years ago.

Click to expand...

Tucker is in College HOF. Andy Gustafson. Gus used to park in my grandfather's garage in downtown Miami. Yes, ran a division on the Air Staff as my last job in 2007.

Click to expand...

Good answers. Another UM trivia, another easy one. Wisconsin QB family connection to UM. Bet a lot of younger fans don't know. Almost a legacy. What is it? You know, for sure.

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John Hornibrook (I think Tom "Silky" Sullivan and Chuck Foreman were in that same backfield) of florida flop fame; don't know the exact relationship between them

Alex's great uncle is John. It was John was scored on the flop play. Tommy Smith played full back. Drafted by the Dolphins in 73.

Cincycane

Jan 4, 2018

Stephenson is a good kid him and my son were at the Naval Prep School together. He was a linebacker up there. His mom works for UM so it was a good move for him to go home to the Canes!

TheMatador

Jan 4, 2018

Pentagon Cane said:
ace said:

TheMatador said:

Pentagon Cane said:

TheMatador said:

Right. I believe he is in college football HOF. Was he assistant AD at West Point or UM?

You know which Army assistant, who coached Tucker (and the legendary Glen Davis and Doc Blanchard), later ended up at UM?

Easy question.

Did you work at the Pentagon? Had a good friend who was in the Naval Reserve who did reserve duty at the Pentagon for years. He was president of the UM alumni group in D.C. in the '80's. He died a few years ago.

Click to expand...

Tucker is in College HOF. Andy Gustafson. Gus used to park in my grandfather's garage in downtown Miami. Yes, ran a division on the Air Staff as my last job in 2007.

Click to expand...

Good answers. Another UM trivia, another easy one. Wisconsin QB family connection to UM. Bet a lot of younger fans don't know. Almost a legacy. What is it? You know, for sure.

Click to expand...

John Hornibrook (I think Tom "Silky" Sullivan and Chuck Foreman were in that same backfield) of florida flop fame; don't know the exact relationship between them

Click to expand...

Alex's great uncle is John. It was John was scored on the flop play. Tommy Smith played full back. Drafted by the Dolphins in 73.

TheMatador

Jan 4, 2018

Pentagon Cane said:
ace said:

TheMatador said:

Pentagon Cane said:

TheMatador said:

Right. I believe he is in college football HOF. Was he assistant AD at West Point or UM?

You know which Army assistant, who coached Tucker (and the legendary Glen Davis and Doc Blanchard), later ended up at UM?

Easy question.

Did you work at the Pentagon? Had a good friend who was in the Naval Reserve who did reserve duty at the Pentagon for years. He was president of the UM alumni group in D.C. in the '80's. He died a few years ago.

Click to expand...

Tucker is in College HOF. Andy Gustafson. Gus used to park in my grandfather's garage in downtown Miami. Yes, ran a division on the Air Staff as my last job in 2007.

Click to expand...

Good answers. Another UM trivia, another easy one. Wisconsin QB family connection to UM. Bet a lot of younger fans don't know. Almost a legacy. What is it? You know, for sure.

Click to expand...

John Hornibrook (I think Tom "Silky" Sullivan and Chuck Foreman were in that same backfield) of florida flop fame; don't know the exact relationship between them

Click to expand...

Alex's great uncle is John. It was John was scored on the flop play. Tommy Smith played full back. Drafted by the Dolphins in 73.

Do you mean Tom Smith or Tom Sullivan at fullback? I recall that they played Chuck Foreman at flanker for a while. I think they kept Silky Sullivan at RB. Tommy Smith drafted by Dolphins? Don't remember him at all. Tom Sullivan played for the Eagles.

You're right. Tom Smith was a 7th round draft choice of the Dolphins in '73. I lived up north and it was hard to follow the team. No internet, UM was almost never on TV.