If This Is It

As a result of the announcement by the ACC this week of the cancellation of the Georgia Tech game scheduled for December 19, your Miami Hurricanes will enter today's game against North Carolina at Hard Rock Stadium as their final game of the 2020 college football regular season.

And oh, what a season it has been so far.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many players have missed home games or have been prevented from traveling to games on the road. Many conferences and teams have had games postponed or cancelled outright.

So with this being the final game for UM this season we are hoping to remain head over heels in love with our team and head coach Manny Diaz.

To his credit, Diaz has managed to navigate many obstacles, jump through several hoops and over more than a few hurdles to get the Hurricanes to 8-1 during this very trying and tumultuous college football season.

Singer/songwriter Huey Lewis broke the news (pun intended) to us in one of his hit songs from 1983. It was a very good year and the chorus went like this:

If this is it, please let me know
If this ain't love you'd better let me go
If this is it, I want to know
If this ain't love baby, just say so

So a win today would go a long way to solidify our current love affair with Manny and Miami in 2020. This final game will say a lot about where this team is and where it might be going in 2021. It will definitely impact recruiting this off-season and a win could be enough to push the Hurricanes over the top for some of the top talent in the Country in the 2021 class.

A loss today against the Tar Heels could have the opposite effect on the fans' current cozy relationship with Diaz and could be a barrier to landing the talent in 2021 that Miami needs to land to compete with Clemson and Notre Dame for an ACC championship. Only time will tell if true love is here to stay.

Huey Lewis (And The News) summed it all up pretty well just like this:

I'll be alright one way or another
So let me go, or make we want to stay
If this is it, please let me know
If this ain't love you'd better let me know
If this is it, I want to know
If this ain't love baby, just say so  

We hope true love is here to stay, so we will predict the game this way:

Miami 34 - North Carolina 13

Comments

[alpine]

wow, another excellent blog, 86
. . . a bloggers eq 8-1!

[YooperCane]

Please don’t lay a big ol goose egg, go canes!

[alpine]

^^hit some wrong buttons with my 4th & 5th über-ambidextrous fingers
"a bloggers equivalent to 8-1"

[alpine]

canes v. fg?? 28.28 at halftime

good game, but we lost 2 more players in rodney miller & kam mcgusty to injury
. . . having to play walk-ons now & again, like berenton?!

[alpine]

miami losing 50-48
good game; just wish we could play with all our bullets some year

[alpine]

miami losing by 3 with about 90 seconds left
zero 3-pt shoooting, like last game (1 of 13, i believe, after 1 of 17 last game)

[alpine]

1 0f 17 today too i just saw
= shit

[86Cane]

wow, another excellent blog, 86
. . . a bloggers equivalent of 8-1!

Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 01:03 PM

Thank U Sir!

Even a blind squirrel...

[86Cane]

Final score of BB game?

[alpine]

ended 3 of 19 in 3's, but too little too late. . . . sooooo tired of canes' constant injuries the last 3 years . .. i just want to see them play with their full roster and see what that looks like, instead of guys gassed at the end

[alpine]

66-62 was the final score, i think

[alpine]

FGCU beats miami for the 2nd time (also in 2012, i believe)

i thought walker, wong, beverly, nysier played real well tonight; just needed a mcgusty and/or lykes for 3's, ball-handling, minutes

[AeroCane]

Old man L = average to below average coach
We should beat FGCG without our full starting 5 - no excuses

[86Cane]

Old man L = average to below average coach
We should beat FGCG without our full starting 5 - no excuses

Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 02:06 PM

Basketball be funny like that. Any team can beat almost any other team on a good/bad day on the court. Too stressful for me to watch, my life is stressful enough as is.

[AeroCane]

Hunt out today / IMO that hurts our DL

[AeroCane]

Knighton out as well. I look for Chaney to have an excellent game. I’m very impressed with him.

