I get what you’re saying, I just think you’re looking at it from the wrong angle. She would not win a congressional seat in south Florida if she outright did what she wanted and shuttered the football program. She was never going to run for a national office.
Let’s also not forget that she was steering the ship when it hit the iceberg that you are crediting her for saving us from. We don’t celebrate the arsonist for putting out his own handiwork, nor should we thank her for, EVENTUALLY, standing up for the school she was running after even ESPiN, SI, and NY Times came to the conclusion we were being treated unfairly.