It was the first time this season that Hard Rock Stadium had been sold out for a Miami Hurricanes football game. However, all the fans who attended were certainly disappointed to witness a rivalry game that ended in a whopping 45-3 Florida State victory on Saturday night.
Revenge is sweet, but it is even sweeter when it is against a rival. With a desire to win and with a fired-up team, the Miami Hurricanes football team (4-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)) is playing for revenge Saturday as they take on conference rivalsFlorida State (FSU)(5-3, 3-3 ACC) at 7:30 p.m. at Hard Rock Stadium.
As Miami men’s basketball head coach Jim Larrañaga was being introduced as a new inductee into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame at a Miami press conference, there was silence. Larrañaga immediately replied with a joke.
Last season was one of the most successful seasons in Miami men’s basketball program history. After going 26-11 in the regular season and 14-6 in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) play, the team advanced the farthest it ever had in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament by making it to the Elite Eight.
In their first win in over a month, the Hurricanes football team defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies, 20-14, on Saturday at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Va.
"We have a great group of players, and it has been a work in progress," Miami head coach Jose "Keno" Gandara said. "We’ve continued to learn to train better and continued to improve. Today, we were good enough to get it done throughout the match."
“We are all about the work and the lump that comes with it, and it stinks, and it’s painful to deal with,” Miami head coach Mario Cristobal said. “But you know what? That’s what we are here for, and gladly ready for whatever comes with it to ensure we can get back to a certain level.”
“I am proud of the way we hung in there and fought back to get to the fifth set on the road,” Miami head coach Jose “Keno” Gandara said in a Miami Athletics release. “We certainly had our chances to win the match. We will learn from this, regroup and be ready for Duke on Sunday.”
“Obviously, poor job by me. Poor job by our organization. And credit Middle Tennessee for doing what they did,” Cristobal said. “They coached better than us, and they played better than us. They were better. We didn’t do a good enough job. There is no excuse.”
