The troll, trolls.......

[Canesfan1899]

I can't wait for her to be gone.

 

[MGreen26]

How is everyone glossing over the sun life comments? She now says sun life is not a viable option yet she pushed the move from the ob and signed a long term lease with sun life. She is essentially saying that she knowingly placed the football program in a self defeating situation with no exit strategy and now wants to comment on Al Golden's abilities and the time frame necessary to build a championship team. Is she for serious?

She never "pushed the move from the OB." She pushed renovations for the OB, and made a deal with the city for said renovations. The city officials reneged on the deal, which meant that UM had no choice but to move. Not Shalala's fault.

She made the best of it with the Sun Life deal, which was much better financially than the deal we had at the OB.

Do you just make stuff up as you go along?

Here is Donna's statement:
August 21, 2007
To the University Community:

We have an extraordinary history and tradition at the Orange Bowl: The players running through the smoke tunnel. “Touchdown Tommy” and his cannon. The Ring of Honor. An incredible winning streak of 58 consecutive home wins. And three of our five national championships were won on that field. I love the Orange Bowl—we all do!

As many of you are aware, the University has been working closely with the City of Miami to assess the feasibility of making much-needed renovations to the Orange Bowl. It has long been our goal to have a first-class football stadium.

The City of Miami has been a wonderful partner with us at the Orange Bowl for many years, and they understand how hard we have wrestled with a very difficult decision. Mayor Manny Diaz has been heroic in his efforts to meet our future needs. After much thought, analysis, and discussions with many, many of our trustees, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and fans, we have concluded that we must move our football games to a better facility. The more than $200 million in renovations that the city has proposed would only provide basic and mostly infrastructural upgrades. A part of those funds are not in hand and may or may not be determined until after the proposed construction would be well underway. Overall, the renovations clearly would not address the long-term needs of our athletes and our fans.

The Orange Bowl chapter of our history—in which we can all take great pride—will never close, and we are confident that the legacy of Miami Hurricanes football will live on and thrive as we move to a new location. After an assessment of all options available to us, we have decided reluctantly and painfully to move to Dolphin Stadium for the 2008 season.

Dolphin Stadium is one of the premier football stadiums in the country. At our new home, our student-athletes will have the opportunity to compete in a first-class facility that plays host to the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, the FedEx Orange Bowl, BCS National Championship Game, and that has been the site of recent and upcoming Super Bowls.

Our fans will experience outstanding amenities including one of the world’s largest plasma TV displays, high-definition video boards, club seating and suites, chairbacks on every stadium seat, approximately 14,000 parking spaces, and a large variety of concessions and restaurants.

The end zones will be redone so that our shared home will reflect both Miami teams’ pride. The Dolphins are actively pursuing a corporate sponsor so that by 2010 the stadium will have a neutral name.

I want to assure all members of our University community—students, faculty, staff, alumni, trustees, donors, friends—and the tens of thousands of fans who regularly cheer us on, that we looked exhaustively into every aspect of the choices in front of us, and that your needs figured prominently in our final decision. The quality of your experience at our games is of the utmost importance to us.

As always, we would like to hear from you. Please contact us at an e-mail address we have established for your comments: umfootball@miami.edu. If you have any further questions, please go to the Official Athletic Department Web site at hurricanesports.com or call 1-800-GO-CANES.

Thank you, and Go ’Canes!

Sincerely,
Donna E. Shalala

 

[TriStarCane]

I think we have been patient enough. 12 years is a long ******* time.

 

[CaneInHeelCountry]

How is everyone glossing over the sun life comments? She now says sun life is not a viable option yet she pushed the move from the ob and signed a long term lease with sun life. She is essentially saying that she knowingly placed the football program in a self defeating situation with no exit strategy and now wants to comment on Al Golden's abilities and the time frame necessary to build a championship team. Is she for serious?

She never "pushed the move from the OB." She pushed renovations for the OB, and made a deal with the city for said renovations. The city officials reneged on the deal, which meant that UM had no choice but to move. Not Shalala's fault.

She made the best of it with the Sun Life deal, which was much better financially than the deal we had at the OB.

Do you just make stuff up as you go along?

Here is Donna's statement:
August 21, 2007
To the University Community:

We have an extraordinary history and tradition at the Orange Bowl: The players running through the smoke tunnel. “Touchdown Tommy” and his cannon. The Ring of Honor. An incredible winning streak of 58 consecutive home wins. And three of our five national championships were won on that field. I love the Orange Bowl—we all do!

As many of you are aware, the University has been working closely with the City of Miami to assess the feasibility of making much-needed renovations to the Orange Bowl. It has long been our goal to have a first-class football stadium.

