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Deep In The Heart of Texas (A&M)

On Saturday your University of Miami Hurricanes will travel deep into the heart of Texas and into College Station to take on the Aggies of Texas A&M.

According to all of the stats, recent games and the experts, this is a game the Canes should win. But with the Canes offense seemingly on a respirator (according to some fans), many are saying: "Not so fast my friend".

Can Miami score early?  Can they score often?  Can they score at all?  Well this blog says they can and they will. We are predicting Canes victory: UM 34, TAMU 13.

We expect second year Offensive Coordinator Patrick NIx and his offense to start the new season (the real season starts NOW!) with an explosion of offensive productivity and points. 

Robert Marve starts his second game as a UM QB. 

Aldarius Johnson now starts at WR.

Travis Bejamin will return kicks along with Brandon Harris. 

Thearon Collier will return punts. 

All this adds up to more promise, points, and positive outcomes.  The future for your Miami Hurricanes is now.  Don't blink this Saturday, you might miss it...

THE GAME
• Miami comes off a bye week and takes to the road for the second time this season traveling to College Station, Texas to face Texas A&M in a regionally-televised game. It will be the Hurricanes' first trip to Kyle Field.
• The Hurricanes look to bounce back after falling to then No. 5 Florida, 26-3, on the road in "The Swamp." Miami held Florida to nine points through the first three quarters before the Gators scored 17 points in the final 13 minutes. UM's defense limited UF to just 89 yards rushing.
• Redshirt freshman quarterback Robert Marve will make his second collegiate start on the road against the Aggies. Marve completed 10-of-18 passes for 69 yards in his first start at Florida.
• The Hurricanes and the Aggies both enter the contest 1-1. In two games, Miami has scored 55 total points while the Aggies have put up 42 points. UM will likely be without the services of junior running back Javarris James, who suffered a high ankle sprain against Florida. Sophomore Graig Cooper has gained 53 yards on 19 carries.

THE OPPONENT
• Texas A&M also enjoyed a bye week fresh off a 28-22 win at New Mexico two Saturdays ago. Backup quarterback Jerrod Johnson completed 10-of-19 passes for 124 yards and threw three touchdown passes and the Aggie defense held off a fourth quarter rally in A&M's first win of the season.
• Quarterback Stephen McGee has completed 68.8 percent of his passes going 22-of-32 for 190 yards in the first two games. Mike Goodson is the leading rusher with 133 yards (4.4 yards per rush) on 30 carries and two TD's. RS Freshman receiver Ryan Tannehill has caught eight passes for 116 yards.
• Defensively, the Aggies are led by linebacker Matt Featherston with a team-high 25 tackles and defensive lineman Michael Bennett with 17 tackles.

THE SERIES
• The all-time series between the Hurricanes and the Aggies is tied, 1-1. Texas A&M won the first meeting between the two schools in 1944 with a 70-14 win in the Orange Bowl but the Hurricanes returned the favor last season with a 34-17 win on a Thursday night ESPN game in Miami on Sept. 20.

The Off Topic Blog

OK, here it is, back by popular demand is the seldom used and often requested "Off Topic Blog".

On this blog and this blog ONLY you can post your thoughts about politics, religion, the economy, the Iraq war and other issues of the day.  Just be civil and respect other's rights to their opinions. 

The NO profanity and NO personal attack rules still apply.

DISCLAIMER: Canespace is a University of Miami sports blog and in no way condones or endorses the opinions of the bloggers expressed here on the Off Topic Blog.

This Week On The Space

On the Road at TAMU: Canespace will once again be "on the road" this week as we bring you first-hand, on-site coverage of the Miami-Texas A&M game from College Station.  MiamiMike01, who developed our Canespace MySpace page, and his father, old skool Hurricane RandyCane, will be attending the game and reporting via words and photos all of the weekend's events.  MM01 will be at the UMAA pre-game party with UM President Donna Shalala, UM AD Kirby Hocutt, UMAA president Jackie Nesperal (NBC6 Anchor in Miami), the UM cheerleaders, band and other Canes fans.

Live Chats: The hardest working man in sports writing, Manny Navarro from the Miami Herald, will be holding his regular weekly LIVE chat at the Eye On The U blog sometime between 1 PM and 3 PM.  Log on, log in and get the news U can use from "The Mandingo" who leaves no scrap of information left unturned.  Manny will also try to stop by The Space to answer your questions LIVE on Wednesday or Thursday between 4-6 PM after UM practice if time allows.

