The New Hurricane Era

The University of Miami Hurricanes has been the most successful college football program in the last twenty-five years. The Hurricanes have five national championships, two heismen trophy winners, countless All-Americans, and more first round NFL draft picks than any other college program. Year in and year out the hurricanes are in the middle of the national championship hunt. The hurricanes have been the gold standard for college football powerhouses for years.

The Miami fan base became spoiled from the years of immense success on the football gridiron. As this season began, the pressures of a national championship were still lingering in the air, even though this was an obvious rebuilding year. We, the fans, expected Miami to be fighting for an ACC championship berth, much like we expect every year. However as we stand now with our less-than-stellar record, it seems as if the fans have all but given up on this year. Consecutive losses to bottom-feeders North Carolina and Georgia Tech seemed to have caused the preverbal ship sails to loose wind. And with the toughest stretch of the schedule fast approaching, the immediate future does not look good.

Nevertheless, Randy Shannon is the right man for the job. After watching the first half of the season, I have never felt so strongly about the integrity of a head football coach. Shannon has to deal with the arduous task of repairing the shattered shell of what used to be the proud Miami Hurricanes. Larry Coker was arguably the worse head coach in the history of the Hurricanes, but Shannon has the team headed back in the right direction. The first full class of Shannon recruited players is currently listed as a top ten class by rivals.com, a college football recruiting website. More importantly, he has instilled the much-needed discipline that the program lacked during the Coker era. As fans, we need to rally around Randy Shannon and our new Hurricanes. Randy Shannon lives, breathes, and dies Hurricane football. This is the start to a new and proud era of Miami Hurricane football.