Hall Of Canes: FanPosts

Miami Preview

accsecblog — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:23:37 -0000

Despite coming off a 5-7 season, I have Miami going to a bowl game this post season. The defense had an off year last year but should be bolstered by the young talent recruited over the last two years. The keys to the season will be the QB play and pass protection. These two will be the difference between competing for an ACC title or a 6-6 season. Cannot wait until Florida versus Miami in week two.

Miami Preview

NCAA Regional Previews at Rock M Nation...

The Boy — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:16:21 -0000

Hey, this is The Boy from Rock M Nation. I've written up previews for each of the teams in the Coral Gables Regional if anybody's interested. I haven't done one for Mizzou obviously, but I can answer any questions you want to ask. Also, anybody who wants to can comment on my Miami preview (fair? unfair?) as well...I'm trying to take advantage of the "posting across SBN blogs" feature with the new software!

Miami Preview

Ole Miss Preview

Bethune-Cookman Preview

Welcome to the new Hall Of Canes and SB Nation

clockwerks — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:44:35 -0000

Hey Hall Of Canes,

Today is the big day. We've switched your community over to the new SB Nation sports blog platform. My name is Trei, and I'm here to help you get adjusted to the new home we've built for you. If you have questions or trouble with the new system, post a comment in this thread and myself or one of the team (lovitt, sixfoot6 or odacrem) will try to point you in the right direction.

Before we begin, I want to let you know we still consider this a beta platform, so don't be surprised if you find a few bugs or if everything isn't exactly right yet. We hope you'll take the time to report any problems you encounter at bugreport@sbnation.com. We'll be continuing to make changes and improving things.

Please take a few minutes to read about what's new below. But if you just can't wait to jump in, here are some quick things to check out:

Sign up for your SB Nation network account and claim your old blog accounts
Once you're logged in, press your Z key in any thread with new comments
Explore your dashboard and setup your profile
Read the guide to the new FanPost editor
Install the FanShot bookmarklet and post videos to Hall Of Canes from YouTube or images from Flickr
Click the "Rec" button on posts and comments to help other people find the good stuff.
Customize display options on your Edit Settings page

What Has Changed

SB Nation Network Accounts - the Big Change

Readers across all of our blogs told us they wanted one account to use on every SB Nation blog. To make this work, we're requiring that everyone create a new SB Nation network account. In most cases you should be able to keep your old username, but a few of you may have to choose something new, since every other community in SB Nation will be going through this same transition. We tried to be as fair as possible in deciding who gets to keep which name, using a formula that takes into account length of membership and frequency of activity.

We want to make it as easy as possible for you to participate on all of our blogs, but we don't want to encourage everyone to start visiting rival team blogs and initiating flame wars. To maintain friendly communities we ask that you explicitly join each blog in order to participate. It's a two-click process, but it does means accepting each blog's community guidelines. Just as you join each blog individually, you can be banned on each blog individually.

You can claim old accounts from multiple SB Nation blogs, and your new username will be retroactively attached to all your old comments and diaries. So now you'll be able to access all your writings from your single profile page... like magic.

To get started, click here to claim your old blog accounts and create a new SB Nation network account.

FanPosts (the Section Formerly Known as Diaries)

We changed their name. Why? Because we took this major upgrade as an opportunity to leave behind some vocabulary that never made much sense for a sports blog. SB Nation is the network of, by and for fans, and these are the blog posts we make. So we call them FanPosts. When you're at a bar telling someone to check out your online sports opinions, you don't have to suggest they read your diary.

FanPosts are displayed differently on the homepage - we include your avatar to give more credit for the time you spend writing great posts. The new post editor has a WYSIWYG view that provides easy formatting. It also auto-saves drafts so you don't have to worry about losing your work when you compose a post within the web browser. And you can now associate teams, players and games with your posts: these tools promote your FanPosts on our new team, player and game pages - across the entire network.

