From: jfrederi@encore.com (Justin Frederich)
Subject: Re: Some thoughts on the Sugar Bowl from a Miami fan
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:33:55 GMT

mm42@prism.gatech.EDU (Mark Mitchell) writes:

>tonyf@rm1.interlan.com (Tony Fernandez) wrote:
>}
>}A lot is said about Miami's home field advantage when they play in the
>}Orange Bowl, but no one seems to care that the SEC enjoys the same
>}advantage when they play in the Sugar.  

>No one seems to care because it's not true.  It would only be the
>same advantage if Alabama played the Sugar Bowl in Bryant-Denny
>Stadium or Legion Field in Birmingham.  And plenty of people 
>certainly do care that Alabama gets to play the SEC championship
>in their home stadium.  Alabama has played in the Superdome about
>as often in the last ten years as Miami has (3 times apiece, I think.)

>The crowd is only one part of the home field advantage, and Alabama
>certainly enjoyed a less partisan crowd in the Sugar Bowl than 
>Miami gets in the Orange Bowl.

Wrong !  If you read the NO Times Picayune(sp) the next day, Alabama
	 players were quoted as saying that this was a 'home game just
	 like in Tuscaloosa or Birmingham'.

The quote stuck in my mind because before the SEC championship game
Stallings said it's not our home field (Legion) and we have no
advantage playing there.

I was in the upper section and the noise when Miami had the ball did
keep them from calling any audibles. It was much louder than when the
visitors to the Orange Bowl had the ball.

You can't gauge the noise from watching on TV. I was also at the Miami
Syracuse game and the Carrier Dome was the noisiest place I've ever been
but when I got home and played the tape you could barely tell that the
Syracuse fans were making noise.

The paper said that Alabama had 65000 fans at the game. I feel that the
number was a little lower than that but surely you must have noticed that
the noise level was a lot higher when Miami had the ball than when Bama did.

Remember Mark that I had already posted how Alabama gave my Canes an old-
fashioned ass kicking so I sure as hell don't mean any of the above to be
taken as an excuse.

You are usually very level headed on this net and I ask you to answer
honestly if you really believe Cane fans did anywhere near the whoofing
that they are being accused of ? 

I am saddened that some Cane fans have responded to all the Alabama
posts with crappy remarks but also can't believe the venom that has 
spewed non-stop about the Sugar Bowl.

I don't ever remember Miami netters posting that amount of crap. Think
of the response they would get if they did after any of their last 29 wins.

I also feel that people who haven't been around the Miami program since
Erickson became coach don't realize how much he has improved the on and
off field demeaner of the players.

Those people are making todays players pay for the sins of teams that are
long gone. Now I do realize how you love to taunt and badmouth so-called
blowhards but what are the current and upcoming players supposed to do
to appease you ? They can't go back and change the Cotton Bowl taunting
but they are still being punished for it. 

Are we going to (verbally) beat the hell out of Bama fans for the next ten
years 'cause of all the shit being posted now ? I hope not.

Justin - we'll be back - Frederich