as President of the University of Miami. She has raised (B)illions of dollars for the school, has jump-started a medical program that is quickly becoming among the best in the country (the real reason she was hired in 2001-to turn Miami's medical program into a money-making machine, I mean...she was the Secretary of Health and Human Services after all...), and most importantly, she has the Athletic department running comfortably in the black without depending solely on football.
Miami's "Olympic sports" (women's basketball, tennis, softball, etc.) and other athletic programs had been funded, primarily, by the football program. This meant the university had no choice but to allow the football program to continue to be the "face" (*cringes*) of the school. For years, the university had gotten away with investing the least while reaping the most out of the Miami football program. And while the Miami football program had enjoyed grand success, the football program couldn't comfortably fund all of Miami's other athletic programs. Shalala was not willing to allocate funds from other departments/"pet projects" (namely the medical program) to funnel to the football program.
So we enter the sh1tty artist formally known as the ACC. Via Title IX, Miami's "Olympic sports" would now be funded without depending on, what had been, the "heart" of the athletic department-the football program. Instead of being the main organ pumping life into all of the other "organs" that exist within the "body" of the athletic department, now that heart has become less important, becoming merely "just another organ" in the system. The heart beat is so faint....it's in failure. There's no need to resurrect that heart to it's former glory...no need to resurrect the "Thug U" imagery. That old heart has served its purpose. It had taken an unknown school and thrust it into the purview of the public. It had built a brand that is still second to none. But it is no longer needed. It is allowed to beat...faintly, just enough life to stay barely solvent in the worst power conference in the country. Just enough to keep the checks coming...
Guys...put down the flaming torches and the pitchforks. There's nothing to see here, folks. Do you really believe the BOT is going to speak out against a President that has turned the University of Miami into an actual university? Do you really believe that Donna gives a fck about an angry fan base, many of whom never attended the university, many of whom are not even college educated,...don't show up to games-you really think she gives a fck what we think??? She showed you exactly what she thinks about us by retaining Golden.
So I say fck Miami. Football has been replaced by the Medical program as the face of the university, folks. It makes waaaay more money...and it's a lot "cleaner". Our former players? Bought and sold. This **** is deeper than rap.
It's over, folks. We're done.