Eat My Sports: Orange crushed
The end of an era. The Orange Bowl was the Miami Hurricane's fortress. The brotherhood of football players that had perhaps the most dominant home field advantage in college football over the past 30 years, had their home destroyed by UVA 48-0 on Saturday night. Granted, I am a supporter of the Wahoos, but pretty much anyone who follows college football got a good laugh of seeing the most dominant force in NCAAF in the past 20 plus years be humiliated in its last game at their historic stadium.
It was more than a game. UVA's thrashing of the 'Canes' home was pretty much a metaphor for what is going to happen to the stadium after the season. Implosion, explosion, they all seem to be justifiable metaphors at this point.
But from an outsider's perspective, the downfall of the Hurricanes' football program as well as their daunted home field advantage was a long time coming. Their brash and arrogant attitude as well as disrespect towards the most able of athletes (Doug Flutie ring a bell to any of you Floridians?), led to a dismantling within six years of the most epic proportions.
Since 2001's Ken Dorsey led national champions, the Hurricanes suffered an overtime loss to Ohio State in 2002 and haven't returned to a BCS Bowl Game since. After having won five championships in 18 years up to the 2001 season, the recent Miami decline has been a breath of fresh air, and smells, well not like roses, but a welcome smell of rotting oranges.
When you beat up your opponents with absolutely no respect, karma, well, it's a mother (See New York Yankees). So really, to see the Orange Bowl go, it's not tragic, it's fitting. Or rather, for once, putting the Hurricanes in their (new) place.
It was more than a game. UVA's thrashing of the 'Canes' home was pretty much a metaphor for what is going to happen to the stadium after the season. Implosion, explosion, they all seem to be justifiable metaphors at this point.
But from an outsider's perspective, the downfall of the Hurricanes' football program as well as their daunted home field advantage was a long time coming. Their brash and arrogant attitude as well as disrespect towards the most able of athletes (Doug Flutie ring a bell to any of you Floridians?), led to a dismantling within six years of the most epic proportions.
Since 2001's Ken Dorsey led national champions, the Hurricanes suffered an overtime loss to Ohio State in 2002 and haven't returned to a BCS Bowl Game since. After having won five championships in 18 years up to the 2001 season, the recent Miami decline has been a breath of fresh air, and smells, well not like roses, but a welcome smell of rotting oranges.
When you beat up your opponents with absolutely no respect, karma, well, it's a mother (See New York Yankees). So really, to see the Orange Bowl go, it's not tragic, it's fitting. Or rather, for once, putting the Hurricanes in their (new) place.
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posted by Bryan Schools at
5:47 PM
1 Comments:
As a football fan, I must say that Miami was totally screwed over in that overtime loss back in 2002. As a UVa fan, I can only hope that the Cavs bring that same game to the field come the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We don't need them to RRoD before or during that game.
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Chris 'Chugs' Taylor, at 6:06 PM
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