Your as dialed in as anyone so I hope you’re right.
I just PM'd one of the other well-known/well-connected posters on this thread, we just have to be honest and focus on the right issues.
The UM BOT is too large. Over half of the BOT are not UM alums, they are only on the Board due to them living in SoFla and wanting to put their names on buildings. ****, I'll even give credit to A-Rod, he WOULD HAVE BEEN a UM alum if he hadn't been drafted so high.
The reality is that almost nobody on our BOT got the job because of some special knowledge or affinity for sports. People should about "the BOT doesn't care", but the truth is that they care a little bit WHILE HAVING NO INFORMED OR EXPERT IDEA ON WHAT TO DO NEXT.
If you hire, sayt, a very talented hair stylist to be the CEO of a tech company...you might not get the best results. That shouldn't be surprising.
The BOT knows that a problem exists. We need to keep up the pressure on the BOT to make sure they know this is not just some temporary fan-insanity over losing one game. But that doesn't mean that any of them have any genius insight into who to hire next. That is why any action, if it happens in the next few weeks, will likely be driven by a small-but-vocal minority of the BOT.
I've been posting the same core principles for years, you can go back and find my posts. The BOT is too large. We need to create a BOT sub-committee to handle Athletics, 60% can be Trustees, but the other 40% should be former players FROM ALL SPORTS (preferably UM-SHOF members). Beta Blake has spent far too long cultivating big UM donors and premium ticket-holders and has filled the department with people loyal to him. Nearly everyone in the administration of Athletic Department needs to be fired (it can be phased in over the next 8 months). Maybe Alonzo will succeed, maybe he will fail, but he cares, he is passionate, and he is more qualified than most. Maybe Mario will succeed, maybe he will fail, but he cares, he is passionate, and he can recruit like a ****.
I try not to go overboard in any direction. I may not like every UM Athletics hiree on Day 1, but I give them all a fair shot, and I root for my alma mater to succeed each and every year. But when I am DONE with a coach or an AD, I am really, really done. It's over. Move on.
I hope the interested and KNOWLEDGEABLE members of the BOT can carry the day and summon the will to fire Beta Blake first, and then Manny once we have made enough back-channel connections to know that someone is ready to accept the challenge.
GO CANES!
