According to
@ESPNPR
, last night’s
@CanesFootball
game on ESPN drew a 10.0 (!) in the Miami market, which was the seventh-highest number nationally. The 4.1 national overnight was the best ESPN number since Michigan / OSU in 2016. Love us or hate us, you always tune in. 🗣🗣🗣
Only two athletics programs to qualify for an FBS bowl game, earn a Sweet 16 berth in March Madness and host an NCAA Baseball Regional in 2021-2022:
1)
@MiamiHurricanes
2)
@GoHeels
End of list.
.
@Coach_MannyDiaz
after practice: "I’ve said this many times, but the University of Miami’s football program belongs to its alumni. Those are the guys that made this program great. There are coaches who have come & gone. We want those guys to feel the ownership of this program.”
Entering the final seasons of their collegiate careers, Miami's outstanding rising senior trio of Zach McCloud [
@chief__20
], Shaq Quarterman [
@OgBoobie_Shaq
] & Mike Pinckney have combined for:
*106 starts
*581 total tackles
*73.0 tackles for loss
*24.0 sacks
Chad Thomas and RJ McIntosh tied for the team lead with 12.5 tackles for loss in 2017.
Gerald Willis [
@gw3_9
] has 10.0 tackles for loss already, and we're in Game 4.
This guy is a MENACE.
Not only does Jeff Thomas lead the Hurricanes in receptions (11) and receiving yards (304), but he ranks first in the NATION in yards-per-reception at 27.64.
@theregoes4
is an absolute playmaker, end of story.
You’ve got anything bad to say about this guy, I don’t know what to tell you.
@MarkRicht
still taking photos and chatting up tons of Canes fans after the Spring Game, long, long after its conclusion.
Absolute A-plus human being and representative of this program.
Prior to Mark Richt’s arrival, Miami had not beaten Florida State and Virginia Tech in the same season since 2002.
The Richt-led Hurricanes have done it in back-to-back years - the first time for Miami since 2001 / 2002.
For two years I listened to
@Coach_MannyDiaz
&
@CoachBanda
talk about Jaquan Johnson being the best safety in NCAA. Guess who’s the top-rated player of the entire NFL preseason? 🤷🏻♂️
#NFLU
#ProCanes
THANK YOU to Carol Soffer,
@MarkRicht
& the hundreds of donors who made this indoor facility a possibility.
If not for all of you, this first day of practice would be over with thanks to lightning. Instead, all of 30 seconds was spent transitioning.
Simply gamechanging asset.
Gerald Willis: 45tkl, 16tfl, 3sk, 2pd
Christian Wilkins + Dexter Lawrence: 51tkl, 10tfl, 3sk, 1pd
This is no knock on anyone else, simply to give you context on the best 3-technique in America
#GWillisForAllAmerican
Of the seven
@ACCFootball
players returning in 2019 who had more than 10 tackles for loss last year, three of them are Hurricanes: Jon Garvin (17.0 TFLs), Shaq Quarterman (14.0) and Mike Pinckney (11.0).
I think I know a few guys who are pumped about this - wbu,
@CoachBaker_UM
?
Never forget the magnitude of what
@brevinjordan
is doing. If you need to be reminded - true freshman numbers for some
#TightEndU
standouts:
Herndon IV (14) - 0 catches
Njoku (14) & Walford (10) & Olsen (03): redshirts
Winslow (01) - 2 catches, 34 yards
Franks (96) - redshirt
Gerald Willis III [
@gw3_9
] became the first Hurricane to record at least 4.0 tackles for loss in a game since Marcus Robinson in 2008 - absolute dominant performance by the redshirt senior Sunday night vs. LSU.
“ice cold soda everybody
ice cold water
peanuts
Cracker Jack
Powerade
SUNFLOWER SEEDS!”
requiescat in pace to a South Florida legend, Darryl “Duke” Johnson.
Mark Light Field will never be the same.
Words to live by from
@iamthomasbrown
today:
"You don’t want walk into your job on Day 1 and expect to be the boss, and you don’t quit after the first week because you’re not the boss...work, continue to get better, wait for your opportunity and make the most of it."
Preach.
If you're a
@CanesFootball
fan and you're not coming out to support these boys on Senior Day - Shaq, Pinck, Bethel, Osborn, Jimmy, Knowles, Romeo, Trevon, Chigozie, Spicer, Kennedy, Nick, Munoz and Walker - do me a favor and check your 'fandom' at the door.
