Uniforms and not names on Uniforms

[BooBoo]

The NFL changed with free agency. The way you identified with your team and the players on it changed as players moving from team to team became more common. Players even going to your rivals became something to adjust to. The transfer portal has brought this to college football in an even bigger way. Darrell Jackson Jr is an example of 3 schools in 3 years including going from being a Cane to our rival. How do you guys feel about this new era? Do you feel the loss of identifying with players being one of ours? You look at our history and the Canes we love. Now you get someone else's players and they get yours. I guess I am old and having a hard time adjusting. Imagine Ray Lewis transferred in from a rival and Ed Reed transferring in from LSU. Just feels dirty to even think about it. This is the new reality now. Am I in the minority here?

 

[SayWhat]

No, you're not in the minority.

Players are what made me a fan of this school. When they're coming, going, and only here for a minute, it's hard to develop favorites. Seeing someone develop from start to finish was also part of it.

One year rentals do nothing for me. Seems they're all chasing wins and the money. Maybe if we get to winning we'll have senior laden classes who've been here most of their time. Winning feels cheaper though when it's bought. Don't get me wrong, I'll take it, but it still feels cheap.

 

[Tru C]

It’s different but i have adjusted.

 

[TemplarCane]

No, but get used to it.

 

[TemplarCane]

No, you're not in the minority.

Players are what made me a fan of this school. When they're coming, going, and only here for a minute, it's hard to develop favorites. Seeing someone develop from start to finish was also part of it.

One year rentals do nothing for me. Seems they're all chasing wins and the money. Maybe if we get to winning we'll have senior laden classes who've been here most of their time. Winning feels cheaper though when it's bought. Don't get me wrong, I'll take it, but it still feels cheap.

Recruiting classes were bought as well. Now it’s out in the open.

Who I feel for is the lesser P5 or G5 programs who lose players they recruit and develop but don’t have the NIL infrastructure to prevent them from being poached.

 

[Bender]

Hey, it was never a problem when coaches did it or assistant coaches or Athletic directors did it.

Its a problem now when players do it.

Give me a break.

 

[ItsAUThing.com]

Recruiting classes were bought as well. Now it’s out in the open.

Who I feel for is the lesser P5 or G5 programs who lose players they recruit and develop but don’t have the NIL infrastructure to prevent them from being poached.

More the point of seeing someone develop start to finish, though.

There was something exciting about following a kid during recruiting, getting him to sign with Miami, watching him redshirt (or cut his teeth as a true freshman) and then the growth process over the coming years.

Look at an Ed Reed and Mike Rumph; learning the hard way in that loss to #2 Penn State and that 80-yard bomb in 1999—on the heels a r-freshman season for Reed in 1997 where for years he referenced 47-0 at Florida State and how that beat-down fueled his fire.

Big steps forward in 2000 and then it was Reed's team in 2001, while both guys balled out and played their way into the first round.

That've five years of those guys being vested in the Miami program—which will always mean more than a KJ Osborn or a Jaelan Phillps; both guys Canes who did some good things at UM, but they still spent the majority of their careers elsewhere and Miami was a second-choice for them later in their careers for a revamp.

Glad that for the sake of NFL rosters, both were drafted out of UM ... but those kind of one- or two-year dudes ain't the same as cats that picked the Canes from the start and spent their entire journey in the orange and green.

Still don't get original poster's point about names on the back of jerseys, or no names, though....

 

[TemplarCane]

More the point of seeing someone develop start to finish, though.

There was something exciting about following a kid during recruiting, getting him to sign with Miami, watching him redshirt (or cut his teeth as a true freshman) and then the growth process over the coming years.

Look at an Ed Reed and Mike Rumph; learning the hard way in that loss to #2 Penn State and that 80-yard bomb in 1999—on the heels a r-freshman season for Reed in 1997 where for years he referenced 47-0 at Florida State and how that beat-down fueled his fire.

Big steps forward in 2000 and then it was Reed's team in 2001, while both guys balled out and played their way into the first round.

That've five years of those guys being vested in the Miami program—which will always mean more than a KJ Osborn or a Jaelan Phillps; both guys Canes who did some good things at UM, but they still spent the majority of their careers elsewhere and Miami was a second-choice for them later in their careers for a revamp.

Glad that for the sake of NFL rosters, both were drafted out of UM ... but those kind of one- or two-year dudes ain't the same as cats that picked the Canes from the start and spent their entire journey in the orange and green.

Still don't get original poster's point about names on the back of jerseys, or no names, though....

True

 

[JTKoval]

Doesn’t bother me. It would bother me if we didn’t have any money. Let us buy more Alabama players. **** off Saban.

 

[BooBoo]

More the point of seeing someone develop start to finish, though.

There was something exciting about following a kid during recruiting, getting him to sign with Miami, watching him redshirt (or cut his teeth as a true freshman) and then the growth process over the coming years.

Look at an Ed Reed and Mike Rumph; learning the hard way in that loss to #2 Penn State and that 80-yard bomb in 1999—on the heels a r-freshman season for Reed in 1997 where for years he referenced 47-0 at Florida State and how that beat-down fueled his fire.

Big steps forward in 2000 and then it was Reed's team in 2001, while both guys balled out and played their way into the first round.

That've five years of those guys being vested in the Miami program—which will always mean more than a KJ Osborn or a Jaelan Phillps; both guys Canes who did some good things at UM, but they still spent the majority of their careers elsewhere and Miami was a second-choice for them later in their careers for a revamp.

Glad that for the sake of NFL rosters, both were drafted out of UM ... but those kind of one- or two-year dudes ain't the same as cats that picked the Canes from the start and spent their entire journey in the orange and green.

