The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The Miami Hurricanes Reaction Hour
Mon, 02 Dec 2024
Dan attempted to be a dog-saving hero this weekend as he dropped his groceries to sprint down a major road after someone's tiny dog, and Billy had HIS weekend saved by the mustachioed strength and conditioning coach for the University of Miami. Then, speaking of UM... Dan, Mike, Lucy, and the crew dive into the Hurricanes' heartbreaking loss to Syracuse. How did the Canes blow a 21-point lead in that spot? How much should be blamed on Mario Cristobal? Are Miami's hopes at a CFP appearance completely gone? Will the audience be able to drink Mike's tears? Plus, Deion Sanders demands justice for Travis Hunter's cornerback skills, Kliff Kingsbury may get another head coaching job, and the origins of scuttlebutt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What heroic act did Dan perform with a dog?
Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.
I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys?
I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.
You guys would have laughed yesterday if you had seen what it is that happened with me outside of Whole Foods, where I'm coming out of Whole Foods, and I wonder what you guys would do. A tiny dog. This is Alton Road, okay? So this is a road that has some traffic on it. A tiny dog is running down the sidewalk, and the owner of the dog is running after
the dog shouting its name and the dog just keeps running and the woman who's chasing the dog isn't moving fast enough and the dog is moving fast and it's a heavily trafficked area right dogs can scoot that's correct so but she could not she was not scooting at the rate of speed that she needed to so in an attempt to be heroic, I put down my grocery bags and I sprint after the dog.
And I am now running after the dog. And it's several blocks that I'm running after the dog. And thankfully, and I'm not catching up to the dog. The dog is still running and she's falling further and further behind both me and the dog. And then a helpful person on a bicycle comes over and cuts the dog off Otherwise, I'd still be running. I'd run straight into the ocean chasing that dog.
Did she catch you? She did not catch me, no.
Did she watch your groceries? You just left them. I did. I just left them. I left them right on. Chicken nuggets.
Chicken nuggets? Oh, you don't get those from Whole Foods? Oh, they're fantastic. They are great. Baked chicken nuggets. Amazing.
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Chapter 2: What was Billy's encounter with the Miami Hurricanes coach?
And it was running right towards our car. And I wasn't driving, and I pointed. I was a little under the weather. I pointed to my wife, because I was under the weather, and fight or flight, I usually flight. So I was just pointing, like, things are going to hit our car, then we're going to get a dent, I'm going to have to do, what do you do? Do you call insurance?
Do I pay for this dent out of pocket? How much is that going to cost? Because cars nowadays... not what they used to be. Back in the day when cars were steel, those things could get hit, it wouldn't even matter. Now they're all like fiberglass and plastic and all this stuff and just like a little flick, like a little flick and the whole thing is totaled essentially.
So like I don't want this shopping cart to hit my car. So we're in the car and the shopping cart is coming towards us, my wife is driving towards it and I'm like, we need to stop, we need to stop. A woman sees that this shopping cart is coming and I see that she has a shopping cart that she's loading into her car and she sprints to go get the shopping cart. But I say, you know what?
I don't think that's her shopping cart. I don't know where that shopping cart came from. So we have this rogue shopping cart coming. A woman is running. And then out of my peripheral, all of a sudden, someone swoops by on a golf cart, one-handed, grabs the shopping cart, ushers it away. What? And then continues driving away. And this man did this while holding the golf cart in one hand.
It seemed as though he had a child in the golf cart with him. Get out of here. And I say, that was incredible. And then I go, wait a minute. Was that Aaron Feld, Miami Hurricane strength coach? The guy with the crazy mustache? The guy with the mustache came in and saved my life and saved my car and then kept driving. I couldn't even stop and be like, are you –
Are you Miami's strength coach, Aaron Feld? I know this mustache. Is that you? Couldn't even stop and thank him. He just kept driving. He ushered it away, kept driving into the shopping center, paused very briefly. We parked the car, and then he was gone. Guy came in like a hero and saved the day.
I had the conversation with Valerie. Do me the favor here, Chris, of playing the song again here, because I had the conversation with Valerie this weekend while watching the Syracuse Miami game. I'm like, look at this, honey. And she's like, oh, it's it's Movember. I'm like, no, it looks that way all the time. Four days of football. Yeah, that's the holidays.
I'm still just like, how did the cart get on? It was just a rogue cart flying down the parking lot? It was crazy.
Was it on a hill? It was a windy day. I guess that the parking lot might have been slightly slow. But I was so taken aback by the entire thing happening. And then I'm like... Does he have time to fly back from Syracuse already? There's no one else that could have been but him.
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Chapter 3: How did the Miami Hurricanes lose their game?
This has to hurt because you have Clemson on a down year, even though they'll play in that championship game. You have Florida State in a down year as well. And so it was there for the taking for the Canes. Plus, you have a 21-0 lead with a guy who's one of the favorites to win the Heisman Trophy Award against Syracuse. You've got to close that out. That has to hurt.
Plus, you have a coach that I don't care what anyone tells me. There is no way any Canes fan trusts that coach to make good decisions in the game, especially at the end of games.
We'll get to kicking the field goal in that spot, because if I'm going to lose, I'm going to lose with Cam Ward throwing the ball on fourth and nine.
You would have lost with Cam Ward.
