I’ve got you by over 30 years. Things weren’t good well before 1983. If you became a Miami “fan” (and I use that term loosely in your case) because of the championships, or the “swag”, or to jump on the “U” bandwagon, you have no clue as to the years and years of mediocrity many of us suffered through pre-Schnelly.
I’ve said this many times in threads on this site; Schnelly caught the CFB world by surprise. JJ capitalized on that success, Erickson managed to keep the ball rolling, then Shapiro shows up and f-cks up everything. Butch somehow got us back and flew the coop (for whatever debatable reason/s) and it’s been downhill ever since.
We won’t and can’t catch anybody by surprise any more. The success of the 80’s and 90’s were a phenomenon started by an innovative coach that caught CFB by surprise. The only way we can return to that type of success is to hire a visionary AD and a transformational HC. There aren’t many of either out there and the few that there may be, good luck getting either to come to a small private school about as far south in the US as you can get with a helluva mess in the athletic department.