Donna's Legacy

[Saltycane]

Lol, idiots questioning her legacy. She may go down as the best President the University has ever had but some minimum wage poster thinks her legacy is tarnished because the program is down. Football is a drop in the ocean of what her legacy is based on.

 

[Boarcane]

Lol, idiots questioning her legacy. She may go down as the best President the University has ever had but some minimum wage poster thinks her legacy is tarnished because the program is down. Football is a drop in the ocean of what her legacy is based on.

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[Cane Dynasty]

UM is the banana republic of the NCAA

 

[Gatorhater]

She will always be remembered for ruining Miami football.

When she arrived, we had Butch Davis at head coach, the orange bowl, and the greatest winning tradition in college football.

She couldn't get a deal done with Butch, laughed as the orange bowl came crumbling down, and has overseen the fall of Miami to a 7-5 team year in/out.

She is more concerned with APR scores and keeping a spotless image than she is with winning.

Her head coaching hires: Larry Coker, followed by Randy Shannon, followed by Al Golden

She has not been able to keep an AD for more than a month at a time.

The only way she could keep an AD working for her is by promoting a glorified accountant Blake "the snake" James, that spineless sack of ****

NO facility imporvements, investment in the program at all relative to other programs



This week, she had the chance to change that. She had a chance to hire a great coach, to leave her lasting legacy as one that turned Miami around.

She spat in our faces.

**** that little troll.

This is all on Donna and our crap BOT.

OK, there's plenty of valid criticisms about DS (the admin has actively tried to distance themselves from the stuff that made Miami special, and was late with facility improvements) but most of this is nonsense.

1. Butch left right before signing day in early 2001. Shalala didn't take over until June 2001. So she had nothing to do with Butch.

2. Yeah we lost 2 AD's but had Paul Dee forever and now we have Blake James. Both of them have been underperforming, so it's fair to criticize her there. Criticizing her for 2 AD's leaving quickly is stupid.

3. There have been a ton of recent facility improvements. They came late, and UM was reactive as usual, but saying that there were "NO" facility improvements is just wrong.

Good point, she had nothing to do with Butch, so no credit for the NC and second NC game goes to her. That leaves only complete **** during her years. Also, Paul Dee and Donna gave us the greatest scandal in ncaa history. Add to that any blame Dee should have shouldered for the Pell scandal. So in addition to not being able to keep ADs, the one she did keep might have been the most horrific one in history, save any at PSU. Ncaa could have easily hit Donna with a show cause. She should have been dismissed in disgrace for Nevin. She has left us debt and a destroyed football program. I think she is ready to move on to President of the USA. Proven tract record as worthy successor of current office holder who had to do it all without any experience.

 

[Gatorhater]

Lol, idiots questioning her legacy. She may go down as the best President the University has ever had but some minimum wage poster thinks her legacy is tarnished because the program is down. Football is a drop in the ocean of what her legacy is based on.

Donna is that you? Are you serious? Not that we have had any great presidents so the bar is low, but Donna disgraced THE U with the greatest ncaa scandal in history not involving showers. She bought up health care facilities with debt that will probably kill the school. Beyond that, what did she do? I was born in Coral Gables and attended SunTan U. Trust me, Howard did more for THE U in one night than Donna could ever do. JJ did more. A drunk Dennis did even more. Butch showed that they other guys had merely scratched the surface. The fame, money, and enrollments Donna mortgaged came from football. She has created Loser U. Wait ten years and check back for her legacy. Hint, it will be in the Federal courthouse under Bankruptcy. On that basis you are correct, destruction of football is just the tip of the iceberg of the harm this ***** has done.

Your comment about minimum wage earner says much about you. You are the elitist type that personifies the administration. Does daddy still paid your expenses or are you still living at home? I assume your mom has weened you by now.

 

[CTCANE]

Gatorhater is in the complete minority when it comes to Donna's legacy as the President of the University.

 

[algoldenshair]

Lol, idiots questioning her legacy. She may go down as the best President the University has ever had but some minimum wage poster thinks her legacy is tarnished because the program is down. Football is a drop in the ocean of what her legacy is based on.

Greatest president my ***.

 

[SFbayCane]

Lol, idiots questioning her legacy. She may go down as the best President the University has ever had but some minimum wage poster thinks her legacy is tarnished because the program is down. Football is a drop in the ocean of what her legacy is based on.

Would luv to hear your take on the sale of the satellite UM campus land that was sold to Walmart.

 

[FullyERicht]

Al of her actions have been to serve two means:

-positioning itself to be a dominant city-wide medical giant
-improve our academic standing to that of a school that has a hospital system like NYU, UChicago, etc.

They did not feel this could be accomplished while fielding a flashy, urban culture dominated, NFL factory football team; a team that is the symbol of the school.

Thus the lack of money spent, and the hirin of coaches based on their academic records.

 

[LuCane]

Her legacy is tied to UHealth. It's been struggling, but things are so ****ed up down here that they still have a 50/50 shot of making it a real success. If only because they keep throwing money at it, it's rife with controversy and corruption, yet still alive.

Except the public face of the University of Miami has always been its football team. The layman not living in South Florida doesn't give a toss about UHealth.

Ironically enough, most of UM's students, donors, and faculty are not from South Florida.

Some hospital in Coral Gables means squat to anyone not local to that area.

You're preaching to the choir about the role the athletic program could play for the University.