The City of Miami has been a wonderful partner with us at the Orange Bowl for many years, and they understand how hard we have wrestled with a very difficult decision. Mayor Manny Diaz has been heroic in his efforts to meet our future needs. After much thought, analysis, and discussions with many, many of our trustees, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and fans, we have concluded that we must move our football games to a better facility. The more than $200 million in renovations that the city has proposed would only provide basic and mostly infrastructural upgrades. A part of those funds are not in hand and may or may not be determined until after the proposed construction would be well underway. Overall, the renovations clearly would not address the long-term needs of our athletes and our fans.

The Orange Bowl chapter of our history—in which we can all take great pride—will never close, and we are confident that the legacy of Miami Hurricanes football will live on and thrive as we move to a new location. After an assessment of all options available to us, we have decided reluctantly and painfully to move to Dolphin Stadium for the 2008 season.

Dolphin Stadium is one of the premier football stadiums in the country. At our new home, our student-athletes will have the opportunity to compete in a first-class facility that plays host to the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, the FedEx Orange Bowl, BCS National Championship Game, and that has been the site of recent and upcoming Super Bowls.

Our fans will experience outstanding amenities including one of the world’s largest plasma TV displays, high-definition video boards, club seating and suites, chairbacks on every stadium seat, approximately 14,000 parking spaces, and a large variety of concessions and restaurants.

The end zones will be redone so that our shared home will reflect both Miami teams’ pride. The Dolphins are actively pursuing a corporate sponsor so that by 2010 the stadium will have a neutral name.

I want to assure all members of our University community—students, faculty, staff, alumni, trustees, donors, friends—and the tens of thousands of fans who regularly cheer us on, that we looked exhaustively into every aspect of the choices in front of us, and that your needs figured prominently in our final decision. The quality of your experience at our games is of the utmost importance to us.

As always, we would like to hear from you. Please contact us at an e-mail address we have established for your comments: umfootball@miami.edu. If you have any further questions, please go to the Official Athletic Department Web site at hurricanesports.com or call 1-800-GO-CANES.

Thank you, and Go ’Canes!

Sincerely,
Donna E. Shalala

Right.


That statement was AFTER the deal with the city had fallen through and the only option was to go to SunLife.

She can't **** on the city of Miami leadership if she ever hopes for UM to have any goodwill with the city ever again. And she has to package the move to the new stadium as the best option, because it is...in fact, it's the only option.

 

[CaneInHeelCountry]

How is everyone glossing over the sun life comments? She now says sun life is not a viable option yet she pushed the move from the ob and signed a long term lease with sun life. She is essentially saying that she knowingly placed the football program in a self defeating situation with no exit strategy and now wants to comment on Al Golden's abilities and the time frame necessary to build a championship team. Is she for serious?

She never "pushed the move from the OB." She pushed renovations for the OB, and made a deal with the city for said renovations. The city officials reneged on the deal, which meant that UM had no choice but to move. Not Shalala's fault.

She made the best of it with the Sun Life deal, which was much better financially than the deal we had at the OB.

Do you just make stuff up as you go along?

Do you remember the deal UM entered into with the city for a renovated OB side-by-side with Marlin's stadium? UM was supposed to kick in about 50 mil, IIRC. That deal fell through because the city leaders wanted to make the Marlins the focus. They basically changed plans several times, asking UM to kick in more and more money and simultaneously lowering the proposed amount of revenue UM would reap...which ultimately made it financially unfeasible for UM. They were purposefully trying to kick UM out--and it worked.

 

[Gatorhater]

How is everyone glossing over the sun life comments? She now says sun life is not a viable option yet she pushed the move from the ob and signed a long term lease with sun life. She is essentially saying that she knowingly placed the football program in a self defeating situation with no exit strategy and now wants to comment on Al Golden's abilities and the time frame necessary to build a championship team. Is she for serious?

She never "pushed the move from the OB." She pushed renovations for the OB, and made a deal with the city for said renovations. The city officials reneged on the deal, which meant that UM had no choice but to move. Not Shalala's fault.

She made the best of it with the Sun Life deal, which was much better financially than the deal we had at the OB.

Compare and contrast please with USC administration, a small private urban university in similar city with comparable history, and see how scum Donna measures up. We get wrecking ball: they get 100 year lease on historic stadium. She was the only person in position to do something about it and supposedly some sort of wunder woman but in truth she is a failure. Buck stops at the top so of course it is her fault. Results are what matters and hers suck. Sadly, the worst is yet to come from the end results of her overprice, over-leveraged acquisitions which will probably make her football disaster look like a success in comparison.

 

[Gatorhater]

How is everyone glossing over the sun life comments? She now says sun life is not a viable option yet she pushed the move from the ob and signed a long term lease with sun life. She is essentially saying that she knowingly placed the football program in a self defeating situation with no exit strategy and now wants to comment on Al Golden's abilities and the time frame necessary to build a championship team. Is she for serious?

