Brand new secondary. The kids blew it. Welcome to football.
Ed Reed and Mike Rumph gave up an 80-yard bomb—Kevin Thompson to Chafie Fields—in 1999, letting Penn State take back the lead after Miami had scrapped back and looked like it was going to win. It happens to the best of them.
Fans wanted to run off Butch Davis through year six after the Washington loss—and many of those same people have been crying for him to come back ever since.
Those same idiot fans wanted to run Jimmy Johnson off after 8-5 in 1984 with the defending national champions; blowing a 31-0 lead to Maryland at home, falling to Boston College with Hail Flutie the next time they took the field and losing a shootout with UCLA in the Fiesta Bowl for a three-game skid to end the season. If fans had their way, Johnson would've been gone after one year—or never would've gotten the job in the first place, as a lot of those idiots wanted Tom Olivadotti to get promoted from defense coordinator to head coach after Howard Schnellenberger left for the USFL.
People really need to get a grip here. This reaction to a few early season setbacks is beyond insane. Were you really expecting 12-0 and to roll heads this season, with a new head coach, offensive staff, new quarterback, young offensive line, young secondary and defensive line? Miami was rally going to just hit the ground running and everything about the disaster that was last season was really supposed to fix itself over the past eight months?