Road Warriors Have No Fear

Former Genesis drummer and singer-song writer Phil Collins once sang: "I can feel it coming in the air tonight...hold on."

Those lyrics and that song became a staple at football stadiums all across the Country and was a mainstay on the playlist at the historic Orange Bowl whenever the Hurricanes would take the field for warm-ups. Even now I can still recall the goosebumps I got when that song played at The Old Lady.

Well, before the Georgia Tech game last Saturday in Atlanta you could feel the tension, no make that fear, in the air and all around Miami Hurricane fans. It was so thick on the blog that you could barely read the comments through all the smoke and fire that was coming from the destruction and havoc that was predicted by some bloggers and most national media types to be waged upon the poor players wearing orange and green by the mighty Ramblin' Wreck of Georgia Tech.

Even some hard-core, long-time, tried and true Canes fans had their panties in a bunch or their knickers all in a wad about Miami's chances on the road against a tough, physical team like GT and the Yellow Jackets potent triple option offense.

And though I am tempted I am not going to resort to naming names but let's just say they were out there. It seemed that unlike the good old days of the Miami Hurricanes' domination of college football over a 20 year period between 1983 and 2003, many of these fans over the years had lost more than a few of the letters needed to spell out S-W-A-G-G-E-R.

But that fear was either cast aside or met head on by several Canespacers who showed that they were not afraid and walked directly into the belly of the beast known as Bobby Dodd Stadium.  These fearless fans stared right into the mouth of the the wolf and didn't even blink.

Canespacers like SarasotaCane, UMike, AlpharettaCane, TSully, and even someone who goes by the interesting blog name of "The Brown Recluse" came from near and far to cheer on their Hurricanes.

For four quarters these fearless road warriors supported their team, through the ups and downs of the tumultuous game, when Miami was leading early and trailing late, they kept their faith in the team from the 305. They stood and stomped and screamed and cheered their hearts of for the players from The U.

And in the end these road warriors and their Miami Hurricanes brought home a huge ACC win in a game that none of the so called "experts" predicted that they would win.

Except one, and that would be me. Now I didn't get the score exactly right, and I didn't get to go to Atlanta to watch the game in person, but I did predict the win. And what a win it was!

This win by this young Hurricane team at Georgia Tech, and the manner in which it occurred, simply cannot be understated.  In fact this game may turn out to be the turning point of not only the 2012 season but of Al Golden's tenure at Miami.

It was game of monumental momentum swings and lead changes and major injuries and comebacks by a team that easily could have quit. Down 36-19 in the third quarter on the road in Atlanta your Miami Hurricanes could have packed it in and headed home. But they simply refused to lose.

Al Golden's hardened troops didn't give in and and they didn't give up.

These players, this team, would not quit on their coach or on each other. 

Instead they played together as a team, like a team of fearless road warriors.

And when the game was over, the only smell in the air was not that of fear, but the wonderful smell of sweet, sweet victory.

Comments

[Old Skool]

Roscoe Parrish is now a Buc

[Hassan]

Is there anything new on Kevin Olsen's broken foot?

Posted by: IraqiCane | September 26, 2012 at 03:41 AM
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It is still broken, he is trying to come back towards the end of his season Nov.

[IraqiCane]

Thanks Hassan

[nemo2002]

I'm hoping to see a BALANCED attack against NCST on Saturday:
3 running TDs, 3 passing TDs, and one each from the defense and special teams.

Anybody have a problem with that?

[Hassan]

Fortson is released....

[Ohio_Cane]

Anybody have a problem with that?

Posted by: nemo2002 | September 26, 2012 at 11:38 AM
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A problem? Absolutely not.

In fact, that's almost the exact score total I predicted our Canes would score a couple days ago when I was asked if I had sipped some special Kool-Aid that morning. ;-)

[canezilla]

Fortson is released....

Posted by: Hassan | September 26, 2012 at 12:40 PM
CAN WE GET HIM BACK?

[Ohio_Cane]

Jimmy Johnson was out fishing today. U know, in his normal, every day attire.

pic.twitter.com/TOODgEMC

[WWIN]

Fortson is released....Posted by: Hassan | September 26, 2012 at 12:40 PM CAN WE GET HIM BACK?