Hotel Reservations: If you haven't made your reservations at The Hampton Inn-Plantation yet, you need to get off the couch and on your feet to get this done!  The Hampton Inn, which is located in lovely Plantation Florida, is not only the TOP RATED Hampton in the State but is also conveniently located 20 minutes from the stadium, next door to the Broward Mall and surrounded by top notch restaurants. Join me and other Canespacers at the #1 location in all of South Florida for tailgating, Canespace T-shirts and most of all EXCELLENT accommodations.

Calling all bloggers: We know that between 5,000 and 7,000 bloggers log into Canespace on a consistent, regular and daily basis. Yet, only 500 to 700 bloggers regularly post comments.  We are on a mission to increase the percentage of bloggers that post comments and get involved in the community known as Canespace.  If you are a reader ONLY we invite you to post your comments on the blog.  If you have any difficulty figuring out how to do that, please email me at [email protected] for assistance.

How The Competition Stacks up: Week Three

This is the latest installment of a NEW blog feature for 2008.  Each week we will be detailing how the teams that Miami will play this year fared against their previous opponent to determine how the competition that the Canes will face this season "stacks up". 

We will be rating the opposition in terms of difficulty using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane rating scale (1-5) based on each team's previous week's results.  Here are the week one results:

August 28 / Charleston Southern / Tropical Storm: Even though Charleston Southern led for most of their game they wound up losing to Miami of Ohio 38-27.  CSU is now 0-3 on the young season and has now lost to Miami (FL), Miami (OH) and Wofford. It's going to be along year for Charleston.

September 6 / Florida Gators / Category 5: The Gators, all fat and bloated after their big win over in-State rival Miami, did not play this week. Their next game is against Phil Fulmer and the Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville at 3:30 PM this Saturday.  As much as it pains me to say this: Go Gators.

September 20 / Texas A&M / Category 1: The Aggies were off this week.  They lost their opener to lowly Arkansas State and then beat New Mexico to even their 2008 season record at 1-1. Game time for the Canes and Aggies has been set for 3:30 EST and will be televised on ABC.  Both teams had a week off to prepare for each other so neither gained an advantage.  It says here that UM Offensive Coordinator Patrick "I got this" Nix will open up the offense and a major can of whoop @%# on Texas A&M. Canes win this game going away 37-13.

September 27 / North Carolina / Category 3: On Thursday night current UNC (2-0) Head Coach and former UM Head Coach Butch Davis schooled and embarassed current Rutgers (0-2) Head Coach and former UM Defensive Coordinator Greg Schiano by a score of 44-12.  Tar Heel QB TJ Yates threw three TDs and the UNC defense picked off four passes in the rout. As a result, UNC jumped up a category to a CAT 3 this week. Hey Schiano, how's life in Jersey these days?

October 4 / Florida State University / Category 3: The Noles beat up on poor little Chattanooga 46-7 this week.  FSU still has talent and a coach named Bowden so we gave them a very generous CAT 3 ranking. This season may be the Noles last hurrah for the Old Man as they face certain NCAA penalties beginning next year for several major infractions including a systematic test cheating scandal. 

October 11 / UCF / Category 1: UCF was off this week after looking horrible in their opener against South Carolina State and then losing in O/T to USF in week two going down the #17 ranked Bulls.  They next face Boston College on September 20.  This should be an easy win for Miami at TNP Stadium.

October 18 / Duke / Category 1: The Blue Devils sunk Navy 41-31.  This just in: Duke QB Thaddeus Lewis is good, really good. Lewis finished 25-of-35 passing for 317 yards and 3 TDs with zero interceptions.  Riley hauled in eight balls for 137 yards and all three TD tosses for the Blue Devils.  In the last two games against Navy, Lewis is combined for 48-of-71 passing for 745 yards and 7 TDs while Riley has combined for 14 catches for 372 yards and all seven of those touchdowns.

October 25 / Wake Forest  / Category 4: Sam Swank's 41-yard field with three seconds left gave No. 20 Wake Forest a thrilling 30-28 victory over Ole Miss in the Deacons home opener Saturday afternoon. The win was the 400th win all-time for the Wake Forest program.  Coach Grobe and the Deamon Deacons start the season at 2-0 heading into an ACC showdown with FSU on September 20th.   

November 1 / Virginia / Category 1: In week one Virginia got spanked by the mighty USC Trojans 52-7. This week they got whallopped by UConn 45-10.  Oh my!  Therefore, UVA drops to a weak CAT 1 storm while barely maintaining hurricane strength. 

