The argument against a 2012 bowl ban because it is an assumption is bunk.
If you don't think Miami is getting at least 2 years from the NCAA... you are delusional.
Foregoing a bowl ban for extra practice and playing in a conference title game (whoop dee doo) is incredibly dumb, considering the potential in 2013, 2014 and possibly beyond for this team to make noise nationally.
Please explain.
You like most Miami fans are delusional, no disrespect. You believe that things will automatically be better next year, while I agree with improvement in the future, there are ZERO GUARANTEES. All we know is we are on the cusp on doing something WE HAVE NEVER CAME CLOSE TO DOING. Let me repeat that, we have not made the ACCCG ever.
For some reason you think playing in a Conference title game is no big deal. You are aware we have NOT MADE IT TO A CONFERENCE GAME SINCE JOINING THE ACC. Listen I am not settling for ACC Champs, I want titles and everything but nothing is guaranteed. Nothing is guaranteed in 2013 or 2014, nothing is guaranteed this year in 2012.
I haven't heard one good argument to self impose a second bowl ban if we could go to the ACCCG, please enlighten me. Please enlighten me why we should self impose more punishment prior to an NOA if we can go to the ACCCG. Please enlighten me why we should be the first school to self impose a second ban. Don't say recruiting either because we don't even have an NOA so its impossible to know what the NCAA holds, also making the ACCCG would be huge for recruiting it would show Al is getting us there.
I don't know what to believe in terms of punishments, I never look at things without facts and we have little here. So stop calling people delusional, you think because the herald or Yahoo! prints something I should believe it. I live in a world of evidentiary matters, while the standard of proof for the NCAA is different than the court room, I tend to stay away from the words of a ponzi-scheme defrauding criminal as the gospel. While I am sure "stuff happened," I have no clue what can and can't be proven because I HAVE NO FACTS.
So please teach me, please let me know why if we
1. Have already self imposed one bowl ban,
2. Haven't received our NOA yet, and
3. Haven't made the ACCCG EVER
We should self impose at this juncture. Please teach me. Cut all the BS, just tell me why. Please teach me, I will admit I am wrong.