Bullshit. That’s the complete opposite of the system they created—why Miami got no credit for beating ranked teams in No. 18 South Florida or No. 18 Florida State—in late November polls last year, as both had dropped out of the Top 25 by later in the year. It’s also why the polls were propping up Missouri and Tennessee late November last years—three and four losses—but inside the Top 25 so Alabama got two more “ranked wins” on their resume. In your economy Miami gets no credit for beating what’s turned out to be an above-average No. 14 Wake Forest team—but Oklahoma State gets a credit for beating a No. 6 Oregon team who has been exposed as a complete fraud and now has three losses and is outside the Top 25. Hilarious how the fucking needle only moves in a direction that never benefits Miami.

Exactly. Clemson and Florida State are two of the last eight programs to win national titles and represent three of the last 13 seasons—both could’ve been game-of-the-year type Top 10 match-ups if either had their shit together. Neither are doing their jobs, but that’s somehow Miami’s fault schedule-wise. Great logic.

Yes, because it’s Miami’s fault that once-great conference teams like Clemson, Florida State and Virginia Tech aren’t holding up their end of the bargain—or that the South Carolina home and home this year (and next) was cancelled due to nine-game schedules in the SEC and ACC. You know Miami; notorious for ducking competition. Look at to schedule and how fast it went from brutal to not as big of a deal with Oregon, Southern Cal, Nebraska and Michigan all ate some shit and are no longer ranked.

Yup, that’s what cost McGahee in 2002 when it was him and Dorsey and Palmer won it. Dorsey should’ve won over Crouch in 2001 and that would’ve had a lot of his 2002 support going for McGahee.

Toney is a special a player I’ve seen in college football in a very long time, if ever, and while Mensah is the best quarterback with the best numbers, if you are going on that “special” factor … Toney is just a one of one game-changer and extra-gear kind of guy.

Take a breather from the whining about the offensive line, secondary and every other imperfection and look at where @CanesFootball sits in year five under @Coach_Cristobal. Then listen to what the haters are relying on to cope. Against #FloridaState, it was outrage over a Hail Mary flag; against #Pittsburgh, it was feigned outrage over attendance at a noon game. It’s become Whack-A-Mole: Moron Edition as we smack down their half-baked takes, only to see new stupidity popping up. Empty seats. Rented stadium. Haven’t won the ACC. Couldn’t win the natty at home. Blah, blah, fucking blah-blah. Win the conference this year and watch it'll become, “Only won the ACC once!”—see some bad calls against Miami and they’ll be “deserved” for past sins. For people who spent decades accusing #Miami fans of living in the past, this contingent is awfully-dependent on keeping the conversation there—and by design—as the reality is the present becoming a real problem. Duke lands #DarianMensah from Tulane? Great pickup. The kid leaves Durham for a better opportunity down south? The #Canes represent everything wrong with college football. #PatNarduzzi wants to grandstand about “tampering”—he comes off as half-baked as his defensive back who swore they had a plan to stop #MalachiToney—gaslighting as if this current era of college football is build on handshakes and honor codes everywhere but Coral Gables. Last year was supposed to ‘expose' Miami. Remember our favorite jaded former #Seminoles quarterback #DannyKanell predicting the Canes wouldn’t even make a bowl? They finished 13-3 and played for a national championship. This year, Miami supposedly couldn’t replace its personnel losses. Now it’s 7-0 and No. 1—so blame the schedule, while ignoring the fact Miami is doing its job and the likes of Florida State, Clemson, Virginia Tech others aren’t holding up their end of the bargain, because in what world should the Noles, Tigers or Hokies be unranked teams when facing the Canes? There’s always another bullshit explanation as the target moves; anything to avoid acknowledging what’s being built behind the scenes here. And that’s the part even some Miami fans need to appreciate: in more than four decades following this program, I’ve never seen the university this aligned and on the same page, financially-invested in building a football powerhouse. The old joke was that UM never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity—and who could argue? Cheap hires. Half-measures. An operating model built on local talent covering institutional shortcomings. It worked until it didn’t and before we knew it, 7-5 became a lifestyle with a very liberal president who loved her medical school and saw athletics as a necessary evil. Cristobal didn’t leave Oregon’s money and resources to come home on a handshake and a nostalgia pitch; Miami finally committed to funding the ambition— because without that, he wasn’t coming home. And now look at who’s driving it. A white-collar world President in  #JoeEchevarria, who ran Deloitte LLP, before leading U-Health and ultimately the university—which he’s also doing like a CEO, more than an administrator. Listen to him discuss conference economics, media rights and Miami’s future; the man understands investment, leverage and what happens when your business outgrows its arrangement. Miami stayed out of the courtroom while Clemson and Florida State became the public faces of the ACC fight … and UM still benefited from the settlement’s television-based revenue changes, earning and keeping $20 million from its CFP run under the conference’s success incentives. Let somebody else lead the legal fight; be positioned to capitalize and deliver while others took their eye off the ball. Board chairman #MannyKadre helped deliver the cash-heavy Nike agreement worth more than $200-million over the next decade. #RudyFernandez, a Vice President and basically Echevarria’s right-hand man—he started his legacy helping bring Cristobal home and remains deeply involved in aligning university resources with football. While outsiders were fixated on the flashier John Ruiz, lower-profile power players like José and Jorge Mas were part of the circle helping shape Miami’s direction—and now @CanesConnection is benchmark for a well-oiled NIL machine. These people know how to build businesses and several know how to run professional sports organizations, as well. And the next athletics hire appears designed to strengthen that approach; the last reported shortlist consisted entirely of candidates with pro sports experience. Think franchise president: someone who can turn Miami’s brand into corporate partnerships and recurring revenue. That’s how you sustain this; turn attention into revenue, turn revenue into resources and ultimately give your coaches all means possible to keep winning big and loading up each new roster. For years, “Miami is back” was a television segment waiting to become a punchline after the next loss; fueled by the media, and consumed by rival fans—the early season vitriol when the Canes were hyped and the jubilation as the media tore the team down after a few later-year losses. That was then, this is now and success is becoming a pattern. Ten wins in 2024. Thirteen and a national championship appearance in 2025. A 7-0 start in 2026. Thirty wins across that stretch; that’s a hell of a long fluke. Does it guarantee a national championship this year? Of course not. There are still flaws to fix, players that need to get healthy, games to win and a late-season gear like last season, were Miami seemed to get stronger as the stakes got raised. But a bad quarter—or a bad Saturday—it doesn’t erase the operation behind this team. Miami has a born-and-bred head coach who views restoring this program as his life’s work, a president who understands its value and a leadership group willing to back the ambition with resources. The people making the decisions finally expect what the fans always held as the standard; and that in itself is nothing short of a miracle for a small private university in South Florida that has zero business competing with powerhouse state schools or public universities across the nation. Cristobal said it: Miami isn’t “back”—Miami is HERE—and even scarier for the haters, it’s not going anywhere by up from this point forward. The jaded bozos can keep counting empty seats or whining about schedules; the people running this program are building something that lasts and this fan base is only getting more emboldened after two decades of irrelevance. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Knocking biased reporting from a hack, paid SEC shill on ESPN isn't "whining"—it's calling bullshit. Thanks. We're done here.

