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Given UM's "demographics," resources and league affiliation, the emphasis should be on basketball, not football. If they were smart. Think it will be that way in a no more than a decade.
 
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Again, show me the day Miami fans financially support this program the way alumni from state schools break out the checkbooks in droves—and you'll see an administration forced to build a football factory and winner.

Georgia just dumped $200,000,000 into their program—year two after Kirby was hired; losing a national championship and an SEC title—as they're way to get a competitive advantage on Alabama. Recruiting budget was raised to $7M annually; most in the nation now — and much of this is being DRIVEN by alumni dollars.

They signed up, 1,100+ new members to their Magill Society in 2018; each member on the hook for AT LEAST $25K—totaling $27,500,000 minimum.

Miami barely has a stadium 2/3 full and has fans threatening to boycott games, while running GoFundMe campaigns to fly dumb banners.

Y'all keep arguing in circles here, but never address the fact that as a private school with a small alumni base and fan base mostly made up of people who didn't attend UM, you simply don't get the financial support and backing the way you do those who are the alum of a university.

Most fans follow the Canes like a pro sports franchise and just check out / put their interests elsewhere when the team is garbage—whereas alum of these football factories have power in money and monster donations that will sway the direction things go.

No, Miami isn't hat-in-hand and a poor program—but there is a massive difference between state schools with 40K undergrads every year and massive alumni basis that donate money, versus a private school with about 12K undergrads, in a diverse, metropolitan city / non-college town. Night and day.

The admin will "care" when more people stop shouting on message boards and actually do something with their wallets.
 
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hotshot said:
Given UM's "demographics," resources and league affiliation, the emphasis should be on basketball, not football. If they were smart. Think it will be that way in a no more than a decade.
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Except they have been trying to be a basketball school for a decade and it has also failed. You cant just up and “become” an elite basketball program. There’s no tradition here, and unlike football we dont have this endless source of talent in our backyard. The whole “lets transition from football to basketball” is another of the egregious errors in judgement our moronic BOT made.
 
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TheOldU2002 said:
Except they have been trying to be a basketball school for a decade and it has also failed. You cant just up and “become” an elite basketball program. There’s no tradition here, and unlike football we dont have this endless source of talent in our backyard. The whole “lets transition from football to basketball” is another of the egregious errors in judgement our moronic BOT made.
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Oh yes, you can. And the beauty is it only takes 6-7 really good players -- a drop in the bucket compared to football costs.

As far as the "endless supply of South Florida football talent," I'm no longer seeing it (and haven't been for years now). Not just talking about at Miami.
 
If we were trying to be a basketball school, signing with Adidas is about the worst thing you could do as the Nike mafia runs the AAU, the Chicago Syndicate has nothing on those intertwined organizations. Not criticizing us for taking Adidas money, I get Nike was ignoring us and giving us **** uniforms, but the greater point is it seems hard to be a basketball school if you aren’t set up by the AAU and NIke and sir Jordan. Seems hard to recruit against those two elements. Just my two cents.
 
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Again, show me the day Miami fans financially support this program the way alumni from state schools break out the checkbooks in droves—and you'll see an administration forced to build a football factory and winner.

Georgia just dumped $200,000,000 into their program—year two after Kirby was hired; losing a national championship and an SEC title—as they're way to get a competitive advantage on Alabama. Recruiting budget was raised to $7M annually; most in the nation now — and much of this is being DRIVEN by alumni dollars.

They signed up, 1,100+ new members to their Magill Society in 2018; each member on the hook for AT LEAST $25K—totaling $27,500,000 minimum.

Miami barely has a stadium 2/3 full and has fans threatening to boycott games, while running GoFundMe campaigns to fly dumb banners.

Y'all keep arguing in circles here, but never address the fact that as a private school with a small alumni base and fan base mostly made up of people who didn't attend UM, you simply don't get the financial support and backing the way you do those who are the alum of a university.

Most fans follow the Canes like a pro sports franchise and just check out / put their interests elsewhere when the team is garbage—whereas alum of these football factories have power in money and monster donations that will sway the direction things go.

No, Miami isn't hat-in-hand and a poor program—but there is a massive difference between state schools with 40K undergrads every year and massive alumni basis that donate money, versus a private school with about 12K undergrads, in a diverse, metropolitan city / non-college town. Night and day.

The admin will "care" when more people stop shouting on message boards and actually do something with their wallets.
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Then why has Wake and Northwestern been consistently better than Miami since Miami joined the ACC?
 
Fire the coach is just a very small step in POSSIBLY fixing the program. Firing James is a larger step.

Firing the entire administration is the ONLY step to putting Miami back in contention.
 
DomWorld_Peace said:
Then why has Wake and Northwestern been consistently better than Miami since Miami joined the ACC?
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They haven't. Wake has had one good season. Miami has been consistently mid-tier with one coastal win.

Northwestern the same. Those are actually very good comparisons for Miami though. I feel Miami is on par with both of those programs. Thats who we are now...
 
CaneDogX said:
They haven't. Wake has had one good season. Miami has been consistently mid-tier with one coastal win.

Northwestern the same. Those are actually very good comparisons for Miami though. I feel Miami is on par with both of those programs. Thats who we are now...
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I'd be Northwestern. 3 straight bowl wins lol
 
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