Granted I went for grad school, but it seems to me that the type of kid that goes to UM has drastically changed the last 10 years. These ****ing kids think Shalala is some sort of rock star. When I was in college you wouldn't be caught dead supporting the admin for WHATEVER reason, let alone one that hand cuffs the athletic department. Undergrad is the same where ever you go, you go to ranked grad schools for networking, not because they teach some magical formula for success. I hate Shalala and what she turned the U into.
How does overseeing by 10x the largest capital expansion of football facilities qualify as "handcuffing" the AD? She got the BUC built, the new A-Rod park, Cobb, Schwartz Center, Greentree, and more. If you want to cover your ears and ignore all of it, fine, but you want a top coach? No one real is coming here, ever, without those improvements in place. Whether you think AG is the right coach now or not is your right, but if you don't think he did an exceptional job of seeing us through a period where the press and opposing recruiters were telling the world we were going to get the death penalty then I don't know what else to say. Lost cause.
If you think she has "handcuffed" the AD, I ask you to imagine where we would be right now with any of our previous presidents who didn't do **** compared to her. Tad Foote? Floated the idea of killing the program... just like basketball.
Context is everything. She was President during a time of the rise of the SEC and publicly funded state schools raising hundreds of millions of dollars... a time when facilities expansion in CFB exploded, and she did it without the support of a decent fan base who would rather **** on the internet with a fake screen name then write a check with their real name on it. Unlike places like UF where fans kick in $2k for the right to MAYBE get the chance to buy season tickets, here we fly banners to fire every coach we have, even the ones that bring us National Championships. - yeah, the internet brigade flied a "from champs to chumps" banner to try to run off Butch. The same ******** who are now saying how badly they want him to be our coach. SMH. ****, the angel she found to actually kick in $ for football, the Schwartz Family, HAVE ****ING NOTHING TO DO WITH MIAMI! She had to tap her own outside network to make that happen.
I thank her for her commitment to supporting UM athletics, especially football. Go ask the players what they think of her.
