TheMatador
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~~Calling Miami racist because of something that happened over 70 years ago, when Miami was a completely different place, basically a backwater no different than the rest of the Deep South. Practically no diversity, like the area Notre Dame is in TODAY.
Since then, as has already been pointed out, Miami was the first of the schools in the old south to have African American scholarship players. Significantly before Florida, Alabama and the rest of the SEC. Know your history.
I’ll match up Miami today against ND in terms of inclusiveness and global diversity. Not even a contest.
What happened 70 years ago?Their hate goes back to '85 or '86. Their bitterness goes back to our 58-7 victory over them after Gerry Faust was fired but still coaching. They felt we ran up the score and showed no mercy on their poor, miserable sad sack coach. I think in one of our earlier games in that decade they claimed we taunted their players.
JJ said we would keep passing if they were going to blitz. They claimed we ran up the score and should have run the ball. I think our last TD was on a blocked punt when Bill Hawkins recovered in the end zone. Somebody said later we only had ten on the field at the time.
By the way, you're very wrong about Miami being just like the rest of the South. It was much more tolerant, generally integrated schools fairly smoothly without the kind of disruption and antagonism that happened some other real southern communities, had far less segregation ( notice I said far less, not that it didn't exist.) When George Smathers smeared Claude Pepper out of his Senate seat in 1948 (as I recall) Pepper went south and ran successfully for Congress from the Miami area term-after-term. Miami was populated early on with a lot of northerners and others who had no sympathy for the racist values and attitudes of the Old South. Incidentally, some of the worst racism I ever heard came out of the mouth of some whites from Boston.
1950. The Red Pepper/Smathers race was in 1950. I have a chapter on it in my dissertation.
That's great! What's the subject of your dissertation?