November 13 / Virginia Tech / Category 2: Coach Beamer and the boyz beat Georgia Tech 20-17.  After losing to East Carolina 27-22 in week one the Hokies have won two in a row. The two Techs combined for 477 rushing yards on 96 attempts – 278 for the Yellow Jackets (2-1, 1-1 ACC) and 199 for the Hokies (2-1, 1-0 ACC) – in a game that saw only 23 passing attempts. And while the Hokies’ defense bent against the unfamiliar triple option offense – Georgia Tech’s Josh Nesbitt set a single-game school-record for quarterbacks with 151 rushing yards – it never broke and made its biggest play of the game late in the fourth quarter. Is Beamer ball back?  Not so fast my friend!  VT stays at a CAT 2 for this week but with some hope on the horizon. 

November 20 / Georgia Tech / Category 1: The Yellow Jackets lost to Virginia Tech 20-17.  New Head Coach, new offense and a lot of work to do.  We predict that the Canes will win this one in Hotlanta.

November 29 / NC State / Category1:  NC State lost to the other Bowden and his Clemson Tigers 27-9.  We continue to project an easy win to wrap up the season.

Short List To South Beach: Week 3

Week three of The Shortlist to South Beach finds the following teams already looking to next year in hopes of a better season that can end with championship recognition:

Miami (OH), Middle Tennessee, Army, SMU, Hawaii, Ohio, UAB, New Mexico, ULM, FIU, NI, WMU, ULL, FAU, UNT, Kent State, Idaho, Utah State, CSU, UTEP, VT, Pitt, Michigan, Miss. St., TAMU, Rutgers, SDSU, Memphis, Marshall, Temple, EMU, S. Miss., SJSU, Oregon St., CMU, Buffalo, WSU, UCF, Tulane, L-Tech, Houston, BGU, UNLV, Nevada, Toledo

Last week, four non-BCS schools once again found a way to avoid elimination from the Shortlist despite my calling for them to fall by the wayside.  The four fortunate programs still alive for an all-time shocker of a season are as follows:

Ball St., BYU, ECU, and Air Force

Those four schools pulled off upsets ranging from mild to eye opening and their victims are joined by another unfortunate program in exclusion from the Shortlist:

1) Navy finds it's way off the Shortlist thanks to a hard fought loss to Ball State.  The Cardinals were a program in crisis just one recruitng cycle ago, but Brady Hoke has them headed in the right direction during his tenure in Muncie.  They stay on the Shortlist for another week while the Middes sail away.

2) Washington suffers a defeat to BYU due to collusion from the infamous "Miami rule" excessive celebration penalty.  Ty Willingham needs all the breaks he can get but the NCAA in this case makes his job that much more untenable as the pressure mounts in Seattle for him to be replaced.  I still think this quality coach will find a way to turn around the Husky program but the clock is ticking on his tenure audibly.

3) West Virginia gets run off the Shortlist in embarrassing fashion as they fall to ECU and Louis "Skip" Holtz's Pirates by a three touchdown margin.  Once the premier Big East program after conference realignment, the Mountaineers may have just seen the first of many chinks in their program's armor being exposed.  With only USF as the standard bearer for the league it could be a rough season for the basketball conference with a BCS bid.  Another five loss champion may be in the cards at this rate for the Hurricane's old stomping grounds like in 2004.

4) Wyoming gets crushed by the Air Force Falcons in the second half at home in Laramie and finds themselves off the Shortlist quicker than a cowboy's rodeo ride.  The Cowboys usually enjoy a solid home field advantage but not in this case as they become another victim on Ken Calhoun's second tour of duty as head coach of the Falcons.  Last year Calhoun claimed to be scratching the wishbone of his mentor Fisher DeBerry only to do exactly the opposite.  This year he continues to attack with a strong rushing game that grinds the Cowboys championship hopes into dust.

5) Maryland gets caught looking ahead to a showdown with Cal and loses to Middle Tennessee St. on the road as the ACC absorbs another black eye on it's conference pride.  Ralph Friedgen got off to a hot start in College Park but the heat will be palpable if he isn't able to recover from this defeat and turn the season around there.  A win this week would more than recover any loss of prestige from last week but I'm not holding my breath in expectation of a miracle. Plus, that silly turtle looking thing they call a mascot annoys me beyond all comprehension.

