Miami’s Real Problem in Chapel Hill Isn’t Drake Maye — It’s That the Canes Keep Playing Not to Lose

Let’s cut through it. Every time Miami loads up the bus for Chapel Hill, the conversation gets pointed at the wrong end of the field. Drake Maye this, Drake Maye that. He’s a problem, sure. But North Carolina isn’t the reason Miami keeps walking off...

The Kneel-Down Is a Culture Test, and Miami Just Failed It

Every football program has a handful of moments where nothing about the sport is actually hard. The ball is in your hands. The other team has no timeouts. The clock is the only opponent left, and the clock is on your side. You take a knee, you shake hands, you get on...

Nobody Beats a 4-0 Team Twice: Why This Georgia Tech Blackout Is Really a Test of Miami’s New…

Four and oh. Ranked. Prime time on ESPN. Hard Rock draped in black. If you have been a Miami fan for any length of time, you know the exact shape of the anxiety that comes with a night like this, because you have lived it before and it did not always end the way the...

Miami’s Real Opponent in Philadelphia Isn’t Temple — It’s the Weather Report and the Mirror

3-0 changes what a game like this meansThere is a specific kind of Saturday that has haunted this program for a decade, and it does not look like Clemson or Georgia or anybody with a top-ten next to their name. It looks like a 3:30 kickoff on ESPN2 against a 1-2 team...

Three Receivers, One Football: Miami’s Real 3-0 Story Is a Distribution Problem Every Defense Now…

Let’s get the easy part out of the way. Miami is 3-0. The scoreboard readings — 38, 48, 48 — look like something out of a video game season on rookie difficulty. Bethune-Cookman got walked over 48-7, and the loudest complaint you could find anywhere in...