Congrats on the stupidest freaking post of the day.
Your university is located smack in the middle of the most fertile recruiting area in the nation.... by a long shot.
It should not take TEN YEARS to field a competitive football team.
That fact alone implies either mismanagement, or a lack of focus on football.
If they wanted to win, they would win. They aren't interested. All they care about is squeezing the last few remaining drops of cash from the few gullible fans that are still left (most have already bailed on this program) before the well inevitably dries up for good.
She did what Tom Osborne and Nebraska, Barry Switzer and Oklahoma, and Bobby Bowden and FSU could never do....take down Miami Hurricanes football!!!
She will always be remembered for ruining Miami football.
When she arrived, we had Butch Davis at head coach, the orange bowl, and the greatest winning tradition in college football.
She couldn't get a deal done with Butch, laughed as the orange bowl came crumbling down, and has overseen the fall of Miami to a 7-5 team year in/out.
She is more concerned with APR scores and keeping a spotless image than she is with winning.
Her head coaching hires: Larry Coker, followed by Randy Shannon, followed by Al Golden
She has not been able to keep an AD for more than a month at a time.
The only way she could keep an AD working for her is by promoting a glorified accountant Blake "the snake" James, that spineless sack of ****
NO facility imporvements, investment in the program at all relative to other programs
This week, she had the chance to change that. She had a chance to hire a great coach, to leave her lasting legacy as one that turned Miami around.
She spat in our faces.
**** that little troll.
This is all on Donna and our crap BOT.
OK, there's plenty of valid criticisms about DS (the admin has actively tried to distance themselves from the stuff that made Miami special, and was late with facility improvements) but most of this is nonsense.
1. Butch left right before signing day in early 2001. Shalala didn't take over until June 2001. So she had nothing to do with Butch.
2. Yeah we lost 2 AD's but had Paul Dee forever and now we have Blake James. Both of them have been underperforming, so it's fair to criticize her there. Criticizing her for 2 AD's leaving quickly is stupid.
3. There have been a ton of recent facility improvements. They came late, and UM was reactive as usual, but saying that there were "NO" facility improvements is just wrong.
Every single year since Shalala took over, this program has been in steady decline from a W/L perspective.
She has made poor hires, or has been unable to retain the good hires she has made. Hence all the turnover.
She has mismanaged coaching contracts.... giving extensions where they weren't warranted.
She stood idly by as the historic Orange Bowl, the only chance Miami ever had at its own stadium, crumbled down around her.
She has done NOTHING since that terrible day to rectify the situation.... keeping us at that morgue known as Sun Life Stadium. Don't talk to me about facility improvements. Until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities.
Fact.... we had a stadium before Donna.... we have no stadium now after Donna. Hence.... overall, our facility situation since she took over has been DOWNGRADED.
Her leadership, from a football perspective, has been garbage.
She will always be remembered for ruining Miami football.
When she arrived, we had Butch Davis at head coach, the orange bowl, and the greatest winning tradition in college football.
She couldn't get a deal done with Butch, laughed as the orange bowl came crumbling down, and has overseen the fall of Miami to a 7-5 team year in/out.
She is more concerned with APR scores and keeping a spotless image than she is with winning.
Her head coaching hires: Larry Coker, followed by Randy Shannon, followed by Al Golden
She has not been able to keep an AD for more than a month at a time.
The only way she could keep an AD working for her is by promoting a glorified accountant Blake "the snake" James, that spineless sack of ****
NO facility imporvements, investment in the program at all relative to other programs
This week, she had the chance to change that. She had a chance to hire a great coach, to leave her lasting legacy as one that turned Miami around.
She spat in our faces.
**** that little troll.
This is all on Donna and our crap BOT.
OK, there's plenty of valid criticisms about DS (the admin has actively tried to distance themselves from the stuff that made Miami special, and was late with facility improvements) but most of this is nonsense.
1. Butch left right before signing day in early 2001. Shalala didn't take over until June 2001. So she had nothing to do with Butch.
2. Yeah we lost 2 AD's but had Paul Dee forever and now we have Blake James. Both of them have been underperforming, so it's fair to criticize her there. Criticizing her for 2 AD's leaving quickly is stupid.