Posted by: canezilla | September 26, 2012 at 12:43 PM

For what, to stand on the sidelines?? Lol

[Hassan]

http://razorbackers.com/2012/09/25/arkansas-football-coaching-search-heats-up-over-bill-kings-comments/

Butch to arkansas?

[WWIN]

I think U Tuff is working, except on Curtis porter, cuz usually we would have about 20 players out wit upper and lower extremities lol.

[j.w.]

Butch finally retruning home, good for him, bad for Bama, hopefully no difference for us.

[WWIN]

jw

Anywhere butch goes in college means trouble for us lol. Considering I'm sure he'll be still recruiting heavily in our backyard no matter where he goes. Even though golden is putting a fence up butch will be leaning on it applying pressure

[pbcfrcane13]

BTW anybody thins Strong will be taken away from Lville? I know if Im a top notch program I would go after him.....maybe a place like Tennesee hell if I was GT I would get rid of Johnson and do everyting to get Strong...your never going to win playing that offense the ACC has caught on.

[Hassan]

Offense
Total yards - 35th
Rushing - 58th
Passing & Receiving - 27th

Kicking
Kickoff return yardage - 2nd
Field goals made - Tied for 11th
Punting net yardage - 79th

Defense
Total sacks - 94th

[Ohio_Cane]

Canes last 3 opponents.

Rushing attempts - 171

Passing attempts - 45

Will be interesting to see how they respond to 25+ passes in one game.

[Ohio_Cane]

Canes have offered 2014 TE Bryce Dixon from St. Bonaventure. 6'4, 230.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ohiostate/football/recruiting/player-Bryce-Dixon-143553

[The Dude]

Sebastian is ranked #1 on Capital One mascot ranking but is losing to Ms. Wuf from NCST. Sebastian is one of 3 unbeaten mascots this year.

[The Dude]

Ohio Cane, did you see my earlier post? Was that about right?

[86Cane]

Just back from Bradenton. What did I miss?

[Ohio_Cane]

The Dude, I missed the earlier post but just went back and looked. Let me see:

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We really dont have but a few more spots left.

1 QB Olsen
2 RB Collins
3 RB Lewis III
4 FB/TE Johnson
5 TE Standish
6 OL Kerr
7 OL Gall
8 OL Kirkland?
9 WR Jean-Louis
10 WR Cunningham?
11 NT Bryant
12 DT (Bostwick?)
13 LB (Thomas?)
14 LB (Grace or Ngakoue?)
15 DE (I dont know)
16 CB Burns
17 DB Carter
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Looks about right, Dude.

A couple notes:

- Kirkland: loves Canes, but FSWho lurks.

- Cunningham: I have no idea on, except Bama, ND, OK St and Stanford are in the mix.

- Bostwick: Yes, we get him, IMO.

- Thomas: Boy I hope so, but this will probably be a :wait-and-see till signing day" type deal

- Grace: Yes, all Cane, IMO.

- Yannick Ngakoue: Toss up. Just decommited from Maryland and is high on Canes, but no idea with him. We'd be lucky to have him tho.

[LaQuinton]

Why are we recruiting 5 te's ? We dont even throw to them !!!!

[LaQuinton]

If Miami pressures glennon he will look soooo normal. But if let him have time.... BC alllll over again

[86Cane]

NEW BLOG IS UP!

[The Brown Recluse]

NC State game "should" be a win for the Canes. As I read over the blog, I see how everyone is ignoring the twin 800lb gorillas in the room. Problems with the secondary and special teams.

The GT QB Washington toasted Rodgers or whatever DB it was at least twice...and he would have had two more long completions if he had not overthrown the receiver. I hope No' D is fixing that, as well as coming up with some exotic blitz packages. Go back and watch the game again and you'll see that it was actually passing that got GT back in the game.

NC State knows that the Canes front four is suspect, and even though Glennon is big and slow...don't be surprised to see some QB draw plays to keep the chains moving. Fisch needs to run more RB screens to James and Duke, and forget about the WR bubble screens.

My Canes...your Canes will not be victorious if No'D runs that pathetic "prevent" style defense on Saturday. Grind it out with James and Duke to keep Glennon off of the field, and eliminate our own turnovers while creating some on NC State should give the Canes a win. Forget the GT win guys, that was last week. That was a game that the Canes should have won 47-14!!!

[CGNC]

see ball, get ball