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#10 – C-A-N-E-S Canes! Seriously, it’s not nearly as cool as N-O-L-E-S Noles, right? It’s lame, probably on both accounts, but I really don’t like the Canes version.
#9 – Sebastian the Ibis – Okay, so an Ibis is a seriously interesting bird.  It’s great, the last to go before a hurricane and the first to come back after the storm, but Sebastian? That doesn’t strike fear in the hearts of opponents, kind of like Kyle Wright or that other guy named Kirby.
#8 – The War Canoe Trophy – It’s the trophy for the “annual” game between Miami and Florida. The best part, is that it’s Seminole, but the more hilarious part is that “annual” game thing associated with the trophy.
#7 – Four Fingers - I don’t even like that FSU does it anymore, since the Noles don’t own much of anything anymore, but the Four Fingers certainly shouldn’t be officially claimed by the University of Miami as a “tradition.”
#6 – The Team Colors – Yes, I know it’s based on the colors of a Florida Orange Tree. I guess Orangemen was taken by Syracuse already.
#5 – The Team Uniforms - The Canes are like Oregon, Jr. for Nike.  They do anything and everything they can to have some weird half striped something put on the uniform. It’s awful, just awful.  The only tolerable jerseys were the green ones, but they managed to screw those up too.  (Even Florida ditched the orange jerseys long ago.)
#4 – The Orange Bowl / Dolphin Stadium – I’ve personally been to both, and they both suck eggs. The Orange Bowl is a pile of crap, that has a history, yes, but needs to die a death. It’s as old as most of the residents in South Florida.  Dolphin Stadium is a better facility starting next year, but the Canes have to drive to it, share it with the Dolphins and Marlins, and the upper deck there is about 3 inches from the Sun.
#3 – Miami Fans that didn’t go to Miami - In reality, Miami is a smaller school, and the actual alumni that I’ve met from Miami are generally okay fans, is the rest of those fans that show up at the O.B. or travel to Tallahassee to spend more time making fun of the opposing team and talking trash than actually cheering on the Canes. And have you seen a bunch that doesn’t go to their home games, in a supposedly great Orange Bowl?
#2 – The Band of the Hour – I’ve seen high school bands that are bigger, and for a school with a music program, shouldn’t they sound a bit better?
#1 – The “Smoke” Entrance – It’s lame, very, very lame. Every high school football team does it now. And it’s not even smoke, maybe if they ran through fire pits I’d be more impressed.