When The Levee Breaks

The rain was heavy and unrelenting. 

The pressure and current was too much to endure. 

When the Levee broke all that swam against the flood had no chance of survival.

That is an analogy of what happened to your Miami Hurricanes as they went up to Blacksburg to meet the Virginia Tech Hokies on this rain soaked Saturday in September. The rains cane, the flood of points followed and the rising current of momentum was too much to survive for this still young and inexperienced Miami team. 

The Hokies out played, out preformed and out scored the boys from the 305 from beginning to end of a very miserable afternoon and disappointing game from the recently ranked #9 ranked Hurricanes.

The final score is insignificant as anyone who watched the game knows that the beat down the Canes sustained was full and complete.  To be honest the Canes were never in the game and appeared to be out coached and out muscled by a more physical VT squad who were seriously motivated to make a statement on this cold and damp day in Virginia.

The Canes offense was ineffective and out of sync from the beginning in the steadily falling rain.  Mark "Miracle" Whipple could not get the Canes offense untracked against the Bud Foster led defense for the Hokies.  Jacory "Heisman" Harris looked mortal for the first time this year and lost any chance for an award for which he probably should never have been considered.

The Canes defense was gashed on the ground early and often by a more physical VT offensive line.  The Hokies ran at will against the young and still not ready for prime time defensive line of Miami. 

Matt Bosher had a punt blocked for a touchdown which pretty much sealed the deal for Miami at the end of the first half.

If anything good was to come out of this brutal loss it would be that the hurricanes bubble was burst early in the season.  There is plenty of time to regroup, refocus and reestablish their mark on the 2009 season. 

And, with Oklahoma up next at The Shark, the possibilities are endless...

Comments

[Moe]

Go Canes!!!

[canechic]

Canes

[solarcane]

It feels like it's rainin all over the world

peace

[conch salad]

well, it took me a while to be able to come express my thoughts on the sh!t show we saw today, so here they are:

1) I'm 100% PISSED off right now

2) that being said, it was unrealistic to think we would go unbeaten in the first 4 games. 3-1 will still be an accomplishment, so we better get after OU next week

3) hopefully tofays loss chaps our teams ass enough to work their asses off in practice and actually show up for Oklahoma

4) FML right now... College football is dead to me until
next sat...

[solarcane]

dlu you missed the point

It was blaming the rain after the loss that is a joke.

I listened to all the "we practice in the rain all the time stuff," and pretty much agreed. before the game.

Never once during the game did I say... geez because our offense is based on speed and deception and only works in dry weather , this isn't fair."

I Thought to myself, we better adjust to the weather or we are gonna fall behind.

that's what I meant
peace

Posted by: solarcane | September 26, 2009 at 09:05 PM

peace

[Daytoncane]

I have to apologize for the loss, I take full responsibility. On that day in 2003, I hung out with my uncle..only to get home to that loss. Today, I helped him moved, and told my friend on my way home, I may have jinx'd us. We'll it looks like I did

Posted by: 8th Man in the box | September 26, 2009 at 08:53 PM

ITS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[UpNorthCane27]

Some thoughts on today.....
1. Whether it's a cop out or not the rain affected us today big time.....
2. The dline is not getting the sacks nor creating the pressure we need
3. It's time to let loose futch, buchanon, and brown sharpton cannot be out there the guy is horrendous.....
4. And is it me or is Ray Ray physically imposing as a safety with Phillips being injured plz lovett plzzzz Shannon do not put in Campbell or Nicholas.
5. Our offense will step it up next week in beautiful south Florida weather and Oklahoma won't know wdf hit them.....
6.besides a bone head throw jacory when he had time still looked excellent out there...
7. Sam shields is a beast and consistent and Brandon Harris is ballinggggg.........

[conch salad]

Also, the drive that stalled from Jimmy dropping 2 huge passes was the turning point. I know a lot of crap happened leading up to that point to take us out of the game, and it is def not his fault we lost today, but Jimmy dropped the ball, figuratively and literally speaking. We score there, its 21-14 and we have all the momentum. Instead it ends up 24-7.

Again, FML.

[Six]

Why was Tebow of Nazareth even in the damn game after halftime?

They're up 31-7 against KENTUCKY. Why not get Brantley in there to get reps anyway in case something like this did happen?

[canechic]

love having to see timmy teabag puke in a bag come on ESPN.....some class please! Why is Cryer playing this kids with fevers? Not supposed to exercise with fevers can lead to heatstroke come on some common sense please!

[dlu]

Man, I do not agree with that new blog at all. So wash is better than usc, all the top teams getting beat are garbage.

THe U did not look like one of the best offenses in college in the firt two games. But this one lose means they are garbage and exposed, sucky new blog.

