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What happened with Randy and Golden? They suddenly couldn’t afford a Top 40 coach? As soon as Shalala left, they magically had money for Richt, Cristobal and major investments into facilities.

This might sound crazy, but some schools actually invest money into their football stadiums to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. That is if they actually care about football.

Larry Coker was hired Feb 2001 and Shalala started June 2001. The 2 hires she was in place for, Randy and Golden, were not even top 40 salaries in college football. Schnellenberger was paid a top 6 salary and Butch was offered a top 3 salary. It’s just a coincidence we dramatically cut coach...

That’s interesting. So they went from offering top dollar for Schiano to paying a coordinator salary for Randy.

I only bring it up because the Schnellenberger and Butch salaries were news to me. Even recently I’ve heard people saying Miami has never paid HCs, and Mario was the first, which is false. You can say whatever you want about UM admin in the 80s and 90s, but at least they cared enough to pay for...

I came across a couple interesting bits of info that fly in the face of the narrative we’ve been led to believe over the last couple decades as Canes football fans. - In 1982 Schnellenberger was the 6th highest paid coach in CFB (see tweet below) - In 2000, Butch was offered a contract that...