In a famous line from one of my favorite movies Top Gun, actor Tom Cruise is quoted as saying: "I feel the need, the need for speed."
Well apparently in the ever emerging script being written by Manny Diaz in his effort to build "The New Miami", Diaz felt a need to reach back into The Old Miami days and dig deep into Hurricane history and tap former UM player and NFL Hall of Famer Ed Reed as his new Chief of Staff for the University of Miami football team.
If you the fans were waiting for it to get real, and really get better at UM, well it just did. It doesn't get any more real than Ed Reed.
This is not only a "step in the right direction" this is a huge "leap into the future" for the once legendary, but recently tarnished, Miami Hurricane football program. With this one move accountability has returned to Coral Gables.
While many, including myself, were already prepared to accept Diaz's demise after year two, this move may turn out to be the saving grace that actually results in "The New Miami" lasting a little bit longer than we may have expected and hopefully longer than just the wink of a young girl's eye.
While it is way too early to know or predict how much or how soon Reed will impact this team, we the fans must be encouraged by this sudden and unexpected positive turn of events. We like it, and we like it a lot.
For now, I will leave you with one thought in the form of a question: Is it random chance, just circumstance or maybe a divine intervention that #20 is coming back to resurrect the Miami Hurricanes football program in 2020?
Cool
Posted by: solarcane | January 30, 2020 at 11:26 PM
Back to The Future
Posted by: solarcane | January 30, 2020 at 11:28 PM
Sit the Fyk down, and shut the fyk up?
Posted by: solarcane | January 30, 2020 at 07:58 PM
I'd use it as a blog title but no sure the ladies and kids would like it?
Posted by: 86Cane | January 30, 2020 at 11:35 PM
That Need for Reed was Money soup
Posted by: solarcane | January 30, 2020 at 11:40 PM
just the wink of a young girl's eye.....
ok Glory Days nice little hidden gem there along with fine article things are looking better....
Im Hurt Dawg!!!!!!
Posted by: VA Cane | January 31, 2020 at 01:36 AM
Ed REED, WOW, maybe he gets s chance to get one of these late commit's to change their mind, maybe two.
Imagine you are recruit from south Florida, a corner back, safety or defensive player and Ed Reed
comes up to you and says "we need you dog we need ya" you never know.
Posted by: Harry Miller | January 31, 2020 at 02:00 AM
Sorry should have been Dawg!!
Posted by: Harry Miller | January 31, 2020 at 02:04 AM
REALLY good article, mr. 86!
last paragraph was the cherry on top
. . . well done!!
Posted by: alpine | January 31, 2020 at 03:26 AM
we all hope that our hero, captain ed
will be able to get in the team's head
cause that warrior brings instant cred
he'll let 'em know, orange & green should be bled
Posted by: alpine | January 31, 2020 at 03:26 AM
still wondering who or what can get the OL to finally earn all those stars they were given at the high school level
Posted by: alpine | January 31, 2020 at 03:30 AM
Responding to AeroCane about why I'm ok with Patke and think he's going to be a good one for us.
Posted by: AeroCane | January 30, 2020 at 08:08 PM
Baxa was awful, but when a kicker gets the shanks it's very tough to any coach to fix. This isn't the NFL where you can just cut a guy and bring another one in, we had to scramble with walk ons.
Aside from him, special teams were much improved last season.
Osborn was 3rd in the country in average punt returns:
https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/individual/15
Headley was 26th did a great job pinning other teams deep:
https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/individual/17
Finley played great football all season at striker and I can't remember giving up a punt or KO TD this season, but don't hold me to it.
That's a pretty dramatic turnaround from 2018 don't you think?
Posted by: Go Canes!! | January 30, 2020 at 09:25 PM
Posted by: Go Canes!! | January 31, 2020 at 05:54 AM
after all these off season changes, anything less then 8 wins will be a total failure of a season....
and I mean a failure much worse then the 6-7 season we just had (prospectively speaking)
Posted by: raizecane | January 31, 2020 at 07:12 AM
just the wink of a young girl's eye.....
Posted by: VA Cane | January 31, 2020 at 01:36 AM
Wait, somebody actually read the article?
My life's purpose has been fulfilled!
Posted by: SOUP | January 31, 2020 at 08:14 AM
That Need for Reed was Money soup
Posted by: solarcane | January 30, 2020 at 11:40 PM
The things that just pop into my head.
