Hurricanes Performing Community Outreach…

Don’t expect to see this story on the ESPNews ticker anytime soon. Doing good deeds doesn’t make for good headlines. People want drama. Arrests. DUIs. Guns. Thankfully our Florida and Florida State brethren have those bases covered these days.

Down in Coral Gables, Randy Shannon is pressing on with his mission to mold young men, as well as football players.

Throughout the month of July, every football player on Miami’s roster will perform community outreach throughout Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.

“South Florida is our home,” explained Shannon. “This is a way for our players to give back to the community and it allows the football program and the athletic department to say thanks as well.”

Team members will host events for youth teams with upwards of 15 to 20 players attending each event. The events are open for kids up to and including the eighth grade. Outreach events will focus on “football and life skills” and will last up to 45 minutes. Click here for a list of the events.

Let this be a reminder to all the feeble-minded idiots who still toss around the ‘Thug U’ moniker in regards to Miami. That phrase is a good two decades past its expiration date and better suits Urban Meyer and his merry band of hoodlums up in Gainesville.

For those keeping score, it’s a solid two dozen arrests on Meyer’s watch since 2006 and one for Miami when former quarterback Robert Marve punched a car mirror in Coconut Grove in 2007.

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