I'm sorry but the "ranked teams" is a fucking racket in a sport where the SEC remains a protected class and good ACC teams are second-rate citizens. Missouri and Tennessee remained ranked late last season and no reason that was the case outside to prop up Alabama's "ranked wins" by keeping those two in the fold. Louisville should've been a preseason Top 25 team last year; instead they get to Miami at 4-1 and unranked. Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh met weeks ago this season when both were 4-0 and neither was ranked; first time in decades you had two undefeated P4 teams at that point of the season and neither was ranked. Wake Forest wasn't ranked this season until last week when they got to 5-1, with their loss to No. 5 Miami and their upset of No. 16 Louisville. Back to the original point you hijacked; Dinich running with some late-October narrative where she is selling Miami losing the ACC title game and sitting at 11-2 on the outside looking in—it is her effort to shill for her bosses at ESPN, as their network paid $3-billion for a decade worth of SEC television rights a few year ago and it's good business for them to have some 9-3 SEC team in (who didn't reach the conference title game) than an 11-2 Miami team that lost the ACC Championship. Rigged game; end of story. Thanks.

... here we go with the jaded Virginia Tech guy all rattled that Miami has been building a behemoth again the past three years. Yeah, we all get it—the Donna Shalala era of Miami football and a poorly-funded athletics department resulted in a bunch of second-rate head coaches for years, as the program ate shit and underachieved. And then those constant 7-5 season became a 30-6 run the past three years and Miami is contender again. Choked away a shot at an ACC title in 2024 with the loss at Syracuse and a bad defense. Screwed out of playing for it last year due to a lame tiebreaker that sent five-loss Duke; made up for it as a 10-see that won three huge CFP games en route to a national title appearance. 7-0 right now and No. 1 in the country in what is year three of the Cristobal rebuild after he purged that disaster of a roster and had to rebuild the culture those first two years. We good now; thanks.

Yeah, that was sort of what them going on the "no penalty for losing conference games"—when you talk Alabama or an SEC power—but they definitely are planting anti-Miami seeds to leave the Canes out for some 9-3 team in the SEC if UM were to wind up 11-2 and ACC runner-up.

You're really going to bang the drum that SMU beating No. 22 Louisville and No. 18 Pittsburgh in 2024 was somehow more impressive than Miami beating Wake Forest (currently ranked No. 14), Clemson, Florida State, Pittsburgh, Duke and Virginia Tech this year? It's even, at best—and all we heard last fucking year was about "quality losses" all over the SEC or Big Ten. Losing on the road to a top five Notre Dame team in South Bend or in a rematch to what could be a top ten Wake Forest team in a few weeks—that's not more impressive than SMU losing to an unranked BYU team and a 9-3 Clemson team that year that didn't have one ranked win? The moving of the goalposts here is fucking hilarious ... but you're a jaded Florida fan so it adds up.

