Mark Blaudschun By Mark Blaudschun We are here today to praise the Miami Hurricanes, not to bury them. A strange statement coming from a Miami guy who has followed the Canes with varying degrees of passion, anger, joy and disgust for more than 60 years, dating back to the fall of 1966 when I was a freshman at Miami and the U was the u, nondscript football program whose home field (the Orange Bowl) was better known than the program.