Russell Athletic Bowl: Miami vs West Virginia

RUSSELL ATHLETIC BOWL

MIAMI VS WEST VIRGINIA

DECEMBER 28 | 5:30 P.M. ET | CAMPING WORLD STADIUM | ORLANDO, FLA.

Season ticket holders and Hurricane Club members can order Russell Athletic Bowl tickets online or by calling 1-800-GO-CANES.

Hurricane Club members are encouraged to pre-order as many tickets as they would like. Pre-ordered accounts will be allocated by giving level in priority point order. Tickets requested beyond priority limits will only be assigned after all remaining pre-order tickets have been seated using the priority structure. Hurricane Club members and season ticket holders will receive seating preference for all bowl orders placed by the priority ticket deadline. 

The deadline for pre-orders to be included in priority seating is Monday, December 5. General public can order Russell Athletic Bowl tickets beginning Monday, December 5 at 5 p.m. online or by calling 1-800-GO-CANES. 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

Tuesday
4 p.m. - Miami Pep Rally (i-Drive 360)

Wednesday
11 a.m. - Parade of Bands (Park Avenue)

Noon - Kickoff Luncheon (Rosen Shingle Creek)

1:30 p.m. - Fanfest (Tinker Field)

2:30 p.m. - Buffalo Wild Wings Tablegate(Tinker Field)

5:30 p.m. - Kickoff

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Comments

[The Dude]

Posted by: HAPPY SOUP | December 05, 2016 at 12:53 AM

How come no one ever believes they are the holy spirit? You know I'm just about sick of psychos shitting all over the holy spirit, not giving it it's due.

[The Dude]

Posted by: UMike | December 05, 2016 at 05:16 AM

I kinda think this one gets argued either way based on the individual's confirmation bias.

[The Dude]

^^^ Personally I dont think the Pitt win was all too great other than it was much needed to end a 4 game shit show. Right now there's an opportunity at meaningful progress if Miami can beat WV, so that's really all I care about... what's in front of us.

[Go Canes!]

Posted by: HAPPY SOUP | December 05, 2016 at 12:53 AM

Save this one for your buddy.

[Go Canes!]

UMike if you go back you'll see so many posts about Golden never beating a ranked team even though the Turds were Top 10 at the time,because they ended up sucking.

It was a good win over a team that beat Penn State and Clemson. Gives proper perspective to how well we finished the season imo.

Big test coming up, best offense we'll see all year.

Wish we played a team we were in more direct competition with for recruits, like Tennessee or Georgia, but it will still be a good one.

[Mark from Atlanta]

Won't be easy by any stretch at all....WVU is good; I'd say better than we are. ..but, play the game like crazed animals. ..run like your ass is on fire for 60 minutes!
Just win baby, just win.
God bless you and Go Canes!

[SOUP]

1. UMike if you go back you'll see so many posts about Golden never beating a ranked team even though the Turds were Top 10 at the time,because they ended up sucking.

2. It was a good win over a team that beat Penn State and Clemson. Gives proper perspective to how well we finished the season imo.

Posted by: Go Canes! | December 05, 2016 at 08:06 AM

1. There are opinions and then there are facts. People may have opinions about whether a particular win is/was a "quality win" or not but the fact of whether a team was ranked or not at the time the game was played is not subject to interpretation.

2. This we agree on. We both believe that in our opinion Pitt was a quality win but the fact is that they were not ranked at the time the game was played.

[canezilla]

Zilla
What row? Orlando Canespace contingent gonna need about 10 or so.

Posted by: KYcane | December 04, 2016 at 08:10 PM
row L

[CoCane]

Go Canes is right this time.

Pitt wasn't ranked when we beat them but looking at their overall body of work, it was a quality win. Not a BIG TIME, BIG GAME win but a quality win.

Beating a team that started ranked in the top ten but ended 4-8 ain't sh*t.

Beating a team that was unranked but finished ranked #22 is a much better win.

C'mon man...