Exactly. Miami and Notre Dame fans have enough beef; pitting them against each other last year and gaslighting that was the narrative for the final spot—that was some crazy misdirection. It was fait accompli they were letting Alabama in even as the SEC runner-up, because they'd beaten the Bulldogs in the regular season—but that shoo-in unraveled late when the Tide lost to Oklahoma, almost lost to Auburn and then got dog-walked buy Georgia in that conference title game. The vitriol against Miami; it should've been directed at Jim Phillips and the ACC for their stupid fucking tiebreaker rule, as there was NO scenario where five-loss Duke is playing Virginia for a conference championship, all because points their opponents scored versus points the Canes' opponents scored or whatever that was. Had they gotten it right, Miami beats Virginia for the conference title, James Madison is out, Tulane is in that 12-seed No. 5 Oregon and the Irish are an 11-seed going to play No. 6 Ole Miss—which not only makes a better first round of ball; you are on track for a Miami / Notre Dame rematch in the Fiesta Bowl barring the Irish beat Ole Miss and Georgia. Dinich was part of a bullshit artist machine; a corrupt network that paid $3-billion for SEC television rights a few years back and now they bend over backwards to make sure all their bigger brands get in. It's gross and she sucks.

That wish-casting era was so funny; these fucking goobers who read one article about LifeWallet and then just running with this narrative that John Ruiz was the only guy behind NIL at Miami. I think some Canes fans even believed it for a minute, but this kid with this video really is something else, bless his special little heart.

Understood. I get that sentiment. 11/25/89 was one of the greatest nights of my life—absolute revenge game was all time. Beating the Irish is always a Godsend. Always.

11-2 SMU losing the ACC Championship to No. 17 Clemson and still getting into the 2024 College Football Playoffs as an 11-seed ... but please, Heather, continue with that cold-ass take of yours. Anything for clicks and engagement... "rage bait" the new "integrity" for hack talking heads.

For the record, Heather Dinich's moronic, rage-bait take that she sells here—the scenario she lays out that would keep @CanesFootball out at 11-2—it's precisely how SMU got in as an 11-seed in 2024. SMU beat Nevada, Houston Christian and TCU out of conference, while losing road game to an unranked BYU team in September. They went on to beat two ranked teams—No. 22 Louisville and No. 18 Pittsburgh—to go 8-0 in conference, where they reached the ACC title game and lost to No. 17 Clemson 34-31. SMU played a very pedestrian schedule that season, went into their conference title game 11-1, lost said title conference game—and were an 11-seed in the @CFBPlayoff as an 11-2 runner up in the ACC (where they went on to lose to 6-seed Penn State in the opening round of the playoffs.) Again, another half-baked take from this #MiamiHurricanes hater and rage-baiter who constantly sells her soul for clicks and engagement—Dinich will never recover from that all-in stance last fall where she predicted Notre Dame to the #CFP over the #Canes and ate a shit sandwich on Selection Sunday, when she expected vindication instead.

... that and the scenario she describes is literally what happened to SMU—who hardly played a murder's row of a schedule in 2024—and still made it into the CFP as a two-loss team that dropped the ACC title game to Clemson; a 11-seed that went on the road and lost to 6-seeded Penn State.

Exactly. She went all in last fall shitting on Miami's CFP chances and thought that she'd get the last laugh on Selection Sunday. Not only did Miami get it, but it was an unprecedented run as a 10-seed beating No. 7 Texas A&M, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 6 Ole Miss and coming up a throw short of upsetting No. 1 Indiana. She could've played nice and rolled into this year with a, "touché Miami, you made me eat my words" kind of energy—or she could double down, turn heel for ESPN and just go the rage-bait rout for clicks and engagement—which as you mentioned the stupid, short-term move as Miami is in very good shape with Cristobal, a strong admin and solid cash-flow to build a winner for years to come.

ESPN would say she isn't being "biased" but sharing a doomsday scenario for Miami—and they know the only way she gets clicks or engagement is by turning heel and being anti-Canes ever since she looked like a fool doubling down on Notre Dame last fall and saying Miami wouldn't get into the CFP.

I've said that for a while now; this post back on October 10th was a full-blown troll-job. She praises a bunch of good receivers in the game and left Malachi Toney off the list. She also carefully did this on a weekend Miami had a bye, so when anybody came at her for not posting about Toney—she had her built-in excuse that she was only naming guys who played and balled-out that weekend. The elimination of Toney (with an excuse) gave her the engagement off a rage-bait post that she wanted—and then you had some taking the bait that started name-calling, trashing her for being a woman reporter (so she got the misogyny 'victim' angle she wanted, too)—and 92K views later, she "won" by going viral. Her whole schtick last fall was basically calling Miami fans morons for thinking the Canes were getting into the CFP over Notre Dame—as she watched Selection Sunday like a degenerate gambler who doubled down and needed the dealer to bust. Once the Canes were in she just went full heel with this whole persona and and is riding the anti-Miami stuff for all the clicks and engagement she can get out of it; the old "no press is bad press" energy and she's rather be hate-watched than ignored.