KIDS TURNING 21

[JgDaCane]

My uncle introduced me to the canes on 99’. I was 8 years old playing pee wee football & I just fell in love with them. 2 years later I remember begging my mom to stay up to watch “the whole game” vs Nebraska. She finally caved after me asking 1000x lol Greatest sports day of my life. That image of Andre holding up the crystal ball still brings a tear to my eye today. I’d do anything to feel that sweet feeling one more time.

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

My uncle introduced me to the canes on 99’. I was 8 years old playing pee wee football & I just fell in love with them. 2 years later I remember begging my mom to stay up to watch “the whole game” vs Nebraska. She finally caved after me asking 1000x lol Greatest sports day of my life. That image of Andre holding up the crystal ball still brings a tear to my eye today. I’d do anything to feel that sweet feeling one more time.

Good man. You got in just in time to see our most recent great run of football (1999-2004). Only two years earlier, UM had one of the worst seasons in my lifetime (that '97 season was brutal). If you'd told me in '97 we'd win a NC and play for (i.e., get robbed of) another in the next 5 years, I'd have said you need to get your eyes examined. But by the end of that '98 season when Edge put it on UCLA, the writing was on the wall.

Morale of the story: We are all prisoners of the moment. Patience is a virtue for a reason. Keep the faith.

 

[Home Slice]

Raised my son to be a Cane fan, he's 22, we went to several games together including the ND game in '17, then he went to and graduated from UGA, still pulls for the Canes, but now he lives and dies with the Dawgs, can't blame him.

Disowning him may be a tad bit harsh, but writing him out of your will is certainly justified

 

[JgDaCane]

Good man. You got in just in time to see our most recent great run of football (1999-2004). Only two years earlier, UM had one of the worst seasons in my lifetime (that '97 season was brutal). If you'd told me in '97 we'd win a NC and play for (i.e., get robbed of) another in the next 5 years, I'd have said you need to get your eyes examined. But by the end of that '98 season when Edge put it on UCLA, the writing was on the wall.

Morale of the story: We are all prisoners of the moment. Patience is a virtue for a reason. Keep the faith.

Absolutely. We need the horses.

 

[CChe21]

That’s just life with growing kids. Mine will be off to college in the next year/2hears She’ll likely attend UF or UNC, both excellent schools. Miami was crossed off the list because of lower academics and not really the college experience she/they want to have.

 

[Umbra]

Raised my son to be a Cane fan, he's 22, we went to several games together including the ND game in '17, then he went to and graduated from UGA, still pulls for the Canes, but now he lives and dies with the Dawgs, can't blame him.

Maybe you can get the grandkids into a team that has a chance at a ship, god willing...

 

[Canestomp]

One my teenagers (a soon-to-be an adult dud) is living in some alternate universe. She wanted to go to her homecoming dance in some high fashion dress. Said she thought it would be "iconic". I'm like:

You have to be at minimum reasonably popular among your peers first before you can be iconic. I never met or heard of an unpopular icon. Teenagers got it ***-backyards but they know everything.

 

[ItsAUThing.com]

I remember the first time I indulged myself in alcohol legally. I ended my night at the casino with 400 in my pocket. How it got there I have no idea.

Coconut Grove in 1995. Tore up Marino's and a few other spots. Tried to run through the glass of the Victoria's Secret in CocoWalk (to grab something for my lady at her dorm at Mahoney) but bounced right off.

Someone ordered Aguardiente or Sambuca shot and it was all over. My buddy drove my back to his place in Kendall, but not after a stop at Bennigan's to see some bartender friends. He got pulled over on way back—was sober—and it was a cop buddy of his; the two of them messing with me as I was throwing up all over the side of the road.

Foolishly didn't take the next day off of work, but they thankfully sent me home to rest up. Them's were the days.... had been casually drinking for a few years, but the night it became official it was wheels-off mode fast.

 

[MiamiCanesFan77]

This is why the obsession with trying to replicate everything from the glory years will hold the program back.

High school recruits today were not born and have no living memory of those glory years. They only know the likes of Michael Irvin, Ray Lewis, Warren Sapp, Ed Reed, etc. as old guys on TV or in coaching.

UM should celebrate its past, but don’t let it define their path forward.

 

[BS85]

Raised my son to be a Cane fan, he's 22, we went to several games together including the ND game in '17, then he went to and graduated from UGA, still pulls for the Canes, but now he lives and dies with the Dawgs, can't blame him.

CAN'T blame him.....CAN kick his ***

 

[paksat]

it's doing more damage to recruiting than almost anything

I remember in 2000 I heard about some team in miami was gonna be playing the florida gators in the sugar bowl. I was 13 at the time or 12 maybe, and I thought, "who the **** is in miami that has a college football team worth mentioning?"

I had literally no idea who the canes were and was only 6 years or so since they were last in a national championship? I knew full well all about nebraska, florida, florida state, TENN and considered all of them programs to be feared on game day. Had zero clue about the canes and their past championships and dominance. Now imagine it has been TWENTY ONE YEARS, these kids these days have ZERO clue unless they went on youtube and watched the 2001 games.