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If you could reverse the outcome of one game in Hurricanes history, which would it be?

sdaly12 said:
The seeds for the mess the program became started with Donna and her contract issues with Butch, followed by hiring Uncle Larry. This was followed by 20+ years of non investment in program, a lousy BOT, a revolving door at AD role. The non investment to me was the killer as we were cutting investments as college football was becoming an arms race
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An iconic college football program overseen by soul-sucking vampires

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xbobdog said:
Easy
This year vs Indiana,
I would have won $31K
That's never going to happen again
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haha same. although I think mine was $32.5K

but even without that bet, I would still choose this Indiana game.

The magical run during the CFP, the special group of kids (Bain, Mesidor, Mauigoa,Keionte Scott, Jakobe Thomas, Malachi, Beck, Fletcher), the feeling of "holy sht we're back" after 20 years of irrelevancy PLUS winning it at home? Story for the ages.
 
I would have said 2002 vs Ohio State up honestly we were heading for failure and crumbling down with or without that win so the answer is this year versus Indiana. Would have been the ultimate story book ending. I want Coach Cristobal to win a natty here so bad, just to see him fully let loose and see the run he goes on.
 
sdaly12 said:
The seeds for the mess the program became started with Donna and her contract issues with Butch, followed by hiring Uncle Larry. This was followed by 20+ years of non investment in program, a lousy BOT, a revolving door at AD role. The non investment to me was the killer as we were cutting investments as college football was becoming an arms race
So it was a double whammy. To have a great program everyone from President, AD, BOT, Alumni HC and staff must all be aligned for success
We got screwed sure but warning signs were in place before OSU debacle
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Stop it.

The "contract issues with Butch" were with President Tad Foote.

Butch took the Cleveland job in January 2021. Shalala didn't become UM president until June 2001.

I understand the unnatural compulsion to blame Shalala for everything, but most of it is just untrue.

1. Tad Foote hired Larry Coker.

2. Paul Dee was the AD through June of 2008. Kirby Hocutt was the AD until early 2011.

3. Donna was only the UM President through 2015. Which means, for her first 10 years, Donna's "revolving door of ADs" included exactly two guys, the AD she inherited from Tad Foote, plus a very good AD who has been the AD at his alma mater (Texas Tech) for 15 years. We can all blame Donna for The Shermanator and Beta Blake, but Dee and Hocutt were good. And you can't blame a guy for going back to his alma mater (even though I'm still disappointed in Radakovich).

4. The on campus basketball arena was built on Donna's watch. The single most significant on-campus athletics facility in Miami history.

5. Yes, the UM BoT has sucked until more recently.
 
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I'm going to pick some non-obvious games for the sake of conversation.

'05 Peach Bowl - LSU 40 Miami 3 -- I was a teenager and this is what marked the end of the 00's run for me. Team goes 7-6 the following year and Coker is fired.

'07 Final game at OB - Virginia 48 Miami 0 -- Final game at the OB, completely dominated.
 
I'll choose a different game, and I'll offer two choices with an explanation: 1) 2000 At Washington; or 2) 2000 vs. Louisana Tech. For the La Tech game- if we had beat them by 40 FSU wouldn't have passed us in the polls, we play Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, and likely win. For Washington- a win and we would have been 12-0, playing for the belt in the Orange Bowl.
If either occurs, Butch Davis's request for more money would have been granted- the Board of Trustees would have been laughed out of Florida if they had not given him an extension. Then, we have Butch recruiting as the $EC started to gain prominence instead of Coker (although hopefully he listened to Coker about Frank Gore), and we then continue building unbelievably talented rosters.
 
Only one game?

This season, beating Indiana.

Imagine Carson throwing a game-winning TD instead of a game-losing interception. 2025 National Champions almost left out of the playoffs. Redemption story for Beck. Redemption story for Mario, although the near-title has greatly improved his reputation. Amazing legacy final for Canes like Mesidor, Bain, Francis, and others committed to Mario and Miami four years earlier, despite a 5-7 record, and those followed and remained.

If I were to pick one from the Time Machine, 1986 vs Penn State.

Imagine Vinny throwing a game-winning TD instead of a game-losing interception. 1986 Undefeated National Champions and Vin-di-cation for the Canes 1st Heisman winner. No other Cane player garners so much individual responsibility for a championship loss (not undeserved). Assume 1987 remains the same and Miami wins back-to-back undefeated national champions.
 
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Gator Flop game 1971, not bc it would have mattered, except to make me feel better. But really the Fiesta bowl robbery against OSU, and the refs f**k up against ND. Both cost us another NC.
 
Nothing....and I mean nothing was more painful than the osu loss. Y'all ever watch a show or movie were something is destined to happen but then someone fvcks up the timeline and now everything goes to absolute shvt? Some ppl disagree but I wholeheartedly believe if we're not cheated that game and win, osu doesn't go on to become the powerhouse they've become. Now there are some ppl who believes that we still become a shvtty program afterwards due to Coker and our AD which might be true but I think our relevancy doesn't drop as far down as it did.
 
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