If you listen to UM officials, the nation gloats while the U twists in the wind.
“…[I]t pains me tremendously to see such sensational stories and headlines,” former athletic director Paul Dee is quoted in the Miami Herald. “UM is getting creamed again, and everyone around the country loves it.”
But the reason UM is getting creamed again and others gloat is that its football program is in scandal again, as it has been over and over. A fine academic center has developed as its national face not medical giants or scientific powerhouses but a football bad boy on steroids.
The athletic program over the years has been sanctioned three times. That’s ample reason for bad repute…
August 24th, 2011 at 2:07PM
There’s a joke to the effect that a Ukrainian rubs a magic lamp and the genie grants him three wishes, where one of the wishes is that the neighbor’s cow dies. Something like that seems afoot in Miami’s response.
August 27th, 2011 at 11:54AM
Dee is not currently a U of Miami official. Any PR he’s doing is on his own behalf not the University, so it’s not really fair to assume that Dee’s interview represents Miami’s position. The University has suspended several of the players allegedly involved, and only the NCAA can reinstate them.
Anyway, the statement is by and large true among those who follow college football and aren’t Miami fans