3. There have been a ton of recent facility improvements. They came late, and UM was reactive as usual, but saying that there were "NO" facility improvements is just wrong.
Every single year since Shalala took over, this program has been in steady decline from a W/L perspective.
She has made poor hires, or has been unable to retain the good hires she has made. Hence all the turnover.
She has mismanaged coaching contracts.... giving extensions where they weren't warranted.
She stood idly by as the historic Orange Bowl, the only chance Miami ever had at its own stadium, crumbled down around her.
She has done NOTHING since that terrible day to rectify the situation.... keeping us at that morgue known as Sun Life Stadium. Don't talk to me about facility improvements. Until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities.
Fact.... we had a stadium before Donna.... we have no stadium now after Donna. Hence.... overall, our facility situation since she took over has been DOWNGRADED.
Her leadership, from a football perspective, has been garbage.
You're writing to convince the wrong person. I'm not disagreeing with you on the gist of your post. I'm saying that some of it is factually wrong. Saying stuff like "until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities" doesn't mean anything when we just built a whole new athletic center and upgraded the practice fields.
Her legacy is tied to UHealth. It's been struggling, but things are so ****ed up down here that they still have a 50/50 shot of making it a real success. If only because they keep throwing money at it, it's rife with controversy and corruption, yet still alive.
Her legacy is tied to UHealth. It's been struggling, but things are so ****ed up down here that they still have a 50/50 shot of making it a real success. If only because they keep throwing money at it, it's rife with controversy and corruption, yet still alive.
Except the public face of the University of Miami has always been its football team. The layman not living in South Florida doesn't give a toss about UHealth.
Ironically enough, most of UM's students, donors, and faculty are not from South Florida.
Some hospital in Coral Gables means squat to anyone not local to that area.
She will always be remembered for ruining Miami football.
When she arrived, we had Butch Davis at head coach, the orange bowl, and the greatest winning tradition in college football.
She couldn't get a deal done with Butch, laughed as the orange bowl came crumbling down, and has overseen the fall of Miami to a 7-5 team year in/out.
She is more concerned with APR scores and keeping a spotless image than she is with winning.
Her head coaching hires: Larry Coker, followed by Randy Shannon, followed by Al Golden
She has not been able to keep an AD for more than a month at a time.
The only way she could keep an AD working for her is by promoting a glorified accountant Blake "the snake" James, that spineless sack of ****
NO facility imporvements, investment in the program at all relative to other programs
This week, she had the chance to change that. She had a chance to hire a great coach, to leave her lasting legacy as one that turned Miami around.
She spat in our faces.
**** that little troll.
This is all on Donna and our crap BOT.
OK, there's plenty of valid criticisms about DS (the admin has actively tried to distance themselves from the stuff that made Miami special, and was late with facility improvements) but most of this is nonsense.
1. Butch left right before signing day in early 2001. Shalala didn't take over until June 2001. So she had nothing to do with Butch.
2. Yeah we lost 2 AD's but had Paul Dee forever and now we have Blake James. Both of them have been underperforming, so it's fair to criticize her there. Criticizing her for 2 AD's leaving quickly is stupid.
3. There have been a ton of recent facility improvements. They came late, and UM was reactive as usual, but saying that there were "NO" facility improvements is just wrong.
Every single year since Shalala took over, this program has been in steady decline from a W/L perspective.
She has made poor hires, or has been unable to retain the good hires she has made. Hence all the turnover.
She has mismanaged coaching contracts.... giving extensions where they weren't warranted.
She stood idly by as the historic Orange Bowl, the only chance Miami ever had at its own stadium, crumbled down around her.
She has done NOTHING since that terrible day to rectify the situation.... keeping us at that morgue known as Sun Life Stadium. Don't talk to me about facility improvements. Until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities.
Fact.... we had a stadium before Donna.... we have no stadium now after Donna. Hence.... overall, our facility situation since she took over has been DOWNGRADED.
Her leadership, from a football perspective, has been garbage.
