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Shalala actually turned the Wisconsin program around

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Shalala is not responsible for Wisconsin's success. The only thing she did that is noteworthy at Wisconsin is convincing the school to adopt a speech code that was literally found unconstitutional by federal judges after she left.

Under her at Miami the Momentum movements have brought in a lot of money. At the same time she has destroyed Miami's funds with her U Health obsession and terrible vision in the program. She has tried rebranding a "New Miami" which has turned out to mean hiring as cheap as you can as a power school and get what you pay for. She has been right in the middle of some of the biggest scams throughout all colleges and has come out clean every time somehow.

The only thing Shalala has done that is worthy of praise is the Momentum programs. After that, she's messed up over and over again. She's a lot like Al Golden. He beat Florida, but everything else has been terrible, and that Florida team also lost to Georgia Southern. She's brought in a lot of money, she's also cost UM and the city of Miami a lot of money too.
 
I tell you one thing, if Donna had her way and brought in Alvarez in '01, we certainly wouldn't have fell off the map like we have.
 
nystateofmind said:
I tell you one thing, if Donna had her way and brought in Alvarez in '01, we certainly wouldn't have fell off the map like we have.
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Why? Barry might have done exactly what Al has done. Insist on big fat Big 10 offense and defense despite the totally different talent base and program dna. WI is exactly what Al wants Miami to be. How has that worked out?
 
Alverz doesn't win the title in 01. For all his problems, clappy did us proud by not ******** up.
 
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Alvarez would have wanted to put his own stamp on the program and would have screwed it up. I don't remember which coaches were available at that time but it wasn't guaranteed we would have won in 2001 with a different coach. The Coker continuity helped in the short term but hurt in the long term.
 
NVA CANE;2115107[B said:
]Alvarez would have wanted to put his own stamp on the program[/B] and would have screwed it up. I don't remember which coaches were available at that time but it wasn't guaranteed we would have won in 2001 with a different coach. The Coker continuity helped in the short term but hurt in the long term.
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That would have been a problem with most coaches I think. How many of them would have accepted the leadership of the senior players when they needed to establish their authority as the coach? Or the playing style that we were so good at? Not many I think.
 
I don't like what she's done with football, but she would have still had to swallow her pride at the end of the day and signed off on Coker. I doubt she would've really known the X's and O's part of it so she had to of taken a back seat and listened to Dee. That's commendable
 
BoroCane83 said:
Don't forget she also led Jennifer Connolly through the Labyrinth.
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LMAO

labyrinth troll.webp
 
GoldenShowertheGators said:
I don't like what she's done with football, but she would have still had to swallow her pride at the end of the day and signed off on Coker. I doubt she would've really known the X's and O's part of it so she had to of taken a back seat and listened to Dee. That's commendable
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Hiring Coker wasn't that bad considering everything, It was keeping after year 3 and then extending him later. Didn't he lose 2 games with a team that had 6 1st round draft picks that year? Should have fired him before the second round started. Six first round picks and you lose 2 games? One fourth of an NFL starting team goes in 1st round and you lose 2 games. That should have been enough.
 
It will never be accepted here, but Shalala deserves as much credit as anyone for making Wisconsin not only relevant, but a Top 20 program.

She ****ed up 3 straight hires here. That is her issue.
 
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