 

[paksat]

Al of her actions have been to serve two means:

-positioning itself to be a dominant city-wide medical giant
-improve our academic standing to that of a school that has a hospital system like NYU, UChicago, etc.

They did not feel this could be accomplished while fielding a flashy, urban culture dominated, NFL factory football team; a team that is the symbol of the school.

Thus the lack of money spent, and the hirin of coaches based on their academic records.

perfect democrat if I must say so myself

 

[calinative umstudent]

Why is this hard to understand? In the bigger picture, our facilities have been DOWNGRADED during Shalala's tenure. A stadium matters a **** of a lot more than some puny athletic center.

We had one before she became president. We don't have one today. I hold her directly responsible for that.

Don't talk to me about practice fields.

She even had David Beckham handed to her on a silver platter. That guy was willing to pay for the whole ****ing stadium, and where was Donna? Where was the leadership from our president there? The admin ****ed up and now we're stuck in no-life for another 20 years.

You're arguing just to argue. Shalala didn't have anything to do with Butch like you claimed. Our facilities have been upgraded. We didn't have a stadium before she became president, btw. The City of Miami did. There's plenty of fair criticisms to levy that don't involve falsehoods.

We had a stadium, jackass. Doesn't matter if it was leased from the city, the perception was that it was the Miami Hurricane's stadium. We had our own ring of honor. We were the only team that played there.

What part of WE HAD A STADIUM, AND NOW WE HAVE NO STADIUM is difficult for your brain to wrap around? I mean Christ, it couldn't be any simpler.

Donna stood by chuckling while the Orange Bowl was demolished. So **** that **** in the ear.

And **** you for implying that downgrading to Sun Life but gaining some *** *** training field is an "improvement" in our facility situation. It's not. And you, and Blake James, and Donna, and all your little snarky friends who want to try to sell that bull**** can shove it up your ***.

No the reason we don't have a stadium is because we never had one to begin with. It needed upgrades, badly, and the city refused to do it. It was becoming a safety hazard, and the city decided to let us walk away, and let the marlins move there. If we had owned it, we never would have lost it; we would have raised money for the upgrades. That's what the guy is saying. And If we are looking at facilities as a whole, we improved on a lot of things. Its funny how the guy is clearly not saying she has left a good legacy as far as football is concerned, but you are trying to make it out to be that way.

And who was the champion for UM, standing up for the school's interests? Where was Donna Shalala with her so-called political connections when we needed her to call in a favor?

It's funny how USC was in the exact same boat as us, but they didn't lose their stadium.... they used their clout in the city of Los Angeles to have it saved and even given over to them.

That's because they had effective leadership who pushed for it. What did Donna do? I don't recall her doing a thing. I recall the entire University of Miami standing idly by while Jeff Loria took the entire city of Miami, bent it over, and ****ed it raw to the tune of billions in tax dollars for that joke of a baseball stadium.

Weak leadership on the part of UM allowed that to happen. Donna had the clout and the standing in the community to fight it.... she chose not to. That's a failure on her part.

How is the majority of the fault not on the city? Thats what I don't get. You are taking a situation that obviously didn't end the way anyone wanted it to, and putting all the blame on 1 person, when that obviously is not the case. Do you think she wanted to lose the stadium or something?

 

[dstuart4]

Lol, idiots questioning her legacy. She may go down as the best President the University has ever had but some minimum wage poster thinks her legacy is tarnished because the program is down. Football is a drop in the ocean of what her legacy is based on.

Yes, because that marvelously successful hospital surely outweighs anything like Nevin Shapiro.

 

[z3c The Don]

Lol, idiots questioning her legacy. She may go down as the best President the University has ever had but some minimum wage poster thinks her legacy is tarnished because the program is down. Football is a drop in the ocean of what her legacy is based on.

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Greatest president my ***.

She shouldve been fired as soon as this lpicture surfaced..... shes a fraud and a feminist clown who used the UM football brand to push her own lgbt political agenda at the expense of the university.

 

[Saltycane]

She nearly single handedly raised over a billion dollars and upgraded facilities and UM is on of the highest rated universities year in and year out. Ask anyone in academia world and they will tell you.

 

[We the Boss]

Donna was good for the university and horrible for football. Typical politician, good at glad handing and raising cash. Football doing well wasn't a mandate from her or her limp wrist ADs.

 

[FullyERicht]

She nearly single handedly raised over a billion dollars and upgraded facilities and UM is on of the highest rated universities year in and year out. Ask anyone in academia world and they will tell you.

Is Academia World next to Sea World?

There are 47 better academic universities than Miami in the country. It's a solid, unspectacular academic institution best known for its football program.

 

[z3c The Don]

The football program is the only reason UM didnt end up another random school like Georgia Southern

She ruined the best football program in the country. Her legacy should start with WOAT and end with DIAF.

 

[UMAlum21]

She nearly single handedly raised over a billion dollars and upgraded facilities and UM is on of the highest rated universities year in and year out. Ask anyone in academia world and they will tell you.

Lol, the majority of people are in academia world because they are useless in the real world. Shalala has considerably overstayed her welcome. She's blown tons of money on a failing University of Miami hospital, destroyed our athletic programs, and alienated UM from the South Florifa community.

 

[UMAlum21]

She nearly single handedly raised over a billion dollars and upgraded facilities and UM is on of the highest rated universities year in and year out. Ask anyone in academia world and they will tell you.

Lmao at single handedly. You know nothing. Sergio Gonzalez is the reason for our massive fundraising campaigns.