You're writing to convince the wrong person. I'm not disagreeing with you on the gist of your post. I'm saying that some of it is factually wrong. Saying stuff like "until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities" doesn't mean anything when we just built a whole new athletic center and upgraded the practice fields.
Why is this hard to understand? In the bigger picture, our facilities have been DOWNGRADED during Shalala's tenure. A stadium matters a **** of a lot more than some puny athletic center.
We had one before she became president. We don't have one today. I hold her directly responsible for that.
Don't talk to me about practice fields.
She even had David Beckham handed to her on a silver platter. That guy was willing to pay for the whole ****ing stadium, and where was Donna? Where was the leadership from our president there? The admin ****ed up and now we're stuck in no-life for another 20 years.
Her legacy is tied to UHealth. It's been struggling, but things are so ****ed up down here that they still have a 50/50 shot of making it a real success. If only because they keep throwing money at it, it's rife with controversy and corruption, yet still alive.
Except the public face of the University of Miami has always been its football team. The layman not living in South Florida doesn't give a toss about UHealth.
Ironically enough, most of UM's students, donors, and faculty are not from South Florida.
Some hospital in Coral Gables means squat to anyone not local to that area.
The face of the University has been football only since 1983. People forget how much we sucked before that.
As far as UHealth, the had a net profit of over $100 million dollars this year on revenues of $2.5 billion. Those kind of numbers make the football team look a lot less important to the BOT.
end of the day her job is to be president of a university not the GM of a football team. she is a liberal academic who hates football.
OK, there's plenty of valid criticisms about DS (the admin has actively tried to distance themselves from the stuff that made Miami special, and was late with facility improvements) but most of this is nonsense.
1. Butch left right before signing day in early 2001. Shalala didn't take over until June 2001. So she had nothing to do with Butch.
2. Yeah we lost 2 AD's but had Paul Dee forever and now we have Blake James. Both of them have been underperforming, so it's fair to criticize her there. Criticizing her for 2 AD's leaving quickly is stupid.
3. There have been a ton of recent facility improvements. They came late, and UM was reactive as usual, but saying that there were "NO" facility improvements is just wrong.
Every single year since Shalala took over, this program has been in steady decline from a W/L perspective.
She has made poor hires, or has been unable to retain the good hires she has made. Hence all the turnover.
She has mismanaged coaching contracts.... giving extensions where they weren't warranted.
She stood idly by as the historic Orange Bowl, the only chance Miami ever had at its own stadium, crumbled down around her.
She has done NOTHING since that terrible day to rectify the situation.... keeping us at that morgue known as Sun Life Stadium. Don't talk to me about facility improvements. Until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities.
Fact.... we had a stadium before Donna.... we have no stadium now after Donna. Hence.... overall, our facility situation since she took over has been DOWNGRADED.
Her leadership, from a football perspective, has been garbage.
You're writing to convince the wrong person. I'm not disagreeing with you on the gist of your post. I'm saying that some of it is factually wrong. Saying stuff like "until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities" doesn't mean anything when we just built a whole new athletic center and upgraded the practice fields.
Why is this hard to understand? In the bigger picture, our facilities have been DOWNGRADED during Shalala's tenure. A stadium matters a **** of a lot more than some puny athletic center.
We had one before she became president. We don't have one today. I hold her directly responsible for that.
Don't talk to me about practice fields.
She even had David Beckham handed to her on a silver platter. That guy was willing to pay for the whole ****ing stadium, and where was Donna? Where was the leadership from our president there? The admin ****ed up and now we're stuck in no-life for another 20 years.
You're arguing just to argue. Shalala didn't have anything to do with Butch like you claimed. Our facilities have been upgraded. We didn't have a stadium before she became president, btw. The City of Miami did. There's plenty of fair criticisms to levy that don't involve falsehoods.
Every single year since Shalala took over, this program has been in steady decline from a W/L perspective.
She has made poor hires, or has been unable to retain the good hires she has made. Hence all the turnover.
She has mismanaged coaching contracts.... giving extensions where they weren't warranted.
She stood idly by as the historic Orange Bowl, the only chance Miami ever had at its own stadium, crumbled down around her.
