…and has that ever paid off. Scenes from their most recent game.
There was booing …from the sparse crowd even before the first quarter ended, and the stands – where some fights broke out – were largely empty by the midpoint of the third quarter.
Miami, playing in an empty stadium, was held to 146 total yards and just six first downs. The 58-point loss was the worst in Miami’s history, surpassing a 70-14 loss to Texas A&M in 1944.
UM’s athletic director, surveying this empty stadium, blithely reminded everyone to “make sure we continue to support our team.”
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Yeah, it’s all gonna be okay. Maybe we’ll get a new coach.
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Miami’s AD doesn’t understand that if you want people to go to your games, you shouldn’t make them puke forever.
October 27th, 2015 at 12:22AM
To add to the nausea, Nevin Shapiro, the former rainmaker for U of Miami’s athletic department and academic side, is in prison for running a near $1 billion ponzi scheme. He came by it honestly, his step dad also served time for doing much the same thing. Nevin’s girlfriend also was implicated in a massive rip off of her own.
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/nevin-shapiro-is-the...
Donna Shalala, the U of M pres during much of the Shapiro era, was a former Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration. How is it possible that Donna couldn’t have picked up the phone, called whatever government contact she had available, and asked if they had anything on a guy who was getting on really famously with her AD? That’s seems to have been the least she could have done, given all the scandal and corruption that had taken place at The U prior to her arrival. If she, or any of the other admins employed at the school, had done the very minimum, they would have realized that a swindler’s stepson was dumping millions on her uni. I don’t know if the folks running U of M, including Shalala, were math majors. But it wouldn’t have taken that much to have figured where Nevin was getting his money. If anyone believes The U’s official narrative, then they’re too stupid to be anywhere near a university….
October 29th, 2015 at 11:36AM
Keep in mind that Shalala was a major league jock-sniffer from her Wisconsin days, so during her Miami gig, she was just running true to form. Corrupt as all get-out, which was undoubtedly her primary attraction to Bill and Hill.