C-A-N-E-S.
A fun screen grab from Saturday night's broadcast - look who's sprinting behind true freshman Trajan Bandy on his pick-six before halftime?
Fellow true freshmen Amari Carter and Jon Garvin.
Do you smell what The U is cooking?
#ComePlayForTheU
"There are all kinds of guys in college football who make good throws, or have a good quarter, or heck, even have a good game. This is the University of Miami. Our standards are so far beyond that. We need a guy..that the whole team can trust every week." -
@Coach_MannyDiaz
on QB1
.
@MarkRicht
to
@JoeRoseShow
: "Personally, as I was realizing [it] was the time for me to move on, I really felt like [Manny] was the perfect guy...if Blake would have asked me my opinion, I would have said, 'You need to get Manny.' I'm glad that happened."
Feels like I post this every week, but it's deserving, so here we go:
Miami was one of the nation's top teams in tackles for loss last year and the Hurricanes' LEADERS in the stat totaled 12.5 in all of 2017.
@gw3_9
has 12.5 already.
@neogarvin
is right behind at 11.5. Insane.
Just another Saturday at The U, where the best fighter in the world and the brightest star in all of tennis (
@CocoGauff
) swing by to watch you play 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Gerald Willis III [
@gw3_9
] had 5.5 tackles for loss in his first season at Miami in 2016.
He's got 5.0 tackles for loss already, and we're not through 10 quarters of football yet.
This man is special.
As part of work-from-home hours, working on beefing up our digital archives with help from
@CaneShooter
.
How about this sequence from 1999 vs. West Virginia?
Don’t let anyone ever forget:
One of the best teams in the country all year long (MIAMI) closed as a three-point underdog to a middle-of-the-conference team after beating them at home earlier in the year (VT).
The disrespect continues for Coach L and these monsters!
*First 16 games of Dee Wiggins' career (combined):
nine catches, 90 yards, 0 touchdowns
*Last 5.5 games of Dee Wiggins' career (combined):
13 catches, 289 yards, three touchdowns
After Charles Barkley’s mother passed away, a cat litter scientist from Iowa showed up at the funeral.
“Everybody’s, like, ‘Who’s the Asian dude over there?’ “ Barkley recalls. “I said, ‘That’s my boy, Lin.’ "
Those who’ve known me long enough know my obsession with vintage clothing - mostly Canes focused.
Well, I turned that love into a side project - check it out and support when you can!
Ibis Vintage: last to leave, first to reappear - no replicas here.
Brian Hightower [
@longlivee14
] became the first Hurricane to have his first reception result in a touchdown since Marquez Williams in 2016. He's the first wide receiver to do it since Tyre Brady vs. Nebraska in 2015. Big future.
.
@CanesFootball
has won six straight regular season games played in the state of Texas, and has not lost a regular season game in the Lone Star State since 1981 - its last win coming Sept. 20, 2008 vs. Texas A&M in College Station.
In 16 regular season home games under
@MarkRicht
, Miami has a 14-2 record and is averaging 40.75 points per game.
Opponents are averaging 15.8 points at Hard Rock since 2016.
Miami's 12-game regular season winning streak is its longest since winning 26 straight from 1999-2003.
Important disclaimer in ACC’s announcement RE: FSU kickoff time - it’s either 3:30 on ABC -or- ESPN or at 8 PM on ABC. It will not be at noon or any other time other than either 3:30 or 8.
Is now a good time to mention that the 2017 ACC Coastal Division champion, Orange Bowl-bound Miami Hurricanes had one All-ACC 1T selection, and it was a kicker? I’ll hang up and listen.
Saturday's game versus Georgia Tech will be my 75th straight
@CanesFootball
game in attendance. Pales in comparison to the streak of
@canesvoice
&
@DonBaileyJr
, but I've cherished every single one - C-A-N-E-S!
.
@Coach_MannyDiaz
will become the first UM coach since Jimmy Johnson to make his HC debut in a neutral site game
JJ & Co. beat
#1
Auburn 8/27/84 in the "Kickoff Classic" at Giants Stadium;
@BernieKosarQB
won MVP & Bo Jackson was held to 96 yds.
Week 2? Vs. the Gators, in Tampa.
Of WR Lawrence Cager's 34 career catches at Miami, nine of them have gone for touchdowns (26.4%).
He has been a touchdown machine, career-high five touchdowns already this year.