She never "pushed the move from the OB." She pushed renovations for the OB, and made a deal with the city for said renovations. The city officials reneged on the deal, which meant that UM had no choice but to move. Not Shalala's fault.

She made the best of it with the Sun Life deal, which was much better financially than the deal we had at the OB.

Do you just make stuff up as you go along?

Do you remember the deal UM entered into with the city for a renovated OB side-by-side with Marlin's stadium? UM was supposed to kick in about 50 mil, IIRC. That deal fell through because the city leaders wanted to make the Marlins the focus. They basically changed plans several times, asking UM to kick in more and more money and simultaneously lowering the proposed amount of revenue UM would reap...which ultimately made it financially unfeasible for UM. They were purposefully trying to kick UM out--and it worked.

So you are saying, your super hero Donna got out-slicked by a bunch of banana republic crooked politicians. She study under the slickest pair of crooked politicians in country's history and got out-shined by local yokels? Wow, not sure who thinks less of Donna the Destroyer, you or me.

 

[CaneInHeelCountry]

How is everyone glossing over the sun life comments? She now says sun life is not a viable option yet she pushed the move from the ob and signed a long term lease with sun life. She is essentially saying that she knowingly placed the football program in a self defeating situation with no exit strategy and now wants to comment on Al Golden's abilities and the time frame necessary to build a championship team. Is she for serious?

She never "pushed the move from the OB." She pushed renovations for the OB, and made a deal with the city for said renovations. The city officials reneged on the deal, which meant that UM had no choice but to move. Not Shalala's fault.

She made the best of it with the Sun Life deal, which was much better financially than the deal we had at the OB.

Compare and contrast please with USC administration, a small private urban university in similar city with comparable history, and see how scum Donna measures up. We get wrecking ball: they get 100 year lease on historic stadium. She was the only person in position to do something about it and supposedly some sort of wunder woman but in truth she is a failure. Buck stops at the top so of course it is her fault. Results are what matters and hers suck. Sadly, the worst is yet to come from the end results of her overprice, over-leveraged acquisitions which will probably make her football disaster look like a success in comparison.

What do you want to compare and contrast? Do you know how the city of LA approached business with USC, what deal they provided, how they handled negotiations, etc? Do you want to compare how much pull USC had to discuss renovations on a municipal stadium (the Colisseum) that sits directly across the street from USC's campus, versus how much pull UM has to discuss renovations on a municipal stadium that isn't even located in the same city as UM? If so, yes, let's compare and contrast with how city of Miami officials have dealt with UM since long before Donna arrived--which is to say, UM has never had much pull in Miami.

 

[CaneInHeelCountry]

How is everyone glossing over the sun life comments? She now says sun life is not a viable option yet she pushed the move from the ob and signed a long term lease with sun life. She is essentially saying that she knowingly placed the football program in a self defeating situation with no exit strategy and now wants to comment on Al Golden's abilities and the time frame necessary to build a championship team. Is she for serious?

She never "pushed the move from the OB." She pushed renovations for the OB, and made a deal with the city for said renovations. The city officials reneged on the deal, which meant that UM had no choice but to move. Not Shalala's fault.

She made the best of it with the Sun Life deal, which was much better financially than the deal we had at the OB.

Do you just make stuff up as you go along?

Do you remember the deal UM entered into with the city for a renovated OB side-by-side with Marlin's stadium? UM was supposed to kick in about 50 mil, IIRC. That deal fell through because the city leaders wanted to make the Marlins the focus. They basically changed plans several times, asking UM to kick in more and more money and simultaneously lowering the proposed amount of revenue UM would reap...which ultimately made it financially unfeasible for UM. They were purposefully trying to kick UM out--and it worked.

So you are saying, your super hero Donna got out-slicked by a bunch of banana republic crooked politicians. She study under the slickest pair of crooked politicians in country's history and got out-shined by local yokels? Wow, not sure who thinks less of Donna the Destroyer, you or me.

I'm saying that the deck was stacked against UM. It's silly to fault Donna for walking away from the OB when the city of Miami officials--you know, the people who actually own and manage the OB--were deadset on kicking UM out, bulldozing the OB, and making a shrine to the Marlins, all because it helped them line their own pockets.

 

[cane since birth]

Donnas last F U to the fans

 

[Republicane]

If I wanted to fabricate a quote from Shalala illustrating how out of touch and clueless she is/was, that's pretty much it right there. She's seriously still mentioning the cloud. It's almost beyond parody at this point. The sooner Don Julio shuts down the program the better.

 

[CaneInHeelCountry]

If I wanted to fabricate a quote from Shalala illustrating how out of touch and clueless she is/was, that's pretty much it right there. She's seriously still mentioning the cloud. It's almost beyond parody at this point.

More than fair point. She's delusional about Al.

 

[Republicane]

If I wanted to fabricate a quote from Shalala illustrating how out of touch and clueless she is/was, that's pretty much it right there. She's seriously still mentioning the cloud. It's almost beyond parody at this point.

