It's A Cane Thing
Last night I was hardly able to sleep. The U looks like it will be the poster boy for bad behavior in college football again. I am going to again invoke the famous saying down here. "It's a Canes thing". "You Don't Understand". Sadly I think too many people will now say it's a Canes thing and we do understand.
I'm an alumni of the University of Miami. I had season tickets for the football team for several years. I now only attend games sporadically. Getting around in big crowds is not worth the expense and effort these days. I still watch games intensely on TV or listen to games on the radio. I'm a fan, but not a "booster".
Lack of institutional control is a given based on the story written on the front page of MIAMI HERALD. This is not news among any of the major college football programs in the country. It's only news if the NCAA has to enforce the unenforceable because things have gotten out of hand and a competitor has ratted you out because they lost a prized recruit or one of your boosters gets in trouble in an egregious way and starts spilling his guts to get out of jail.
There is too much emphasis and money in College football all to the benefit of the NFL which pays its players. The major football programs in college rationalize spending millions as a recruiting tool to round out a good academic program. This has been the case in Miami for a long time. It is also a method to rally the alumni to give to the university. I made those calls before the job was given to students. Over the years the Athletic Alumni Group had a tool that Arts and Sciences lacked: ability to qualify for sideline seats at football games or basketball games.
This was exasperating when instead of a $100 for the library or an academic scholarship fund it went to the Canes Club. The standard answer was to thank the donor because all donations benefit the university.
A few years ago I was distraught because I thought the UM was so out of touch that it did not really care about its players except when they were murdered or were public relations problems. Then the graduation rate improved, but I guess even that has been window dressing because the commentators last night only expressed sympathy for Al Golden and the mess he was inheriting.
I'm an alumni of the University of Miami. I had season tickets for the football team for several years. I now only attend games sporadically. Getting around in big crowds is not worth the expense and effort these days. I still watch games intensely on TV or listen to games on the radio. I'm a fan, but not a "booster".
Lack of institutional control is a given based on the story written on the front page of MIAMI HERALD. This is not news among any of the major college football programs in the country. It's only news if the NCAA has to enforce the unenforceable because things have gotten out of hand and a competitor has ratted you out because they lost a prized recruit or one of your boosters gets in trouble in an egregious way and starts spilling his guts to get out of jail.
There is too much emphasis and money in College football all to the benefit of the NFL which pays its players. The major football programs in college rationalize spending millions as a recruiting tool to round out a good academic program. This has been the case in Miami for a long time. It is also a method to rally the alumni to give to the university. I made those calls before the job was given to students. Over the years the Athletic Alumni Group had a tool that Arts and Sciences lacked: ability to qualify for sideline seats at football games or basketball games.
This was exasperating when instead of a $100 for the library or an academic scholarship fund it went to the Canes Club. The standard answer was to thank the donor because all donations benefit the university.
A few years ago I was distraught because I thought the UM was so out of touch that it did not really care about its players except when they were murdered or were public relations problems. Then the graduation rate improved, but I guess even that has been window dressing because the commentators last night only expressed sympathy for Al Golden and the mess he was inheriting.
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