Let me ask u,TOC:
As an alum, what is ur feel towards the overall school from an academic & athletic standpoint w/ the combination of Frenk & Blake?
Horrible. Absolutely horrible.
UM has had VERY FEW presidents in its nearly-100-year history.
Bowman Foster Ashe - 25+ years
Jay F.W. Pearson - 10 years
Henry King Stanford - 20 years
Tad Foote - 20 years
Donna Shalala - 15 years
Frenk is the first unqualified disaster of a President that we have ever had. Declining academic standing. Non-accomplishment of many of the med school benchmarks, which was supposed to be his strength. Asinine fight with the law school dean. Bizarre personality.
As for Beta Blake, here are his comparatives.
Doc Mallios - a UM legend of a professor, he took on the role before we ever really hired a "professional" AD. He was involved in the hiring of Saban and Schnellenberger, not saying he was the main guy or the only guy, but you have to give Doc some credit.
Sam Jankovich - the GOAT AD, by far.
Dave Maggard - horrendous, came to UM from Cal-Berkeley, used Title IX as an excuse to shutter men's sports programs and was hated inside and outside of UM.
Paul Dee - could be somewhat passive and inscrutable, but overall did a pretty good job after he moved over permanently from the General Counsel job; not a natural AD by training, but he got better as the years passed.
Kirby Hocutt - more AD training, a likeable guy, but not really passionate about UM.
Shawn Eichorst - on paper, a very qualified individual, in person, a complete tool. Left for Nebraska, and was fired from that job.
Beta Blake is not a UM alum and most of his collegiate and non-UM job experience were at programs that are incomparable to UM's program and profile. His background is in ticket sales and large corporate donors, two jobs where selling "hope" and "next year" and "premium access" are far more important than building a solid foundation for all of your athletic programs. Has no real experience identifying key leaders for the organization, particularly coaches. If you want to talk about "coaching trees", then let's try to figure out all of the great athletic administrators that Beta Blake has developed and exported to other schools. I'll wait.
AS AN ALUM, I am very disappointed in Julio and Beta Blake, though UM does not have very good "rapid action" processes in place to get rid of those guys. We've never pushed out a President in under 10 years, and there has always seemed to be "another job" that's relieved us of Hocutt and Eichorst (I think Maggot Maggard was the only AD who got the firing squad in the past 40 years).