Former Miami Hurricane great and alum, as well as Miami Hurricane Sports Hall of Famer, Melvin Bratton, was versatile and a powerful runner on those great Miami Hurricane championship teams in the late 1980s.
His relentless energy, confidence, and swagger were instrumental to the Canes transitioning from the "weak ivy league program of the South," with little fanfare to becoming one of the most dominant college football programs of the 1980s and 1990s.
Bratton's confident bravado really set the tone regarding the mystique the Miami Hurricane teams of the 1980s and 1990s enjoyed during the Hurricanes reign as the " bad boys" of college football.