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ShadowSpring

ShadowSpring

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Thru most of my lifetime we've typically been the team everyone feared and the team whom should win championship games. Today we are a bit overmatched on paper, and facing the defending champs. This kind of reminds me of the 1984 Orange Bowl but that squad wasn't overmatched. Maybe the 1999 or 2000 Miami vs FSU games. Bobby had em rolling back then and we were the plucky hunter looking to make a move. Maybe the 1981 Penn State upset?

We aren't supposed to be here. We aren't supposed to win. Gonna make all the sweeter tonight.
 
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Favella12 said:
I hear you, but we are not overmatched! We match up very well with this squad, man to man. I expect a victory and it will not be some sort of miracle. ***** the national media and the naysayers, lets fuccin show them what we already know, this team is not to be messed with!
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My friend they have 11 5* players and a blue chip ration of 89%. We are at 64%. They've got more to work with, and a loss tonight is a huge failure for them and their beard dying ****y piercing corch. On paper we are probably the 7th or 8th most talented team. We've got more to do to close the gap, we need a brilliant scouting department to find more kids like Kieonte Scott and Baby Jesus. Or we need to just get more 5* players. We did just beat a squad with a 82% blue chip ratio on the road. So yeah we can get it tonight for sure and got something for the frontrunning turncoats.....
 
ShadowSpring said:
My friend they have 11 5* players and a blue chip ration of 89%. We are at 64%. They've got more to work with, and a loss tonight is a huge failure for them. On paper we are probably the 7th or 8th most talented team. We've got more to do to close the gap, we need a brilliant scouting department to find more kids like Kieonte Scott and Baby Jesus. Or we need to just get more 5* players. We did just beat a squad with a 82% blue chip ratio on the road. So yeah we can get it tonight for sure and got something for the frontrunning turncoats.....
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Stars can’t measure heart and this team has it in spades. We’ve got more than a punchers chance to beat those arrogant *****.
 
423Hurricane said:
Stars can’t measure heart and this team has it in spades. We’ve got more than a punchers chance to beat those arrogant *****.
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Yes and that's the point of this post. We've done this in the past. 2000 Miami vs FSU and 1981 Penn State game. That's probably the closest thing. We lost a few games prior and everyone wrote us off, but we settled it on the football field.
 
I love boxing analogies… so I kinda look at Barrera v. Hamed. Hamed was overwhelming favorite and was seen as explosive (wrs). Barrera had been at the top of the mountain before, but had fallen off with losses to Junior Jones (x2) and Morales and was seen as a NAME opponent for Hamed.

But a funny thing happened that night. Barrera came out as a greater than 3-1 dog and pulled off the upset. It wasn’t a knockout, but a systematic breakdown (think trench play).

@k9cane - what other boxing analogies you got?
 
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ShadowSpring said:
My friend they have 11 5* players and a blue chip ration of 89%. We are at 64%. They've got more to work with, and a loss tonight is a huge failure for them and their beard dying ****y piercing corch. On paper we are probably the 7th or 8th most talented team. We've got more to do to close the gap, we need a brilliant scouting department to find more kids like Kieonte Scott and Baby Jesus. Or we need to just get more 5* players. We did just beat a squad with a 82% blue chip ratio on the road. So yeah we can get it tonight for sure and got something for the frontrunning turncoats.....
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Smh 🤦🏾‍♂️
This guy is talking about stars
Guys got rated high just cause of the school they’re committing to. This is going to change for Miami soon as we get more guys developed and drafted, but right now, guys are still dropping when they commit to Miami. Even guys at positions we have proven to develop at drop the day after committing lmao. No big difference between the ratios honestly because of the portal and bias views from the dweebs ranking players who never played a down of football in their lives.
 
Hoyacane1620 said:
You cannot quantify HEART
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ShadowSpring said:
My friend they have 11 5* players and a blue chip ration of 89%. We are at 64%. They've got more to work with, and a loss tonight is a huge failure for them and their beard dying ****y piercing corch. On paper we are probably the 7th or 8th most talented team. We've got more to do to close the gap, we need a brilliant scouting department to find more kids like Kieonte Scott and Baby Jesus. Or we need to just get more 5* players. We did just beat a squad with a 82% blue chip ratio on the road. So yeah we can get it tonight for sure and got something for the frontrunning turncoats.....
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Gotta believe!

Jason Sudeikis Good Luck GIF by Apple TV+

You got Indiana running around with a talent composite in the 70s, can't be shook by a few extra blue chips
 
Idk why yall responding the way you are.

ON PAPER, we are underdogs. Blue chip ratio, Vegas betting line, media predictions, etc. A majority of America expects Ohio State to win this game. Fighting back at this notion above is childish.

With that said, as OP has recognized, games are not played on paper. On the field answers all questions. He was pointing out scenarios where we have actually won as underdogs, and even hinted at him expecting we win.

But yet 80% of responses want to focus on how we aren't underdogs. We are man, no matter how much you, as a Miami hurricanes fan, may think.

Upsets happen and underdogs win a lot in sports. This OP seems to be trying to rally the board and hype yall up behind the underdog storyline and yall are like no we aren't lol. Cmon...
 
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Da Jumbo Mutombo said:
Idk why yall responding the way you are.

ON PAPER, we are underdogs. Blue chip ratio, Vegas betting line, media predictions, etc. A majority of America expects Ohio State to win this game. Fighting back at this notion above is childish.

With that said, as OP has recognized, games are not played on paper. On the field answers all questions. He was pointing out scenarios where we have actually won as underdogs, and even hinted at him expecting we win.

But yet 80% of responses want to focus on how we aren't underdogs. We are man, no matter how much you, as a Miami hurricanes fan, may think.

Upsets happen and underdogs win a lot in sports. This OP seems to be trying to rally the board and hype yall up behind the underdog storyline and yall are like no we aren't lol. Cmon...
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You articulated this better than me, Thanks

Go Canes!!
 
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