That's fine. Probably. Yes, probably. And we have. And you still have to stop them, which you weren't. Agreed, but I would have enjoyed seeing Miami do what the Colts did against the Patriots yesterday, which is, nope, don't trust our offense. We're going to score. We're going to go for it on fourth and nine, and we're going to go for two. I don't trust our defense.
Like, I just simply do not trust us to stop anybody for any circumstances. I don't know how bad Moten feels about the season ending with him jumping off sides. They weren't going to stop anybody anyway there either. I don't know.
The Jacoby George one was really bad. The personal foul there that backs him up to the 15.
Arroyo made such a great play there.
Yeah, there was the Zay Horton drop on the slant where he probably walks into the end zone. The pancake that was called as a holding on Martinez's kind of game-changing run. And the last two weeks, two very uncharacteristic fumbles from Xavier Reschrepo. It's a shame because we've identified six plays that if they go differently, Miami wins.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Miami's loss for the CFP?
Politicking for college football positioning is something that is as old as the sport. We saw Mack Brown nuke a traditional Rose Bowl because of his politicking one year. So the SEC will always win that politicking game, too. Miami just blew it, and I can't work up the conviction. I can give you the arguments for it, but I myself don't believe it because Miami had an opportunity and they blew it.
Roy, you know that moment when you're out watching puck and the server comes over and asks the table, what can I get you guys? And everyone freezes up. You know what you should do? What should I do, Mike? You've got to have some confidence. Or as Jagermeister calls it, shotfidence. I love it. If everyone's struggling, take control. Just order for the whole table.
A round of ice cold Jagermeister shots. Damn, that's cold. Because apparently, we've all been drinking Jägermeister wrong. Well, how should we be drinking it? We should be drinking it ice cold. At zero degrees Fahrenheit. Roy, like Jägermeister, what else is infinitely better ice cold? The sport of hockey, Mike. It's in the name. It's ice hockey. Ice hockey. Yes, regular hockey, not as great.
Not floor hockey. Ice hockey, real good. Damn right. Wherever you are, if you're hanging with friends or at the bar, call the shots. Cheers with ice cold shots of Jagermeister.
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Chapter 5: What defensive issues did Miami face against Syracuse?
I don't love Matthew Kachuk more than my daughter. Stugatz. Now it's pretty damn close.
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Can I be honest for a second? Can I be safe space? Not loving the 12-team playoff right now.
Really? Wow. Not loving it. Like, I'll love it in. Finally.
I'll love it in, like, three weeks. But it was, like, when Ohio State lost to Michigan like that, I was like, that used to kill a season. And like technically it still did sort of kill their season. They're very, very sad. They're sad, but they're in the playoffs. Yeah, they're in the playoff. I do think there is like more parody in the sport than we've seen in a really long time.
But it's still very much my fear coming into the season, which I think has remained the same, is that the top are so much better than the rest. Even if you look at the way that Texas A&M game went, I know the score made it seem a lot closer than it was, but that was not a close game by any means. Texas dominated across the board, and that was two top 25 teams.
I think we're going to see a lot of blowouts in the first round. I don't know. I'll be happy in three weeks because then they'll be like, oh, my God, there's so much college football for me to watch and go to. Like, that's going to be awesome. But right now I'm like, man, some of these losses used to mean a lot more.
I don't specifically apply that to, like, rivalries don't mean as much because, like, obviously you saw with Michigan and Ohio State. But, like, I don't know.
I have a question. But now Ryan Day can win the national championship and all will be forgiven.
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Chapter 6: How does Miami's current season compare to past seasons?
I mean, imagine Miami going to Notre Dame for a first-round playoff game. That would be fantastic, right? But if Miami did make the playoffs, based on what you've seen the last two weeks, you don't think they have any shot, do you?
If they could figure out something defensively, look, they can score with anybody in the nation. I do think that they have a shot. Again, citing the Georgia Tech thing, the SEC and the ACC played four games this weekend. They were pretty much all close with the exception of Florida FSU, and Louisville just totally blew out a Kentucky team. Yeah.
The ACC had a winning record against every major conference with the exception of the SEC, and it was very close. I think that Miami would have a shot against the likes of Notre Dame, but also Jeremiah Love would just run outside sweeps and destroy them, and it would be like one of those 48-45 games.
I have a question that is going to trigger you that I'm telling you on the front and I'm not intending to trigger you on this, but I know that it will. And it's not even like the question of Mario deciding to kick for the field goal and that costing them the game or not costing the game or whatever.
Is there a world in a serious conversation where Mario cost Cam Ward Heisman votes because he did not trust his best player seemingly in that spot to win a game for him or tie a game for him?
And he took the ball out of his hand and then voters can say, well, if this is the greatest player in the country, why did his coach not put the ball in his hand when the game was on the line and the playoffs were on the line?
I understand that. Look, Travis Hunter was minus a thousand. to win the Heisman Trophy entering that game, and all he did was get an interception and three touchdowns prior to that Miami game. So I don't think there was anything that Mario could have done to win this.
In fact, maybe he was a little too infatuated with trying to win Cam Ward a Heisman Trophy because you salt that game away when you're effectively running the ball like that. A lot of people have takes on the field goal. So you assume that Miami can score on a fourth and goal from like the 15. That's not easy. And also you still need your defense to stop them.
I think the rationale would be go for it because you'll run into a Syracuse offense that's going to be a little bit more conservative and maybe you have a better shot at stopping them. No, we saw that conservative offense kill the game against Miami. So ultimately, they blew it with their mistakes and they blew it with their defensive performance.
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