Blake James

[bacane]

It's definitely in Foley's court, but I want an AD that takes it to him. I don't want some meek and mild guy that hovers off in the corner. I want a spunky, young Sam Jankovich. Someone who will tavel the state and at every opportunity publicly challenge the Gators to play us, put them on the spot, shoot down their bogus excuses.

 

[DaU83]

we need everyone that is assosicated with Miami Hurricanes to be dedicated to the program like some of our fans are.

Blake did just that.

NOW if Blake wants to carve his name in the Miami Hurricanes legend... and be part of the "ESPN 30 for 30 The U came back and beat every time 1000 times "

he needs to stop promoting The ProPlayer/LandShark/whatever the f it's called now stadium and focus on seriously building our own stadium.

it's never going to happen, we need to hope for sunlife improvements and understand that we have over 20 years left in our agreement. The best we can hope for is that the marlins tank and marlins stadium gets repurposed.

 

[LuCane]

I like some of what Blake has been saying, but my hope is we finally have an AD who treats the Athletic Department like a business entity. What's our competitive advantage? What's James' strategy? We need to refresh and align our mission and vision statements with (1) what we need to do as an athletic department and (2) how that rolls into the broader direction of the entire University. Somewhere along the line, they got disjointed, the athletic program lost a sense of what previously made it great (in terms of competition), and our decisions reflected a reactive, chase-our-mistakes approach.

I hope he's as shrewd as he is "invested" and "nice."

 

[Ibis Wingz]

Lu,

Only time will tell how shrewd Blake is and how well he does on crucial decisions, but I can tell you that he is remarkably knowledgeable and is interested in what all constituencies have to say. I can also point to the ill-fated Joe Robbie Stadium renovation plan and note that Blake and the school supported the plan without pledging money for the proposed plan as well as his plan to move the student section in an effort to make the stadium appear more full on television. Those seem like fairly shrewd moves.

 

[Consigliere]

I like some of what Blake has been saying, but my hope is we finally have an AD who treats the Athletic Department like a business entity. What's our competitive advantage? What's James' strategy? We need to refresh and align our mission and vision statements with (1) what we need to do as an athletic department and (2) how that rolls into the broader direction of the entire University. Somewhere along the line, they got disjointed, the athletic program lost a sense of what previously made it great (in terms of competition), and our decisions reflected a reactive, chase-our-mistakes approach.

I hope he's as shrewd as he is "invested" and "nice."

Yes

 

[Consigliere]

Lu,

Only time will tell how shrewd Blake is and how well he does on crucial decisions, but I can tell you that he is remarkably knowledgeable and is interested in what all constituencies have to say. I can also point to the ill-fated Joe Robbie Stadium renovation plan and note that Blake and the school supported the plan without pledging money for the proposed plan as well as his plan to move the student section in an effort to make the stadium appear more full on television. Those seem like fairly shrewd moves.

Agreed

 

[Consigliere]

Can't agree more on what people are saying about Blake, but still ridiculous to expect he's going to run out and dig up land and money to build a football stadium.

Really stupid, really stupid.

Why is it ridiculous that we can't have some 7 year plan? What about the drive? We have the **** land too, we have land by the zoo and plenty of it.

The problem is there is no drive. The problem is the people in place don't want to do the hard work necessary to get the stadium.

 

[LuCane]

Can't agree more on what people are saying about Blake, but still ridiculous to expect he's going to run out and dig up land and money to build a football stadium.

Really stupid, really stupid.

Why is it ridiculous that we can't have some 7 year plan? What about the drive? We have the **** land too, we have land by the zoo and plenty of it.

The problem is there is no drive. The problem is the people in place don't want to do the hard work necessary to get the stadium.

I really don't know enough about this...

What land by the zoo? What are the advantages of having a stadium down there? The obvious move was to build the type of stadium, like Boston College's stadium, in Tropical Park. I suspect that will never happen, though.

 

[Consigliere]

Can't agree more on what people are saying about Blake, but still ridiculous to expect he's going to run out and dig up land and money to build a football stadium.

Really stupid, really stupid.

Why is it ridiculous that we can't have some 7 year plan? What about the drive? We have the **** land too, we have land by the zoo and plenty of it.

The problem is there is no drive. The problem is the people in place don't want to do the hard work necessary to get the stadium.