The new system does not work like the old diary editor. For example, in HTML mode the new editor doesn't auto-create a new paragraph from two line breaks. But it does offer a whole array of new features. Look for the blinking help button on the right side of the FanPost editor for quick tips, and take a look at our full guide to writing FanPosts on the new platform.

IMPORTANT - if you write your posts in Microsoft Word or some other off-line editor, you will get the most reliable behavior if you cut & paste your post into the HTML view of the FanPost editor. And if you do that, remember to wrap <p></p> tags around each paragraph so your text doesn't run together.

Visual Redesign

This one is probably the most obvious change of all. Like other major websites working to improve readability for their audience, we've adopted a fixed-width layout optimized for the 1024 x 768 resolution used by the majority of Hall Of Canes and SB Nation network users. Use the switcher below the user menu if you prefer the wider layout designed for 1280 monitors. We've introduced a top navigation bar with quick links into old and new sections of the site. We also polished a few edges, made some things larger, others smaller and moved a few boxes here and there. More changes and adjustments to come.

Search

We've completely replaced the old search engine with a new one. We're excited to make it easier to find old posts and comments, but we've only taken our first pass on the tools we're offering. We're focused on making search even better than what you had before, so please know that we're aware search is missing key features and we're working on it.

What's New

Schedule, Scores, Stats and Roster

Hall Of Canes now has all the basic information about the Miami Hurricanes and hundreds of other teams. During games you'll see a regularly updated line score, and as the season progresses we'll track team stat totals and leaders. This is just our first step, so look for us to publish more detailed and archival stats in the future. The best part about all this sports data is that we've integrated it directly into the blog so. We now have special pages that aggregate all blog posts written about games, players and teams.

Recommending FanPosts

Some writing deserves more attention and more conversation. If you want to bump a FanPost up to the top and keep it there for awhile, just click the 'Rec' link under the body of the post. When a FanPost receives enough recommendations it will make the recommended list.

Auto-refreshing Comments

You no longer need to refresh the page to see new comments. If you're logged in, new comments will automatically appear on the page every few seconds. When you post a comment, the page will not refresh either. If you want to quickly cycle through all the new comments, you can press the C key on your keyboard. Unmark a new comment after you've read it with the X key. And use the Z key if you want to umark comments as you're cycling through them.

As you use these shortcuts to cycle through comments, press the R key to reply to the current comment. All these helpful keyboard shortcuts are listed at the top of each comments section for reference.

Recommending Comments

Now you can reward those folks who take the time to look up stats and make smart arguments in the comments. Next to each comment there is an 'actions' link that you can click to find the recommend and flag options.

Flagging Comments

To help the moderators on a site, we've built-in tools that let you flag comments that are spam, trolling or just plain inappropriate. Only moderators can see those flags.

FanShots

Many members of the community just want to post that one link, video, photo or quote, but don't need a full FanPost. We've got you covered: FanShots let you share YouTube videos, Flickr or PhotoBucket photos, quotes from articles, portions of chat transcripts, top 5 lists and simple links. If it's a video or image we'll put a thumbnail on the homepage when you post it.

For those of you who are experienced internet hunter-gatherers of Miami Hurricanes material, install the bookmarklet onto the links bar of your browser and share FanShots with the community from wherever on the web you find that killer quote or photo.

Avatars

Upload an image so folks can see your custom avatar on your profile, your FanPosts, and all your comments.

Network Profiles

Now that we have unified SB Nation network accounts, your profile will be your central hub for all of your activity on any blogs where you are a member.

Network bar

The top bar stays with you on all SB Nation blogs. It's a quick way to login and logout. When you're logged in, you'll see your avatar and screen name which links to your profile. The icon to the right leads to your Dashboard area where you can edit your settings, profile, account details and any FanPosts or FanShots you've published. As we add more blogs to the new SB Nation network, the My Blogs menu will be a handy way to navigate between the blogs you've joined.

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There are plenty more small changes and additions we've made, so please take a careful look around and explore this new system. We appreciate your patience and hope you'll help us improve the new platform for this and all the other SB Nation blogs.

And in case you missed it, you'll want to start by claiming your old blog accounts and creating a new SB Nation network account.

