SEQUEL TO "THE U" IN THE WORKS
If you were sitting there at the end of the ESPN documentary "The U" and, like me, thinking you could've easily watched two more hours of that stuff and been royally entertained, take heart: Apparently there's a sequel on deck covering the fall and rebirth of the Miami program from the mid-'90s to the early 2000s. That likely means a lot less Uncle Luke and a lot more Butch Davis, which hardly seems like an even trade in my book, but will I be watching nevertheless? You bet your ass I will.
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"The U" was one of the greatest sports documentaries I have ever seen
so this should be good
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Its a Great Day to be a Mountaineer where ever you may be" Tony Caridi
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OMFG
Shut the front door!!! I can contract groin cancer later today and I will still think back on this as a generally favorable day based on this news.
Also noted is that the DVD of “The U” (Volume 1, as it werE) is scheduled to be released soon with about 30 minutes of deleted footage. While I will certainly be buying this, I feel like that is a bit of a disapointing amount of extras.
I would have paid a good hundred bucks for a 4 DVD set with like 12 hours of cutting room floor footage. Mike Irvin telling stories from being up in the club… Randall Hill maneuvering womens… Tolbert Bain being generally imposing… Kosar being Kosar… wow.
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by Sid Bream's Moustache on Mar 19, 2010 12:20 PM EDT reply actions
Does the U
finally beat a Big 10 team in this one?
CRRRYYYYYY-AMI
As long as Najeh Davenport
isn’t a party pooper and actually shows up for his interview
/shows self to door
I wonder if this one will paint Butch
as the antichrist like the end of the first one did? Or will they switch to Coker and beatify Butch?
After tOSU knocks them down again in September at the Horseshoe
and in Miami in 2011, maybe the U will be back. The Buckeyes destroyed the myth in January 2003 and will stymie their psuedo comeback until 2012. How many shows will that spur?
Destroyed the Myth?
My entire volunteer fire company was watching that game on three big-screen TVs in our truck shack. The collective opinion was that the interference call at he end of the first overtime was, as Rich Brooks might say, PURE BULLSHIT. Miami won that game until the zebras intruded.
Your play.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Mar 19, 2010 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Your are right, it was defensive holding. But the ball was in the air.
BTW, if the refs had called PI when they should have in regulation, there would never have been OT anyway. I have seen enough photographic evidence showing the interference thru the years to convince me your view was skewed.
BTW – how is that vaunted Big East doing in the big dance? Oh yeah, not so well.
by Crabapple Buck on Mar 19, 2010 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Good play, sirrah
I will grant there were enough bad/blown/missed calls in the 2003 MNCG that it could be argued for either team.
As far as this year’s basketball tourney, Notre Dame lost ( as I picked in my bracket) in unsurprising fashion. Marquette lost on a shot with 1.7 seconds left, and Georgetown just choked (couldn’t have happened to a more deserving fan base). But, ‘Nova, Pitt and WVU made it through. If "Cuse and L’Ville split, the Big East will still have as many teams dancing as the Big Ten got in. I wish Huggins had a shot to beat tOSU for the third time in a row, but I think Kansas will take you out before that has a chance to happen.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Mar 19, 2010 9:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't think the U was a myth
I think they were a good team, with alot of NFL talent on them like in the old days when they beat teams by 30 on a regualr basis. The only exception being that they no longer recriuted the “State of Miami”and not many other places as they did under Schnellberger, Johnson, and Erickson
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Its a Great Day to be a Mountaineer where ever you may be" Tony Caridi
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
by WVPiratesfan on Mar 19, 2010 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Also
Florida, and South Florida in particular, were no longer a Miami “lockdown” during the mid/late ’90s like they were in the 80s. A combination of FSU being consistent, Miami being on probation, other schools taking notice of the talent in Florida and, probably most importantly, Florida NOT being on probation coupled with Spurrier at his peak made the kind of dominance Miami experienced in the 1980s impossible to maintain.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
In this one...
does Miami go better than .500 in bowl games? They were 6-6 in the years covered by “The U.” Clearly, this period merits glorification.
(the above is in no way intended as an affront to Schnelly, peace and blessings be upon him)
Can you hear this, Denver, or shall I turn it up for you?
One thing I noticed as a glaring omission from "The U"...
…was the epic beatdown they received in the ’93 Sugar Bowl.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
maybe it in the deleted scenes
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Its a Great Day to be a Mountaineer where ever you may be" Tony Caridi
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
by WVPiratesfan on Mar 20, 2010 12:00 AM EDT up reply actions
I think that anything
that avoids mention of Tino “Even I Can’t Believe I Won the Heisman” Torretta is to be applauded.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
More importantly...
…they omitted the epic beatdown they received in the ’86 Sugar Bowl (which cost them another national championship).
So Sayth King Zach I
by kingofzachland on Mar 20, 2010 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions
That was a good one as well...
…it just happened before UM became as hated as they were by the ’92 season. The ’03 Sugar Bowl seems to be the one time that all the BAMA haters joined our side temporarily.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
err, '93
That is what you get when typing with a hangover.
Auburn and Tennessee fans are a lot like Slinkys...neither are worth much but you do get a sense of satisfaction from pushing them down a flight of stairs
glad they're actually making it
my first reaction when finishing vol. 1 was “where the fuck are the last 15 years?”
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