For months now he has talked about the injustice of something he doesn't understand and can't control, and how it has negatively compounded the enormous task at hand.Frankly, you can't blame Al Golden. But you also can't ignore this:Nothing the NCAA can say or do to Miami will have as much impact as beating Florida on Saturday."We can't let the stage get too big," says Miami quarterback Stephen Morris.It's too late for that. Once the NCAA decided to -- again -- delay the proce s of finalizing the nearly two-year investigation, this game, this moment, became the focus of Golden's third year in Coral Gables.Miami was supposed to know its final punishment 4-6 weeks after its early summer William Jackson Jersey hearing with the NCAA. That six-week date of July 26 is long gone, leaving one-time bitter rival Florida the measuring point for all things Canes and Golden over the last two years.They've fought the NCAA. They've fought to protect Dade and Broward counties from Florida and Florida State swooping in and stealing elite recruits.They won enough games last year to win the ACC Coastal Division and get a rematch with rival FSU in the league's championship game, but a self-imposed postseason ban eliminated that. They've done all they could do to rebuild and rebrand a program whose last seminal moment on the field was an all-out brawl in 2007 during a game with FIU.And now it has come to this: beat the bully, the flagship program in the state with the deep pockets and gold standard conference and two BCS national championships since 2006, and everything changes.MORE: | | | "I don't think it hurts to win," Golden says, downplaying the moment. "But winning would go a long way, for sure."Especially with so much at stake off the field. For more than two years now, Golden Brandon Thompson Jersey has been selling a dream to current players and potential recruits of returning Miami to past glory. Imagine, he says, if you're part of the group that brings this program back to life.Imagine Sun Life Stadium full again, and you're running out through the smoke and onto a national television stage and the Canes are as bad and bold and brash as they've ever been. Imagine every team's dream of playing for it all has to go through Miami -- just like it did in the early 1990s and early 2000s.Now take in this reality: there's not a ticket to be had for this weekend's game. Shoot, they've added 2,000 seats to a Dre Kirkpatrick Jersey stadium that hasn't been full for a Canes game in who knows how long. They're paying two and three times what the NFL's Dolphins charge to sit in the upper deck at Sun Life -- for a noon kick with the temperature in the 90s.Florida only received 12,500 tickets, which means more than 60,000 Canes fans might just make Sun Life feel like the Old Lady Orange Bowl of years past. If that's not enough, some of the state's top recruits will be in attendance for a game that will go a long way in swaying decisions.So please, enough with the NCAA. Let it go for a day, at least.The prize on the field is much bigger than any punishment off it."These are the games you dream about playing in," said Miami tailback Duke Johnson. "It's not pre sure; it's your chance, your time."Maybe that's why there's a different feeling around Coral Gables this week. The outside distractions -- the NCAA; the reality that this likely will be the last time Florida and Miami play in the regular Tee Higgins Jersey season -- are meaningle s.What's important is Miami, which has 20 starters returning from a team that won seven games last year, can't slip up in a game with so much on the line. This is a program that has struggled in the last two years in big games, including two lopsided lo ses last year (to Notre Dame and Kansas State) that exposed the Canes' lack of talent on the interior lines.Miami is 1-10 since November 2005 against teams ranked 12th or better (Florida is No. 9 in the Coaches' Poll), and Morris is 0-4 in his career against ranked teams."This is more than just one game," Morris said. "This is a chance for us to set up the rest of the season and beyond. We all know what's at stake."Earlier this week Golden again made a point to insist the team doesn't think about the NCAA investigation. Because while that's the narrative everyone likes to focus on, more potential damage is happening away from it all.Florida already has commitments from four of the state's top recruits for 2014, including tailback Dalvin Cook and wideout Ermon Lane -- both from deep in what former Miami coach Howard Schnellenberger once called "the state of Miami."Schnellenberger famously told his staff in the early 1980s -- just years removed from the university po sibly eliminating the then struggling program -- if they could lock up Broward and Dade counties, they would win a national championship.Golden and the Canes will win the state of Miami when they win the state of Florida. That first big step is Saturday against the Gators."We can't barricade ourselves from all the Trey Hopkins Jersey excitement here in South Florida," Golden said. "For us, we've got to focus on what's going on in the middle of the stadium -- not what's going on outside."