Orange Bowl Boys: A Miami Hurricanes Podcast

Roman and Toast man the show this weekend as we finally got the dominant performance we wanted to see on both sides of the ball, especially the offense who came out swinging. This game also set a huge tone for the Playoff committee as Miami passed all the eye tests, coming as close to a shutout as possible. The defense also showed up huge, holding the ACC's leading rusher to -2 total yards, and making CJ Bailey's life in th...

Miami's in the College Football Playoff baby!!... well, okay, not really yet... but hey, there's nothing like some good old fashioned false hope to get the Miami fan base riled up! But we start with everyone's wild week, including the plane that crashed in Scoop's neighborhood (yes, that Coral Springs plane crash in the news) and how insane it was to be directly impacted by such a big disaster. Beyond that we jump r...

We come in HOT, despite a big win, even though Toast thinks we failed because we got hooked by the spread. To make his point, he jumps into the first 27 minutes of the game, after another brutally slow start before they got things going. Roman says a lot of that had to do with poor execution by JoJo Trader dropping key passes, and Scoop goes OFF about Miami getting into their bag with creative plays when it did not matter against S...

We open the week after the big collapse against SMU with Toast already annoyed by pretty much everything that happened in the last week. And Roman announces that he got a coaching job with his son's JV team and he's really excited to take his knowledge of the game to the field with his kid. Plus when Roman brings up the College Football Playoff, everyone immediately melts down because of how bad the last two losses have bee...

Well... seeing as the season just died, we open the show with TAPS. Toast goes right in on how anything less than an ACC Championship or a Playoff run in a failure, and here we are again with another failed season in November. And before we even get into the game, immediately the question of Mario's leadership and coaching are called to the carpet, largely because nothing is changing with his status and contract, and how this t...

We come out of the gate with some shade toward the offensive scheme, as Roman shares a story about surprising his daughter with a Tesla for her 16th birthday. And as we get down to Greentree we play the clip of Shannon Dawson clapping back at the media for the criticism of the running game, as Scoop sounds off on where it comes from and why Miami will refuse to change their scheme at this point. And from there we debate whether Mia...

It's the Recap Show!! Miami dominated the second half of the game to finish off a 42-7 win over Stanford. And to keep it positive, we start with the second half of the game because there were a lot of issues with the first half. The defense adjusted and completely shut down Stanford in the second half, holding them in total to as many yards in the second half as they had on the first drive of the game. With seven games in the b...

We all come in hot this week, as everyone has so much going on this week, and we try to make sense of all the bad narratives flying around the Canes this week. Ro also opens with news that his daughter now has her license and is out driving around as we speak, with a surprise car coming her way in the next week. And as we head down to Greentree, Toast rolls out the narrative about Miami that he has accepted... which is how differen...

Well... that sucked. Darth Toast is fully cloaked for a really tough recap show as the Canes were out coached and out played last night in Miami, dropping their first game of the year to Louisville. Of course the blame game takes over right out of the gate, with coaching coming into question and Carson Beck's interceptions ruining the party. Initially we didn't realize how good Louisville really was coming into this game bu...

It's Louisville week in Miami, and the Canes sit once again at #2 in the Top 25. Scoop opens with an interesting question about whether Hetherman or Dawson gets hired away first - and while Dawson's name is in the mix for a lot of jobs, we're not sure if he's got the drive to run a full program. Roman is also a little slighted about the conference bias that a lot of networks put on full display this time of year. An...

The Miami Hurricanes hit the second bye week of the season as the #2 team in the country, and everyone agrees that the mentality of this team just feels different this season. Some of it has to do with Mario's approach and attitude, and the culture of leaders that have emerged in the locker room. And Toast has some bananas stats that really hammer home this "new" Miami team as compared to last season. Plus there's a...

We are STATE CHAMPS as we get into the huge 28-22 win on the road in Trailer-hassee last night. Everyone has huge props for the defense yet again, and Ro admits he's struggling right now to find holes in this roster. Toast also breaks down the numbers because the game stats really lean in favor of Florida State, largely due to that 4th quarter run. But Scoop goes back to his second key to the game which was the Canes connecting...

It's officially hate week as everyone comes in hot for the showdown with Florida State! Roman reflects on the obnoxious fans we've seen so far this season, from Notre Dame to Florida... but FSU fans are the biggest Karens this side of the Mississippi. And Toast feels like they are going to get exposed because Norvell fell from 13-1 to 2-10 in just one season. Plus it's pretty funny that the GameDay crew was happier to g...

It's a big bye week edition of the show, and we open with some bye week grades for the position groups as we gear up for Florida State. We start with the defense and get into all the things they are doing right, and it starts up front with Mesidor and Bain and just how stifling they are to every defense they face. Roman also breaks down what he's seen so far this season froSCIPLINEm Carson Beck, and how he might have strugg...

It's the 4-0 Recap Show!! And Toast shows up to the show dressed like a priest to administer last rights to the Florida-UM rivalry game, since it won't be played again possibly ever. We start with the big upsides from the win, which starts with how dominant the Miami defense was against the Gators and how we feel like there are no more fire alarms on that side of the ball. They were incredible last night.

Everyone has bi...

It's Florida week and we're joined by hilarious Gator fan Josh Pray!! Right out of the gate everyone calls for a wild scene this Saturday night at Hard Rock and how angry Mario seems going into this week. Josh also breaks down how lost Gator fans were after Lagway's FIFTH interception against LSU and just how delusional their fan base really is after buying into the offseason lies about Florida. And Josh pulls no punche...

There was a lot of Bull Riding on the CW today as the Canes absolutely dominated the South Florida Bulls. Right out of the gate, Roman has props to Miami OC Shannon Dawson for making the offense feel as though it's not missing a lot by losing Cam Ward to the NFL, which seems like an almost impossible task. Scoop also has roses for the offense, especially after this performance over the Bulls, even if there continues to be a com...

It's USF Week and we joke about Scoop being conflicted - as he's a die hard Canes fan, but a USF alum, and even jokes that he was always a Canes fan even when he was a student there. But USF is the darling week, with Josh Pate even putting them at #5 on his Commissioner's Poll. But no one on the show is buying the hype, with Roman even going deep into the film on the USF vs UF game and coming out more impressed with Mia...

We are still coming in hot off that big victory over Notre Dame, and we are thrilled to see the way the defense played against a really tough offense... and Toast is getting cautiously more optimistic. Plus Scoop is finally starting to come around on the wide receivers room, especially after he was bullied by Andrew Novak for not having faith in those guys. And everyone has praise for the overall play of the defense and how that co...