'Canes Pundit

Annnd we’re back.  We had a little bit of a ‘hiatus’ due to some technical difficulties.  Still not 100% back to normal, but at least the site is operational.  This is the down time of the year, anyway.  Fans are clutching at straws…trying to learn of some 19 year old kid’s 40 yard dash time at a Pro Day to tide them over til football season.  Junkies.  (Olivier Vernon 4.68?  Lee Chambers 4.41?)

 

Now’s the time of year where I pretend to care about basketball and might give the UM baseball box scores a passing glance.  It’s been a while, so let’s look at what has transpired:

 

The 2012 schedule came out.  This is where I start making my travel plans in the fall.  My buddy in Chicago is already texting me about getting him some Notre Dame tickets.  The one thing that stood out to me is that we’re going to find out early if this team is going to suck or simply be mediocre (for those with national championship hopes in their head, now is the time to come back to reality).  At BC and at K State.  Two road games off the bat.  There is no excuse to lose to Boston College.  K State will be tougher, especially if that f’er Collin Klein is back (Google searches Collin Klein and finds out that he is returning next year).  If the Canes can manage to win those two games, they get Bethune-Cookman at home prior to heading to my hometown to face the Yellow Jackets.  After a home game versus NC State, it is the showdown versus Notre Dame in Chicago on October 6th.  This is where the schedule takes an ugly turn.  Notre Dame, UNC, FSU, VT.  Yikes.  If Miami only has 2-3 losses after the VT game, I would consider it a coups.  Remember, this is a 6-6 team that just got raped by the NFL draft.  At Virginia, USF, and at Duke rounds out the schedule.  Consider we’re breaking in a new QB, starting RB, and top WR – not to mention losing the team’s most valuable defensive player – I would consider a 7-5/8-4 type of year to be progress.  [click to continue…]

- It was pointed out that Belichick and Brady have zero Super Bowl rings since being busted for spying on other teams.  All their titles have asterisks if you ask me, and Dan Marino is still better than Brady or any other quarterback that played in the pros.

- Good to see the Canes hoops team beat Duke at Cameron.  Well, I didn’t see it since it wasn’t on my local TV.  But, I was following the live tweets all the way.  If they make it to the big dance, they could do some damage (and by ‘damage’ I mean possibly make it to the Sweet 16 if they’re lucky).

- This has nothing to do with football but someone told me that if you type ‘repeat’ after ‘youtube’ in the url, the video will replay automatically.  Do what you wish with this information.  I plan on replaying a Creed song on my buddy’s computer and then hitting keyboard lock.

- It’s never too early to look towards the 2013 class.  Miami recently got a verbal commitment from Jayron Kearse, Jevon Kearse’s nephew.  Other Floridian prospects for next year with solid DNA are Kevlin Taylor (son of Fred Taylor) and Ray Lewis III (son of Ray).  Depending on what comes down from the NCAA this year, I would expect next year’s class to be just as solid (though surely not as big) as this year’s.