Maybe they’re waiting for a less corrupt, violent, and generally disgusting program with which to affiliate themselves. UD finds it strange that local booster-journalists think everyone will come out to celebrate morally despicable teams. Because, you know, often they won’t.
October 29th, 2013 at 11:39PM
Talk about despicable. Nevin Shapiro, the fellow who ran a nearly $1 billion ponzi scheme, in which some of that money was lavished not only on the Miami athletic program, but the academic side as well, has said openly that he gambled on the games. Just to do a belated preface, the guy who was the Svengali of the U of Miami athletic department, who paid for hookers, blow, cars, anything and everything for both players and coaches, admitted that he gambled on Miami games. The worst thing that can happen to an college athletic program is to have a known gambler having any influence on the program and school itself.
Given all that, what does the NCAA do in order to clean up that mess? They take away a few scholarships, but don’t impose a bowl nor tv ban. One of the worst instances of athletic corruption, and the 2A can do nothing more than make it harder for them to be competitive. This is magnitudes worse than the Reggie Bush fiasco at USC. That involved a player receiving some money from an agent. Miami athletics took money from a scam artist, who stole the life savings of many of his clients, and who, by the way, gave millions to the academic side as well. The entire institution benefited from a major crime, in which the con is serving nearly 25 years. Who also admits to gambling on the team.
Given the terrible economy in FL, maybe the alumni/student body has fallen out of love with their team. They never really had that much fan support down in Miami, it’s gotten worse as the institutional corruption becomes apparent.