Randy, please don’t tear down your sand castles. Remember Jimmy, Randy. Remember Jimmy.

As usual with all this fantastic documentary footage, hit to Rak on tur.

What a film! If you were not a Miami Hurricanes fan before seeing that documentary, you at least have to admit some appreciation for everything they did for that entire decade. Miami did things that will never be repeated in college football, whether you want to argue because of scholarship rules, their independent status, or the fact America is going down a very Conservative Right boring ass lane to boringville each and every year.

Did anyone tell Drunk Bernie Kosar® that this is permanent? What is shot on film stays around forever? Maybe take a detox rehab course two weeks prior to filming to at least lose the bloated cheeks for the cameras?

Jimmy once again showing everyone how great he really was. He was the best overall coach to run Miami, and unlike other HCs, he deserved every bit to leave the program for greener pastures. Dennis Erickson knew all along Miami was just a stop gap to the NFL. He saw Jimmy do it, and knew he could live off his success for a few years and do the same. Butch Davis is the one I lament. He never should have left Miami; never should have even considered it. He built the program back up from probation, and could have just finished his 14th season in Coral Gables. Now Randy Shannon will take everything Butch left on the table as his own.

How about Howard Schnellenberger choking up as he talks about leaving Coral Gables?! Nearly brought tears to my eyes. That great man knows what he left behind, and seeing his head bowed in absolute regret, you couldn’t help but feel his sadness. This documentary seemed to bring everything he has probably thought about on a daily basis out into the open. He built the most fascinating, crazy, balls to the wall program in the history of college football, all from nothing. This man built Rome in five years, became their Caesar, and left before the clay was dry on his statue. You know it eats at him every year, every day, every moment, because he has tried to replicate the situation twice. Both at Louisville and now FAU, he has built football programs from the ashes or kindling, but he knows nothing will ever compare to what he had with his State of Miami. My friends, that is about as sad as Ennis Del Mar holding Jack Twist’s blue jean shirt.

Regardless, I’ll be watching it again today, and perhaps again the next day.

One last reminder. Tomorrow night. Somebody vote for Vinny again so he can get more than Tebow.

Next Saturday, in a very cush timeslot after the most boring awards show of the year, ESPN will show their best documentary to date. The U, about the rise of Miami Hurricanes football juxtaposed with the rise of the race relations in Miami, already has me excited to the brim. I have been waiting to watch this since first hearing about it last spring.

The interviews will no doubt be top notch, as I believe only Randy Shannon and Paul Dee are the notable names not on the list. For a mid 20’s Canes fan as myself, who really can only read about the notorious 1980s teams, this will finally shine a light on the attitude that permeated the entire program for over a decade.

For more info about the doc, or the main guy behind it, check out Billy Corben’s site Rak on tur’.

Not only is he the main mastermind behind the documentary set to air on ESPN after the Heisman ceremony, but he even knows the right way to edit a film.

Larry Coker was the most prominent person interviewed who didn’t make the cut. “Originally, we had delusions of grandeur that we would somehow do the 2001-02 championship,” Corben said. “We wound up not going that far.”

Don’t be coy Billy, tell the truth. You cut his ass because even just seeing his face is more embarrassing than the Pell Grant scandal.

Now here is a pissed off athletic director. If there is any game I wish I could watch now, that I could watch live, it would always, always, always be the 1991 Cotton Bowl thumping of Texas. It literally created the 15 yard unsportsmanlike penalty.

UM’s controversial on-field behavior receives ample attention. In his interview for the film, then-athletic director Sam Jankovich said Randal Hill’s memorable touchdown celebration in the 46-3 Cotton Bowl rout of Texas on Jan. 1, 1991 — Hill ran down the tunnel and pretended to shoot pistols — was “totally disgusting.”

Jankovich recalled telling Erickson afterward “if you don’t solve this problem, somebody else will solve it for you. You should be ashamed how this team performed.”

Man, that is hilarious. It also underscores the biggest problem with Erickson, and his inability to discipline anyone. If I was an inner-city youth used to running around after midnight causing a ruckus, only to be let off the hook due to a fantastic talent I had that old white men cherished, I don’t think I’d want to play for any other coach than Erickson.

Can’t wait to see the finished product.