[Ohio_Cane]

Bet big on Wisconsin over W Mich at -7. Line already moving that way too. Get in on the easy money FAST before it ends up over -10

[1mg of Epi]

UMike if you go back you'll see so many posts about Golden never beating a ranked team even though the Turds were Top 10 at the time,because they ended up sucking.

Posted by: Go Canes! | December 05, 2016 at 08:06 AM

This is true.. the argument was that he never beat a ranked team. The. It was he never beat a team that finished ranked.

[Ohio_Cane]

Go listen to Ariz's podcast with Steve Kim about this past season.

https://www.canesinsight.com/thread/canes/114479

[raizecane]

Yo, yo, yo...Orlando folks, U ready?

https://russellathleticbowl.com/event/russell-athletic-bowl-pep-rally-acc/?DB_OEM_ID=28700

Posted by: HAPPY SOUP | December 05, 2016 at 12:34 AM

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I am off on the 27th so I will be at the pep rally as well. Last time I wound up in some bar with Shalala and a few former players....

[thirstybuzzardcane]

Bet big on Wisconsin over W Mich at -7. Line already moving that way too. Get in on the easy money FAST before it ends up over -10

Posted by: Ohio_Cane | December 05, 2016 at 10:06 AM

I also like Clemson at +3..... Ohio State are use to 1 dementional teams. Clemson will give them fits with the running and passing game.

[SinisterCane]

Go listen to Ariz's podcast with Steve Kim about this past season.

https://www.canesinsight.com/thread/canes/114479

Posted by: Ohio_Cane | December 05, 2016 at 10:34 AM

That shit is over an hour long lol, Did he discuss anything that was never mentioned

[thirstybuzzardcane]

Hahaha, Sinister!

[raizecane]

I just looked at WVU's wins this season and the opponents are average at best. The only 2 teams that are good they got beat by.

Go ahead and looked who they played.....not a tough schedule at all. How they have a power rank of 14 is an illusion.

[Ohio_Cane]

Bet big on Wisconsin over W Mich at -7. Line already moving that way too. Get in on the easy money FAST before it ends up over -10

Posted by: Ohio_Cane | December 05, 2016 at 10:06 AM
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W Mich's coach just hired at Purdue! The line's gonna move!

[Ohio_Cane]

W Mich's coach just hired at Purdue! The line's gonna move!

Posted by: Ohio_Cane | December 05, 2016 at 12:08 PM
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-7.5 within an hour

[Ohio_Cane]

Man, Bama went from -14.5 to -16.5 in the last couple hours. MAJOR money being put on Bama.

[Mark from Atlanta]

Gimmicks on offense and a lot of misdirection from WVU....athletes at skill positions. ..Def gotta be disciplined...
Watch OK & OK ST film to see how to attack these guys.
They did hang 70 points on Clemson in the OB...
Just Win baby, just win.

God bless you and Go Canes!

[Go Canes!]

Very nice chip for recruiting. Some kids don't care but parents sure do.

Reynolds: Miami sharing the AFCA academic achievement award with Northwestern and Stanford.

[CGNC]

I won't be able to make it, gotta work :( will be watching though!

[Ohio_Cane]

W Mich's coach just hired at Purdue! The line's gonna move!

Posted by: Ohio_Cane | December 05, 2016 at 12:08 PM
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This was actually W Kentucky, my bad lol. Regardless, Wisconsin at -7.5 is easy money.

[TonyCane]

Um, I still remember when (likely) drunken WVU fans tossed a trash can off of the upper deck of their stadium and nearly hit a UM coach. That's reason enough to stay on the List and be a satisfying bowl opponent.

[Sarasota 'cane]

I remember watching the WVU game with my buddy who is a WVU alum when all they had to do was punt that all to win and I believe it was Jamie German who blocked the punt AND scooped up the ball and ran it in for a TD to win the game! My buddy was shell shocked to the point that I had to leave his house in order to celebrate the win!

Go 'canes!

[CaneRock]

Sota...I think it was Tremain Mack that blocked it, and Nate Brooks scooped & scored...

