The Miami Hurricanes’ path to respectability in the college football world is unlike that of any other program. Far from it actually. College football is a sport ingrained with tradition. Most of the blueblood programs have had numerous decades filled with success. But not the Canes.
For the vast majority of its history, Miami was afterthoughts in the college football world. Great players would come and go from time to time, such as George Mira, Sr., Ted Hendricks, Dennis Harrah, and several others, but none that would lift the program to the ranks of the respectable.