The University of Miami baseball team has a proud tradition and glorious history of success dating back to the early 1980s and "The Wizard of College Baseball" Hurricane head coach Ron Fraser.
The Hurricanes have won four National Championships (1982, 1985, 1999 and 2001). In fact, Miami has been to the College World series 23 times which is the most of any ACC school and second in the entire NCAA only to Texas.
UM has been to the College World Series in 11 of the last 15 years under current head coach Jim Morris. He led the Hurricanes to two national championships in (1999, 2001) and Miami's only ACC title in a major sport in 2008 when the UM baseball team captured the conference crown.
However, Miami has not made it back to the CWS in the last three years. The Hurricanes have not made the trip out to Omaha since the memorable 2008 ACC title season.
That year Miami finished the regular season ranked #1 in the polls and headed to Rosenblatt Stadium with five All-ACC players in tow. Some of the players on that star-studded roster included starting pitchers Chris Hernandez and Eric Erickson, closer Kyle Bellamy and sluggers Yonder Alonso, Yasmani Grandal, Jemile Weeks and ACC tourney MVP Dave DiNatalie.
Some Hurricane fans have grown anxious or concerned about Miami's recent lack of success and a few have even begun to ask Morris: "Yeah, but what have U done for me lately?"
Miami begins their quest for another trip to Omaha on Wednesday at the ACC baseball championship tournament at NewBridge Bank Park in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The Hurricanes are seeded sixth out of eight teams that made the tourney and are in Pool B that includes #2 seed North Carolina, #3 NCST and #7 Wake Forest. The Pool A teams are #1 seed FSU, #4 Virginia, #5 Clemson and #8 seed Georgia Tech.
First up for the Hurricanes will be the Wolfpack at 3 PM on Wednesday. Miami will then take on North Carolina on Thursday at 3 PM before facing the Demon Deacons at 7 PM on Friday.
The ACC championship game will be played between the winners of the two, four-team brackets on Saturday at noon.
Good Lord, if Bunche attacks those defensive linemen like he does those gummie bears, opposing defenses are screwed.
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