These five teams join the teams listed above as being off the Shortlist.  I expect them to be joined by the following programs by Sunday:

Baylor, Duke, NCST, Ball St., S. Carolina, Rice, NMST, Ark. St., UVA, Fresno St.

Fresno State has the most to gain and lose this week as they face Wisconsin.  In 2001 a David Carr led Bulldog's team caught the college football public's eye by pulling off an upset that helped turn him into a number one pick and perfectly illustrated coach Pat Hill's, "Anyone, anytime, anywhere," philosophy.  Now they have a chance to collect another BCS school scalp and punch a hole in the Big Ten's tires.  I'll be rooting for them but they are a long shot to stay on the Shortlist after the final whistle sounds.  They might be out muscled but you can be sure they will not be intimidated.

50 teams are off the Shortlist to South Beach as it reads now, almost half of the roster of FBS schools.  The eliminations will slow this week before they begin to swell as conference play begins in full.  Enjoy the games this weekend and I'll be back next week to sort through the broken dreams and improbable stories next week on the Shortlist to South Beach.

Copyright 2008 by Christopher Whelpton for Canespace.com

LIVE Chat with Manny Navarro At 5 PM

The hardest working man in sports writing will be here on The Space at 5 PM to answer your questions LIVE and in real time.  Manny Navarro from the Miami Herald (the news paper with the BEST Hurricane sports coverage) will be logging in from The Hecht Center in lovely Coral Gables before and during the Canes practice today at Greentree Field.

Manny pulls no punches and hits hard so be ready to bring it!  So post your questions beginning at 4:30 PM and tune in at 5 PM for the rapid fire Q & A session! For more Manny, click on the links below:

Link to Manny's blog: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/umiami/

Link to Manny's LIVE chats (Tuesday's 1 PM): http://www.miamiherald.com/qna/forum/um_sports/index.html

Link to The Miami Herald's audio page: http://www.miamiherald.com/907/

Link to The Miami Herald recruiting page: http://www.miamiherald.com/recruiting/

UMAA Pre-Game Party: Gainesville Hilton

The University of Miami Alumni Association not only provides great benefits for UM grads but also organizes two away game events each football season. These events include a pre-game party, parking with round trip transportation and tickets to the game.  They are always well planned, very organized and extremly well run.  Patricia Brodeur (seen here with 86Cane), Andy Vittor and many others from the UMAA help coordinate these events and are on site to make sure everything runs according to plan.

In Gainesville the event was held at the Hilton Hotel on 34th street.  The hotel was elaborately decorated and the food and beverages were excellent!   The highlight of these events, apart from spending some quality time with other UM alumni and Hurricane friends, family and fans, is the appearence of UM President Donna Shalala (seen here with 86Cane and Canechic), Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt and the UM band of the hour and cheerleaders.

All of us who attended the event on behalf of Canespace wish to thank Tricia and Andy (seen here hard at work) and all of those who made the event possible.  Even though we were not able to come away with a victory over the dreaded Gators our "Canesville" experience was first class all the way! 

When is the next UMAA event for 2008 you ask? Why that would be the Texas A&M game.  If you are an Alumni and haven't been to one of these events you just have to go!  Canespacers will once again be present and covering the TAMU game for The Space through the UMAA.  Go Canes Beat Texas A&M!!!

SWAMP Things

Your Miami Hurricanes went deep into the hot and humid Swamp on Saturday night to take on the dangerous and dreaded Gators of the University of Florida. The Canes may have stumbled out of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium with a 26-3 loss but managed to gain some much needed national respect after giving the Gators and a record crowd of over 90,000 fans all they could handle through three quarters of football.

The Hurricane players and coaches and about 10,000 of their courageous fans showed that they were not afraid of the toothy and slimy reptiles as they walked into the swamp with their heads held high. Canespacers Keoki, Aqua, RaizeCane, AngryCane, Canechic (pictured here in her custom T), OcalaCane, myself (86Cane) and Carlos and his posse (among others) temporarily took control of Canesville by painting the town orange and green.

And, while the Hurricane faithful would not leave the swamp with the much coveted road victory over their arch rival, they would walk out of the stadium with faith, hope and confidence drawn from a tremendous effort that saw their team go deep into the fourth quarter against the #5 ranked Gators with a chance to win the game that all the "experts" said the Canes had no business even playing.

Red-shirt Freshman QB Robert Marve started his first game for "The (contrary to Louis Murphy's opinion one and only) U" and directed the Hurricane offense to only three points on this steamy September night in Gainesville. With the game plan on the sideline (Javaris James) the Canes offense failed to resort to or demonstrate that they had a "Plan B" and just couldn't muster enough offense or points to get it done.