I really don't know enough about this...

What land by the zoo? What are the advantages of having a stadium down there? The obvious move was to build the type of stadium, like Boston College's stadium, in Tropical Park. I suspect that will never happen, though.

The school owns a bunch of land by the zoo that is vacant. There used to be a good picture mapped out of the land but I haven't seen it awhile. I love Tropical Park and that idea but the genius poster mentioned we don't own land and we do. Still the land should NOT be the main issue, the main issue is the drive and desire. It appears that there is none.

Nobody is pounding their chest saying this needs to be done in the next 3 years, 4 years or 5 years. How about a 7 year plan backed fully by the admin? How about 2020 we start our own place?

 

[The Franchise]

Until he bows up and gets us our own yard he's nothing to me.

Nice guy. D1ck face. Good quotes. Bad quotes. I don't give a **** about any of that nonsense. I care about advancing the major programs at UM. Raise huge funds. Get us our own yard and get rid of that check thief Scallion Head Morris. And after you get rid of him you **** well better hire a real up and comer and not some dopey hand-picked replacement like Arteaga or Tomatoes.

Playing at a half-empty Joe Robbie Stadium is a death knell for the program. When your empty stadium is a laughingstock every week during televised games it will be an unnecessary thorn in Alshermond's side when trying to fight against the big-time programs who are playing in front of full houses every week.

 

[BODESLAM]

Until he bows up and gets us our own yard he's nothing to me.

Nice guy. D1ck face. Good quotes. Bad quotes. I don't give a **** about any of that nonsense. I care about advancing the major programs at UM. Raise huge funds. Get us our own yard and get rid of that check thief Scallion Head Morris. And after you get rid of him you **** well better hire a real up and comer and not some dopey hand-picked replacement like Arteaga or Tomatoes.

Playing at a half-empty Joe Robbie Stadium is a death knell for the program. When your empty stadium is a laughingstock every week during televised games it will be an unnecessary thorn in Alshermond's side when trying to fight against the big-time programs who are playing in front of full houses eYery week.

YOU CAN BE MY WINGMAN ANYTIME.....

 

[RBhurricane87]

Can't agree more on what people are saying about Blake, but still ridiculous to expect he's going to run out and dig up land and money to build a football stadium.

Really stupid, really stupid.

Why is it ridiculous that we can't have some 7 year plan? What about the drive? We have the **** land too, we have land by the zoo and plenty of it.

The problem is there is no drive. The problem is the people in place don't want to do the hard work necessary to get the stadium.

I really don't know enough about this...

What land by the zoo? What are the advantages of having a stadium down there? The obvious move was to build the type of stadium, like Boston College's stadium, in Tropical Park. I suspect that will never happen, though.

The school owns a bunch of land by the zoo that is vacant. There used to be a good picture mapped out of the land but I haven't seen it awhile. I love Tropical Park and that idea but the genius poster mentioned we don't own land and we do. Still the land should NOT be the main issue, the main issue is the drive and desire. It appears that there is none.

Nobody is pounding their chest saying this needs to be done in the next 3 years, 4 years or 5 years. How about a 7 year plan backed fully by the admin? How about 2020 we start our own place?

It's the University's "South Campus".

It's off SW 137th Avenue and SW 152nd St.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=univ...F-8&ei=VFqVUbqeBYj08ATO5YGYBQ&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAg

http://scholar.library.miami.edu/umhistory/DisplaySubjects.php?subject_id=South+Campus

It's about 20 min south from the main campus and you can get there via the Florida Turnpike, the 874, the Palmetto Expressway, or US1.

I've been saying this for years. It would be a perfect location.

 

[bacane]

Let's stop talking in fantasy about Blake Jones or anyone else building us our own yard or an on-campus stadium. Unfortunately, if you deal in reality, it ain't happening, unless we can drive the Marlins out of town (Bud Selig and MLB can't afford to let that happen). So good luck waiting for your 5, 6, 7 year plan. Here are the cold hard facts:
1. Lease . . . Believe we're about 5 or 6 years into a 25-year commitment at Sun Life Stadium.
2. Land . . . Nothing around campus obviously, but believe the university owns 130-plus acres near the Miami zoo. Long-term plan apparently is to sell off land/develop and put money towards the university endowment - which is the life blood and crucial to running a university. So unlikely the university will be eager to kiss off the potential financial windfalll and then also throw hundreds of millions at a football stadium. Plus, the site is 10 miles from campus.
3. Private university not State U . . . Pretty hard to find the last private university that built its own football stadium. This isn't a 10,000 seat hoops arena.
4. Cost . . . The price is through the roof. The new stadium at the University of Minnesota - like Miami, they played for years at a pro facility in town - seats 50,000 and cost $303 million. Washington is rebuilding 2/3rds of Husky Stadium at a cost of $250 million. These are major state universities with local and state govts. chipping in.

