Was it over when the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor?

NO!, and it’s not over now!! (Don’t stop me, I’m on a roll)

The U, the Mighty Miami Hurricanes traveled to the #2 team in the country, played them in front of over 105,000 fans and (gulp) lost. I’ve heard some grumblings already about Jacory Harris not the answer at QB and Coach Randy Shannon’s seat should be warming up, and it’s all nonsense!

This team, being built back up after the devastation caused by Larry Coker, is growing up and maturing in front of our very eyes. The leaders of this team are TRUE, 3rd year juniors, where most teams are lead by 4th year players. AND they held their own last night.

They didn’t get their doors blown off (like our in-state and conference rivals in the state capital) and were in the game most of the night. The offense stalled a bit and there were the 4 interceptions thrown by Jacory. 1 was a great defensive play, 1 the receiver went to block, 1 went through the receiver’s hands, and 1 the RB stopped. I’d blame his for 2.

The defense played extremely well I thought for most of the game. Showed great improvement but unfortunately had to defend a short field most of the night. The one downfall, they failed to create any turnovers.

What I’d like to see moving on, is more running out of the gate. Use the run, with our impressive stable of running backs, to set up the pass. That will create more one-on-ones and mismatches for the receiver. But I would definitely like to see at least 40 runs per game.

Going forward, we have no other games on the schedule where we should be an underdog. We’re at Pitt next game, we should win. Then we go to Clemson, they don’t have Spiller anymore and although toughest game left on schedule, we can win that one. Then the ‘Noles come a calling….they still dont play defense. After that, we travel to Duke, and well, it’s not basketball season. Then our toughest challenge left, our achilles heal (no pun intended) as Butch and the TarHeels come calling, we have a much better talent level, they’ll be missing some stars still, so lets say these boys buck up and get the Butch monkey off Coach Shannon’s back. Then we have games with Virginia and Maryland, goes without saying. We’ll go to GaTech, and we learned last year how to attack that triple option. Now the Chokies come to town, and they dont look so big and bad anymore, do they. Finally, we get the Bulls (not the ones with Coach Ernie Denardo) and that one should go our way as well…

There you go fellas…an 11-1 season. Then the ACC Championship game and an Orange Bowl bid. Still puts us on pace for the National Title run next season…This team is playing parallel to the rebuilding teams of the late 90′s. Last year would have been our ’99 team. This year is going to be like the 2000 team, and next year, Number 6 anyone?!

So, that’s it Canes fans…get your heads up…we lost, but played WITH the #2 team in the country, and lost…BFD..Would you rather be FSU right now? Va Tech? No thanks..I’ll take Jacory, Coach Shannon, and the C-A-N-E-S, CANES!