With all due respect Choc, I know you're in a bad state now that your team has Randy Shannon as a coach (Who factors into this bit of knowledge SK is bout to lay on you), but Miami Hurricane fans are not fair weather fans.
SK was a Canes fan as a little kid when George Mira played (his folks used to drive over from Punta Gorda to watch them), Sk was a fan when Mira's son played, and SK has been a fan ever since.
Canes fans just got used to a very competitive product many years ago (5 National Championships and the worst Flag in history or it would have been 6 - the other two programs are on the decline after coming off of their little runs). After yesterday in the Swamp, Gator fans are going to be dropping like flies.
During a decade of sanctions, Canes fans just didn't show up at the stadium for sub par performances and bad hires, they demanded more. Watch the New England Patriots when Brady and his coach leave. Canes fans see this hire and are back because they know recruiting is returning, and they feel the program will be in the mix big time next year. Anything they do from this game on is a bonus. Last two times they were 7-0, they lost game 8 to VT and ND.
You have to remember, Miami isn't some boring little town like Gainesville, Tally, Ann Arbor or South Bend; little towns that only have a stadium for the only college (act) team in the area and fill it because there's nothing else to do for people's entertainment dollar for sometimes hundreds of miles.
This is the international City of Miami, the place that produced the only undefeated NFL team in history, so you better have a team that lives up to potential and where the bar's been set.
If not, people might just go bet the ponies at Hialeah; Watch Jai Alai; Go to a cock fight in little Haiti; Hit the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Play Dominos on Calle Ocho in Little Havana; Catch the latest filming of Cops; Hit Joe's Stone Crab or Los Ranchos for dinner; Go to Bachateando Dance Festival; Take a cruise out of the Port; Visit Lyric Theater in Overtown; Charter a boat for Sailfish; Buy a 50 Million dollar yacht; Hit any of the ICW wet tee shirt bars; Take in the sights on the nude beach; Watch Canes NC alumni, The Rock filming Ballers; or go to a host of pro sporting events.
Capiche?