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CTCANE said:
BS. UM will lose in court unless they settle OOC.
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That's why we have courts to settle disputes

What's BS is claiming to already know the outcome of the case .....WITHOUT KNOWING THE FACTS.

I admit that I dont know the all the facts ...NOR DO YOU.
 
Rellyrell said:
Alright, can I highlight something real quick as to y I was a little P.O’d w that anonymous Trustee’s comment about Blake? B/c dude is legit incompetent to run a AD. Lol at his time at the University of Maine. Lol. Bro, what sports do they even have there?

Botch job after botch job.
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“He’s done a great job of fundraising, won awards for athletic directors,” the trustee said. “Our student graduation rate is one of the highest in the country.”

That trustee said school president Julio Frenk “supports Blake. [Former president] Donna Shalala would fire an athletic director she wasn’t happy with, but Julio would leave it to the board. He’s not a sports enthusiast like Donna was.”



Let's break this down.

Fundraising? Great? We had to do a GoFundMe and multiple rounds of begging to fund the IPF, which any alum/booster could have told you was the TOP priority. So why all the struggles? What else have we raised funds for? A new football stadium? Nope. Buying out Willie Taggart? Nope. To use the word "great" would suggest he exceeded goals/expectations, but if you are doing just enough to keep the lights on, why call it "great"?

As for increases in HC contributions, let's think about this. Hard Rock Stadium has decreased seating capacity and parking capacity, while converting several areas of the stadium to "club access". And none of these upgrades are on Miami's dime. So the ability to command more from the HC membership on the football side is NOT due to anything that Blake has dome.

Won awards? Allow me to cut-and-paste from Blake's bio: "This year he was one of five nominees for the 2019 SportsBusiness Journal Athletic Director of the Year. In 2017, James was selected as one of four Division I recipients of the 2016-17 Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year award from the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA)." So, he was NOMINATED for one award and was one of FOUR recipients for another award (no idea what the criteria were).

Student graduation rate? Come on, I have previously documented that Jimmy Johnson created our academic support program (as we currently know it) and it has been incredibly successful since the 1980s. Blake has nothing to do with this metric and has not INCREASED our success in this area in any measurable fashion.

As for what I have said about Shalala for quite some time, she loved and supported athletics, even if we did not attain the results we wanted. You can criticize her for favoring "on the rise" coaches like Coker/Shannon/Golden, but you can't say that she is responsible for our decline. The City of Miami destroyed the Orange Bowl, not UM or Shalala. And Frenk cares EVEN LESS than Foote did, if that is humanly possible.

Wake up, people.
 
Golden needs all his coins, bc when Patricia gets fired this offseason, he might be hurting for a season or more.

Rellyrell said:
Alright, can I highlight something real quick as to y I was a little P.O’d w that anonymous Trustee’s comment about Blake? B/c dude is legit incompetent to run a AD. Lol at his time at the University of Maine. Lol. Bro, what sports do they even have there?

Botch job after botch job.
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Blake is a hockey guy. He knows next to nothing about football.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
“He’s done a great job of fundraising, won awards for athletic directors,” the trustee said. “Our student graduation rate is one of the highest in the country.”

That trustee said school president Julio Frenk “supports Blake. [Former president] Donna Shalala would fire an athletic director she wasn’t happy with, but Julio would leave it to the board. He’s not a sports enthusiast like Donna was.”



Let's break this down.

Fundraising? Great? We had to do a GoFundMe and multiple rounds of begging to fund the IPF, which any alum/booster could have told you was the TOP priority. So why all the struggles? What else have we raised funds for? A new football stadium? Nope. Buying out Willie Taggart? Nope. To use the word "great" would suggest he exceeded goals/expectations, but if you are doing just enough to keep the lights on, why call it "great"?

As for increases in HC contributions, let's think about this. Hard Rock Stadium has decreased seating capacity and parking capacity, while converting several areas of the stadium to "club access". And none of these upgrades are on Miami's dime. So the ability to command more from the HC membership on the football side is NOT due to anything that Blake has dome.

Won awards? Allow me to cut-and-paste from Blake's bio: "This year he was one of five nominees for the 2019 SportsBusiness Journal Athletic Director of the Year. In 2017, James was selected as one of four Division I recipients of the 2016-17 Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year award from the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA)." So, he was NOMINATED for one award and was one of FOUR recipients for another award (no idea what the criteria were).

Student graduation rate? Come on, I have previously documented that Jimmy Johnson created our academic support program (as we currently know it) and it has been incredibly successful since the 1980s. Blake has nothing to do with this metric and has not INCREASED our success in this area in any measurable fashion.

As for what I have said about Shalala for quite some time, she loved and supported athletics, even if we did not attain the results we wanted. You can criticize her for favoring "on the rise" coaches like Coker/Shannon/Golden, but you can't say that she is responsible for our decline. The City of Miami destroyed the Orange Bowl, not UM or Shalala. And Frenk cares EVEN LESS than Foote did, if that is humanly possible.

Wake up, people.
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BOOM!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!

I vote for this post to be a stickie! I’m so tired of the passive, aggressiveness of decision makers at this program, that don’t even know the history! What r they doing?
 
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I like Al a lot more now. Whatever he can do to get Flake out is good with me. I never hated Al but his unrelenting love passion for Dont'nofrio was his ultimate demise.

PS. I would really enjoy it more if the fired Frenk the ***.
 
MedleyCane said:
I think this is more of a poor reflection on the school than the AD who is nothing more than a useless figurehead. I mean, haven't we had several coaches sue this school over the years? Not a good look.
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Agree. Objectively, Golden makes a good case (if he is telling the truth about the Wisconsin offer and Shalala phone call). Lot of evidence against Miami, specifically Blake and Donna
 
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CaneInHeelCountry said:
That's BS, man.

The Herald first published the big expose on Shapiro back in August of 2010.

Golden was hired in December of 2010.

Cards were on the table for him to read by the time he was offered and accepted the job. He chose to go with it, then claimed he knew nothing about it when he got fired. Golden's a lying ***.
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That's not entirely true.
Yeah, Shapiro had been busted before Golden took the job, but there wasn't really a connection established between his crimes and his role as a UM booster until that Yahoo expose.....as a matter of fact, in the days leading up to that expose, alot of UM fans were giddy thinking it was about fsu or uf getting busted so, yeah, UM was not honest with Golden...no surprise as the school has the ethics of carnival gypsies.
 
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Also gotta love Golden quaking in his boots for big bad Nebraska coming up in the schedule --- 4 years into his god**** tenure here!! What did he want? A schedule filled with AAC teams until year 15 of his tenure here?
 
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