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Touchdown Tommy?

cowboycane said:
Corny as ****, always felt like we were just trying to be more like a big state school. That and signing Alma Mater after the game (which I believe wasn't even a thing until Shannon took over), which always felt fake...maybe because we lost so much.
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Howard Schnellenberger started the tradition on 1981.
 
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SWFLCane said:
Just looked it up. I was half wrong. A guy did sue the frat for injuries, but it was in 2013, and I know I’ve heard the cannon since then.
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It's just your imagination. Beta Blake got rid of the cannon within a year of that incident.
 
caneingville said:
The Alma Mater did not start with Shannon. It is another one of UM’s oldest traditions and has been around forever.

Here’s some history:

news.miami.edu

Alma Mater, Stand Forever

Profile of Alma Mater writers
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All I know is when I was a student there, we never sang it after games when Coker was coach and then started singing it when Shannon took over, don't know what to tell ya.
 
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caneingville said:
You do realize UM is a university, right? We have things like homecoming and traditions and all the same things that other schools have too? We aren’t trying to be “like a big state school” by having these things. Private schools can have traditions too. We aren’t an NFL team.
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I went there, so did my parents. I was a P100, student government, whole shebang...loved the place, went to every game, got there early, stayed until they kicked me out, my dog is named after the Orange Bowl.

I like all the traditions, except these 1 or 2...one of which I don't even buy as an actual tradition.

Was Alonzo Highsmith holding his finger up in the air in front of the student section after games and singing the alma mater?
 
cowboycane said:
I went there, so did my parents. I was a P100, student government, whole shebang...loved the place, went to every game, got there early, stayed until they kicked me out, my dog is named after the Orange Bowl.

I like all the traditions, except these 1 or 2...one of which I don't even buy as an actual tradition.

Was Alonzo Highsmith holding his finger up in the air in front of the student section after games and singing the alma mater?
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Bull****.

And "yes" to your ridiculous question. I was there.
 
It’s wild and sad how many of our fans don’t know and don’t care about Miami’s traditions. First page of this thread is beyond pathetic.

If it wasn’t answered already, some loser sued the school in the mid 2010s and then it vanished
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Nope. No. Not letting you get past with this one.

Singing the alma mater has ALWAYS been a thing at football games. I've been doing it since the 1980s, when JJ was the coach and Jankovich was the AD, neither of whom are UM alums.

You may not have noticed it in the old Orange Bowl, because the players always went over to the student section to sing. Perhaps it is more obvious in Joe Robbie Stadium (yeah, I'm going old school), but we have been doing this long before Randy Shannon.
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Yeah, we were taught about it at orientation in the early '90's, not to memorize the alma mater, but to know to point to the sky and sway back and forth. As far as I know, every school plays their alma mater after games.

Frankly, if traditions like Touchdown Tommy and the alma mater after games is not your cup of tea, college football probably isn't for you. The NFL is a better choice, but make sure you pick the right teams to follow because a lot of them have fight songs and traditions as well.
 
cowboycane said:
I went there, so did my parents. I was a P100, student government, whole shebang...loved the place, went to every game, got there early, stayed until they kicked me out, my dog is named after the Orange Bowl.

I like all the traditions, except these 1 or 2...one of which I don't even buy as an actual tradition.

Was Alonzo Highsmith holding his finger up in the air in front of the student section after games and singing the alma mater?
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Yes, Alonzo did the alma mater, as did his teammates. As do all the players after every game. Plenty of video evidence to prove it.

Sounds like maybe you either were too drunk to remember, didn’t stay until the end of the actual games, or perhaps didn’t even go to the games. But it happened, and still does until this day.

Have some pride, dude. And don’t step on the seal in front of the UM Bookstore.
 
cowboycane said:
All I know is when I was a student there, we never sang it after games when Coker was coach and then started singing it when Shannon took over, don't know what to tell ya.
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With all due respect, that's complete bull****. We sung alma mater after games, and I was there during the Coker AND Shannon eras(My senior walk was the last game in the OB, FYI).

Now, the actual team sticking around to sing was a relatively new thing(Coker's guys stopped doing it, and Shannon wanted to reestablish the tradition, because as an alum, he found it disrespectful for guys to be heading to the locker room while it was playing)
 
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caneingville said:
Yes, Alonzo did the alma mater, as did his teammates. As do all the players after every game. Plenty of video evidence to prove it.

Sounds like maybe you either were too drunk to remember, didn’t stay until the end of the actual games, or perhaps didn’t even go to the games. But it happened, and still does until this day.

Have some pride, dude. And don’t step on the seal in front of the UM Bookstore.
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Likely never stayed until the end of games. It's a telltale sign. If you stayed until the end, you've been exposed to Alma Mater. The running joke has always been that alma mater is sung after games, merely to see who's too drunk to drive, because there's always some people that are off beat as F. How difficult is it to stay on beat with one finger in the air? Just do what everyone else is doing.
 
caneingville said:
Yes, Alonzo did the alma mater, as did his teammates. As do all the players after every game. Plenty of video evidence to prove it.

Sounds like maybe you either were too drunk to remember, didn’t stay until the end of the actual games, or perhaps didn’t even go to the games. But it happened, and still does until this day.

Have some pride, dude. And don’t step on the seal in front of the UM Bookstore.
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I will say this.

In the old Orange Bowl, for the student section, the cheerleaders were the "official" leaders of the song. I'm not sure if every single football player participated after every single game, but most did. You would see the handshakes, and the prayer circles and whatnot. But I remember plenty of games where it was nearly every player on the sidelines joining in to sing.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
I will say this.

In the old Orange Bowl, for the student section, the cheerleaders were the "official" leaders of the song. I'm not sure if every single football player participated after every single game, but most did. You would see the handshakes, and the prayer circles and whatnot. But I remember plenty of games where it was nearly every player on the sidelines joining in to sing.
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Well, even in recent years, you can still hear it on TV. And I can’t remember who it was now, but in a somewhat recent year a player was being interviewed after the game and rushed the interview so he could join the team to do the alma mater (someone else may remember but it was some big win or comeback - but I don’t think it was Cam last year, maybe a few years earlier?).

The dude in question above did mention something about staying “until they kicked [him] out” of games. So I guess we know what his priorities really were.
 
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