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Honestly, not certain if he was any different than the Florida Gators president in the early 90s. He openly discussed deprioritizing Gators football, as he felt it distracted from the university's core mission and message of education. Different times.

Fair point. But that was 1994, before mass media’s explosion. Not comparable to 2006 with the FIU fight which had multiple people calling for Miami to cancel its season, or 2011 where the Canes were slammed all over the place.

If Tad Foote had been president in 2006 or 2011, he probably would have done what national media figures had called for and cancelled the Miami program. The spin, the public facing message would be “we have put it on pause while we investigate and ensure that such goings on can never take place...