[UpNorthCane27]

Watch when aldarius Johnson comes back next week oklahoema won't know what hit their vaginas

[dlu]

I am sorry Solar totally, just in a bad mood, apologize.

[Matt Drudge]

From the last blog:

Solar, we cleary got kicked in our teeth. However, I didn't think we would be dropping too many balls like we did today even in the rain. How come our max protection package didn't work very well?

I don't think VT's DL is that exceptional. I think our game plan sucked and I for one think we didn't seriously plan for the weather. I couldn't believe Jacory came out with his visor in the first half.

[conch salad]

Calling out the following Canes:

Jimmy Graham
Matt Pipho
Daryl Sharpton
Chavez Grant
Allen Bailey
Sean Spence
Javaris James

You boys need to show up next week for us to have a chance.

[dlu]

Solar but I think you are right about one thing to me, the U offense is precision and speed, that does not work very well in a moonsoon. The defense I have no excuse for , bad game plan, bad tackling.

[conch salad]

On the other hand, I am very impressed with the following CANES:

Leonard Hankerson
Brandon Harris
Coop

Guess theres really not much good to talk about, but at least those guys made their way off the bus.

Telemaque didnt quite show up today either.

[Six]

Crocs have next week off, then they head to LSU. QB #15 will be back by then, will win the game b/c LSU almost lost to freaking Mississippi State today (should've lost actually) - and then the slobbering over him will be 100 fold of what it is now

We just had some lady call the station, asking about Tebow, why he was throwing up .. I told her, "ma'am he and some other players on the team aren't feeling well, they have flu like symptoms and he got hit pretty hard during a sack and had his neck snapped back a little bit" ...

She said "I bet it's that Chinese drywall"

*crickets*

I had no idea what to say, so I asked her to repeat herself. She said "I bet it's that Chinese drywall. I saw a story on your station about how bad it is, and I bet it's in their locker room or in his apartment"

I just said that she was probably right and to have a great night.

Wow.

[dlu]

Being loyal is one thing but JJ has looked very average to below average, except at times against ga. tech and the same when playing the last couple yrs. Time to change the oil at running back give someone else a chance.

[THE MAN]

I thought the play calling was horrendous. I thought I was watching last years team. Why would they run sweeps and stretch run plays in the damn rain? Didn't see one easy swing pass to the RB's all game. In the rain wasy passes would soften the defense. They were blitzing every play and leaving all the short stuff wide open. Many more like this...

[solarcane]

dlu,
you are cool brother you put up some great comments.
everybody is pizzed.

I mentioned it earlier tonight lets not fight with each other because VT stole our bicycle

the seasons just getting rolling

peace

[Six]

CGNC - Canes could've used 15 trunk monkeys, esp. on that punt "protection" that Bosher had a VTech player in his face before he could even take his 2nd step

[8th Man in the box]

ok so they lost, the question is do we become tougher now? Do we become more focus? Do we become more fundamentally sound now? Ken Dorsey, got his jock handed to him at Lane stadium. Jacory had to go through this. We we prepared to play today...no. We blew countless opportunities, we didn't tackle, we were slow off the ball. I'll tell you what...these kids got it handed to them by a vetern defense and they learned it takes a lot more than hype to beat the big boys. Yeah VT is not elite, but everyone knows they have one of the best Ds in the country. We had to learn this lesson, we rose to fast. Now I think the team will really focus on the task at hand.

[solarcane]

matt,
I had so much confidence in Whipple moving the Oline around and keeping receivers in to block it never ocurred to me VT would disrupt every play.

peace

[conch salad]

" We blew countless opportunities, we didn't tackle, we were slow off the ball."

You could say that again. How we dont score off the botched punt I cant even explain. Awful. Then they muff TWO punts and we cant recover a damn one. Awful.

FML

Hhaha in all seriousness though, I still love my Canes and will be out there next week screaming bloody murder. Saturday cant come soon enough.

And yes, I am bipolar.

[solarcane]

Six,

If that punt rusher was just a step faster he could have intercepted the snap.

I thought Bosher was going to throw it for an incompletion when he saw the guy was already on top of him.
VT was there in every phase of the game.

peace

[Hurriphin]

On thing that did bother me was the lack of urgency for all the time remaining after that touchdown. Why weren't we hauling a$$ to get things done from there on out?
And another thing.......

I though you were only suppossed to run the clock out when you are WINNING....

[Six]

solar - ya, the VTech guy could've grabbed the snap in the backfield, handed to Bosher and then told him to kick it

[Sarasota 'cane]

See U next year dlu!

Go 'canes!

