OG Cane,
Did you notice there were a lot of things I actually agreed with you in the conference realignment thread? Seriously, I didn’t mean any disrespect with the questions I asked. I apologize if it came off this way. My opinion regarding college degrees extends to all universities, not just Miami. You might not know this, but a lot of colleges attendees feel this way after they graduate college, their degrees not being worth the $60-$80k they spent on them. The job market is very tough for newcomers with a degree and lots of people are in debt, and they don’t feel like they’ve been giving the tools to succeed in a real world job.
I studied Kinesiology and spent a lot of time doing lab work at the Hecht, and I’d frequently see the head of S&C at the time (Andrew Swasey) working out the football team. My real world job? Logistics for a manufacturing company. And I had to take a lot of entry level jobs to get where I am today. I know some people, actually a lot of people, with degrees from prestigious universities and they struggle to find work 10 years later. This is kind of where those comments came from. I apologize if you took it the wrong way.
Look, I said it earlier. It is not whether you "agree" or "disagree". Regardless of your perception, I didn't take issue with your VIEWPOINT. You are entitled to your own opinions on things.
The issue is, was, and always will be...whether you respect what others bring in the way of information, or do you turn around and **** on the things that others say merely because you don't like it or agree with it.
The conference realignment thread is over 200 pages long. The thread has lasted for months. There have been many things posted, many news articles referenced, many insider things shared. If you don't want to invest the time to read all 200+ pages, fine. But...also...don't think that someone has a pre-set post to provide when a Johnny-come-lately like yourself demands "corroboration" of things that have been discussed for months.
I won't belabor this, but we have many MANY posters who have significant contacts with UM, as both alums and boosters. There are quite a few people who ARE knowledgeable about what is going on within UM and the Athletic Department. Many people try to HINT at what's happening, so as not to give too much away in terms of facts and information that were shared in confidence. I understand SOME of your confusion and frustration. TO YOU, the things that some people say are just "opinions". Except...they are NOT opinions. They might be unofficial "predictions", but they are not based on uninformed OPINIONS, and are instead based on what is being shared by people high up within UM.
Maybe you haven't been around long enough to understand this perspective, but the board SHOULD BE a place where people with...stronger connections...to UM insider-information can SHARE that information (for free) with people who also love UM sports and are not as blessed to have access to that insider information...
But if overly-sensitive "I'm just asking questions" posters like yourself continue to shade your "questions" with passive-aggressive insults and comments that falsely dismiss the information shared by better-connected posters, it degrades the level of conversation. It leads to situations where people DO NOT WANT TO SHARE INFORMATION because there are so many people such as yourself who will take a dump on valid information. As if the sportswriters somehow "know more" (and it has been proven over and over again that the sportswriters are NOT more knowledgeable).
I appreciate the fact that you have continued in a career path that was not a direct extension of your degree. But you can probably agree that you may not have even had those opportunities IF YOU ONLY HAD A HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE. Regardless of subject matter or major, a college degree is seen as a distinction of education and learning, as well as maturity and the ability to complete a goal. Nobody expects every single college major to be working in a job that is 100% related to the college major itself. But the college degree has value, even if it is overpriced.
We also don't have a ton of white-collar jobs that only require a high school degree. I didn't invent that system, I'm just observing it.
Feel free to criticize. But if every post is partially or wholly negative, it becomes corrosive. You want to know why people suspect you to be a troll? Because you are on a website that is INTENDED for Miami fans (short for fanatics) who should love the UM teams, not hate them. And you profess to be a UM alum, so it's not crazy to anticipate that you have some affinity and support for your school and some awareness of its major organizations and traditions (such as the highest honor attainable at UM).
