Donna Shalala raised the entry scores when she got to Miami Fact. A lot of South Florida kids couldn’t get into Miami for that reason fact. This program hasn’t been relevant since! Tell me where I’m wrong?
It's obvious that you don't know a **** thing about what you speak of. Never mind the inherently bigoted assumption that South Florida student athletes(IE Black kids) can't meet relatively easy admission standards, you also have a flawed understanding of HOW AND WHY the academic standards exist to begin with and the genesis of same.
Miami didn't raise the standards for admission, the NCAA lowered theirs, and Miami refused to change with them. Why? Because Miami, being a small, private institution, couldn't afford to create a ton of garbage majors merely to keep student-athletes eligible. Even our most jockish majors require you to take some actual college classes in order to progress through the major. In other words, Miami needs kids that can actually read and write at a collegiate level. The question that our admissions department asks is "Can this kid survive college level coursework, with world class academic support?" If the answer is no, then odds are that kid won't be admitted. Even then, there are exceptions granted for kids that are on the cusp.
Our "Fans" love to whine about academic standards, but can't name any kid that Miami denied admission that ended up at a school not named Marshall or West Virginia. If you can't qualify at Miami as a student-athlete, there are few and I mean few places you qualify for. It doesn't require a genius to meet the sliding scale requirements that Miami utilizes. Compare Miami's standards to Stanford's, where you have to qualify as a regular student, no exceptions are given.
That said, note how Shannon, Golden, Richt and Diaz didn't have the problems with the academic standards that Coker claimed to have? Why? They worked with admissions to create roadmaps for at risk kids, giving those kids a clear path to gaining admission. Kid follows the roadmap, they were usually admitted, unless some sketchy crap happened. Coker was a lazy douchebag that thought that whining would get the standards lowered. It didn't, because this University actually gives a **** about giving these young men a fighting chance out in the real world. As an alum, I take pride in the fact that Miami graduates student-athletes at a rate that exceeds the national average. Go ask the guys that didn't play in the NFL, but ended up with degrees whether that degree mattered....