Thats the same thing I was thinking. He worked under Randy Shannon.
No college degree. No job.
Didn't stop Handy Randy from hiring him...
I'm pretty sure Randy hired him, then realized he didn't have a degree and therefore couldn't qualify to be a coach, so they made him a community liaison.
He wasn't allowed to coach or recruit, as that responsibility is reserved for.......,coaches.
Your coaches are supposed to be leaders and educators.
How can a coach impress upon a player the importance of his academic responsibilities if he failed in that endeavor?
"Why should I go to class coach, you never did?"[/QUOTE]
LOOK smart ***......
U can just check the records of kids at BTW since he's been coach.....its the reason i respected him evern BEFORE btw were winning state games,e tc.......dude doesnt even let kids play unless there getting a 2.5...he's a disciplinarian as far as school, class attendance..His own kids were academic scholars @ um.
Stop spouting off about ish u dont know,.....
BTW is located in THE WORST area in the city of miami...yet almost allll of their football prospects qualify year in year out...thats a feat....and even the herald wrote an article about it a few years back......ever since then i had respect for Ice.
I went to BTW back when it was an elementary school in the late 70's. I'm assuming it is the same school. Moved from Toronto to Palm Island and, for some reason that is where I and my 2 brothers were told to go to school.
I know it's a tough area. It's a lot tougher area if you had to walk there from Palm Island as one of only 3 Japanese/Canadian kids in the school.
The question is why Harris can't be a coach at Miami and the answer is that he's not qualified.
Is he even a teacher at BTW? Without a degree I hear it's tough to get a teaching certificate anywhere in America.
You think he's the reason kids qualify out of BTW?
Sell that somewhere else.
The vast majority of recruits qualify all across the country and the reason for that is that the qualifications are not that difficult.
You have to be an average student to qualify with a below average test score.
The ones who don't qualify are the exception, and the reason is because of a lack of average effort or a lack of average innate intelligence.
The NCAA is not asking for superior academic achievement.
They just won't allow the bottom of the barrel to take advantage of the system.
If you are going to laud anyone for BTW's success at getting athletes qualified for athletic scholarships look to the teachers who are doing an outstanding job.