Miami has not lost in green uniforms since the arrival of
@Coach_MannyDiaz
in 2016; Miami is 2-0 in green / green combo and 5-0 in green / white combo below. Wore G / W once in 2016 and 2018 and three times in 2017; last time was Savannah State in 2018.
Oh, Ed Reed, Clinton Portis, Allen Hurns, Vince Wilfork, Edgerrin James, Jessie Armstead and others are here too, on the Miami sidelines.
But your school is
#NFLU
, right?
☠️☠️☠️
Jeff Thomas' 132 receiving yards vs. LSU were the most by a Hurricane in a single game since David Njoku had 134 yards vs. Duke on Nov. 26, 2016, and the fourth-most in a game since Mark Richt's arrival as coach in 2016.
Jeff Thomas had 374 receiving yards last year as a true freshman.
He has 199 this year, through just more than five quarters of football.
:eyeball emoji:
Miami has ranked in top 5 in tackles for loss every year
@Coach_MannyDiaz
has been at UM, with All-American defensive linemen in the last three years:
2018: Gerald Willis III [
@gw3_9
]
2019: Greg Rousseau [
@Greg_R5
]
2020: Jaelan Phillips [
@JJPhillips15
]
Who's up next?
#LetsEat
Mark Richt's 20-8 record through the first 28 games of his head coaching tenure at Miami is the fourth-best start of any Hurricanes head coach ever, trailing only:
Larry Coker: 27-1 (lol)
Dennis Erickson: 25-3
Jimmy Johnson: 21-7
In first two seasons (2016/2017) under
@Coach_MannyDiaz
& Co., Miami had a total of six individual game performances of at least 3.0 tackles for loss.
Miami already has four such games in 2018 - two by
@gw3_9
and two by
@neogarvin
.
We've only played three games so far.
#LetsEat
Jeff Thomas has had at least 170 all-purpose yards in every game this season, including 171 today at Toledo
He has 536 APY this season, and the next-highest total on Miami is DeeJay Dallas’ 240
Simply a dynamic playmaker, and a
#SalvajeDeLaSemana
candidate
#SLDS
You've come to expect tackles for loss under
@Coach_MannyDiaz
& Co., but this is simply absurd: UM's 12.0 tackles for loss-per-game average is 1.7 (!) more than the next highest team (ECU, 10.3).
@OgBoobie_Shaq
's game vs. UNC was the sixth of at least 3.0 TFL this year.
Unreal.
Miami's 37-point win over North Carolina was its third-largest margin of victory in an ACC game in program history, trailing only 45-point wins over Duke (2005) and Wake Forest (2004).
We are lucky to have Christy on our team. is unrecognizable (in more ways than one) from a year ago at this time, and its transformation is due in large part to her work as our senior editor!
One overwhelming thought this morning: It has been an absolutely amazing year at The U and I am so grateful incredibly grateful.
Okay, maybe that was two thoughts. But, still...so grateful. Home is home, y’all. 🧡💚
Where does the below Miami quartet rank in singular sports cities boasting 25-and-under potential superstars across all four major sports?
Bam / Barkov / Tua / Sixto
.
@CanesFootball
is opening ACC play on the road for the fifth time in six years (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019) and against North Carolina for the second straight year. Last season's matchup at Hard Rock Stadium was...fun.
Right,
@Joejackson919
?
Something tells me Manny Diaz isn’t running his own account. Know a few young talented folks behind the scenes over there that I could see being behind this. Gots me wondering.
Jeff Thomas is responsible for four of the five longest Miami plays this season, and has totaled nine plays of 20-or-more yards already; the rest of the Hurricanes have seven such plays combined.
Thomas led the Hurricanes with 22 such plays as a true freshman in 2017.
Not sure when everyone’s going to stop pretending like
@CanesHoops
isn’t a monster…my goodness.
@Jordan_miller11
said it best:
“We are always underdogs. They don’t really like to show us love, but all we can do is come out and win basketball games.”
Lorenzo Lingard's 64-yard rush against Savannah State on Saturday was the longest rush by a true freshman running back at Miami since Duke Johnson had a 65-yard carry in his freshman season finale vs. Duke (Nov. 24, 2012).
The University of Miami, where Michael Irvin hypes you up on the sidelines during pregame warmups and co-serves as honorary captains with some guy named Russell Maryland. Ever heard of them?
lol at your school’s swag
🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
We’re incredibly saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Ari Arteaga. Please keep J.D., his family and the Canes Baseball family in your thoughts as we mourn this tragic loss.