Miami Faces South Florida: Canes' High Stakes Game Preview

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00:00Same kind of thing, I think, for the Canes tomorrow, having to go to Raymond James and

00:07deal with the South Florida Bulls.

00:09They gave Alabama a game for three quarters and then ran out of steam and got rolled a

00:14little bit by the tide, but they were in that game.

00:18Do you think they'll be in the game with Miami and destroy their high ranking and their big

00:23season and their big plans?

00:25You know, everybody's got Miami etched into the playoff.

00:29I've been suffering for 24 years with them.

00:32I'm not buying in yet that they're going to win a national championship.

00:35I think they got a problem Saturday.

00:37Well, they're playing a good team.

00:39South Florida is not your typical G5 type of team.

00:43They've got a lot of talent.

00:44If you watch them against Alabama for three and a half quarters, they look talent-wise

00:48about even up with it.

00:50But let me tell you something.

00:51If Cam Ward is playing, Miami is winning the football game.

00:54Will they keep it close for a while?

00:56Very well could.

00:57I don't believe they can hang with Cam Ward and that football team.

01:00I think he's the most explosive, exciting quarterback to emerge in the country this

01:04year.

01:05And to me, Miami is now the favorite in the ACC.

01:07And so until I've watched him every game, and I'm a huge fan.

01:11And believe me, I'm a huge Kane fan myself, watching them play and how they have been

01:15playing.

01:16And when they're a great football team, it's just better for college football.

01:20And so I think they're going to beat USF, but USF, and I don't know why they're playing

01:24in Raymond James.

01:25Obviously, you pay those games out and you play those at home, but they've got to play

01:29that game at Raymond James against a good team.

01:31You're right.

01:32It may be closed for a while, but Cam Ward leads him too much offense and they pull away.

01:37When you were a kid and your dad was facing Miami and that game every year, where were

01:46you mentally?

01:47Were you scared of your dad and had to root for Florida State or you wouldn't be fed as

01:53a child?

01:54Or did you ever appreciate the convicts down the street?

01:59Now listen, when my dad went to Florida State, I was only three years behind him.

02:05I was a graduate assistant at Florida State in 1979 and 80.

02:09And I understood how intense that game was all the way back to Howard Schnellenberger

02:14and all the great coaches that coached there and built that program up.

02:19That was as much a part of Florida State's history as it was Miami's history.

02:22But let me make you feel better.

02:24All I got to say is wide right.

02:26That cost my dad about three and a half championships, Miami, cost him about too many wide rights.

02:32Respectfully, your father just turned in his grave.

02:34He's not having any of this conversation right now.

02:37I got to tell you, it blows my mind as we all get older, you and me both, right?

02:44Like you are starting to really look like your old man to me.

02:47I haven't seen you in a few years.

02:49But like Christ, when you came on the set today, I thought I was talking to your dad.

02:54Respectfully.

02:55Well, that's the only, my mentor was my father.

02:58I trained under him.

03:00I imitated him in my play calling.

03:02And I got hot for trying to do what he did.

03:05We got very, very good at Auburn.

03:06We won our first 20 straight games at Auburn when I went there as a young coach.

03:11But I kind of got that TV bug.

03:13I did Auburn, then ABC came calling.

03:15And if you recall about 1999, I spent 10 years with John Saunders in New York and enjoyed that a lot.

03:22But coaching is what I love.

03:23It's been my passion.

03:25And now talking about football is what I got left.

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