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
wow, another excellent blog, 86
. . . a bloggers eq 8-1!
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 01:03 PM
Please don’t lay a big ol goose egg, go canes!
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 01:03 PM
^^hit some wrong buttons with my 4th & 5th über-ambidextrous fingers
"a bloggers equivalent to 8-1"
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 01:04 PM
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?!
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 01:06 PM
miami losing 50-48
good game; just wish we could play with all our bullets some year
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 01:41 PM
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)
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 01:51 PM
1 0f 17 today too i just saw
= shit
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 01:51 PM
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...
Posted by: 86Cane | December 12, 2020 at 01:59 PM
Final score of BB game?
Posted by: 86Cane | December 12, 2020 at 02:00 PM
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
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 02:01 PM
66-62 was the final score, i think
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 02:01 PM
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
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 02:03 PM
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
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.
Posted by: 86Cane | December 12, 2020 at 02:29 PM
Hunt out today / IMO that hurts our DL
Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 02:43 PM
Knighton out as well. I look for Chaney to have an excellent game. I’m very impressed with him.
Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 02:46 PM
Everyone predicting high scores. But watch this be a defensive slug fest.
Posted by: AfriCane | December 12, 2020 at 03:10 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.
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
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 03:18 PM
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
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 03:19 PM
No alpine
I’m just not an excuse maker for the overrated coach L
Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 03:29 PM
Woah!!! Those uni's...
Posted by: toledocane | December 12, 2020 at 03:39 PM
Game Day! Let’s kick this bitch!
Go ‘canes!
Posted by: Sarasota 'cane | December 12, 2020 at 03:42 PM
field goal would like TD...beat on that bomb....nice pass kid is really good
Posted by: VA Cane | December 12, 2020 at 03:55 PM
Baker proving his worth on this drive! Lol
What’s your excuse for him alpine?
Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:01 PM
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 !!
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:06 PM
No bueno
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:08 PM
Need Chaney at RB
Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:09 PM
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!
Posted by: VA Cane | December 12, 2020 at 04:09 PM
We need to wake the fuck up, NC smells blood in the water
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:10 PM
that is a insight that last run...power speed and finish by punishing...got to tackle...read
Posted by: VA Cane | December 12, 2020 at 04:11 PM
Man, they are fucking gashing our D
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:11 PM
good call...hurts...people not thinking as always....so no TO....story of us since 03!!!!!!...lol
Posted by: VA Cane | December 12, 2020 at 04:13 PM
Phuck Mac and the rest of them bafoons! Where’s the phuckin fire?
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:20 PM
when you do not convert...especially 3 and 1...you do not want it....JMO
Posted by: VA Cane | December 12, 2020 at 04:25 PM
What a debacle, we absolutely stink
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:25 PM
WTF, we are done!
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:26 PM
my error like Brady...4 and 1 then get smoked.....there is no fire....except in the dumpster eh KY....LOL
Posted by: VA Cane | December 12, 2020 at 04:26 PM
Lashlee has to be the worst 3rd and short and 4th and short OC
Baker needs to be fired now!
Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:26 PM
Everyone was right, NC was gonna take this game
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:27 PM
Need to immediately take out mccloud and Jennings
That may help a little
And lashlee needs some imagination on short yardage
Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:30 PM
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 😡
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:33 PM
i don't know 'bout you guys, but right now imma prayin' the sun is gonna come up in the morning . . . armeggeddon, baby!
Posted by: alpine | December 12, 2020 at 04:37 PM
Lashlee is basura, Baker is a moron and Manny is a ass clown.
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:39 PM
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
Posted by: VA Cane | December 12, 2020 at 04:40 PM
Today's terrible player of the game on D is #44. The damn TV guys highlighted him. SMH!!!!
Posted by: Killerbeez41 | December 12, 2020 at 04:41 PM
What an embarrassment, absolutely nothing to hang out hats on. No fire whatsoever! 😡
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:45 PM
So when so you put in a new quarterback? Obviously King is not getting it done, just saying
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:49 PM
Manny and team in a fog? Much more than that my man.
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:51 PM
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!
Posted by: AeroCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:54 PM
Don’t expect any adjustments in the 2nd half, these coaches don’t have a damn clue.
Posted by: YooperCane | December 12, 2020 at 04:57 PM