Very fine line between genius and crazy.
Yeah, I'm going wuth crazy over here.
Posted by: SOUP | January 31, 2020 at 08:16 AM
last paragraph was the cherry on top
. . . well done!!
Posted by: alpine | January 31, 2020 at 03:26 AM
You know what they say about blind squirrels.
Posted by: SOUP | January 31, 2020 at 08:17 AM
Posted by: raizecane | January 31, 2020 at 07:12 AM
8 wins would mean at least two bad losses, maybe three.
There’s no way Manny could or should survive that.
Posted by: Go Canes!! | January 31, 2020 at 08:43 AM
So does Reed help reel in williams?
Posted by: AeroCane | January 31, 2020 at 10:41 AM
We’re the off-season National Champs!! F yeah!
Can’t wait to see the banner raised next season.
When do they vote on the off season coach of the year?
Posted by: Schnelly | January 31, 2020 at 10:45 AM
Schnelly,
You don't think Lashlee is an improvement over Enos or
King is an improvement over Williams Kosi and Tate?
Is Reed an improvement over nobody?
Just wondering.
Posted by: solarcane | January 31, 2020 at 11:14 AM
Schnelly,
You don't think Lashlee is an improvement over Enos or
King is an improvement over Williams Kosi and Tate?
Is Reed an improvement over nobody?
Just wondering.
Posted by: solarcane | January 31, 2020 at 11:14 AM
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My answer to all the above is "NO" and only because we have not seen the new additions with the existing Canes.
Posted by: raizecane | January 31, 2020 at 11:27 AM
Fair enough raize
I already feel no Enos/Williams is an improvement in that the doomed atmosphere that they cast over the team was a cancer and that has been eliminated.
What Reed brings we will have to wait and see.
Posted by: solarcane | January 31, 2020 at 12:02 PM
Schnelly,
Come on dude, those are improvements, u can say it. I know your bitter and so is The Herb BUT it ain't always going to be this way. I know 16 years is a long time BUT look how long it took for us to get good to begin with.
The changes are good, I want to see results on the field starting with the first game. No more scrapping by bottom feeders or losing to them because if that happens, judgement day is coming for Manuel.
Does Reed help us get William's, winning and thumping heads may help. These supposed superstars love some flavors of the month and as long as the SEC is strong they will continue to mow our back yard.
The only saving grace is if we make it too the ACC championship game against Clemson and we look good winning or losing and of course we win the bowl game. Now as u know most if our recruiting class will probably be full when and if that happens but it should help elevate the class of 22.
Posted by: TheHerb | January 31, 2020 at 12:32 PM
HUGE improvements this off season. Addition by subtraction in several cases. Players out past curfew the night before laying a massive turd vs FIU leave the team better off when they leave! Enos - and I admit being very hopeful re that crap addict - became the problem.
2 problems HAD to be addressed: The lack of even a semblance of an offense AND the piss poor losing attitude and lack of effort. CMD has addressed both. It’s on Lashlee to cure the offense. #20 will immediately cure the attitude. Boys better become MEN real fast.
Only word of caution.... building a winning program doesn’t happen overnight and last. We’ve been fooled before by a single good season that is inevitably followed up with crap. We’ll be good before great and great before champions again. Success will bring in the “stars”... but CMD & Co must learn to win with what we got - the “stars” aren’t coming south based on words and promises. If the offense works and we start playing good ball, the winning will follow, and then the recruiting rankings will go up.
Posted by: DallasTX Cane | January 31, 2020 at 01:14 PM
BTW - nice blog article 86
Posted by: DallasTX Cane | January 31, 2020 at 01:15 PM
Great blog title and article! Who was instrumental in hiring him though? Tome it seems like he was brought in to supervise Mandy?
Posted by: CGNC | January 31, 2020 at 01:37 PM
Posted by: solarcane | January 31, 2020 at 11:14 AM
Enos being gone is an improvement, but I am wit Raize, until I actually see it improve on the field.
Posted by: CGNC | January 31, 2020 at 01:51 PM
I hope a lot of 17 and 18 year olds realize who Ed Reed is.
I can picture Diaz introducing Reed to the future recruits and the recruits asking each other what the homeless dude did before he worked in the front office.