 

[LuCane]

Let's stop talking in fantasy about Blake Jones or anyone else building us our own yard or an on-campus stadium. Unfortunately, if you deal in reality, it ain't happening, unless we can drive the Marlins out of town (Bud Selig and MLB can't afford to let that happen). So good luck waiting for your 5, 6, 7 year plan. Here are the cold hard facts:
1. Lease . . . Believe we're about 5 or 6 years into a 25-year commitment at Sun Life Stadium.
2. Land . . . Nothing around campus obviously, but believe the university owns 130-plus acres near the Miami zoo. Long-term plan apparently is to sell off land/develop and put money towards the university endowment - which is the life blood and crucial to running a university. So unlikely the university will be eager to kiss off the potential financial windfalll and then also throw hundreds of millions at a football stadium. Plus, the site is 10 miles from campus.
3. Private university not State U . . . Pretty hard to find the last private university that built its own football stadium. This isn't a 10,000 seat hoops arena.
4. Cost . . . The price is through the roof. The new stadium at the University of Minnesota - like Miami, they played for years at a pro facility in town - seats 50,000 and cost $303 million. Washington is rebuilding 2/3rds of Husky Stadium at a cost of $250 million. These are major state universities with local and state govts. chipping in.

Had they paid appropriately for Cedars, or better yet not purchased it at all, they'd have anywhere from 150-350 million to pitch toward something that'd actually operate at a balance or even a slight profit (considering the multiple uses it'd attract that a stadium in little Havana for a team that no one watches simply cannot).

 

[The Franchise]

Let's stop talking in fantasy about Blake Jones or anyone else building us our own yard or an on-campus stadium. Unfortunately, if you deal in reality, it ain't happening, unless we can drive the Marlins out of town (Bud Selig and MLB can't afford to let that happen). So good luck waiting for your 5, 6, 7 year plan. Here are the cold hard facts:
1. Lease . . . Believe we're about 5 or 6 years into a 25-year commitment at Sun Life Stadium.
2. Land . . . Nothing around campus obviously, but believe the university owns 130-plus acres near the Miami zoo. Long-term plan apparently is to sell off land/develop and put money towards the university endowment - which is the life blood and crucial to running a university. So unlikely the university will be eager to kiss off the potential financial windfalll and then also throw hundreds of millions at a football stadium. Plus, the site is 10 miles from campus.
3. Private university not State U . . . Pretty hard to find the last private university that built its own football stadium. This isn't a 10,000 seat hoops arena.
4. Cost . . . The price is through the roof. The new stadium at the University of Minnesota - like Miami, they played for years at a pro facility in town - seats 50,000 and cost $303 million. Washington is rebuilding 2/3rds of Husky Stadium at a cost of $250 million. These are major state universities with local and state govts. chipping in.

If Tulane can build a stadium, then so can we. Tulane. There are countless other examples if you want them.

All the **** you're spewing is defeatist brainwashed nonsense. Don Donna could raise the money to build a yard in the time it takes the average poster on here to add 2 plus 2 (about 20 minutes). If UM wants to do it and commits to it, then it can be done. Easily. I don't the party line bullshyt you're trying to feed me.

 

[SFbayCane]

James is a nice guy and is committed.

The question remains when crunch time comes and he has to make a decision on a coach of a major sport (football, basketball, baseball) what will be the quality of his decision?

No one knows. Nice guy and committed to the U is separate from the quality of his decision making. I hope he's a good one, but we won't know for awhile.

This is a fair point. What makes it tough is that you REALLY pull for a nice guy to succeed, but when they don't it can become a disaster because no one ever wants to can a nice guy. Edited to add - my comment was speaking in general. James has done/said all the right things to this point, that I can tell. I'm a fan.

