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The defining "We Back" game

Trav said:
We lost to Washington because Butch and Coker prepped and called an absolutely abysmal game. Some awfull officiating as well, but our coaches did not have their best game.
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While true, one has nothing to do with the other. Nate could have been that difference on defense.
 
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I think a lot of fans use the 98 UCLA game as the “turning point” game but honestly, the 1999 season kind of felt like more of the same. 4 losses, including one to East Carolina and a curb stomp from Virginia Tech kept Miami in that “pretty good but not great” range that they spent most of the 90’s in. Towards the end of the year, when Dorsey started looking comfortable at QB, you could see something brewing though.
 
ItsAUThing.com said:
Agree. 1999 was close, but not there—as proven by the way some of those games went. Team grew up fast after that 2000 road loss to Washington—as well as when a second half lead slipped away against Florida State. Once the Canes got that Noles monkey off their back. they came alive.

****, CBS announcers were even referring to Jeremy Shockey as Ivan Mercer on that final game-winning drive, had Shock hadn't become a household name yet and replaced Mercer late in the contest—again, Canes literally growing up in real time on October 7th, 2000 and breaking that five-game losing streak. It was ON after that moment.
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Sitting in the west end zone with no replay screens, I thought it was Mercer who caught the go ahead touchdown pass. I had no idea it was 88 and not 86 on the far end of the field.
 
We arrived game.
Penn State 1981.
Biggest win in program history up until that point.

The ulimate We back game. Easy!
1998 UCLA
Everyone saw what was coming on that glorious afternoon in the OB.

From 2000 to 2002
No college football team has ever been better.
2000 BCS screwed us out of a title game.
2001 enough said
2002 Terry Potter. Still salty.

Those 3 squads were the greatest teams ever assembled. As much as I despised Butch as a game day coach. That man is responsible for putting together the grearest assembly of talent college football has ever seen and for that, he must be respected!

Let's see what kind of magic Mario and Rad can drum up. For the first time in a very long time. The future looks bright again for our Miami Hurricanes!

Go Canes!!!!!
 
ItsAUThing.com said:
Well put.

I'm shocked how many cite that Notre Dame game in 2017 as anything more than what it really was. The Irish are always overrated, play nobody and they were the perfect mark for that night game at that point of the year.

That entire 2017 season was a fugazi, for any who had the wherewithal to break down each game instead of focusing on that 10-0 overall record—which wound up 10-3, just as easily as 10-0 could've been 6-4.

Needed a last-gasp miracle to survive an eventual 7-6 Florida State team.

Needed a 4th-and-10 grab to set up a game-winning kick again an eventual 5-6 Georgia Tech squad.

Needed late score to put away eventual 4-8 Syracuse.

Needed late fumble recovery to escape a 1-7 North Carolina squad that finished 3-9.

Canes caught two well-timed home night games back-to-back—pulling away from Hokies late and then riding GameDay high into crushing Irish. Following week, two separate 14-point holes dug against Virginia squad that finished 6-7.

Choked away first undefeated regular season since 2002 when losing to a then 4-7 Pittsburgh team that was playing for pride, as bowl eligibility wasn't even an option—en route to a 10-1 season.

The Canes were nowhere near *back* in 2017—proven by Clemson kicking ****s in 38-3 and Wisconsin with a double-digit win after Miami blew an early 14-3 lead (outscored 31-10 from that point.)



As for the BACK question; when Miami's two-deep is loaded and this team passes the eye and roster test, the Canes will be back—as the ACC is ripe for the taking and it'll soon be UM's when there is talent spread across the roster and not just at certain positions—not to mention quality coaches who ensure the Canes don't roll into Tallahassee, with eight first quarter penalties or a 4th-and-14 brain fart that costs Miami a game against a bunch of losers that had won six games in two years, so jazzed by this sad win their quarterback made t-shirts and sold them on his website #4thAnd14.
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The thing about 2017 was that it was so easy to picture how we’d be able to win those games easily the next year. Yeah that team was super lucky, but you had to see how building on that just a little bit would have lead to a really good football team the next year.
 
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88 said:


This was the back statement. Someone convince me otherwise. The goosebumps hearing this high as **** after that game was sports heaven
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I prefer Rohan's rendition but this was also pretty profound. Love the emotion.
 
88 said:


This was the back statement. Someone convince me otherwise. The goosebumps hearing this high as **** after that game was sports heaven
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I have nominated this game as a contender for favorite game I have attended and I have attended many, many games
 
Trav said:
I think you answered your own question. It's never a singular game, as the 99' kickoff classic and 2017 ND game show. It has to persist. To that end I do think the 2000 FSU game got the program over a psychological hump and paved the runway for the next few years of dominance.
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The FSU game for sure for me
 
Back? At a minimum win the ACC championship. The standard is winning it all. The Natty, being the King…
 
We're back when we waltz into A&M as double-digit underdogs, win outright, parlay that with a trip to the inferior Death Valley and stomp on Clemson's logo with a 2 TD win.

F^ck Jimbo and especially f^ck Dabo; I want him on his knees begging for the Bammer job after we bathe in his tears. Never forget him cutting the chain; I want that rock spray painted in orange and green.
 
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