Another pretty good segment. That was one crazy scene going on there and amazing how much talent they had during their heyday.
30 for 30 all in all a pretty good show, I being born in 1986 wasn't really aware of what was going on back then so it was mostly new stuff to me. Good show, great teams, bad characters.
Taking out the still-visceral reactions I have and continue to have about the 1991 Cotton Bowl, I thought the doc was completely brilliant. I don't think fans who "came of age" after the 1991 Cotton Bowl have any real concept of how different college football was after the Canes' rampage of the '80s. It's like my parents trying to explain to me the world before there was television, or me trying to explain to my nephew and nieces the world before the Internet.
It was very interesting - although it still galls me that the Canes come on and continue to defend how they behaved. "Don't blame me for running all the way up the tunnel, blame (insert everyone but the hot dog vendor)." It sounded like a whole lot of excuses and rationalization. Having said that, the points about a bunch of kids coming from basically nothing, building that university and making so much money for it and feeling as if they were passed over in return... well, that's certainly one of the great contradictions of college sports, whether you think college athletes should be paid or not.
Yah it definitely made it seem like had the university spent more money on the football program the players would have had a lot less off the field issues. The story about players stealing car radios to have more money on the weekend ($30 was all they got) makes it seem like if the university provided better facilities and treatment like the way we do, there would be no need to go off and commit robbery. Then again, we've had a couple robbery issues as has big programs like Tennessee, where the players have just about everything they would ever need,
$30 was a NCAA stipend mandated for all programs. And it was the late 1980s so that's not starvation money. Players got three squares a day M-F and they could take all of the extra food they wanted back to their rooms. Using that to justify robbery was comedy. There was no "need" to commit robberies. They did it because they were thugs. The same reason the Tennessee players did.
I watched some of this again during the game tonight and I really felt a strong homer-ism from the filmmaker. I still like Schnellnberger though, nice guy.
I tried to watch it, but could not separate my personal, emotional response to their slimy disgusting program enough to appreciate the art of the documentary itself. I will never forget the way those teams behaved, and were allowed (arguably encouraged) to behave, by their coaches. I just can't get past it, and to this day I am delighted with each and every loss suffered by Miami. F 'em.
Just watched it...Michael Irvin was the only honest guy in the whole thing...he was funny. Everyone else was saying 'we were too dark for coral gables so they picked on us...or we were poor, we had to do this and that...' Irvin said...'there was no profiling going on or anything like that...we were BAD boys, and we liked being bad boys."
I enjoyed it but how do they leave out their butt-kicking from Bama in the 1993 Sugar Bowl. That was the end of their so called "dynasty". They made college football fun but really were an embarrassment to their university.