Still don't get original poster's point about names on the back of jerseys, or no names, though....

More the point of seeing someone develop start to finish, though.

There was something exciting about following a kid during recruiting, getting him to sign with Miami, watching him redshirt (or cut his teeth as a true freshman) and then the growth process over the coming years.

Look at an Ed Reed and Mike Rumph; learning the hard way in that loss to #2 Penn State and that 80-yard bomb in 1999—on the heels a r-freshman season for Reed in 1997 where for years he referenced 47-0 at Florida State and how that beat-down fueled his fire.

Big steps forward in 2000 and then it was Reed's team in 2001, while both guys balled out and played their way into the first round.

That've five years of those guys being vested in the Miami program—which will always mean more than a KJ Osborn or a Jaelan Phillps; both guys Canes who did some good things at UM, but they still spent the majority of their careers elsewhere and Miami was a second-choice for them later in their careers for a revamp.

Glad that for the sake of NFL rosters, both were drafted out of UM ... but those kind of one- or two-year dudes ain't the same as cats that picked the Canes from the start and spent their entire journey in the orange and green.

Still don't get original poster's point about names on the back of jerseys, or no names, though....

I agree. You follow a kid throughout their career and he is a Cane whether he becomes a star or not. You get to see the journey and you always see him as a Hurricane. This is what I meant by uniforms and not names on uniforms . We cheered for players we watched since the beginning wear the uniform, now it is becoming more about just cheering for the uniform and you identify less with the player. For instance we just got the kid from Alabama. Great get btw, but will you see him the same way you see Leon Searcy, Brett Romberg, or Joaquin Gonzalez etc...? In the end his career is way more Alabama than Hurricane. Just a different time and as a fan you have to adjust, but I would be lying if I said I did not enjoy it way more the old way. This is not a complaint against the players as another poster mentioned. These kids are getting opportunities the kids before did not get and good for them. Both things can be true. Players can have these opportunities to move schools and get NIL deals, but when they move around you will not identify them with a school the way you did before.

 

[TexasCane90]

No, you're not in the minority.

Players are what made me a fan of this school. When they're coming, going, and only here for a minute, it's hard to develop favorites. Seeing someone develop from start to finish was also part of it.

One year rentals do nothing for me. Seems they're all chasing wins and the money. Maybe if we get to winning we'll have senior laden classes who've been here most of their time. Winning feels cheaper though when it's bought. Don't get me wrong, I'll take it, but it still feels cheap.

I would agree but it seems like we’ll control our roster and our star players better… I’m a fan of Kitchens, LT and TVD we aren’t losing those players.

I think for programs like Pitt who lost Addison that’s a tough face of the program guy

 

[Angry Ibis]

Adapt or die… faster please Mario

 

[CaneinBroward]

The NFL changed with free agency. The way you identified with your team and the players on it changed as players moving from team to team became more common. Players even going to your rivals became something to adjust to. The transfer portal has brought this to college football in an even bigger way. Darrell Jackson Jr is an example of 3 schools in 3 years including going from being a Cane to our rival. How do you guys feel about this new era? Do you feel the loss of identifying with players being one of ours? You look at our history and the Canes we love. Now you get someone else's players and they get yours. I guess I am old and having a hard time adjusting. Imagine Ray Lewis transferred in from a rival and Ed Reed transferring in from LSU. Just feels dirty to even think about it. This is the new reality now. Am I in the minority here?

It sucks, but that's the way it is. The mystical aura of "amateurism" is officially gone. College basketball has been like this for even longer with the whole "one and done" phenomenon and all. You just root for the uniform now because players are even more transitory now.

 

[Canedude08]

You root for the School and the athletes wearing the uniform now. Let's cut the nonsense, once coaches and administrators started making more than University Presidents and entire academic departments, the myth of amateurism was gone forever. I will NEVER have a problem with young men, a good chunk of whom come from awful situations being able to benefit fully from their talents. Choice is good for everyone else, but when the talent starts having options, people start wringing their hands.

I'm loyal to the University of Miami, PERIOD. I wish the student athletes on campus the best, because as an alum, I believe that being a 'Cane can be life changing, and I want those student athletes to have the same great experience I had as a student. That said, if they choose to leave, then so be it. It's their choice.

 

[Brains]

My fandom is for the Miami Hurricanes. It is not, and has never been, based on any single player.

I root for whoever is weaing that shirt. Once they are gone, they're gone.

 

[406Cane]

 

[ben]

I’ll root for any Cane who transfers out as long as it is not to UF, FSU, Notre Dame or Ohio State.

 

[Rellyrell]

My fandom is for the Miami Hurricanes. It is not, and has never been, based on any single player.

I root for whoever is weaing that shirt. Once they are gone, they're gone.

Say it louder for the ppl in the back. That’s y I hate the stalking of former players.

Although, on the other hand b/c of the era I grew up in, I could never imagine Bird in a Lakers uniform or vise versa for Magic, or MJ in a Pistons uniform & vice versa for Thomas. Nor could I imagine The Playmaker transferring to FSU or Deion to Miami.

There’s a weird element when kids transfer to a rival school, not transferring in general, but literally transferring to the opps. That part kinda chaps my hide, but Idgaf about them if they do that. Just get that degree & don’t trick off an opportunity.

I’m not the “wishing well” type when a kid leaves the program, but I also wish no ill as I hope all of these young men utilize a true blessing to play a sport w/ the possibility of making millions, & if that don’t pan out, using a degree to make a nice living. That’s the extent of my concern if they leave here.

 

[2xbamm]

How do I feel?

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