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Thanks @mainecane - Good info. Thank you for sharing.

I know you've held a higher opinion of Blake James than most others here. Do you see this being a scenario that @Pentagon Cane alluded to where Blake James takes a lateral move into managing this campaign and frees up his current role for someone most sport-oriented?
 
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mainecane said:
I've been bashing ****lala for 20 years since she killed the athletic department (and Orange Bowl) budget. Being the BS politician she would smile and confess her love for UM Athletics. The truth is she killed the department BUT Blake has gotten a shift in the department budget ever since Dr. Frenk came to UM. It takes time as budgets are done 1-2 years in advance at a minimum and major shifts require more time. As a major UM donor this is what I received today. You can bash Blake James all you want but look at what's coming NOW:

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He has gotten Frenk and the BOT to loosen up even before now. Richt was offered $1m+ for an OC, but he declined it.
Manny hasn’t lost any assistants to higher paying schools.

He just can’t choose (and never should’ve been allowed to choose) coaches.
 
zoisgod said:
How much would we save if we cut all women’s sports plus the sports that nobody cares about like swimming and tennis ?
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We’d save a ton, because legally they have to have those sports if they have football, so we’d spend $0 on athletics.
 
zoisgod said:
How much would we save if we cut all women’s sports plus the sports that nobody cares about like swimming and tennis ?
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Can’t be done. You should know this if you’re a fan of college sports or college football or Miami. Title IX
 
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Pentagon Cane said:
Ohio State has 18 men's varsity sports and 19 women's varsity sports.

This is an infrastructure and endowment campaign.
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“…resources necessary to compete at the highest level.”
Not trying to be a d**k here, I’m just pointing out that while that sounds like a lot, other schools spend that much just to fund their program for a year. I hope this is a success and that it helps the football team, but we’ll still be woefully behind.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
This is how far we are behind in the spending wars.

Alabama and places like Ohio State spend in one year what we are asking to raise in four years.

Think about that.

Our aspiration, is to raise in four years what they spend in one.

All you dopes that tell me the U has enough money, this is proof that they don’t.

So tell me again now how we have enough money to compete in spend with the big boys?
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I don’t think people realize the spending power of a school that’s put out 10k football fan graduates a year for a century. We have many many fewer graduates who are much less rabid about football than the big state schools, and that translates to having a lot less football money. People think a few millionaires are going to fix this, but that’s not enough. Once the big schools realized they could win more by spending more, I don’t think there was much we could do.

Now. To be fair, this is all talking about reaching the pinnacle of the sport. Our more pressing problem is that we’ve done substantially worse than our talent level would indicate for most of the last 20 years.
 
Funding & facilities are important for sure and I hope this campaign succeeds...but schools like Texas (which has incredible facilities & a ton of money) prove that funding is only one part of the equation. To win at the highest level you need (among other things):

1) A School President that wants the school to be elite in major sports

2) Boosters that have deep pockets and are passionate about the program

3) An AD that is exceptional at selecting coaches (like a Sam Jankovich) and has a "win at all costs" mentality

4) A Head Coach with exceptional recruiting skills and a staff filled with a mix of great recruiters & great teachers

5) Facilities that are sufficiently impressive (relative to your main competition on the recruiting trail) that they can't be used against you (negative recruiting)

6) To be able to recruit from the most fertile recruiting areas (as well as nationally). We have a huge advantage in this regard

7) Talented players with the hearts of champions and a burning desire to be the best (and the willingness to put the serious work in required to be the best). All of the above don't matter one iota if you don't have the right people on your team. We won National Championships in the 80s with facilities & equipment that would be deemed completely embarrassing by today's standards. What we did have though was legendary coaches who knew how & where to recruit the best players and mold them into champions (with a culture that demanded excellence). The rest (and it's a huge part) was the players dedicating themselves to excellence and putting in the serious toil to be the best.
 
I'm so sick of hearing that Blake is valuable because he can raise money. Who in that position couldn't, especially given the wealth accumulation by the donor class over the last decade? Btw, guarantee you we still don't have an IPF if Richt was never hired. Win championships and you could put DBC in charge of fundraising and be popping up new buildings as fast as Gables would approve.
 
Miami has money.

Who would donate to the school in its current **** shape? Are you gonna pick up the phone when Blake James calls and give him your hard earned money?

You would have to be s blind superfan to give money to this **** show.

It’s common ******* sense. We don’t raise money like Ohio State because the fundraising is trash, and the product on the field is vomit.

Put a decent product on the field and get Blake the **** out of our faces, and watch the money start rolling in like magic.

Miami has a valuable brand. Believe that.
 
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