Tyler
Luehring
 "In the 1980s college football
was hit by a decade long
hurricane.“ (Billy Corben)
 Immigration
 Racial Tension
 Riots
 Drugs
 Academic College of the
south
 Howard Schnellenberger
 Football recruitment
 Poverty Communities
 Local community
 Clubs
 Attitudes
 Arthur Campbell
 2 Live Crew
 Bad Representation
 Symbols of a city
 Hope and pride for
citizens
 Bring together
 Jimmy Johnson
 Father figure
 Rebuilding year
 Key losses
 returners
 Dr. Tad Foote
 Ivy league
 Bad guy figure
 Other colleges disliked their display of emotion
 Dancing
 Showboating
 Smack talking
 Dropped games
 Fights
 Touchdown dancing
 “If you don't like us dancing, then don't let us get in the
end-zone.” (Miami Alum).
 Florida State met with Miami at Doak Campbell
Stadium
 Hard fought game to the wire, coming down a two point
conversion
 Miami won 26-25
 “Game of the Century”
 #1 vs. #2
 Oklahoma Sooners came to the Orange Bowl
 Miami won 20-16
 Melvin Bratton
 injured
 Unbeaten season 12-0
 "We played our way to this
championship. We have the
best record versus anybody
in the country . . . We beat
Oklahoma three in a row,
Florida State and Notre
Dame three in a row, Florida
a couple . . . What is
sweetest is that we did it as a
team. We lost starters and
had other guys come in and
played magnificently."
(Jimmy Johnson).
 Gave kids chances they would of never gotten
 Education
 Careers
 Out of rough areas
 A team that came together to show the college football
world their skills
 Bad Boys dominated their games
 Won a national title