We need this like a hole-in-the-head. I doubt that this is a legitimate school. I was skeptical when I read over the ASA website from the original Brooklyn campus. It's like a business-technical-computing "college",the type that used to teach shorthand and keypunch and typing and called itself a college. They would get all kinds of money from the govt for their crap courses, particularly for veterans. That's what this ASA looks like. Now, they somehow get themselves called a "junior college" or "community college" but I doubt that it's legit like Miami-Dade, not that M-D is a great academic institution, but it meets certain requirements. Now, this ASA probably manages to get themselves accredited somehow, but it's not like it should be called a real college. I'd be ashamed to go to a school like UM (or anywhere) and have a degree that represented, in part, credits transferred from a place like this. It's like the Champagnat of colleges.
You can all yell at me, and I'm sure there will be a lot of temptation to take all these marginal kids who pass through, and we'll see our competition load up on these kids, but I don't see this as any kind of positive development when the U is trying to go in the opposite direction and have good academics with outstanding football. It doesn't have to be a choice. We should be pushing for the competition to maintain standards, not lower them to accept kids who are being passed through simply to play football. By the way, I'm not a UM alum, but I would like to think college football has to reflect the lowest common denominator in academics. If that's what people want, maybe we should just drop the college and have the football team.