Look, I've been following UM football since 1967. It was a **** program then and it was a **** program for most of its 40 year history before that.
In 1977, we were on the verge of dropping football, caught lightning in a bottle in 1979 and for 13 great years a miracle happened, 4 national titles in 9 years. Even with that greatness, the admins couldn't stand the bad publicity that went with our renegade program. They couldn't stand Jimmy Johnson.
Then we had a nice 4 or 5 year run until about 2005 and we've been pre 1980 horrible to watch garbage ever since.
In reality, this program, in its almost 100 year history has had a grand total of about 20 years of football relevance.
I for one, am grateful for the memories of totally unexpected national championships, but this university is not or never really was a football serious school. Isn't now and likely wont be in the future.
The attitude in Coral Gables is more in line with an Ivy League mindset without the Ivy League academics.
I will continue to follow the program but with the same expectations I had watching a garbage product I was accustomed to in the late 60s and 70s.
This is the sad truth.