[dlu]

Colleg football is strange, the d tackled real well against big backs in the ga. tech. game but today looked bad. I think it is what kind of defensive game plan fits the team. Today on d just guy running around with no idea, no containment, no plan. Team went back to ea. guy trying to make plays instead of a team effort of containment.

[xxcanes305xx]

8th kenny never lost to vtech

[Sarasota 'cane]

This team is not garbage!

Go 'canes! Regroup!

[Six]

You guys see who left their man completely unblocked to allow him to unload on Crocs QB #15?

Matt Patchan

He doubled teamed the Kentucky DT, that the Crocs LG had a complete handle on .. the Kentucky DE just came in full force and untouched .... in the replays, in the background you can see Urban Myth yelling in slow motion about that missed assignment and watching it unfold right in front of his eyes

[dlu]

On d if you use your speed to contain and to keep backs from getting to the outside , great. If you use your speed to run past the play and over persue team speed becomes worthless on D.

[Hurriphin]

matt,
I had so much confidence in Whipple moving the Oline around and keeping receivers in to block it never ocurred to me VT would disrupt every play.

peace

You said it Sol'. I knew Jacory was gonna get touched a few times today, but I never expected them to do what they wanted on every other snap. Also don't know why they never sent Benjamin after Chancellor.

PUNKED.

[Hurriphin]

Didn't Kenny debut in against VT in 99'?

[dlu]

Canes still have one of the best offenses in college FB. with the receivers , JH and Whipple calling the plays. Noone will convince me diffrently. A great defensive game plan and conditions can sometime hold a great O in check.

[8th Man in the box]

8th kenny never lost to vtech

Posted by: xxcanes305xx

Dorsey stepped in for Kenny Kelly that game. I don't remember if he started or not

[canechic]

The boys in my house who call themselves men are about to go down cuz their whinning is killing me.

Lets make peace with the loss, move on and show what we are really made of next week.

Go Canes!

[dlu]

Hurriphin, the 40 times on the receivers was more like 5++ or 6++ of no value , in that muck, not much chance to exploit.

Then with the added pressure the long pass was negated, and that long pass is how the U has made a living this season.

Add the U has no power pack with jj and coop to pound in the Muck, it was tough. but understandable.

[Matt Drudge]

From Shandel's game blog:

--
The Hokies must have on better cleats. They're not slipping, while the `Canes look like they're on ice.
--

Is this possible?

[canechic]

No kenny did not start but he finished cuz kenny kelly got hurt and it was a bad loss!

[8th Man in the box]

thx Canechic!

[dlu]

Matt, it did look like that MJ , Pipho and so on on skates, just not used to that environment.

Colleg fb is set up in such a way about any team can win. jack.st-fsu. and so on usc wa.
The kickoffs, penalties, a few bad breaks, the teams only get a limite no. of chances anygive day, who knows.

[dlu]

OUt, to cool down.

[canechic]

now it is pouring in Orlando, my goodness enough rain, ugh!

[orange 'n green in the vein]

What a surprise, sh!tty weather negates athleticism and favors the team with a sh!tty one-dimensional offense.

OL played like the questionable squad they were being projected as to start the year.

D ended up tired but still managed to miss about a billion tackles in between getting held every two out of three plays without the flags flying.

ACC refs are the worst, replay officials even worse. I grew up in SEC country, I know shoddy officiating intimately thanks to it, but these idiots set a new low every single week it seems.

If you had to drop one game to open the year, this was the one you least wanted to. There's always next week for improvement I suppose.

[DZ8]

If it keeps on raining levees goin' to break...

Great song!

Anyone that says someting bad about Jimmy Graham, I don't think they know what a team means. I can't wait to see Jimmy and the rest of this crew against OU.

And anyone who really likes this place... the Canespace... why would you call someone out? I'm not a 12%er, though I want to be. And when someone else says I'm jaded; that's fine. But remember, these type written words don't show the expressions on our face. And most of the time, we're smiling...

people say I'm the life of a party... 'cause I tell a joke or two...

[Hurriphin]

OK, I don't wanna' wait another week.

I'm grasping for straws.

Someone give me five reasons why we're going to beat OU.

Anybody. Please. Sorry to talk down on the gang, but I see a servere shellacking on the hoizon.

Bradford, or no Bradford.

[Daytoncane]

you have to wonder if the hype really did get to this team. va tech did outplay us, but it was like we just expected to win because we stepped off the bus.

miami has always had the "us against the world" mentality because the world really did kinda hate us. then in one week we became the media darlings of college football. jacory's name was coming out of everybody's mouths and the heisman talk was neverending. everybody who was anybody had positive things to say about miami. that might have hurt us too, besides the fact that we got manhandled.

hopefully the media goes back to doubting and badmouthing us. miami has always played with an edge because of it.