HerbieDaGawd
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Right. Someone should show Frenk the before and after pictures of the bama campus before Saban and after. They're literally building taj mahals each season.example: ALABAMA
Right. Someone should show Frenk the before and after pictures of the bama campus before Saban and after. They're literally building taj mahals each season.example: ALABAMA
I recall an interview where Bama's AD was asked about Saban's ludicrously high salary, and he responded by saying Saban is the best investment the University has ever made.Right. Someone should show Frenk the before and after pictures of the bama campus before Saban and after. They're literally building taj mahals each season.
No one is held accountable at the University of Miami. Not the AD, not the coaches, not the players. It's a cesspool of nepotism right now.The pres doesn’t need fo be a sports fan. Frank’s failure isn’t in not caring about athletics, it’s in apparently not holding his people accountable.
Nice humble brag, nerd.The fact that UM hasn’t responded is actually evidence of bad management, in my eyes. At Yale, they taught us the importance of responding to negative press/social media quickly and deliberately. They suggested every company should have a “quick response” mechanism built in to their structure, where you trust some underling or group of underlings to speak for everyone so that you can be quick and forceful in responding to press that might cause reputation damage 24/7.
The fact that they never respond to this kind of stuff, or take forever to respond, tells me they have rigid management where everything has to get run up the pole before some kind of “officer” responds, which just doesn’t work in 2021. UM is not controlling the narrative at all, and that’s their own fault
Man **** that. I commend him for what he is doing. The rest of South Florida media deals with UM with kiddy gloves on. It's time to start calling these people out and stop letting them tell lies to the fanbase. If UM isn't going to commit to winning, let us move on and find another team to root for. Let the four and five stars that we do have move on to a school that will develop them for the next level. Stop wasting people's time!!!! Barry is the only one calling them out on their BS.I don't know what Frenk really thinks, but it's a bad look and irresponsible for a journalist to put out one person's opinion like that. It could very well be what he thinks or maybe it isn't. That can be a very damaging thing in recruiting that others can use as ammo against us.
It was on 60 Minutes and that was back in 2013 before they really took off... awful, terrible, unspeakable free marketing for the school. Flash forward a couple of years, and a kid who got into every Ivy (and Stanford, NYU, Vandy, Wash U, etc.) chose Bama.I recall an interview where Bama's AD was asked about Saban's ludicrously high salary, and he responded by saying Saban is the best investment the University has ever made.
The fact that UM hasn’t responded is actually evidence of bad management, in my eyes. At Yale, they taught us the importance of responding to negative press/social media quickly and deliberately. They suggested every company should have a “quick response” mechanism built in to their structure, where you trust some underling or group of underlings to speak for everyone so that you can be quick and forceful in responding to press that might cause reputation damage 24/7.
The fact that they never respond to this kind of stuff, or take forever to respond, tells me they have rigid management where everything has to get run up the pole before some kind of “officer” responds, which just doesn’t work in 2021. UM is not controlling the narrative at all, and that’s their own fault
I’ll tell you whats damaging to recruiting & used as ammo against us. Getting our ******* asses throttled by an average michigan state team at home.I don't know what Frenk really thinks, but it's a bad look and irresponsible for a journalist to put out one person's opinion like that. It could very well be what he thinks or maybe it isn't. That can be a very damaging thing in recruiting that others can use as ammo against us.
Man **** that. I commend him for what he is doing. The rest of South Florida media deals with UM with kiddy gloves on. It's time to start calling these people out and stop letting them tell lies to the fanbase. If UM isn't going to commit to winning, let us move on and find another team to root for. Let the four and five stars that we do have move on to a school that will develop them for the next level. Stop wasting people's time!!!! Barry is the only one calling them out on their BS.
I’ll tell you whats damaging to recruiting & used as ammo against us. Getting our ******* asses throttled by an average michigan state team at home.
Why is he UM President? What does he think put UM on the map/developed the brand? FOOTBALL! UM has now dropped out of the Top 50 rated academic colleges & universities so is anyone on the board holding him accountable? As a long time season ticket holder/Hurricane Club member I don't understand any of this or why anyone would accept such mediocrity and being embarrassed on national TV.
Totally disgusted by what I'm reading in Barry Jacksons column today. Why would players want to come here? He and Blake James should both resign.
I see this repeated often--that investing in sports leads to better students, which raises the profile of the university, leading to higher rankings in things like US News and World Reports.President Frenk and the majority of the BOT's fail to realize Athletics (especially Football) is the most impactful marketing tool a university can have. The University of Miami was known as Sun Tan U prior to the 80's and was completely irrelevant nationally and locally. In the 80's and 90's, the Football and Baseball programs, made the University what it is today, not the academics. Frenk is here because of the Football program. The Football program created the iconic brand and elevated the school to higher levels it ever dreamed of doing prior to the 80's.
I am not saying that academics isn't important, of course it is; however, a successful athletic brand takes an entire school to another level because students want to be part of that rich brand.
You bring valid points and I agree that athletics will not get us back to the upper 40's in rankings but it is a lot easier to reach those levels with a strong athletic program than it is without it. I hate Florida with a passion but they understand the importance of having strong academics while prioritizing athletics. It really is common sense. Prioritizing in athletics is prioritizing in your brand. There is no bigger marketing tool than athletics. The University of Miami is doing themselves no service by not prioritizing athletics.I see this repeated often--that investing in sports leads to better students, which raises the profile of the university, leading to higher rankings in things like US News and World Reports.
I wonder if there's a point of diminishing returns. That is, success in football helped put UM on the map, but once we're on the map, is football really important to keep us there?
UM is never going to be an elite school in the realm of Harvard, etc.
At our best (under Shalala), we were ranked around 40 or so in US News and World Report, and we've dropped some since then due to troubles with the law and med schools, among others. Fixing those problems would go a long way to getting us back in the upper 45 or so, but there's not much room to go up from there. And investing in sports isn't going to make a difference, IMO.