College baseball defensive evaluation network

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:36:44 -0000

Do you go to college games? Are you a savvy college baseball fan who feels like you have a good handle on a handful of player's defensive skills? If so, we would like you to share with us your expertise. I'm helping informally WITH an undisclosed MLB club and we are putting together a "Scouting Report by the Fans" evaluating D1 players. The idea is to get the wisdom of the crowds when it comes to rating a player's fielding SKILLS. If you are interested in hearing more about the project, let me know at eriknmanning@gmail.com, along with a little info on your baseball background. You don't have to be an ex-player or a scout, just a knowledgeable fan.

ESPN and Miami

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:28:50 -0000

I know this might have been disscussed in the past or what-not but since I'm new to the site I figured I would chime in. Why does it always seem no matter what Miami does ESPN always have some way to never recognize it. Or if they do it's in a negative lite. I swear I get this vibe that they hate to report on anything Miami related unless it's something negative, then they just run with it. Also when any sport of Miami's has a broadcast on ESPN they just get put down time and time again. You might have the occasional nice comment then back to eating crow from the other team. Just a thought I have been having so if anyone else would care to elaborate or share their feelings, please do I'm excited to hear other people's point of views. Go Canes

Marve ? Harris ? or both?

canesncowboys — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:55:25 -0000

I m just wondering, now that Spring ball has started, Harris or Marve, or do we follow the rest of college football, with the 2 QB system?

Since Spring practice started last week, I have been reading about the quaterback situation. Marve and Harris appear to be the front runners, one of the two will lock up the starting spot, Coach Shannon says he wont name a starter until the season is about to start. Both qb's are mobile and from my understanding Marve has the stronger arm. I have read that Jacory is very accurate, and throws the deep ball a little better than Marve. My only concern with Harris, is his weight, he is a little light for D1 college football, now he has added some weight since he got to Miami in January. Another option for Nix and crew would be the 2 qb system, which Florida and LSU rode to national titles. Marve or Harris starts, and then the other comes in for a change of pace, maybe Nix would use a differant set of plays for each qb. So my fellow canes fans, I was just wondering, who do you want to see start? or do you believe a 2 qb system would work in M I A ?

Canes' basketball clinches 20th win....

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:02:51 -0000

Frank Haith and the Miami Hurricanes basketball team clinches their 20th win of the 2008 basketball season, only the tenth 20 win season in school history. With the 95-93 win over UVA at home Saturday, in large part to a career high performance from Jack McClinton, the Canes' need one more win to reach .500 in the ACC and solidify a spot in the big dance. Miami's next two games are: A home game against BC on Wednesday, BC won at home early in ACC play. Miami closes out the season on the road against rival FSU, Miami lost at home against the Seminoles earlier in the season. Miami has won 5 of their last 4, only losing to Clemson on the road. A game in which Miami went down by 21 points and trailed by 17 at the half, but managed to fight back and take the lead late in the 2nd half before running out of steam. According to Joe Lunardi, an ESPN analyst for Men BB, Miami is projected as an 11 seed playing Butler in game one of the NCAA Tournament. The ACC tournament is scheduled for March 13th-16th in Charlotte, NC. The seeding has not been announced yet.

Baseball News:

The Hurricanes Baseball team improved to 5-1 after the 3 game home series against UF this weekend. Miami won the first two games clinching the series before dropping the third and final game after a heartbreaking grand-slam by the Gators in the late innings gave them the 6-2 win. Miami's solid pitching held strong throughout the series along with the hitting to allow the Canes' to improve to 8th in the national rankings.

Football Points:

-Coach Shannon puts the names back on the jerseys, but is withholding the U on the helmest for new players until they "earn it."
-Miami picked up its fourth 2009 recruit this past week in DE Olivier Vernon, he joins 5 star RB Bryce Brown, TE Billy Sanders, and former hurricane Alonzo Highsmith's son AJ who is recruited as a QB, but hopes to play safety.
-Miami has had 4 spring practices under their belt, two in full pads. So far so good is the word from many players. It appears to be a deadlock at QB between Marve and Harris with Cannon Smith still impressing some players. Miami resumes practice this Tuesday, after taking Sunday and Monday off.