More than fair point. She's delusional about Al.

I could almost respect it if she were sticking to her guns because of some burning desire to see Miami succeed and deep down inside she thought he was the guy to lead Miami back to dominance. Instead she's pleading for him to be given more than half a decade in the hopes he'll do something just so she can say, "Well, I mean he didn't suck complete ****."

 

[uprising]

unfortunately this was the case. every Dade county resident knew this.

[QUOnTE=CaneInHeelCountry;2217322]

She never "pushed the move from the OB." She pushed renovations for the OB, and made a deal with the city for said renovations. The city officials reneged on the deal, which meant that UM had no choice but to move. Not Shalala's fault.

She made the best of it with the Sun Life deal, which was much better financially than the deal we had at the OB.

Do you just make stuff up as you go along?

Do you remember the deal UM entered into with the city for a renovated OB side-by-side with Marlin's stadium? UM was supposed to kick in about 50 mil, IIRC. That deal fell through because the city leaders wanted to make the Marlins the focus. They basically changed plans several times, asking UM to kick in more and more money and simultaneously lowering the proposed amount of revenue UM would reap...which ultimately made it financially unfeasible for UM. They were purposefully trying to kick UM out--and it worked.

So you are saying, your super hero Donna got out-slicked by a bunch of banana republic crooked politicians. She study under the slickest pair of crooked politicians in country's history and got out-shined by local yokels? Wow, not sure who thinks less of Donna the Destroyer, you or me.

I'm saying that the deck was stacked against UM. It's silly to fault Donna for walking away from the OB when the city of Miami officials--you know, the people who actually own and manage the OB--were deadset on kicking UM out, bulldozing the OB, and making a shrine to the Marlins, all because it helped them line their own pockets.[/QUOTE]

 

[duke4heisman]

unfortunately this was case. every Dade county resident knew this.

Do you just make stuff up as you go along?

Do you remember the deal UM entered into with the city for a renovated OB side-by-side with Marlin's stadium? UM was supposed to kick in about 50 mil, IIRC. That deal fell through because the city leaders wanted to make the Marlins the focus. They basically changed plans several times, asking UM to kick in more and more money and simultaneously lowering the proposed amount of revenue UM would reap...which ultimately made it financially unfeasible for UM. They were purposefully trying to kick UM out--and it worked.

So you are saying, your super hero Donna got out-slicked by a bunch of banana republic crooked politicians. She study under the slickest pair of crooked politicians in country's history and got out-shined by local yokels? Wow, not sure who thinks less of Donna the Destroyer, you or me.

I'm saying that the deck was stacked against UM. It's silly to fault Donna for walking away from the OB when the city of Miami officials--you know, the people who actually own and manage the OB--were deadset on kicking UM out, bulldozing the OB, and making a shrine to the Marlins, all because it helped them line their own pockets.

Donna.....GTFO
Dr. Frenk....BRING BACK BUTCH

 

[mirednmediocrity2]

LOL at "he has integrity." The same guy that milked the university for an unearned contract extension based on the false notion that he was completely blindsided by the NCAA investigation. Same guy that refuses to hold himself or his New Jersey buddies accountable for their failures. Same guy that has thrown multiple players, his offensive coordinator, the fans, the school, the facilities all under the bus to excuse his own failures. The guy that refuses to fire a defensive coordinator that fielded the worst defense in canes history.

Yep lots of integrity.

INTEGRITY does NOT run off to PA to seek a job while not letting ANYONE know what's going on. Am convinced that little episode cost us a few recruits. INTEGRITY wants to be here, which I'm convinced Golden does not. He just wants his **** check because he KNOWS he'll be a lifetime coordinator or D2 coach after this abomination. He'll do as little as possible until SOMEONE (El Presidente?) kicks him out.

 

[supacane]

Man I'd punch the fat bich in her nogging if I was there. Gtfoh. Bye O

 

[bigpurk45]

Ohio st didnt take forever to build

 

[CaneInHeelCountry]

Man I'd punch the fat bich in her nogging if I was there. Gtfoh. Bye O

I'm sure you would, chief.

 

[Jedi Master Cane]

How is everyone glossing over the sun life comments? She now says sun life is not a viable option yet she pushed the move from the ob and signed a long term lease with sun life. She is essentially saying that she knowingly placed the football program in a self defeating situation with no exit strategy and now wants to comment on Al Golden's abilities and the time frame necessary to build a championship team. Is she for serious?

She never "pushed the move from the OB." She pushed renovations for the OB, and made a deal with the city for said renovations. The city officials reneged on the deal, which meant that UM had no choice but to move. Not Shalala's fault.

She made the best of it with the Sun Life deal, which was much better financially than the deal we had at the OB.

Proof that admins and their family members visit these boards.