[The Dude]

Posted by: raizecane | December 05, 2016 at 11:53 AM

The schedule doesnt tell us who they are. You have to watch their games. So unless you've watched them, we cant really say if they are any good or not. Theyre pretty good. Our toughest challenge since VT.

[HawaiiCane]

Tony and Sarasota, you are talking about the same game in Morgantown. Tony, they did hit Randy Shannon in the head with the trash can from the student section. Then Sarasota, Tremain Mack blocked the punt and it was returned to the house. I was sitting in the visitors' section and that place was crazy afterwards. The next year I received a scholarship to run track at WVU and enjoyed sitting in the upper deck because they had to move the student section. Always rooted for the 'Canes!

[Terrance Sullivan]

Same here CGNC!

[SOUP]

I am off on the 27th so I will be at the pep rally as well. Last time I wound up in some bar with Shalala and a few former players....

Posted by: raizecane | December 05, 2016 at 11:36 AM

Have to work that day, no can do.

[VA Cane]

I think Pitt is a team kind of like us...they beat PSU and Clemson far superior to any win we had for sure....but looked bad against us and other teams, just average team like us, or worse.

They are an 8-4 team like us....Top 30 to 50 at best...like us. We are NOT a top 25 team at all. They are our best win. I look at our record, and I look at it 2 ways. 8 wins is nice, lost to 4 teams that were better than us....including a ND team that is horrible now.

Breaking it down further, 3 teams with better records beat us; better teams.
1 team that sucks (good) beat us. Embarrassing loss.
We beat 3 teams with winning records; one was Appy State..GT, and Pitt.
We beat 1 team that was .500, NCSU.
We beat 4 teams with losing records; 2 were girl colleges and the other 2 might as well be as Buke and UVA should drop football.

Throw the girls out; we beat 3 teams about our strength, and one that was mediocre.
We lost to 3 superior teams, and a terrible team.

So I guess in reality we are about 4 - 4, .500 or very average....but trending up.

I look at it as 8 wins are 8 wins, glad for all of them. Pitt may be the best win we have. We beat nobody that really matters in football...Pitt beat Rose Bowl team and NC team...pretty impressive.

We are better than we were last year, and we seem to be getting better. It is a long way to the top...and until you can beat NC, VT, FSU, and ND....you play in a bowl that....well makes you some money, and fans and players can have some fun....thats good. We could easily have been 11-1 and played in a big bowl...you got to beat teams that are better than you.

I am glad for 8-4....better than 4-8 ND....whom we lost to...ouch!!

[Go Canes!]

I think we are a legitimate Top 25 team. It's not like it's made up of all 11-1 teams. Half of the teams on it have 3-4 losses just like us.

We played FSU and UNC heads up down to the wire and had the chance to win before we got things turned around for the most part offensively. Think everyone agrees if we played ND again we would beat them.

VT was a throw away game we got totally screwed over by whoever made or approved that schedule.

We are a flawed team with a serious lack of depth. But our Top 22 is as good as 90% of the teams out there.

No one is going to convince me Iowa, the Turds, Temple, Nebraska or LSU are better than us and all those teams are ranked.

[Sarasota 'cane]

You're right, it was Mack.

[Sarasota 'cane]

My memory is shot. I can remember events but names not so much. The play was not as big as Ed Reed saving the Championship run against BC, but it's close!

[1mg of Epi]

We are a flawed team with a serious lack of depth. But our Top 22 is as good as 90% of the teams out there.

Posted by: Go Canes! | December 05, 2016 at 03:45 PM

This is true

[Herbieibis]

Flawed to a point but we still could of been and should of been 11-1. Why no better or worse than our opponents this year. Another spread team. Diaz will have something for them. I just hope richt does his job.

[VA Cane]

We beat 3 teams with winning records; one was Appy State..GT, and Pitt.
We beat 1 team that was .500, NCSU.

and we beat 4 girl soccer teams...very poor teams with no business having football teams playing us.

