David Bridges
Miami entered Saturday’s game against Duke as a 10-point home favorite. At Hard Rock Stadium, however, it was all Blue Devils.
Capitalizing on 8 turnovers by the Hurricanes, Duke pulled away for an absolute blowout. Mike Elko’s squad outscored UM 21-0 in the 4th quarter on the way to a 45-21 road victory.
Mario Cristobal’s squad drops to 3-4 overall and 1-2 in ACC play. As expected, Cristobal and the Canes are getting torn to shreds on social media for Saturday’s poor showing.
Here’s a small sample of what’s being said on Twitter:
Can the Miami equipment manager haul out that turnover chain and bring it over to the Duke bench pic.twitter.com/GmNBlw6nz5
— Crazie Talk (@crazietalker) October 22, 2022
Miami found a coach worse than Manny Diaz ?
— Dash (IG:QCMedia___) (@JROD813) October 22, 2022
Elko doing a good job but Miami is appallingly bad
— haunted Andy (@jeanlucgodawgs) October 22, 2022
Really feel bad for those dozens, dare I say hundreds of fans who showed up in the stadium Miami rented to lose in today.
— Triangle Gator (@TriangleGator) October 22, 2022
“These are Manny’s players”. Yeah well these are Cutcliffes 3-8 Duke players (0-8 in conference) from 2021 that are absolutely destroying Miami.
— TheCanesHype (@TheCanesHype) October 22, 2022
Bruhhhh 6 turnovers!!?? ?? Miami is hot 2-pack of ASS. Not even mad anymore this team is just a bunch of clowns #MiamiHurricanes pic.twitter.com/M4wR8UqDC9
— Marco Soto (@kyoto_soto) October 22, 2022
The U is dead, it’s just the University of Miami at Coral Gables
— Anton Chigurh (@Tweets_n_Nike) October 22, 2022
Miami hurricanes are hot garbage??
— Shaw (@Tyler__Shaw) October 22, 2022
Miami is straight trash period
— Canes (@mestizo52) October 22, 2022
Miami puts the U in tUrnovers
— Duke Fan Acct (@DukeFBFans) October 22, 2022
We really paid a trillion dollars to hire this guy because he’s a Miami Cuban who went to Columbus pic.twitter.com/01zZOvwloa
— michael (@mef_57) October 22, 2022
Reminder Miami is paying $8 million this year to Mario so they can lose to Duke by 24
— Calexan412 (@calexan412) October 22, 2022
Miami Football. Woof.
Mario looks like a bystander who witnessed a car crash and not the actual head coach…they’re down 21 at home to Duke and running the ball to make the humiliation stop.
— Aslan Hajivandi (@AslanHodges) October 22, 2022
Miami has already quit on a brand new coach. Wild! #Miami
Duke is a bowl team though. https://t.co/aOq3zPZln8
— HS ⚾️???️♂️???? (@PackofWolves26) October 22, 2022
@UrinatingTree announces that Hurricane Ian WAS NOT the worst thing that occured in Florida!
It was the Miami Hurricanes losing to Duke!!
This is Category Five Destruction and Incompetence!!!
— Fire Dave Roberts (@nat_petrone85) October 22, 2022
Miami is 3-4.
They have lost three games at “home.”
Two of those home losses were blowouts by Middle Tennessee State and Duke.
The U is back in a big way, folks!
— ? (@FearThePegasus) October 22, 2022
All these “process” people need to tell me the difference between Dukes year 1 coaching staff and Miami’s. It’s a dead program. Don’t blame anyone for not committing to play for this awful staff
— #itsallabouttheU (@Mike_Genoble) October 22, 2022
I know Duke is improved but holy hell they beat the breaks off Miami
— Antwan V. Staley (@antwanstaley) October 22, 2022
Transition years almost always come up with ups and downs. After Cristobal’s success at Oregon, though, Canes fans were certainly hoping to see improvement from the Manny Diaz era in Year 1.
Miami has now lost 4 of its last 5 games. The Hurricanes will look to bounce back in Week 9 on the road at Virginia.
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