Everyone keeps whining about being "tired of this"—it's been two years since Miami had money and Mario got on board.
This program spent 2001 to 2016 with Donna Shalala controlling the purse strings and 2016 through 2021 with Frenk hands off, but Miami still suffering through poor leadership with Blake James and a broke, egotistical board of trustees.
The calvary didn't arrive until two years ago this month. Prior to that, Shalala had a kill-what-you-eat approach to athletics and saw football as necessary evil. As long as the Canes stayed out of the police blotter, she was satisfied.
The move to the ACC... the switch from Nike to adidas—two low-rent moves to help the program pay the bill, with TV and apparel money—as the program wasn't getting money any other way.... which is how you wind up with a first-timer in Randy Shannon to replace Larry Coker, or have to get sold on up-and-comer Al Golden to replace Shannon—Miami waiting a full decade on those two coaches (and Coker's 2006 mulligan).
RIcht was hired on Frenk's watch, while James and the BOT brought in the over-the-hill, big named coach—and when he punted after three years, back to old garbage ways of hiring Manny Diaz back from Temple—which was essentially another promotion from within like Shannon.
Miami got shamed on national TV by Kirk Herbstreit in September 2021 and that got the ball rolling to get Mario on board, while massive U Health profits were funneled into football and athletics.
Fans are understandably "tired" of losing—but comparing 2022-2023 to what was witnessed between roughly 2005 and 2021 is night and day regarding infrastructure and money.
Let's see what this thing looks like a year or two from now—but whining over a meaningless bowl loss to Rutgers, who started everybody but one cornerback—while Miami was completely depleted and down a dozen key guys.... cmon now.