Posted by: solarcane | January 31, 2020 at 01:53 PM
Good one Solar on the homeless dude.
Posted by: HerbieIbis | January 31, 2020 at 02:28 PM
Great article Soup! I don't know if its random chance, circumstance or divine intervention, but it will be comforting to know that #20 will be around the program in CMD's ear.
Posted by: BigWindyCane1 | January 31, 2020 at 02:36 PM
Great article about high school football in South Florida.
https://sports.yahoo.com/sorry-texas-california-ohio-this-is-how-south-florida-took-over-the-football-world-130021743.html?soc_src=community&soc_trk=fb
Posted by: BigWindyCane1 | January 31, 2020 at 02:36 PM
When do they vote on the off season coach of the year?
Posted by: Schnelly | January 31, 2020 at 10:45 AM
What, U missed it? The voting is ova.
Manny Diaz won hands down with 64% of the vote.
Posted by: 86Cane | January 31, 2020 at 02:57 PM
Tome it seems like he was brought in to supervise Mandy?
Posted by: CGNC | January 31, 2020 at 01:37 PM
Negative IMHO. Can't elaborate too much right now, at work, more later.
Posted by: 86Cane | January 31, 2020 at 02:58 PM
BTW - nice blog article 86
Posted by: DallasTX Cane | January 31, 2020 at 01:15 PM
Thank you Sir!
Not too bad for some real estate guy trying to pretend he's a blogger if I say so myself.
Posted by: 86Cane | January 31, 2020 at 03:01 PM
Tampa Bay Times stating that the best, most logical landing spot for Brady would be the Bucs. Jameis being dumped for a 42 year-old ... it couldn't happen to a nice guy
Posted by: Old Skool | January 31, 2020 at 03:30 PM
Posted by: BigWindyCane1 | January 31, 2020 at 02:36 PM
Good stuff Windy, thanks
Posted by: solarcane | January 31, 2020 at 03:47 PM
I do see a lot of Change...
86 Change is the most important aspect of Real Property...not size, location, bedrooms, lot...it is change....a paltry corner can go to a high dollar lot due to a zoning change....a fine suburban community can decline change and allow a hog farm due to a zoning change...its forever changing...AS YOU KNOW fellow expert!!!
change we have seen at UM in a short time...I wanted the BOT AD and coaches fired...but it did not happen and probably a little drastic on me...JMO
Manhole got rid of people...EnosPa (for you CGNC)had to go...it just did not work. He has gotten wise to Offense...we had to change to the spread run shoot aerial attack whatever you want to call it...what JK Bernie Vinnie Erickson Walsh Gino and KD11 did does not matter...this aint then! Lashley has a nice attack...but it will not happen immediately. King is a working part of this O. He will not be Joe Burrow tomorrow...but its a start. We have picked up a couple guys that will help..good DE kicker. The OL is the glaring weakness....King cannot run forever on every play. The slow plodding cinder block footed fat lazy stupid lineman must be dismissed...whomever it is or all of them...there is no room here.
The real key is the attitude. I am certain ER20 has that covered. The old cry pout love losing hang with my guys has got to go! We must learn to HATE losing it may happen but there are consequences for it....we must learn to HATE HIT HURT every play in practice scrimmage spring game regular game bowl game...hate your teammate in practice and beat him for PT....there is no love on the field for anyone except on SAT...love your guys!
I want all of this badly...but it will not happen overnight. I do think they are good moves...but time has a way of slowing hopes and dreams down. All must buy in ....BOT AD ER20 Manhole Staff and players....
I look forward to seeing this progress on the filed not on paper...it is a start...we have been here before, but at least Manhole did not hesitate...he did something quick and swift!
Posted by: VA Cane | January 31, 2020 at 03:49 PM
Ed Reed explains everything wrong with Miami, and the exact day the culture went into the toilet(The 7th Floor Crew)
https://247sports.com/college/miami/Article/Miami-Hurricanes-Football-Chief-of-Staff-Ed-Reed-shares-his-thoughts-on-what-needs-to-change-at-Miami-143137709/
Posted by: solarcane | January 31, 2020 at 03:59 PM
Some good quotes by ER in the latest BJ article in the Herald. Particularly love the one about how everyone hates Miami and the team knew it. "Nobody likes Miami. We knew everybody, every game was a national championship game."
