Miami Beat Duke After A Controversial Call By The Ref, Rubs It In With New Hype Video
The Miami Hurricanes should’ve never beat the Duke Blue Devils on Oct. 31. The NCAA knows it, the ACC knows it, Duke knows it, and Miami knows it. Miami doesn’t give a shit though.
A series of officiating errors led to the Hurricanes last-second, miracle kickoff return for a touchdown that fateful Saturday. The ACC later suspended the officials in charge of the game due to their awfulness, but the win for Miami remains intact.
On Thursday, the Hurricanes released an epic hype video from the game. It’s a tearjerker, talking about how hard work, dedication, and a never-give-up attitude led to the win. Ya know, the win that shouldn’t have happened.
I’m not sure if it’s a lack of selective editing or just the realization that people wouldn’t care, but the university-released video went with the clearest shot of the questionable knee-down no call (6:44) and a nice shot of the block in the back no call (6:57). It’s like they’re telling the world “Hey, we know we won off a bullshit call, but guess what? Suck our dicks.” They’re just rubbing it in.
Miami has blatantly ignored the fact the touchdown should’ve been called back, mainly because the Hurricanes still officially have a win in that column.
They’ve also decided to sell t-shirts to commemorate the night:
"The Return" was historic and now you can show off a piece of history: https://t.co/iBOpGKegvZ pic.twitter.com/Itr5ympNmM
— Miami Hurricanes (@MiamiHurricanes) November 2, 2015
We’ve reached out to the university for comment. Here’s their response:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
— Miami Hurricanes (@MiamiHurricanes) November 1, 2015
Boasting about a victory you shouldn’t have gotten. TFM
10 years ago at 11:37 amEveryone hates Miami. Duke had a controversial touchdown and got questionable pass interference calls in their favor, but that doesn’t matter.
10 years ago at 11:39 amalso you should never leave a game up to the officials or let one play determine a whole game
10 years ago at 11:44 amMike and Mike were talking about this the day after. Not Mike Golic, but the other one (I forget his name) said something relatively true. That last play of the game was absolutely reversible. Although I hate to say to alter the game after it is over is wrong. In this case it should’ve been allowed. The second his knee touched the ground the game is over and duke should’ve won. There’s no “maybe this coulda happened or this would’ve”. No, the game is over. The ACC should’ve stepped up, said they fucked up and overturned the game win to duke.
10 years ago at 11:56 amDoesn’t matter one play doesn’t make a game. And let’s be honest that was some of the shittiest blocking by duke. It never should’ve gotten that far in the first place so blame duke.
10 years ago at 11:59 amFuck me my brain isn’t working yet I meant tackling.
10 years ago at 12:00 pmThat would set a horrible precedent and teams everywhere would find that one play the refs screwed up and try to appeal every loss
10 years ago at 7:04 amNo, it wouldn’t set a horrible precedent. It was literally the last play of the game, and calling the player down or correctly calling a penalty would have ended the game right then and there. Other teams would only be able to appeal similar situations, and those would be extremely rare instances anyway. If there were even a couple seconds left, it wouldn’t be appealable.
10 years ago at 7:53 amMiami rubbing it in with a win over Duke. TFM?
10 years ago at 11:44 amThe ACC also apologized to UM for the blown pass interference calls on Duke’s last drive. And Duke was a ranked team playing at home against a bad team’s backup quarterback. They can quit their bitching now
10 years ago at 11:49 amStill don’t get the name Hurricanes. How did that meeting go? “Hey what’s the most devastating thing that consistently happens to our city? Hurricanes? Let’s be that.”
10 years ago at 12:05 pmIt’s in memory of the 1926 Miami Hurricane, which basically leveled all of South Florida just before the U opened.
10 years ago at 1:51 pmTo bad Miami was founded in 1925
10 years ago at 3:04 pmIt was but classes weren’t held until Fall of 1926. Founding and opening are not the same thing, General.
10 years ago at 5:40 pmI mean if this helps them get through the spanking Clemson gave them
10 years ago at 12:18 pmI just dropped in to say that I didn’t click on SteveHolt’s Elmo article.
10 years ago at 12:45 pmWelcome to the ACC, where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter…
10 years ago at 12:51 pmDid anyone else notice that the play was dramatized in slow-mo, but the “knee down” portion of the play was not and even appeared to be sped up?
10 years ago at 1:52 pmDid no one else notice that one guy’s name was ‘Corn’?
10 years ago at 3:30 pmyou clearly watch a lot of college football
10 years ago at 11:51 pm