Swag's point can be perfectly illustrated thru Larry Coker. It was evident to me and everyone else on Canestime back in 2003 - 2004 that larry was not the right man for the job. His niceness that was a key reason why Donna stated that, "Larry deserved another year" in 2005. That extra year set the program back another 3 years in my estimation.

 

[Consigliere]

Let's stop talking in fantasy about Blake Jones or anyone else building us our own yard or an on-campus stadium. Unfortunately, if you deal in reality, it ain't happening, unless we can drive the Marlins out of town (Bud Selig and MLB can't afford to let that happen). So good luck waiting for your 5, 6, 7 year plan. Here are the cold hard facts:
1. Lease . . . Believe we're about 5 or 6 years into a 25-year commitment at Sun Life Stadium.
2. Land . . . Nothing around campus obviously, but believe the university owns 130-plus acres near the Miami zoo. Long-term plan apparently is to sell off land/develop and put money towards the university endowment - which is the life blood and crucial to running a university. So unlikely the university will be eager to kiss off the potential financial windfalll and then also throw hundreds of millions at a football stadium. Plus, the site is 10 miles from campus.
3. Private university not State U . . . Pretty hard to find the last private university that built its own football stadium. This isn't a 10,000 seat hoops arena.
4. Cost . . . The price is through the roof. The new stadium at the University of Minnesota - like Miami, they played for years at a pro facility in town - seats 50,000 and cost $303 million. Washington is rebuilding 2/3rds of Husky Stadium at a cost of $250 million. These are major state universities with local and state govts. chipping in.

I hate you. You are part of the problem, this terrible can't attitude. I am surprised you have enough energy to type this BS.

 

[Consigliere]

Until he bows up and gets us our own yard he's nothing to me.

Nice guy. D1ck face. Good quotes. Bad quotes. I don't give a **** about any of that nonsense. I care about advancing the major programs at UM. Raise huge funds. Get us our own yard and get rid of that check thief Scallion Head Morris. And after you get rid of him you **** well better hire a real up and comer and not some dopey hand-picked replacement like Arteaga or Tomatoes.

Playing at a half-empty Joe Robbie Stadium is a death knell for the program. When your empty stadium is a laughingstock every week during televised games it will be an unnecessary thorn in Alshermond's side when trying to fight against the big-time programs who are playing in front of full houses every week.

Yes

 

[Consigliere]

Let's stop talking in fantasy about Blake Jones or anyone else building us our own yard or an on-campus stadium. Unfortunately, if you deal in reality, it ain't happening, unless we can drive the Marlins out of town (Bud Selig and MLB can't afford to let that happen). So good luck waiting for your 5, 6, 7 year plan. Here are the cold hard facts:
1. Lease . . . Believe we're about 5 or 6 years into a 25-year commitment at Sun Life Stadium.
2. Land . . . Nothing around campus obviously, but believe the university owns 130-plus acres near the Miami zoo. Long-term plan apparently is to sell off land/develop and put money towards the university endowment - which is the life blood and crucial to running a university. So unlikely the university will be eager to kiss off the potential financial windfalll and then also throw hundreds of millions at a football stadium. Plus, the site is 10 miles from campus.
3. Private university not State U . . . Pretty hard to find the last private university that built its own football stadium. This isn't a 10,000 seat hoops arena.
4. Cost . . . The price is through the roof. The new stadium at the University of Minnesota - like Miami, they played for years at a pro facility in town - seats 50,000 and cost $303 million. Washington is rebuilding 2/3rds of Husky Stadium at a cost of $250 million. These are major state universities with local and state govts. chipping in.

If Tulane can build a stadium, then so can we. Tulane. There are countless other examples if you want them.

All the **** you're spewing is defeatist brainwashed nonsense. Don Donna could raise the money to build a yard in the time it takes the average poster on here to add 2 plus 2 (about 20 minutes). If UM wants to do it and commits to it, then it can be done. Easily. I don't the party line bullshyt you're trying to feed me.

The ******* troll could raise a quarter billion in 2 years if she "wanted" to get the stadium.

If we desire the stadium, we could get one.

 

[nadiamufdi]

If Donna went after building a stadium as hard as she is going after the ncaa, she could make it happen. It would be an incredible end to her tenure at the U if she could help make that happen. Definitely put a huge stamp on her legacy