[AfriCane]

Everyone predicting high scores. But watch this be a defensive slug fest.

[alpine]

Basketball be funny like that. Any team can beat almost any other team on a good/bad day on the court. Too stressful for me to watch, my life is stressful enough as is.

Posted by: 86Cane | December 12, 2020 at 02:29 PM

good point
. . . today, one of their guys who has hit a total of 1 3-pt'er out of 6 in their first games, suddenly went off to the tune of 5 3-pt'ers

[alpine]

Old man L = average to below average coach
We should beat FGCG without our full starting 5 - no excuses
Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 02:06 PM

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i see that someone wasn't able to call for the head of the defensive coordinator's head during the duke football game; channelling that frustration elsewhere

[AeroCane]

No alpine
I’m just not an excuse maker for the overrated coach L

[toledocane]

Woah!!! Those uni's...

[Sarasota 'cane]

Game Day! Let’s kick this bitch!

Go ‘canes!

[VA Cane]

field goal would like TD...beat on that bomb....nice pass kid is really good

[AeroCane]

Baker proving his worth on this drive! Lol
What’s your excuse for him alpine?

[YooperCane]

C’mon Canes! The D needs to keep us in this game. Don’t like what I see from the D on this series. Go canes !!

[YooperCane]

No bueno

[AeroCane]

Need Chaney at RB

[VA Cane]

I do not see that intensity...that will ...want to win. See what NC does this drive, see how we step up..or not and who has that desire to win!

[YooperCane]

We need to wake the fuck up, NC smells blood in the water

[VA Cane]

that is a insight that last run...power speed and finish by punishing...got to tackle...read

[YooperCane]

Man, they are fucking gashing our D

[VA Cane]

good call...hurts...people not thinking as always....so no TO....story of us since 03!!!!!!...lol

[YooperCane]

Phuck Mac and the rest of them bafoons! Where’s the phuckin fire?

[VA Cane]

when you do not convert...especially 3 and 1...you do not want it....JMO

[YooperCane]

What a debacle, we absolutely stink

[YooperCane]

WTF, we are done!

[VA Cane]

my error like Brady...4 and 1 then get smoked.....there is no fire....except in the dumpster eh KY....LOL

[AeroCane]

Lashlee has to be the worst 3rd and short and 4th and short OC

Baker needs to be fired now!

[YooperCane]

Everyone was right, NC was gonna take this game

[AeroCane]

Need to immediately take out mccloud and Jennings
That may help a little
And lashlee needs some imagination on short yardage

[YooperCane]

I knew we were going to lay a big goose egg. We are no where near being a top ten team. We are lucky to even being ranked. Manny and crew are responsible for not being ready. What a damn shit show, we are definitely in a big phuckin hole. Are our coaches that incompetent? Manny in the side lines like he is lost! I am so phuckin pissed! I thought we were better than this 😡

[alpine]

i don't know 'bout you guys, but right now imma prayin' the sun is gonna come up in the morning . . . armeggeddon, baby!

[YooperCane]

Lashlee is basura, Baker is a moron and Manny is a ass clown.

[VA Cane]

Trust me it will....sometimes game day just aint your day...ya know sun dont shine on the same dogs tail all the time.....it is what it is...got to play hard fight through it and give your best effort whatever the outcome!!!
IJS

[Killerbeez41]

Today's terrible player of the game on D is #44. The damn TV guys highlighted him. SMH!!!!

[YooperCane]

What an embarrassment, absolutely nothing to hang out hats on. No fire whatsoever! 😡

[YooperCane]

So when so you put in a new quarterback? Obviously King is not getting it done, just saying

[YooperCane]

Manny and team in a fog? Much more than that my man.

[AeroCane]

Lashlee is basura, Baker is a moron and Manny is a ass clown.

Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:39 PM

Perfectly said! AND Correct!

[YooperCane]

Don’t expect any adjustments in the 2nd half, these coaches don’t have a damn clue.