She has done NOTHING since that terrible day to rectify the situation.... keeping us at that morgue known as Sun Life Stadium. Don't talk to me about facility improvements. Until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities.
Fact.... we had a stadium before Donna.... we have no stadium now after Donna. Hence.... overall, our facility situation since she took over has been DOWNGRADED.
Her leadership, from a football perspective, has been garbage.
You're writing to convince the wrong person. I'm not disagreeing with you on the gist of your post. I'm saying that some of it is factually wrong. Saying stuff like "until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities" doesn't mean anything when we just built a whole new athletic center and upgraded the practice fields.
Why is this hard to understand? In the bigger picture, our facilities have been DOWNGRADED during Shalala's tenure. A stadium matters a **** of a lot more than some puny athletic center.
We had one before she became president. We don't have one today. I hold her directly responsible for that.
Don't talk to me about practice fields.
She even had David Beckham handed to her on a silver platter. That guy was willing to pay for the whole ****ing stadium, and where was Donna? Where was the leadership from our president there? The admin ****ed up and now we're stuck in no-life for another 20 years.
You're arguing just to argue. Shalala didn't have anything to do with Butch like you claimed. Our facilities have been upgraded. We didn't have a stadium before she became president, btw. The City of Miami did. There's plenty of fair criticisms to levy that don't involve falsehoods.
We had a stadium, jackass. Doesn't matter if it was leased from the city, the perception was that it was the Miami Hurricane's stadium. We had our own ring of honor. We were the only team that played there.
What part of WE HAD A STADIUM, AND NOW WE HAVE NO STADIUM is difficult for your brain to wrap around? I mean Christ, it couldn't be any simpler.
Donna stood by chuckling while the Orange Bowl was demolished. So **** that **** in the ear.
And **** you for implying that downgrading to Sun Life but gaining some *** *** training field is an "improvement" in our facility situation. It's not. And you, and Blake James, and Donna, and all your little snarky friends who want to try to sell that bull**** can shove it up your ***.
You're writing to convince the wrong person. I'm not disagreeing with you on the gist of your post. I'm saying that some of it is factually wrong. Saying stuff like "until we have our own stadium, we have no facilities" doesn't mean anything when we just built a whole new athletic center and upgraded the practice fields.
Why is this hard to understand? In the bigger picture, our facilities have been DOWNGRADED during Shalala's tenure. A stadium matters a **** of a lot more than some puny athletic center.
We had one before she became president. We don't have one today. I hold her directly responsible for that.
Don't talk to me about practice fields.
She even had David Beckham handed to her on a silver platter. That guy was willing to pay for the whole ****ing stadium, and where was Donna? Where was the leadership from our president there? The admin ****ed up and now we're stuck in no-life for another 20 years.
You're arguing just to argue. Shalala didn't have anything to do with Butch like you claimed. Our facilities have been upgraded. We didn't have a stadium before she became president, btw. The City of Miami did. There's plenty of fair criticisms to levy that don't involve falsehoods.
We had a stadium, jackass. Doesn't matter if it was leased from the city, the perception was that it was the Miami Hurricane's stadium. We had our own ring of honor. We were the only team that played there.
What part of WE HAD A STADIUM, AND NOW WE HAVE NO STADIUM is difficult for your brain to wrap around? I mean Christ, it couldn't be any simpler.
Donna stood by chuckling while the Orange Bowl was demolished. So **** that **** in the ear.
And **** you for implying that downgrading to Sun Life but gaining some *** *** training field is an "improvement" in our facility situation. It's not. And you, and Blake James, and Donna, and all your little snarky friends who want to try to sell that bull**** can shove it up your ***.
No the reason we don't have a stadium is because we never had one to begin with. It needed upgrades, badly, and the city refused to do it. It was becoming a safety hazard, and the city decided to let us walk away, and let the marlins move there. If we had owned it, we never would have lost it; we would have raised money for the upgrades. That's what the guy is saying. And If we are looking at facilities as a whole, we improved on a lot of things. Its funny how the guy is clearly not saying she has left a good legacy as far as football is concerned, but you are trying to make it out to be that way.
She made Miami Hurricanes football into Duke football.....irrelevant