Email from Blake James courtesy the inimitable JoeGrind...

[CFLACANE]

I wonder if that applies to other areas of the university?

Are you still a good student if you have a subpar SAT score and a middling GPA? Why does UM discriminate against people with lower high school test scores?

Too bad CIS doesn't have a similar test to become a moderator.

 

[Dingaan1828]

Pluck the game of life. Football is much more important to me.

 

[Billy D Williams]

Bullying should be legalized at the Admin level. "Blake what do I have for lunch money today chump!"

 

[L A M P]

Die in a fire, Blake.

 

[Al Foil]

OMG.....

We are now Mexico.

 

[Al Foil]

Our fanbase has done quite a number on little Blake and fat Al already.....

Al used to be a fixture at basketball games. He disappeared after the Pitt loss.

Same with Blake.

Those guys are going to be tortured come September. Can't wait.

 

[rascani]

I got this email. I clicked the unsubscribe link.

 

[HurricaneFanFromIowa]

Everyone needs an orange slice, you guys.

 

[TC7D]

...from WEZ

Email from Blake:

I believe that everyone has the potential within them to be a champion. To be a winner in life and, for those who enter the arena, a winner on the field or court. Yet, while winning games at Miami is exciting, it is not what makes our student-athletes champions.

Champions look for solutions instead of problems; they support one another; they push themselves beyond limits; and they do it all with integrity and class.

With the incredible support of our educators, coaches, staff and supporters such as yourself, our student athletes are excelling like never before. But there is always more we can do and we need your support.

Help to continue the championship tradition at "The U." Please give now . . . make an impact . . . and help continue Building Champions!

RIP, University of Miami Athletics.

This guy makes the Death Penalty seem appealing. At least we wouldn't have a team because of the NCAA, not because we choose not to field one.

 

[alnwpi]

...from WEZ

Email from Blake:

I believe that everyone has the potential within them to be a champion. To be a winner in life and, for those who enter the arena, a winner on the field or court. Yet, while winning games at Miami is exciting, it is not what makes our student-athletes champions.

Champions look for solutions instead of problems; they support one another; they push themselves beyond limits; and they do it all with integrity and class.

With the incredible support of our educators, coaches, staff and supporters such as yourself, our student athletes are excelling like never before. But there is always more we can do and we need your support.

Help to continue the championship tradition at "The U." Please give now . . . make an impact . . . and help continue Building Champions!

RIP, University of Miami Athletics.

Sounds like he's implying that all our past teams didn't do any of that. Man imagine how good our championship teams would have been if they actually were to 'look for solutions instead of problems...support one another...[&] push themselves beyond limits'. That would have been a sight to see. SMH

 

[DapperSlapper]

...from WEZ

Email from Blake:

I believe that everyone has the potential within them to be a champion. To be a winner in life and, for those who enter the arena, a winner on the field or court. Yet, while winning games at Miami is exciting, it is not what makes our student-athletes champions.

Champions look for solutions instead of problems; they support one another; they push themselves beyond limits; and they do it all with integrity and class.

With the incredible support of our educators, coaches, staff and supporters such as yourself, our student athletes are excelling like never before. But there is always more we can do and we need your support.

Help to continue the championship tradition at "The U." Please give now . . . make an impact . . . and help continue Building Champions!

RIP, University of Miami Athletics.

Kirby Freeman was a champion.

 

[ACKCANE]

Back to Suntan U!!! Where the law, business, health and architecture students can all be Champions in their own little fluffy cloud unicorn world!

 

[UMFarArcher]

The money will be used to purchase ACC Coastal Champions 6th Place rings for the team and coaching staff.

 

[CaneFan79]

...from WEZ

Email from Blake:

I believe that everyone has the potential within them to be a champion. To be a winner in life and, for those who enter the arena, a winner on the field or court. Yet, while winning games at Miami is exciting, it is not what makes our student-athletes champions.

Champions look for solutions instead of problems; they support one another; they push themselves beyond limits; and they do it all with integrity and class.

With the incredible support of our educators, coaches, staff and supporters such as yourself, our student athletes are excelling like never before. But there is always more we can do and we need your support.

Help to continue the championship tradition at "The U." Please give now . . . make an impact . . . and help continue Building Champions!