Check out Hurricanesports.com for news on the rest of Miami's athletic department.

GO CANES!

Basketball, Baseball, Football

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:18:23 -0000

Overall, Miami is looking great in Basketball, heating up down the stretch and when its most important. The stacked Miami Baseball team is looking strong early beating a talented Cinncinatti team which was ranked 4th last year in stolen bases and finished with a .500 record. The football team is starting spring practice tuesday in shorts and helmets. Spring game will be March 29th at Lockhart Stadium.

GO CANES!!!

The Hurricanes basketball team beat Maryland Saturday extending their win streak to 4 games, all in the ACC. The Maryland game showed real maturity from the young team after the huge upset of #4 Duke on Wednesday. If Miami can atleast split the next 4 games, two of which are at home and 3 against the bottom teams in the ACC, Miami will have a strong case for a NCAA tournament bid. Miami's next game is Saturday at Clemson. Miami defeated a then ranked #25 Clemson at home earlier in the season. Frank Haith will be chasing his 20th win of the season.

Now for Baseball

Miami clinched their opening game and series against Cinncinatti Friday and Saturday night. Eric Erikson got his first win in his first start Friday night in a 3-1 win, Gutierriez got the save. Saturday night, it was Garcia's turn to grab the win thanks to excellent relief pitching late and a 3 run home run by Hagerty to tie the game at 4 and a solo shot by Dave DiNitale to win it in the bottom of the eight. Gutierriez again closed it out in the top of the 9th to give Miami a 6-4 win and clinch the series. Miami's next game is Sunday against Cinncinatti. Miami will try and get the sweep in the first series of the season.

Football news

Miami grabbed early committments for 2009 from Five star recruit RB Bryce Brown, brother of current Five star recruit LB Arthur Brown. Earlier, former Miami Hurricane Alonzo Smith's son A.J. committed as a QB, but hopes to play Safety.

Randy Shannon and coachs Bill Young and Aubrey Hill spoke in a press conference last week and addressed the latest updates for spring ball. Miamiherald.com has all the updates and the audio of the press conference.

So-so Performance For Canes

wvilla — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:53:38 -0000

I guess the Canes have to play Thursday nights on ESPN to be impressive.

They beat lowly Duke, 24-14, on Saturday to improve to 4-1. But other than the Thursday night win over Texas A&M, the Canes have not played inspired football. They lost big at Oklahoma and struggled at times in wins over Marshall, FIU and Duke.

Here are the grades for the Duke game:

QUARTERBACKS (GRADE B-) - Kyle Wright continues to be incredibly accurate. But for the second week in a row, he turned the ball over twice. To be fair, though, his first interception today was not really his fault. Freshman WR Leonard Hankerson ran an 18-yard out instead of 12, ruining Wright's timing. The second pick, though, was Wright's fault. Deep in Duke territory, he rolled left and had a lane to run. But he tried to force a pass in the end zone and got picked. Other than that, he made just one bad throw, an overthrow for a harmless incompletion. He also held on to the ball too long on two sacks. His final numbers: 19 of 23 for 230 yards, 2 TDs and 2 INTs.

RUNNING BACKS (GRADE A) - Freshman Graig Cooper, who for the first time started the game together with Javarris James, continues to improve, gaining 126 yards from scrimmage. He ran for 101 yards, 1 touchdown and 0 fumbles (unlike last week). His average per rush was a sensational 8.4. James had 85 yards from scrimmage, including a 16-yard run in which he trucked a defensive back.

