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Agreed. I understand why they included the Vatican storyline, it is a real-life story that is comparable to the way that Puzo pulled real-life mob stories from the 1920s to the 1960s when he wrote The Godfather novel. I just felt that the REAL appeal is in the mafia characters, not the church...

No problem, happy to shine some light. I don't "hate" Epstein, he's done a lot of good for UM in the past. But he's lost his way, he's lost perspective. Sometimes these guys are in power for so long they start to think they ARE the University, when they are really just stewards of the...

Great point. I saw a lot of that happening in real-time during the 80s and 90s, and that was just the front-end time period of what has been taking decades to change.

Not really, as it relates to the "leaks". Diaz Sr. did intervene on Manny's behalf, and asked for Manny to be allowed to coach out the season. But contrary to the belief of soooommmme posters, Diaz Sr. doesn't have quite the same political POWER. He has connections, but he can't compel as he...

Well, that's not entirely true. I've heard multiple interviews he's done, Bobby D wanted more input and collaboration (and pay) at that point in his career, and Coppola wouldn't give that to him. I too am a huge fan of the book and (first two) movies, I've read/watched many times, and I think...

I'm not going to go into a super-deep-dive on Epstein, because some of the things I could say "cannot be proven" and are just things that I have heard. So I'll try to stick to the known knowns. ---No one can argue that leaks never occurred. There was VERY specific information that arose in...

Absolute truth. When I was a kid, I read all Marvel, but I only had enough allowance money to buy my favorite books - Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Avengers (and look what are the most popular movies today!). The issue of What If? that blew my mind was the one about "What If Peter Parker Caught...

Maaaaan, Godfather 3 got fvcked up by some horrible casting. Would have been sooooo much better with Bobby D coming back as Tom instead of George Hamilton and with Winona Ryder instead of Sofia Coppola. They also should have hired a much better actor to play Anthony Corleone. I don't hate...

PS - PIPO - I absolutely LOVE the new avatar...and he's a UM alum to boot! Used to take friends to the "chainsaw scene" hotel on Miami Beach all the time, Scarface is one of my all-time favorites... And one of these days my guy @RVACane is going to start putting my dog avatar into some of his...

Nah, I don't think it was going rogue, as much as it was just a pride reflex. Say what we will about the horrible first 6 games, we did win 5 out of 6 at the end, so I understand him wanting to take pride in a strong finish. Now, if Manny had pulled an "Uncle Luke" at the end and threatened to...

One of my favorite comic books when I was a kid...

How close were you? In honesty, it might have been Frenk's wife...

Yep. People forget how little power EX-Miami politicians have. What is Alex Penelas doing right now? Oh, except for Crazy Joe Carollo. That cucaracha will outlive us all.

Look, I'm not trying to argue with you or anything. But you are putting this all on the Ws and Ls, and there were some other things at play. First, Manny had been OFFERED more resources on the coaching side. He chose not to use those resources. Manny rejected the hiring of Alonzo and he...

:100: Tried to tell people...but that whole "meeting with boosters where they offered a blank check if Beta Blake could just explain his dream project and Beta Blake said he wanted new locker rooms to make @brock happy and a couple more analysts" was disastrous for Beta Blake's tenure. You...

Nah. Jose was just put on the BOT two years ago. There was plenty of BOT support for firing Manny, no way was Diaz Sr. going to target Jose on something that was much bigger than Jose. And the UM BOT gave Diaz Sr. what he wanted, an "honorable end" to Manny's tenure that allowed him to land...

Plan B: Hire AD. Let AD fire Manny and let AD hire replacement. Whether we would go the USC route (kick the can down the road a year because of timing) is another issue altogether. Also, and I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble here, but the "if he says no" had already gone well past that...

It's all good man, I'm really not "mad" at anyone, but I am just going to be very consistent in pointing out that Herbstreit should not be venerated as a UM god. I respect that Herbstreit's words had an impact. But some people who give Herbstreit so much credit overlook that (a) UM was already...