RIP, University of Miami Athletics.

Sounds like he's implying that all our past teams didn't do any of that. Man imagine how good our championship teams would have been if they actually were to 'look for solutions instead of problems...support one another...[&] push themselves beyond limits'. That would have been a sight to see. SMH

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time."

- Vince Lombardi

I guess Blake doesn't realize "Thrill" Hill is a respected Federal Agent, that Gino Toretta is a well regarded investment professional, Eric Winston is the President of a union and Alonzo Highsmith is an NFL Exec...

Blake missed his true calling as a U-11 Boys Soccer League Administrator:

 

[SevenNSeven]

Only thing Flake knows anything about is fundraising.

His idea of a Champion is the UM student that raises the most money at the end of the month from athletic department cold calls. He measures progress more in funds raised for messaging chairs for the athletics building than by wins and losses.

 

[Jedi Master Cane]

I sincerely hope Blake and the rest of the administration get hit by a small to medium size truck.

 

[SFbayCane]

I wonder if that applies to other areas of the university?

Are you still a good student if you have a subpar SAT score and a middling GPA? Why does UM discriminate against people with lower high school test scores?

You might not be a good student if you got bad grades, but you could still be a winner, a champion in life, and a productive member of society who achieves greatness.

Mr. James didn't say we had great football players or a great football team, so your "good student" doesn't fit. He merely reiterated my new metrics of winning life moments when he stated that our athletes can still be winners and champions in life even if they don't win every football game.

Then why won't UM let those students into their university? The ones with a 2.8 GPA and a 920 SAT. UM is actually holding these people back in life from becoming all they can be simply because they choose a win at all costs academic approach.

Why then does that not apply to its sports teams anymore?

You can't let every student into your university just like you can't let every HS player onto your football team. But the ones that do matriculate at UM are shown a path to winning and being champions in the most important game of all--the game of life.

That goes directly to my point.

Golden loves to recruit 3 star kids for his football team. Why then does UM only allow 4 star academic kids into UM?


I think Blake James is sending mixed messages.

 

[mianjomar]

...from WEZ

Email from Blake:

I believe that everyone has the potential within them to be a champion. To be a winner in life and, for those who enter the arena, a winner on the field or court. Yet, while winning games at Miami is exciting, it is not what makes our student-athletes champions.

Champions look for solutions instead of problems; they support one another; they push themselves beyond limits; and they do it all with integrity and class.

With the incredible support of our educators, coaches, staff and supporters such as yourself, our student athletes are excelling like never before. But there is always more we can do and we need your support.

Help to continue the championship tradition at "The U." Please give now . . . make an impact . . . and help continue Building Champions!

RIP, University of Miami Athletics.

I get this big picture in my mind of Bennie Blades getting in the ND QB's face and calling him a punk, Danny Stubbs going to the Oklahoma sidelines during warm ups and telling Barry Switzer that "we are going to kick your a--. Jerome and the team walking out of the bbq, RandallHill catching the TD and giving the six gun bit after Running in the tunnel and in the same game the cb telling the team that he was going to take the returner out of the game on the first play and delivering. These were the champions that won. Not sure about the class thing though. Those were the days.

 

[SFbayCane]

I wonder if that applies to other areas of the university?

Are you still a good student if you have a subpar SAT score and a middling GPA? Why does UM discriminate against people with lower high school test scores?

Too bad CIS doesn't have a similar test to become a moderator.

Are you saying Im not a winner? I participate on this board.


Why are you trying to discriminate against me?

 

[BucCANEers]

...from WEZ

Email from Blake:

I believe that everyone has the potential within them to be a champion. To be a winner in life and, for those who enter the arena, a winner on the field or court. Yet, while winning games at Miami is exciting, it is not what makes our student-athletes champions.

Champions look for solutions instead of problems; they support one another; they push themselves beyond limits; and they do it all with integrity and class.

With the incredible support of our educators, coaches, staff and supporters such as yourself, our student athletes are excelling like never before. But there is always more we can do and we need your support.

Help to continue the championship tradition at "The U." Please give now . . . make an impact . . . and help continue Building Champions!

RIP, University of Miami Athletics.

Tell him to send them monopoly money in the mail for the monopoly coach we have