RECEIVERS/TIGHT ENDS (GRADE B-) - The bright spot was junior-college transfer Kayne Farquharson, who had a breakout performance with 6 catches for 46 yards and 1 touchdown. The TD catch - in which Kayne had to stretch to get the ball - was a 5-yard grab in the back of the end zone. Tight end Dajleon Farr also made a great play on Miami's clinching TD. It was a 33-yard catch and run, with Farr breaking tackles as he roared down the left sideline. Senior Darnell Jenkins was solid with 3 catches for 72 yards, including a 46-yard bomb. He did have one drop, but he also made a key block on Farr's TD. As for negatives, freshman Leonard Hankerson made a mistake on his out pattern (see above). And Sam Shields and Ryan Hill were demoted for undisclosed reasons. That's twice in five games for Shields, the team's fastest player who had seemingly turned a corner last week. Very disappointing.

OFFENSIVE LINE (GRADE C+) - UM's blockers paved the way for James and Cooper to rush for 158 yards and a 5.6 average. But they gave up two sacks and were whistled for three holding calls - one on LT Jason Fox and two on RT Chris Rutledge. The first sack was a clear coverage sack. The second was also due to Wright holding the ball too long. But there is no excuse for the holding calls. It seems like Reggie Youngblood should be elevated over Rutledge after this performance.

DEFENSIVE LINE (GRADE B-) - The D-Line wasn't perfect but they did get 8 sacks. With that type of pressure, the back seven should clean up. DE Eric Moncur made the biggest play of the game, coming up with a sack on 4th down to stop Duke's final threat with the score 17-14, Miami. But there were a pair of costly roughing-the-passer penalties - one on Calais Campbell and another on Vegas Franklin. There is also the matter of allowing Duke's running back to gain 71 yards on a 5.1 average.

LINEBACKERS (GRADE C) - MLB Tavares Gooden turned in another good performance with 14 tackles and a fumble recovery. But OLB Colin McCarthy missed too many tackles, and OLB Spencer Adkins didn't make much happen, either. The Canes held Duke scoreless in the first half but had some second-half meltdowns. The linebackers are at least partly responsible. The same goes for Duke's first TD, a 41-yard screen pass. Where were the LBs?

DEFENSIVE BACKS (GRADE D) - Former Miami prep star Thad Lewis passed for 241 yards on Miami (18 of 27, 2 TDs, 0 INTs). CB Bruce Johnson had a brutal game. He got beat on a 31-yard TD pass down the sideline. He also got nailed for a pair of holding penalties, the second of which would have forced a fourth down. That nearly beat Miami. Another mistake was made by CB DeMarcus Van Dyke, who tried to run with a fumble and instead failed to grasp it. A positive play was made by Glenn Sharpe, who got his first action from scrimmage this season. He stripped Lewis of the ball and recovered it.

SPECIAL TEAMS (GRADE C) - The Canes' special teams were what we thought they were - to borrow a famous line - average. Francesco Zampogna made a career-best 47-yard field goal, but he also missed a 42-yarder. Matt Bosher averaged 34 yards per punt but allowed just 5 yards on returns. The Canes did not return any punts and averaged just 21 yards on kickoffs.

Is Kirby Freeman done?

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:26:54 -0000

Kirby Freeman's Days at Miami are numbered...

If that's the best he's got there's no way he's going to beat out Robert Marve for the position in 2008 so I'm wondering if he just doesn't decide to leave at the end of this season or waits until the spring.

Take my advice Kirby. Transfer now, transfer to Jacksonville University and play in Kerwin Bell's spread offense.

Hall Of Canes: FanPosts

Miami Preview

NCAA Regional Previews at Rock M Nation...

Welcome to the new Hall Of Canes and SB Nation

What Has Changed

SB Nation Network Accounts - the Big Change

FanPosts (the Section Formerly Known as Diaries)

Visual Redesign

Search

What's New

Schedule, Scores, Stats and Roster

Recommending FanPosts

Auto-refreshing Comments

Recommending Comments

Flagging Comments

FanShots

Archives

Avatars

Network Profiles

Network bar

College baseball defensive evaluation network

ESPN and Miami

Marve ? Harris ? or both?

Canes' basketball clinches 20th win....

Basketball, Baseball, Football

So-so Performance For Canes

Is Kirby Freeman done?