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But hey, at least you avoided the crippling debt.

Nah man I'm just an awful Blake James/Donna Shalalalala apologist because I realize the University of Miami is a university that I happened to spend a **** of a lot of money to get a degree from, in addition to living and working at for years. The real fans are the ones that buy a t-shirt and...

Yes, and you can have a PhD in finance and still not manage your own money well. See: Bernie Madoff.

Gotta love non-alumni trashing the university as if they know a **** thing. Another clown who has never set foot on campus, never given a dime and thinks he knows something.

Oh yeah? You wanna chat about that fella? Where did you graduate from, and what do you do for a living?

My point exactly. And no amount of education is going to stop you from doing something stupid if you want to do something stupid.

Isn't it crazy how people will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a degree and care more about the degree being strong than winning some football games?

Maybe this is ultimately what Bring Back The U will do, but, why can't there just be a company that does nothing but take donations from boosters and pays players? I don't think you can put parameters around what an endorsement actually is. But let's say they need to do something... so once a...

The 40K limit is absurd given in-state school tuition pales in comparison to private school in most states. That needs to be normalized.

Kind of hilarious that all that money couldn't buy either program a ring. Oregon, in particular, is like Florida laughable given their resources relative to their success.

Do you honestly think when someone makes a million dollars he doesn't know he shouldn't buy a Bentley?

Understanding something and behaving in a certain way are two entirely different things. Morbidly obese people probably know drinking soda isn't a good idea. Smokers know smoking kills. Forcing financial literacy would probably not move the needle one bit in regards to athletes blowing money.

Alabama has won like six rings in the last 15 years. What parity?

I really don't see using a football player to promote his engineering company.

Here's what else helps: lots of extremely wealthy people choose to live in South Florida. As I posted earlier, the vast majority of our wealthiest trustees are not alumni. Part of what makes The U special is not only its location but being a private school and pursuing academic rigor. The...

Allan Herbert gave the University $100 million like two years ago. The notion that giving money makes you the "biggest fan" is laughably absurd.

THIS is where A-Rod can make things right from passing on us. AND he's now in a position to not need to spend piles of money on someone who has little more to offer than taco flavored kisses.

While admittedly being a little persnickety, you can't exactly prioritize both. Some money is given for athletics, some for academics, some for whatever. Regardless, funds are finite and you have to choose how to spend them. That's what Miami is doing. The 90% of Miami fans who have never...

As indicated previously on this thread, "self-made" is an extraordinarily subjective term. As is "known" wealth. The "problem" is that the University of Miami is a university, not a football team. The Herbert family gave $100 million not too long ago to name the School of Business. As a...

Considering this is a person actually putting up money for the University, I'd say they care way, way more than the collective "I bought a T-shirt and that entitles me to have a say as to who runs the University" CIS crowd does.