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It's 2015... and Al Golden is still your corch.

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Unfortunately, this is true. If they were going to fire him, it would have been done by now. Honestly, I never thought that they would pull the trigger. Either they don't care about the football program or no one wants to make the decision about paying the contract extension until a new president is in place to give the ok. If its the latter, then they are just passing the buck and covering their behinds. If they really don't care about the football program, then they lamebrains, perhaps worse. How many nationally known politicians, scientists, writers, artists, and actors has UM produced in the last 50 years? Well, there is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson," but he played football at UM. Now, how many nationally known footballers has UM produced? Even a casual fan heard of Jim Kelly, Bernie Kosar, and Vinnie Testaverde. Ray Lewis is on TV every Sunday. Watch any football game, and remember that the NFL is THE most popular game in America today, and during the player introductions you will see men putting their thumbs together to form the [[_]]. Shalala and her ilk might dream of an Ivy League type school, but UM will forever be an A-B school for its student scholars. A few students get A grades, which will allow most of them to enter a B-level law or med school, and a tiny few to enter the best graduate schools. The rest of the so-called academic stars get B grades, which the best law and med schools disregard. Now, look at the football program. Those guys are there to learn a profession, and in the last 50 years UM has a stellar record in that regard. If you play at UM, the NFL wants you. At least that has been the case with decent coaches at the helm. These are young men often from low-income families and from dysfunctional high schools. Their chance in life is to dedicate themselves to football and excel at it. They don't have alumni parents who donate to the school, and therefore can demand enrollment and good grades. They don't have rich parents who pay exorbitant tuition and fees, and thus can march into the Dean's office and proclaim, "I'm not paying $40,000/year for Bs." They don't have the power to flirt with professors and maybe take "oral" exams for extra credit as means to earn As. Football is one of the few merit systems at universities, along with other sports, and that includes UM. The best players start, period. Time for the administration to get off its high horse and support football, with money and stern expectations for the coaching staff. Football was one of the stellar items at UM, despite media attacks against the Cane Swag. (That's another issue. Do you think the players at Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s were scholars who never caused trouble? Or, did color have something to do with their clean cut image?) Ignoring football at UM will devalue something that the school should be most proud of.
 
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Again, I ain't watching this mess. Have better things to do than watch this clown act every Saturday in the fall. We're winning four games max anyway.
 
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It's sickening to think we have 12 more months of this garbage.
 
If we didn't fire him this year I don't know why people are so confident he will be fired next year
 
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