While I am glad we won 8 games I do not think we played or have a significant win that makes us top 25....but either way it is a mute point....we are not playing for the title; thats the prize I seek. I hope we play well and beat WVU.

[The Dude]

Posted by: Herbieibis | December 05, 2016 at 05:36 PM

Hell I'd take 9-3 with a chance at 10-3. ND was just a stupid, stupid, stupid loss.

[SOUP]

While I am glad we won 8 games I do not think we played or have a significant win that makes us top 25....but either way it is a mute point....we are not playing for the title; thats the prize I seek. I hope we play well and beat WVU.

Posted by: VA Cane | December 05, 2016 at 06:54 PM

That is why you're a Canespace All Star!

[SOUP]

Legends of the Fall:

Offense?
Defense?
Freshman?
ST: Vogel
Coach?

[SOUP]

Legends of the Fall:

Bloggers???

[thirstybuzzardcane]

Legends of the Fall:

Offense? Walton
Defense? Corn
Freshman? Richards
ST: Vogel
Coach? Diaz

[SOUP]

TBC...NAILED IT on his first shot!

[VA Cane]

I think you can name the top 20; after that it really does not matter as all other teams are very similar. They all have strengths and weaknesses as well as issues.

The issues include coaching, depth, schedule, unexpected departures and injuries. The biggest issue will perhaps be excuses.....everybody, due to lack of honesty, has excuses to a point and they do not wash as legitimate.

We have issues....perhaps one of the worst coaching staffs especially HC and DC (NoCoachPa Brothers) was fired, we have had some injuries, we lost some guys on D, and we lack depth.

Yet it is positive in many ways....that staff is gone and we have a nice staff, the depth was thin but some young kids really stepped up, losing Grace, Muhammad, and Young really was no big deal as the D was fairly stout, and the injuries did not kill us.

CMR has done a good job all things considered. His plays the last 4 games have really gotten better. I hope in recruiting he looks for great OL, and dynamic quick fundamentally sound kids that will fit into a dynamic scheme....not the slow plow horse Jawja attack he loved for so long. On D get big fast quick kids who are smart....Manny will take care of them coach them up...they will do fine for us.

Overall, I cannot say we are back, but the kids played hard, and never quit....thats the brightest spot of all, and a great foundation! So I think CMR plays wide open in the bowl, we impress some kids on the fence, we pull some surprises and we move into next year smarter wiser and ready to step up....we win our division and play for the conference title. I would be happy!

[VA Cane]

Football is copycat!!!!! So I am a cheater....TBC certainly has it right....no argument here.

I could not agree more...though along with Richards....I would give the 3 Frosh LBs a lot of credit and a nod to joe Jackson.....I love defenders and linemen....

I love Manny he is great.....he is a fiery guy who really gets into it...Coach Kool as well....

I tend to look at things very transparently, try to call em like I see it...as a coach. We played much better this year; way better than last year. A few breaks, a little more aggressive attack on O, a little better line play....and we are a impressive 11-1.

I see us going places and really stepping up next year...no NC....but a team playing better with a lot of self confidence. It can happen; the school, coaches, players and fans deserve it. I believe and love ....DEM CANES!!!!!

[Hassan]

Va Cane

http://247sports.com/Player/Elijah-Conliffe-84041

what do you think of this kid, just set up a visit to Miami

[SOUP]

Overall, I cannot say we are back, but the kids played hard, and never quit....thats the brightest spot of all, and a great foundation! So I think CMR plays wide open in the bowl, we impress some kids on the fence, we pull some surprises and we move into next year smarter wiser and ready to step up....we win our division and play for the conference title. I would be happy!

Posted by: VA Cane | December 05, 2016 at 08:54 PM

There IT is right there.

[VA Cane]

Hassan,

my older brother coaches down there, and my younger brother works down there and follows football. Seen some tape; Skipper my big brother says he is really good....needs and showed a lot more aggression this year. Looks like Bama has him....but hey I would fight for him!!!

[VA Cane]

He would really add a key cog in our D attack....and Manny and Kool would have him breathing fire. He is a big guy with unlimited potential!!