Talk:1987 Miami Hurricanes football team

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<<as well as the fanciful personas adopted by players on both sidelines, best exemplified by Miami's Michael "The Playmaker" Irvin and Oklahoma's Brian "The Boz" Bosworth.>> Brian Bosworth didn't play in the 1988 Orange Bowl, nor was he even still at Oklahoma at the time, as his last season with the Sooners was 1986-87. Wayman975 (talk) 08:26, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

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Need cleanup for neutral, encyclopedic presentation

Sentences like "The final quarter was filled with back-and-forth drama." attribute an opinion to Wikipedia. You can say "One sportwriter described the final quarter as being 'filled with back-and-forth drama.'" There is a lot of bias, opinion and POV in this article that does not help the reader understand the subject. Racepacket (talk) 16:47, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

• Many teams get invited to the White House. Stating that UM was the first team from Florida to get invited is a strained basis of comparision. What are your implications? That Reagan invited them as an effort to appeal to Florida voters? Or that prior Bowl-winning or championship teams from Florida were slighted and this marked a lifting of the informal ban? Or that teams from Florida were never won a national championship before, so they were not invited due to the merits of the situation? WP:BOOSTERISM says, " Recontextualizing or narrowing the criteria may increase an institution's standing in a ranking, but unless the source explicitly offers recomputed rankings of universities on their public or national basis (for example), it is inappropriate to perform these calculations yourself as this original research cannot be verified. Similarly, making historical statements or analyses about rankings without providing reliable sources stating the same is also original research, even if they are true."
• The article needs many more specific in-line references to support some of these claims and characterizations.
• After reading the article, it is clear that it was written by a UM fan. In Wikipedia, articles should be written in an encyclopedic style so that the reader would be unable to tell what college the author(s) attended. Racepacket (talk) 16:42, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

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Assessment comment

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To get this to GA: Expand Lead Needs citations (currently has none) Replace "Starting Lineup" with normal roster template used on most CFB team articles "Trivia" section should probably be removed↔NMajdan•talk 22:05, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Last edited at 22:05, 31 July 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 05:51, 29 April 2016 (UTC)