The story of the night was the new and young Hurricane defense under the very talented orchestral direction of maestro Bill "Forever" Young.  First year UM defensive players Marcus Forston and Sean "Superman" Spence from MNWHS along with Brandon Harris and others played well.  Spence in particular looked like a ready for prime time player.  New starting DE Allen "Manimal" Bailey also played well and decked Tebow on at least one very special occasion.

When it was all said and done, the Canes first year Defensive Coordinator may have called the best game of his long coaching career as he limited the high flying Gators offense led by the recently anointed "Tebow of Nazareth" to a measly 9 points until around 8 minutes left in the fourth.

At that point, the Cane's offensive ineffectiveness and several consecutive three-and- outs led to a tired defense that could not withstand the continuous Gator attack. The Canes gave up 17 fourth quarter points and as Canes fans filed out of the stadium and onto the streets of Gainesville they realized that their team still had some work to do before competing on a national stage once again.

Now the Canes have a week off to learn, practice and improve before traveling to face the Aggies of Texas A&M on September 20.  We all expect better results on the next road trip and look forward to the team returning to South Florida with a 2-1 record for a date with ACC conference foe UNC and former UM Head Coach Butch Davis. 

Now, how much fun will that be?  We can't wait!   

Short List To South Beach II

How about that Mr. Football II?  The second team heavy blowout in Miami Gardens last week sets the stage for what for me is the game of the year in Gainesville this week as one of the nastiest rivalries in all of college football re-ignites for a rare showdown of Florida speed.  This game pits a heavily favored Gator team against an unproven Miami squad that most are giving next to no chance of even staying close, much less pulling the upset. 

I on the other hand are already on record and nothing I saw in week one has dissuaded me from standing by that prediction, I expect the Hurricanes to win a tight game in the final quarter of play by running the ball down a tired UF defense's throat as the Swamp gets eerily quiet.  If Steve Spurrier was still tossing visors on the sideline with abandonment I would be worried but Randy Shannon has beaten Urban Meyer on the recruiting trail and in a similar game last year on the road at Tallahassee Shannon was able to get the best of a better head coach in Bowden. 

After this week the score 48-0 is going to hurt a lot less for Hurricane fans while the number 23 will no longer signify the greatest basketball player ever for Gator boosters.

After one week of games, I'm proud to report that the following teams were correctly predicted by me as falling to the wayside in the race for one of the two coveted Shortlist to South Beach invites for the only game that matters in the new year:

Miami (OH), Middle Tennessee, Army, SMU, Hawaii, Ohio, UAB, New Mexico, ULM,
FIU, NI, WMU, ULL, FAU, UNT, Kent State, Idaho, Utah State, CSU.

Now that I've crowed sufficiently, I have to unfortunately report that I made an oversight last week and forgot to include another pick I had marked for exclusion, the Memphis Tigers.  After dropping a heated rivalry game to the hated Ole' Miss Rebels the Tigers are off the Shortlist even if I somehow overlooked recording my pick against them last week.  Regardless of my mistake, Houston Nutt knows what it takes to win in the SEC West and this rivalry game victory will keep the good feelings flowing in Oxford enough to drown out the bile being flung from Nutt's old stomping grounds following his acrimonious
departure there.

Seven teams beat the odds last week to stay on the Shortlist despite my calling for them to do otherwise.  The magnificent group reads as follows:

Buffalo, ECU, Bowling Green, Utah, L-Tech, Ark. St., Fresno St.

These non-BCS schools find themselves in an enviable position, as they stay alive with their slim hopes of pulling off a miracle crashing of the most exclusive party of all, the BCS title game.  But for every victor there stands a vanquished foe, which on the Shortlist to South Beach earns you a moment of infamy as you watch your championship dreams go up in smoke.  The teams out of the running without me calling for them to be in one week this year are:

1) UTEP - Mike Price gets run out of town by Turner Gill's Buffalo Bulls in a game that should have been much closer.  Price has rebounded from his exile by the Crimson Tide in El Paso with some impressive seasons, but his up and down career continues to see more reversals of fortune than that infamous
Scientologist John Travoltta's.  I expect them to rebound but the lopsided result last week was less than encouraging for the Miners.

