Every Miami season eventually reaches the same fork in the road, and 2021 got there early. Fans want a name to blame, and the easiest name is always the one holding the play sheet. Fire the coach, hire the guy, go win the ACC. It’s clean. It’s satisfying....
Somewhere between the third quarter and the final whistle of a 38-34 win over Pitt, the entire conversation around Miami football quietly flipped on its head. For two years, every argument in every barbershop, every group chat, every call-in show in Dade County...
There is a specific kind of misery that comes with being a Miami fan in late October, and it is not the misery of losing. Losing is easy. Losing you can metabolize on a Saturday night and be over by Sunday brunch. The misery is hope — the strange, unwelcome flicker...
Let’s cut through everything else swirling around this program for a second and sit with one fact: Miami’s quarterback went 25-of-33 for 325 yards and four touchdowns against the best defense in the ACC. Not a good defense. Not a scrappy defense. The...
Cane Nation, let’s stop dancing around it. Every week somebody puts up a graphic showing Miami’s defense ranked 39th in the country and tries to sell it as proof that things aren’t that bad. Thirty-ninth! Middle of the pack, respectable, a unit that...
