Terry it looks like tickets are now selling for a $1,000 a piece if you can find any for the Notre Dame - Miami game. Everyone I talked with is holding on to their tickets despite what is being offered... I am telling you the crazies will be out for this particular game. Not that I like this part but since Miami is and always will be an NFL town first the crowd is not your "come on in and enjoy yourself crowd". It is more like a Raider game than college football where there will be fights in the parking lot and fights during the game and let the paramedics work it out. It's going to be wild from a fan stand point and makes me wish for the old Orange bowl stadium where the concrete would start shaking the old 1939 building to the point you just thought you were going to die...15 years of waiting for a game of this magnitude with so much on the line...
Unlike Notre Dame fans. Wouldn't it be ironic if roughly 20-25,000 Notre Dame fans bought tickets to the game at inflated prices with the proceeds from their sale of Georgia tickets? :shock:
Sid That would be Capitalism at its best... I will be surprised if the Notre Dame faithful don't show up in force for this game, South Florida is such a stronghold of the Northeast. I hope both teams show up and play their hearts out and it becomes another classic. After watching Ohio St this weekend sleep walk after the previous weeks big game I worry the Canes may do the same thing after battling V-Tech. Love him or hate him I have always agreed with Jimmy Johnson in that there about 5 games during the season a team really gets up for and the others are what drives coaches to drink...
Well Kirk Herbstreit was doing his best Sat. night. Twice he mentioned that it would be undefeated Miami against UNDEFEATED Notre Dame. Not exactly Herbie.
Re: Notre Dame <r><QUOTE><s> </e></QUOTE> Tim I'm a country boy at heart and love staying away from crowds these days and gold chains as prizes and being loud and in your face does not impress me very much. I am a fossil of a fan who likes the Hurricanes even though most Miami fans and I have nothing in common outside of the team doing good. <br/> <br/> You got me thinking because I've never attended a Mich St game what the difference is in the general population area between East Lansing and Miami. It's a world apart as East Lansing is a college town and not only that an Agricultural college and the general area has about 50,000 people. <br/> <br/> The University of Miami is an afterthought in what is going on everyday in the general area of 5.5 million people that has the NFL,NBA, NHL, MLB and other colleges (FAU and FIU) to boot almost as large as Michigan St and larger than the University of Miami's private university by a long shot. <br/> <br/> This makes for a population that is very transient, speaks mainly Spanish over English and has a different idea on how to treat others than you or I were raised as they compete daily with a few million other people. I could be wrong but it's going to be something that most folks accustomed to a college atmosphere don't experience very often, especially with the added hype. Add to this most folks attending never set foot on the Miami campus in their life and enjoy the fact they are scourned by the purist of college football. And in their mind nothing speaks purist more than Notre Dame...</r>
Notre Dame <t>all I know is there were 65,000 plus in the stands at mich st who hate the Irish almost as much as michigan and they were quite vocal about it. That's pretty normal for ND on the road. English or Spanish it all sounds the same. Just noise. Hopefully the Irish will quiet the crowd in Miami quickly as they did then.</t>
Having spent a lot of time in south Fla. I agree with this assessment of the "subway" Miami alumni. Never went there.... is potentially blue collar raw and sometimes Latin as well. They will be drunk.... and very loud.
Check out this article on Felipe Franks Instagram account. In this case it's Fla fans who are posting hateful and disgusting stuff, but I'm sure that in today's social media crazy society that it's not just Fla fans. https://sports.yahoo.com/floridas-collapse-brings-ugly-side-college-football-fandom-020248447.html
Re: Notre Dame <r><QUOTE><s> </e></QUOTE> <br/> Well I agree with you on that, the best way to shut a crowd down is for your team to take control...I still feel we are a year away, our offense is not consistent and our defense needs a little more depth. If Miami wins it would have to be on mistakes made by the Irish and we would need to capitalize on them by scoring early and often. If the Irish dominate on the ground as they have all season with timely throws in between it could make for a very quiet crowd soon enough.</r>
I was just thinking the same thing, Sid. Both teams know what's on the line here. A win is all either side can hope for, style points be damned. This should be a good old fashioned war in the trenches.
This and the Mich State game will be the only 2 games this year where the team played in a hostile environment. What's the weather projected for Sat night? Irish won't be as conditioned to a hot muggy night in So. Fla as well as the Hurricanes. Also I keep hearing that the turf at Hard Rock Stadium is in terrible shape. Both teams have to play on it, but Miami is used to it and we have played only 2 games on Natural grass and that was Mich State in Sept and UNC in Oct all the rest have been on artificial turf.
Actually temps shouldn't be that bad, forecast is 78 degrees with moderate humidity. The grass field should be fairly good shape, both Miami teams played on the same field last week but they replace a lot of it after each set of games...
Low 80's with small chance of rain. However, it will probably rain there Friday so bring the long cleats! 8)
Notre Dame <t>I looked at the Miami/VT video and I think the Irish are in trouble. Hot muggy weather, messy field, Miami with superior defense, Wimbush and Adams banged up, Miami with superior skilled athletes on offense and a crushing defeat of a really good VT team. Factor in one of the loudest crowds in college football that is worth at least 10 points and we will be lucky if the Irish can hold them under 40 while points will be hard to come by for ND. The cherry on top for the "U" is the gold chain with the Miami emblem attached that each player that gets a turnover a chance to wear and it's all but a done deal. we'll just have to be happy with the 8 wins we somehow managed to obtain and see if we can get a descent bowl game this year. Maybe we have a shot at picking off Navy but that's no guarantee and then Stanford which will be tough holding B. Love to under 200yds. Best hope is just to get out of Miami without an serious injuries.</t>
And the Gators give up over 40 points for the second game in a row. First time that has happened in a long long time. Gators at S. Carolina this weekend, looking for Muschamp to get revenge. My biggest thing with the Gators right now is who is going to be our next coach. If Alabama and Georgia both beat Auburn, then it is very possible that both are in the National Championship playoff. But...... what happens if Auburn with two losses beats them both then beats Georgia again in the SEC Championship game? That would leave Auburn with two loses, Alabama with one and Georgia with two. Georgia would be out, could Bama go and the other two stay home? I don't think its going to happen though. Miami and Notre Dame? Miami has won a lot of close games against not so good competition but keeps finding a way to win. I think Notre Dame wins this game.