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Dr. Frenk - Time to get Involved

felix said:
I admire the management style and direction that Dr. Frenk is employing at The university of Miami. He hires excellent people and let’s them do their job. However, it has become increasingly evident that Blake James is either intransigent or incapable of properly fulfilling his role. Accordingly, it is now time for Dr. Frenk to become involved, end the time as AD for Blake James, hire Allonzo Highsmith As well as an assistant A.D. to help Alonso with the administrative duties required in that position. This will allow Alonso to focus on the football program, bring it back to the level that it’s Alumni, students, boosters and fans require. I have reached this position due to the blatant unwillingness of Blake James to depart from the “business as usual attitude” that he exudes. Also, it’s time that the proper amount of funds be allocated to the program to allow for the hiring of top level assistants, proper screening of those assistant coaches and potentially the hiring of a new head coach at the end of next seaso, if things don’t change.

The issues occurring at the University of Miami football program can no longer be ignored and hope that they self correct, they won’t. This now requires the leadership at the very top of the university to become involved. I hope he comes to that realization and doesn’t let an opportunity to hire an NFL level general manager slip away, when he clearly wants the job.

Go Canes!
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well said. Post on twitter and let it go viral.
 
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Ispyin said:
We need a hero. We got a zero.
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Usually what we get and what it has felt like to be a Canes fan these last 15 years. Maybe we'll miraculously have the return to success that Robert Downey Jr has enjoyed. Or maybe we'll all just die with a needle in our arm offering to suck c*ck for a taste of a real coach and AD.

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felix said:
I admire the management style and direction that Dr. Frenk is employing at The university of Miami. He hires excellent people and let’s them do their job. However, it has become increasingly evident that Blake James is either intransigent or incapable of properly fulfilling his role. Accordingly, it is now time for Dr. Frenk to become involved, end the time as AD for Blake James, hire Allonzo Highsmith As well as an assistant A.D. to help Alonso with the administrative duties required in that position. This will allow Alonso to focus on the football program, bring it back to the level that it’s Alumni, students, boosters and fans require. I have reached this position due to the blatant unwillingness of Blake James to depart from the “business as usual attitude” that he exudes. Also, it’s time that the proper amount of funds be allocated to the program to allow for the hiring of top level assistants, proper screening of those assistant coaches and potentially the hiring of a new head coach at the end of next seaso, if things don’t change.

The issues occurring at the University of Miami football program can no longer be ignored and hope that they self correct, they won’t. This now requires the leadership at the very top of the university to become involved. I hope he comes to that realization and doesn’t let an opportunity to hire an NFL level general manager slip away, when he clearly wants the job.

Go Canes!
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I disagree. I dont want the school President involved in Athletics. I want the President to fire the AD when athletics are a dumpster fire as they currently are and then hire a firm to find us a new AD.
 
da truth said:
I disagree. I dont want the school President involved in Athletics. I want the President to fire the AD when athletics are a dumpster fire as they currently are and then hire a firm to find us a new AD.
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Work on your reading comprehension.
 
I want a university president who cares about every aspect of the university the way a parent cares about their kids. I might hate soccer or volleyball or gymnastics, but I'll watch my kids with pride and want them to be the very best at it and I'll do all I can to help them.
 
JD08 said:
I want a university president who cares about every aspect of the university the way a parent cares about their kids. I might hate soccer or volleyball or gymnastics, but I'll watch my kids with pride and want them to be the very best at it and I'll do all I can to help them.
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So in other words, you want a Unicorn.

Say it with me dumbasses: Good University Presidents don't give a **** about athletics, unless it threatens the reputation of the school. I know it's hard for this dumbass "Fanbase" to understand, but schools don't exist solely to service the athletic department. In fact, the athletic department is treated as a separate entity at most places, managed and ran by the people who pay for the privilege of doing so. Those people are called boosters. Some of those boosters, through political affiliations and sheer wealth also hold power at the University proper, usually sitting on the governing board. They are given carte blanche to make decisions in regards to the department, with little oversight from those that don't give a ****, or whose priorities are placed in the actual academic institution itself.

This horrific failure at UMiami isn't on Frenk, although he deserves blame for not delivering on the fundraising promises he made, and by alienating a lot of long time donors. The disaster that is the athletic department lies on those who write the checks, who have the power to create change. You want to force the issue, call Marcus Lemonis and the rest of the big money people. They are the ones who let this go on, they are the ones that allowed Blake James to hire Manny D without calling a single outside candidate. Then again, it's easier to blame Frenk and before him Shalala, because those are the only people the typical Miami fan knows. Maybe, not just maybe if more of our fans actually attended the institution, and understood how institutions of higher education worked, we wouldn't have to spend so much time dispelling these myths.
 
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Canedude08 said:
So in other words, you want a Unicorn.

