One reason I have a deep love for UM football is because Howard Schnellenberger went into black hoods like liberty city and offered black athletes a chance to play at a major university. Let’s be honest when we started whipping up on good ole Notre Dame, OU, Bama , Texas on NATIONAL TELEVISION it was a shock to America. Terms like “Thugs” and “Thug U” was pretty much code for u know what. Add to the fact that Miami is home to many minorities both culturally and social economically (Immigrants such as our Cuban brothers and Sisters for example) and have always have the world against us mentality and I was hooked.
In today’s world it doesn’t matter if you’re white black brown or blue. All that matters is you bleed green and orange. We are hated nowadays because we are simply “the U”