2) Virginia Tech - A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!  They suck, I hate this school, their players, it's fan-base, it's head coach, it's play calling, everything Turkey.  I haven't had a Turkey on Thanksgiving or Christmas in I don't know how long out of protest and disdain for these jokers.  I considered calling for their elimination last week for a long time only to talk myself out of it until they were scheduled to travel to Nebraska, but I've never been so glad to be so wrong.  Good bye and good riddance to the most overrated "program" in college football.  Looks like that empty trophy case on campus is going to stay that way for another year suckers!

3) Pitt - Another team that was overrated for doing not much of anything in hindsight finds an embarrassing way of the Shortlist by falling at home while falling apart in the second half.  They play a power run game on offense that in theory should get stronger as the game grows longer but instead wilted when it counted.  If the 'Stash finds away to keep from getting shaven by season's end
I'll be mildly surprised now.

4) Michigan - Another year, another week one elimination for the Wolverines.  This is becoming a Shortlist tradition for these guys.  At least this wasn't a complete shock this year as Utah is a legitimate BCS threat again to break through the glass ceiling for the second time.  Rich Rodriguez suffered through a losing first season at West Virginia before putting the pieces together to
challenge for it all, given time he'll be able to do that again at the win-ingest school of all time by percentage, but the program might not be able to continue to claim that designation before that occurs.

5) Miss St. - I love the job Sylvester Croom has done in turning around a program that had the wheels completely off when he arrived despite trying extenuating circumstances, but a futile second half on the road has his Bulldogs off the Shortlist at the hands of Louisiana Tech.  I expect this fine head-coach
to have his Bulldogs back in the running to make some noise in his division but any hope for a championship will have to wait for the time being.

6) TAMU - This is the upset of week one. I thought A&M was in for a rough transition this year with their coaching and scheme changes, but to lose in College Station to Arkansas STATE by any margin is inexcusable.  They are done and the Mike Sherman hire has more questions than answers in my book from here on out.  They should have never forced out R.C. Slocumb but these wack-jobs have never been known for their sanity in their decision making process there, so you reap what you sow seems to be the lesson we can take from this.

7) Rutgers - Welcome back to the outhouse Greg Schianno, hope you enjoyed the view you almost got of the penthouse a few years ago because until your safely tucked away in Happy Valley you won't be seeing it again any time soon.  Losing to Pat Hill's Fresno State Bulldogs isn't the worst thing that can happen to a head coach, Hill's beaten some great ones in upsets over the years, but this was the type of game that this version of Rutgers has to prove they can win as a favorite consistently to prove they aren't just a flash in the pan blip on the otherwise forgettable radar screen of the Scarlet Knight program history.

8) San Diego State - A last second field goal takes the Aztecs down at home to Cal Poly.  They weren't going to last long on the Shortlist anyway but still this is an eye opening result as I wasn't sure Cal Poly actually played football in the first place.

My picks this week to fall off the Shortlist are as follows:

Ball St., Marshall, Temple, EMU, Southern Miss, San Jose St., BYU, Oregon St., Air Force, CMU, ECU, Buffalo, WSU, UCF, Tulane, L-Tech, Houston, Bowling Green, UNLV, Nevada, Toledo.

27 teams are out of the running for a title game consideration already.  I expect them to almost double this week as the competition begins to filter itself out on the Shortlist to South Beach.

Copyright 2008 by Christopher Whelpton for Canespace.com

Painting Canesville Orange and Green

Tonight Canespacers and other Hurricane fans will be painting North Florida ORANGE and GREEN from Ocala to Canesville as we arrive for the BIG game on Saturday at The Puddle, uh Swamp. We are hosting two parties tonight to kick off the weekend and get our grove on for the game.  The two parties on Friday night are at two different locations.

The first is an invitation only event in Hawthorne just south of Gainesville:

Canspacers Keoki and Aqua have secured a vacation rental home on a beautiful lake for the weekend.  Tonight from 6 PM to whenever they will be hosting a FREE party with food, adult beverages and all kinds of fun and entertainment. If you are interested in attending email me at [email protected] or Keoki at [email protected] so we can connect.

The second event is in Ocala near the hotel where the UM team is staying:

Cane Pep Rally @ Suite 306 Cigar Bar
Friday Sept 5th / 8 PM to 2 AM
Tons of drink specials and lots of door prizes
Located a block away from the players hotel right near I-75
3131 SW College Road / Suite 306
Ocala, FL 34474

We will see you at BOTH parties and have the Canespace banner and T-shirts available at each event.  Then we will see you at the game on Saturday. Look for the white Canespace T-shirts at the stadium. 

GO CANES, BEAT THE GATORS!!!