Say it with me dumbasses: Good University Presidents don't give a **** about athletics, unless it threatens the reputation of the school. I know it's hard for this dumbass "Fanbase" to understand, but schools don't exist solely to service the athletic department. In fact, the athletic department is treated as a separate entity at most places, managed and ran by the people who pay for the privilege of doing so. Those people are called boosters. Some of those boosters, through political affiliations and sheer wealth also hold power at the University proper, usually sitting on the governing board. They are given carte blanche to make decisions in regards to the department, with little oversight from those that don't give a ****, or whose priorities are placed in the actual academic institution itself.

This horrific failure at UMiami isn't on Frenk, although he deserves blame for not delivering on the fundraising promises he made, and by alienating a lot of long time donors. The disaster that is the athletic department lies on those who write the checks, who have the power to create change. You want to force the issue, call Marcus Lemonis and the rest of the big money people. They are the ones who let this go on, they are the ones that allowed Blake James to hire Manny D without calling a single outside candidate. Then again, it's easier to blame Frenk and before him Shalala, because those are the only people the typical Miami fan knows. Maybe, not just maybe if more of our fans actually attended the institution, and understood how institutions of higher education worked, we wouldn't have to spend so much time dispelling these myths.
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Do Vanderbilt, Michigan, Virginia, and Clemson all have a unicorn president? Because all either won championships or were runners up last year. This isn't a matter of *****y boosters, it's having the right people in management.
 
JD08 said:
Do Vanderbilt, Michigan, Virginia, and Clemson all have a unicorn president? Because all either won championships or were runners up last year. This isn't a matter of *****y boosters, it's having the right people in management.
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Michigan, Virginia, Clemson are huge state schools. In fact, Michigan and Virginia produces more alumni in one year than Miami does in 4. When you have that many alumni, and that deep of a donor pool, you can afford to let those donors and boosters do the heavy lifting. The University President most likely isn't involved in the running of the AD. Odds are, the athletically inclined members of the governing board, plus some big money boosters have combined to hire a top end AD, and went from there. That was what happened at Clemson. Michigan replaced their ineffective AD due to PR and fundraising issues.

Vanderbilt, thanks to a glitch in the matrix has a unique competitive advantage that makes it possible for them to compete in baseball despite them being mediocre or worse in **** near every other revenue sport.
 
Canedude08 said:
Michigan, Virginia, Clemson are huge state schools. In fact, Michigan and Virginia produces more alumni in one year than Miami does in 4. When you have that many alumni, and that deep of a donor pool, you can afford to let those donors and boosters do the heavy lifting. The University President most likely isn't involved in the running of the AD. Odds are, the athletically inclined members of the governing board, plus some big money boosters have combined to hire a top end AD, and went from there. That was what happened at Clemson. Michigan replaced their ineffective AD due to PR and fundraising issues.

Vanderbilt, thanks to a glitch in the matrix has a unique competitive advantage that makes it possible for them to compete in baseball despite them being mediocre or worse in **** near every other revenue sport.
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So, it's having the right people in management.
 
JD08 said:
I want a university president who cares about every aspect of the university the way a parent cares about their kids. I might hate soccer or volleyball or gymnastics, but I'll watch my kids with pride and want them to be the very best at it and I'll do all I can to help them.
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I don’t want an ignorant person getting involved in things they no nothing about.
 
felix said:
I admire the management style and direction that Dr. Frenk is employing at The university of Miami. He hires excellent people and let’s them do their job. However, it has become increasingly evident that Blake James is either intransigent or incapable of properly fulfilling his role. Accordingly, it is now time for Dr. Frenk to become involved, end the time as AD for Blake James, hire Allonzo Highsmith As well as an assistant A.D. to help Alonso with the administrative duties required in that position. This will allow Alonso to focus on the football program, bring it back to the level that it’s Alumni, students, boosters and fans require. I have reached this position due to the blatant unwillingness of Blake James to depart from the “business as usual attitude” that he exudes. Also, it’s time that the proper amount of funds be allocated to the program to allow for the hiring of top level assistants, proper screening of those assistant coaches and potentially the hiring of a new head coach at the end of next seaso, if things don’t change.

The issues occurring at the University of Miami football program can no longer be ignored and hope that they self correct, they won’t. This now requires the leadership at the very top of the university to become involved. I hope he comes to that realization and doesn’t let an opportunity to hire an NFL level general manager slip away, when he clearly wants the job.

Go Canes!
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then you don't have a clue. you could not possibly be more wrong about his "leadership" or the quality of his hires.
 
Ispyin said:
I don’t want an ignorant person getting involved in things they no nothing about.
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They don't have to get involved to care enough to put good people in place. People who don't care put warm bodies in seats and defend them by saying they're a great fundraiser.
 
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