I want to blame the AD as well, but it goes higher. The AD just does the bidding of the BOT. And I want to be mad at them, but if you look at the recent Clemson track and field thread, that actually tells you more about why Miami isn't more successful than just about any other thread. In football, I don't think many will argue that Miami is either the #2 or #3 best team in the ACC. Clemson, Miami, UNC or Clemson, UNC, Miami. Either way, I won't argue with the order. Reasons to pick one or the other. UNC and Clemson are filthy programs. UNC had one of the the worst academic cheating scandals ever, but they didn't even get a slap on the wrist. They are beloved by the ACC and the NCAA. Clemson straight up buys cars for players. Miami is trying to compete on an unlevel playing field. Being the best of the clean programs in the conference may not impress a lot of people, it's not exactly fair criticism to say that Miami is currently expected to be better at football than two major public universities that have been given the green light by the rules enforcers to cheat because we once ruled CFB. You can't really point to another ACC program and say, "see, they don't cheat and they are more competitive than us." Of course, FSU cheats too and they are a dumpster fire, so you can't automatically correlate cheating with winning, but it certainly helps. The two cheaters are at the top, then you have the rest of the conference, and I think it's safe to say we are the best on the list of clean programs. And it may sound naive to say Miami is clean, but you know as well as I do that the NCAA knows it is viewed as a joke and would love to make an example out of someone so we have to be mindful to avoid the sports equivalent of a "broken tail light."