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And again Tad Foote is an example of why looks can be deceiving. That guy HATED football in general. He certainly hated our image, jock culture, and the game in general. He was not a fan of Miami football. However, he signed off on back to back to back FOOTBALL FIRST coaches, and let them run the program as they saw fit in order to win games.
Do you people think that Foote, had he wanted to, couldn't have said no to hiring JJ or Dennis? Do you think he didn't have to power to enforce higher than NCAA standards? Or that he didnt have the power to demand class over filmroom??? He had all that power, but he didn't get in the way. He hated every minute of it, but he let the football program be a football program. Tad Foote is case and point as to why Donna's cheerleading tells us nothing about her actual football support.
Exactly. It's such revisionist history to think the football program was what it was in spite of Foote. It was what it was because Foote allowed it to be. Sure, Jankovich was an advocate for the team but this isn't a school where the AD would ever have any real power that would supercede the president- especially then when Foote truly was transforming the academic image of Suntan U. The guy knew how to put forth the academics first/I'm at war with the football program image to the public (which was in everybody's best interest for a long time) while actually letting the program almost run itself. That's lost on a lot of people due to Cohen's over-simplificated portrayal and the fact that Lil' Donna did her cheerleader routine for so long.
keep thinking everyone learned about the U watching some ESPN documentary. *** Foote
Keep thinking that Sam Jankovich somehow made decisions over Foote's head. Foote just didn't publicly slurp the program or even privately coddle it the way it could have very easily deserved and many wanted. But if you think for a second that Foote couldn't have really shut things down the way that many people perceive that he wanted so bad to do then you really must be getting your info from a moviemaker almost as short as Donna.
yeah he couldn't have considering at that time UM football was the biggest money making thing UM had going for it back then, but keep on w/ the ESPN doc stories it's clear as day who actually is getting their info from some shoddy movie maker and it ain't me. LMAO at praising a guy bec he wasn't he didn't completely shutdown UM football like Donna, eventhough he didn't help it all that much either. Foote was an *** and the fact you keep defending him is all I need to know about you.
Defending? Praising? Hardly. We've never had a president or an administration that fully embraced athletics the way they deserve in relation to the actual benefit in reputation and $$$ they could provide. But you know what? I'll take Canes football under a guy that is always portrayed as having wished we didn't play it versus it under this supposed little superfan that likes to give pep talks on charter flights and assess QB play but only truly gets moist in her pant suit when it comes to medical school fundraising and on-campus q&a's with Hillary. Sure, Foote absolutely didn't do all the things the program deserved but at least he didn't try to fool the fans and students into thinking we had the same dedication to winning as the big time programs even as we were kicking their asses at the time.