60 Minutes

If football games were only 30 minutes long, University of Miami fans would have been seriously disappointed in yesterday's game against Duke.

Fortunately for Miami fans, football games are 60 minutes long, which was plenty long enough for the Hurricanes to beat the Blue Devils 34-16 on a sunny Saturday in Miami. 

By the way, just for the record, I had predicted 34-20 all week long so I wasn't too far off on my estimation of exactly how this game would turn out.

Canespace was on hand to see the festivities before, during and after the game.  And oh, what a game it was!  We attended the game with RaizeCane (seen above at R), his buddies Tim and Dietrich, and Canespacers AngryCane and Canechic. 

Talk about a good time?  Oh yeah, this was it!  Before the game we boogied with the band in the parking lot (see below).  We met at E22 with Canezilla (who unfortunately was without "The Shoes" because she was sick), then visited KLCaneFan in W13, then the Swag Man (see above in the first photo at top) in W12, then Canechic and Angry in W33.  Then I walked RaizeCane and his buddies over to the RV lot for a short visit with the JSQ, who we also ran into at haltime at the Smirnoff bar near Section 107.

During the game we moved around and sat anywhere and everywhere in the over half empty (see below) stadium.  Canes fans, just forget the first half.  It never happened.  All I remember was it was slow and boring and Miami was losing.  Let's fast forward to the second half.

Jacory hung tough and got hot, hitting his receivers consistently, including WR Leonard Hankerson for a long TD.  Miami got the running game going with Damien Berry, who is quickly becoming a crowd favorite, doing the heavy lifting.  You could here chants of "Berry, Berry" throughout the fourth quarter at the Shark.

The Canes scored some quick points when Senior LB Daryl Sharpton came up BIG for Miami as he intercepted a pass and used his blazing speed (LOL) to take it back for a pick six for the Hurricanes.  The game was over and the fans that did show up breathed a sigh of relief as Miami notched it's 8th win of the 2009 season with USF left up next week at The Ship.

But it was the fans that we met, and the time that we had, that made this day a very special event.  There are only a few times each season where the perfect storm happens.  It happend at at home against OU, then again at UCF in Orlando, once again in Durham for UNC and then again at home in a spectacular finish against Duke. 

U simply had to be there!  And if these pictures don't tell you that, then well...

Comments

[KLCaneFan]

I miss The Tuth

peace

Posted by: solarcane | November 22, 2009 at 06:11 PM

Meee tooo, solar!

[Sebastian]

My wife and I had a great time at the Duke game, and no matter if you try and heckle them, some just to get a friendly trash talk going they wont do it

At least their football have some class

I was put a little off by the booing of JH when he was coming off the field in the first half

He takes hits other QBs wouldnt get up from and not only gets up from them but also has the team believing we are going to win this game today

My loudest stomp and yell went to Sharpton, It was nice to see him return that int for a TD in the 4th Quarter of his last game at home...no matter what he goes on to do in life he will never forget that moment

Props to all the Seniors on this years squad-good luck in whatever path of life you choose

`86 Pics will be sent soon...My wife is very camera shy so its just going to be my mug that will be e-mailed to you and any others that turn out ok from the digital camera

[Captain Optimist aka Cavaleer]

MM01, I think Richt is damn near average as a HC. He's a good OC but to me, any HC in a state with as much homegrown talent as GA should be contending for conference and NCs every year. Just think if Miami, FSU or UF had the entire state of FL to themselves every year.

Paul Johnson to me is clearly better than Richt, albeit with an offense that relies on illegal blocks of course, but still. GT is generally ready to roll week in and week out. The same cannot be said of UGA. Richt had a nice little run two years ago then showed how much of a non-Boss he was when they were pre-season No.1 He completely punked out before the season even started, and guess what, his players played just that way.

