Dave Dameshek

We've never been here before.

I would have been indifferent about it.

But you guys are so, I've listened to you.

Mike Ryan, probably the personification now of the most passionate Canes fans.

And he's just destroyed on a level that I don't think anybody that me and my friends would have been.

Because as I keep saying, this was such a Cinderella ridiculous story.

It's like Balboa.

You ever see Rocky?

He loses the fight, but he wins in the end.

He wins the respect, and that would have been, you know, we all would have been, Adrian, at the end of that.

We had the moral victory already.

that there's that we weren't even supposed to be in the tournament and then rip off three big wins so yes it hurts it hurts a little bit because it's the same thing it's like this might just be a fluke you know you know i know but right but you should but again at the end of that game if you're a miami fan you point at we missed a field goal yeah it hit the upright and we and they had a block punt for a touchdown and that's the margin of victory i i think the takeaway is

is and will be in an enduring way, not just because of the iconic image of Mendoza diving into the end zone, but it is throughout the game.

What a nails performance it was out of that kid.

The statistics don't add up necessarily to the Heisman Trophy type performances that he threw out there over the course of the season.

But man, fourth and five to go for it in that spot.

And I appreciate the balls, even though

I kind of question the wisdom of going for that spot.

I'm ultimately happy they did.

But as he takes that ball on the QB draw and gets back to basically the line of scrimmage, he has to make a hard cut to his right in tight quarters.