Posted by: Old Skool | January 31, 2020 at 04:24 PM
The money is officially insane.
https://twitter.com/braggbobby/status/1223381726229147649?s=21
Posted by: Go Canes!! | January 31, 2020 at 06:20 PM
Lashlee hasn’t coached a game for us, King hasn’t thrown a pass for us, the kicker has won a game for us, that DE hasn’t sacked a QB for us. But we still have the worst head coach most of us have ever seen. We still have the worst OL most of us have ever seem, we still have a culture that seems to accept losing.
Sorry to rain on the parade folks, but we suck. And I’m convinced we suck until we play and win. I don’t know, i guess I’m weird like that.
Posted by: Schnelly | January 31, 2020 at 09:34 PM
Any update on the WR coach?
Posted by: AeroCane | January 31, 2020 at 09:36 PM
Sorry to rain on the parade folks, but we suck. And I’m convinced we suck until we play and win. I don’t know, i guess I’m weird like that.
Posted by: Schnelly | January 31, 2020 at 09:34 PM
Look, we ALL understand that you are butt hurt. We all are and we have all been in your shoes at one time or another. But to be negative in the face of positive news is the same idiotic behavior as being positive in the face of negative news.
When Go Canes was trying to keep hope alive when we knew it was already dead we gave him the business. But he was a grown man, stood his ground, never ran away and hid and took a couple solid blows to the head and gave some back. Eventually he played fair and square and admitted that myabe his hopes were too high for too long. And we all gained more respect for him as a result. Well everyone but OGV but you get what I am saying.
Now we are going to give you the business and you need to shift your negativitiy for negativity's sake just because you are hurt and bitter. If you need a safe space or a blanky or your Mommy or a bottle of Vodka and valium or a night in Vegas then just go and cleanse yourself from your inner demons and just let go.
Because if not we are going to send you for your first and possibly last meeting with #20 Ed Reed. And like SolarCane said he will tell you very politely: Sit the fyk down and shut the fyk up!
Posted by: 86Cane | January 31, 2020 at 09:58 PM
If anything at all, manny is making major moves. Hope we win more than the offseason championship.
Posted by: AfriCane | January 31, 2020 at 11:35 PM
I have to see progress on the field...and I have said my piece through all the years...I am hard on Manhole...i am a coach and I have done a lot with it...BUT...I still have to give people credit..Manny BJ and the BOT...they have miffed me...but some moves were made some things got done there WERE some changes and we got a few kids. It aint Disneyland but its people not not sitting on there hands....change 89 change...The Key..in real estate...and when things go bad...change it!! I want to see results on the field..but the work since the bowl increases the chances result can happen!
Dont pee on my leg and tell me its raining on my parade!
They said they would make changes and they have...so lets ride it out and see!!!!!
Posted by: VA Cane | February 01, 2020 at 12:26 AM
I am liking the changes I am seeing. I have updated my Projection from 6-7 to 7-6 now to 8-5. Keep trending up Canes!
Posted by: Terrance M Sullivan | February 01, 2020 at 12:38 AM
Posted by: 86Cane | January 31, 2020 at 09:58 PM
oooohhh, 86 begins the weekend with a mic-drop!
Posted by: alpine | February 01, 2020 at 02:42 AM
when my team is not in the super bowl, which it hasn't for over 40 years, i get sooooo tired of the super bowl build-up
can't wait for the football season to finally finish
Posted by: alpine | February 01, 2020 at 02:46 AM
The money is officially insane.
https://twitter.com/braggbobby/status/1223381726229147649?s=21
Posted by: Go Canes!! | January 31, 2020 at 06:20 PM
good post
. . . hard to imagine the 20-years-from-now state of affairs in sports & other entertainment, but we know college football's gonna look a lot different
Posted by: alpine | February 01, 2020 at 02:51 AM
How long of a chronic poster do I have to be before I’m allowed to have my honest opinion?
Maybe I can disguise my contempt with a clever nicknames of the coaches. That negativity seems to be accepted and encouraged.
Posted by: Schnelly | February 01, 2020 at 06:03 AM
Posted by: Schnelly | February 01, 2020 at 06:03 AM
You can have any opinion you want. You just need to be prepared to be called out on it when someone disagrees with it.
No one is banning you or telling you to shut up.
Posted by: Go Canes!! | February 01, 2020 at 08:07 AM