If they really get thumped by GT, it's going to be funny. Solar will give us all the blows. lol

[_HM_]

http://miamihurricanefootball.blogspot.com/2009/11/miami-vs-duke-112109-offensive-inn.html

hey Canespace fans... check out this extensive break down of the Hurricane O

[86Cane]

OK, here's my report...I just went to the Raycom site and checked all 12 blogs (with four bloggers each site) from all of the ACC teams. Here is what I found:

There are NO comments (well to be honest there are a total of three comments total in three months on all the blogs written by 48 bloggers) on ANY blog at that site.

Except of course for the blogs posted by, well U know who.

Here at Canespace we have 252 comments in 24 hours. What is it about this place?

[86Cane]

`86 Pics will be sent soon...My wife is very camera shy so its just going to be my mug that will be e-mailed to you and any others that turn out ok from the digital camera

Posted by: Sebastian | November 22, 2009 at 09:07 PM

My wife is the same way. No problem!

[404Canes404]

Sling Blade: saw you mention this, classic Luke!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODymUrMeVe4

[miamimike01]

Truth is busy. A little birdie told me so last Monday night.

Take it for what its worth.

[Sebastian]

Here at Canespace we have 252 comments in 24 hours. What is it about this place?

Posted by: 86Cane | November 22, 2009 at 09:33 PM

Home

[Six]

canezilla - think you read it wrong brah, it is now Week 10 in the NFL"U" and a Cane has scored in every single week so far

per proCanes:

"proCanes Extend TD Streak to 115 Regular Season Weeks"

This is now Week 11 and Frank Gore scored today ... Devin Hester might score tonight ... Andre Johnson might score tomorrow

[JCane]

What I liked about the Canes on the hardwood was seeing them break the press halfway decently, something they couldn't do at any point last season. They paid dearly game after game last year, and this weakness cost them (remember the Duke game, where a huge lead evaporated in minutes for just this reason?). The turnovers should be the kind of thing they improve upon as the season moves forward, but the F/Ts never seem to quite work this way, regardless of whay my h.s. coach said and made us do. This team has some promise, although nothing means much until you do it in your conference. However, if they can make it through the opening run of games pre-ACC with a good performance it makes the rest easier.

Go figure the Syracuse hoopsters would be doing this well after taking it on the chin a few w/a from LeMoyne. They took UNC apart.

Gotta really wonder if Cook regrets taking off yet? I can't imagine he wouldn't have gotten some decent PT the last few games with Jacory's injuries. How severe the injuries we may never know, or at least not until after the season. Now if the injuries are the main issue, who knows what a month pre-bowl could do for recuperation.... Hopefully a lot for a defenseless D.

Up to #17, while Clemson is right behind at #18. Don't count on them staying behind UM if they both keep winning, although they'd have to deal with playing GT in the ACC championship game.

[86Cane]

NEW BLOG IS UP!

Last

[miamimike01]

RandyCane here, 253

[canesteeler]

,,,,

[CaneWarrior]

U!

[ronnie]

any place on the web with a replay of the duke miami game?

[Cat 5 Cane]

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[Cat 5 Cane]

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[solarcane]

peace

[macjones de Albuquerque]

during halftime jacory got all the players together and gave a speach...he said
"I'm hurt dawg. Don't ask me if i'm alright. He11 nah. Joaquin said dominate, and we not doin it. I'm puttin my heart into this sh1t dawg. Let's go man."

Posted by: SlingBlade | November 22, 2009 at 06:53 PM

Simply awesome, baby U! But U's forgot "puttin' soul" into this freaker'.

Remember, remember this Cane fandom. Harris said it "burned down to his inner, inner, inner soul," when he heard the Dukies celebrating and what not prior to the second half kickoff.

Then JaCory says, fella's, I got this one! Hurricane old school style! LOL

[SuperDuperCanezillaInManilla]

Another good win, although losing at halftime to Duke is never, ever a good thing. Those pics of the stadium our embarassing! They should just close off the upper bowl until the lower bowl is full.