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It mattered for you, and while I'm happy it worked out, you are an outlier in the Miami student body. How do I know? Even when times are good, Miami students do not consistently show up to the arena or stadium. Unless it's a major social event, with huge national implications, students don't...

Dr. Shalala didn't hate football, she just wasn't interested as long as the school didn't have any PR issues as a result of the program. In other words, she was your typical University President. She stood up for Randy Shannon, because she liked him personally, but she didn't get to make that...

I think you are overrating how much college athletics matter to students today. There's a reason why schools are BEGGING kids to show up to events, begging kids to remain engaged. These kids are starting to realize that college athletics aren't about them, it's about the egos of big money...

Let's walk through this word salad and point out why most of it is mental *********ion. 1) Donations that are earmarked for football are earmarked. In other words, they will not go to the school whatsoever. It's the same reason why the huge donations that go to the med school can't be used...

Football brings increase in applications, but let's be honest: The kind of kid that is making academic decisions based on how good the football program is most likely not the kind of kid that is going to get in anyway. Most fundraising is done on the academic side, and it's done through...

Guess what, UMiami isn't interested in being a glorified diploma mill. Why? Because a small, selective private school doesn't care about letting in everyone and then using sheer force of numbers to force their way into the conversation with the state powers that be. UCF has no choice, they...

Actually not. The BOOSTERS that write the checks care, the athletically inclined people on their governing board care, everyone else has other, more pressing priorities. It's amazing how people think that well managed schools are spending all of their waking hours concentrating on football...

There isn't, and I want to see where you dug this pseudofactoid from. If that was true, the US News and World Report and WSJ rankings would look extremely similar to the AP Rankings, and they don't and never have. There are few, and I repeat, few selective private Universities that even try to...