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Can you provide an example of another small private college like UM that has "paid up"? I can only think of ND which has a MUCH larger donor base with MUCH deeper pockets than UM. USC comes to mind, but they've made a series of coaching blunders and AD missteps since the days of Pete Carrol...

Oh, I agree that we should have had a better (well, any) search and vetting process, and I agree that Blake James is a crappy AD. And I think it's likely that both Blake and Diaz will be fired by season's end. That said, we have had national searches in the past and have made a succession of...

But that's my point. UF is able to make that commitment, in large part, because the have a donor base with deep pockets who basically pay for everything to do with athletics. Expecting UM to make a similar commitment doesn't make much sense to me.

Right. But UF is a totally different animal. As a large state school, they have tons and tons of resources and a huge alumni base that UM simply doesn't. It's a lot easier to invest in sports when you have a huge pool of donors who pay the salary of your football and basketball coaches and...

I see this repeated often--that investing in sports leads to better students, which raises the profile of the university, leading to higher rankings in things like US News and World Reports. I wonder if there's a point of diminishing returns. That is, success in football helped put UM on the...

Nice humble brag, nerd.