The Hurricanes are playing petulant games with season-ticket holders and donors.
Blake James -- the university's athletic director -- sent a letter to the aforementioned parties, claiming the ACC acknowledged "multiple incorrect calls" in Miami's 30-27 win over Duke last Saturday.
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"Earlier today we sent a formal letter to the conference office, summarizing and reiterating our concerns, and now consider this matter closed," James wrote, per ESPN.
"Per ACC policy, our football staff submitted the plays we believed were incorrectly called as a matter of weekly protocol, and were notified by the league that multiple incorrect calls impacting our team occurred during the game, including a pass interference call on the final drive."
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That's the game James wants to play. Miami's egregious, eight-lateral kickoff return -- the same kickoff return that resulted in an entire officiating crew being suspended for two games -- shouldn't be looked down upon because Duke shouldn't have had the lead in the first place.
"The eight-lateral, TD play which won the game will forever be cemented in college football lore and in our storied history," James continued to write. "The fact that the ACC publicly acknowledged officiating errors on the play does not, in any way, take away our victory or our incredible spirit."
Except the difference is: Duke's pass interference call was a subjective one, Miami's eight-later TD was not.
There's nothing subjective about a knee being down on one of the laterals.
Fortunately for James, letters, excuses, arguments, none of that will be remembered in five decades time.
Only the 30-27 scoreline will.
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