k9cane
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for years, I couldn't find this game for some reason, and Ive always regretted not driving up the coast to be there. But this is one my personal favorites as Miami, after a stunning loss to BYU in the opener as the defending national champions and #1 ranked team, went to Berkeley. There's a great back story to this game, after the BYU loss, Canes alumni like Michael Irvin really got on the current players for not just losing, but not having fun and celebrating.
So this game they go buck wild. I mean, Don Cornelius should've been our coach this game, they did everything short of the Soul Train line in the second half as they pulled away. If there was a hip-hop dance to do at the time (Running Man, the George Jefferson, the Troop', 'the Roger Rabbit' -- they did it, and looked so **** good doing it, I will say)
So after this game, Dennis Erickson was forced to apologize for his players behavior (boooo!!!) by Tad Foote at next weeks press conference. Poor Dennis, he never truly understood what he had gotten into at UM, lol, And he forced them to tone it down.
Next week they play a good Iowa squad and for that game at the Orange Bowl, I remember our guys like Wesley Carroll and Randall Hill starting celebrations and then abruptly stopping them, and shrugging their shoulders as if to say, 'Like Luke Campbell, we're banned in the USA'. It was hilarious, they would do it right in front of Erickson (which was telling). But they would start to do high-fives and then freeze, and wave their hands as if to say, 'Opps, can't do that,' -- and shake hands, instead
Even their non-celebrations, were celebrations
This is why I loved this team, it's why I got such a kick out of them. They really were a a banned of disciplined renegades
Anyways, the team was on it's best behavior the rest of the year --- and then the Cotton Bowl vs Texas happened. And the rest is history
so here it is -- the game that was in my view the genesis of 'the Miami Rule' that would be instituted for the 1991 season. Enjoy:
So this game they go buck wild. I mean, Don Cornelius should've been our coach this game, they did everything short of the Soul Train line in the second half as they pulled away. If there was a hip-hop dance to do at the time (Running Man, the George Jefferson, the Troop', 'the Roger Rabbit' -- they did it, and looked so **** good doing it, I will say)
So after this game, Dennis Erickson was forced to apologize for his players behavior (boooo!!!) by Tad Foote at next weeks press conference. Poor Dennis, he never truly understood what he had gotten into at UM, lol, And he forced them to tone it down.
Next week they play a good Iowa squad and for that game at the Orange Bowl, I remember our guys like Wesley Carroll and Randall Hill starting celebrations and then abruptly stopping them, and shrugging their shoulders as if to say, 'Like Luke Campbell, we're banned in the USA'. It was hilarious, they would do it right in front of Erickson (which was telling). But they would start to do high-fives and then freeze, and wave their hands as if to say, 'Opps, can't do that,' -- and shake hands, instead
Even their non-celebrations, were celebrations
This is why I loved this team, it's why I got such a kick out of them. They really were a a banned of disciplined renegades
Anyways, the team was on it's best behavior the rest of the year --- and then the Cotton Bowl vs Texas happened. And the rest is history
so here it is -- the game that was in my view the genesis of 'the Miami Rule' that would be instituted for the 1991 season. Enjoy:
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