Canes Update
I’ve been busy recently, sorry for the lack of updates.
Some big news for the Canes
Despite recent struggles on the road, the Canes have ascended to #2 in the nation in College Basketball. An ugly defensive showing in FSU’s house almost lead to an upset, and awful offense in Little John led to a narrow Miami W against Clemson. Miami returns home for a bit, where they (hopefully) will get back to full health and energy.
New TE coach/Assistant Head Coach, Mario Cristobal, is gone, after only a month. He left to take the OL job at Bama, and he will serve as an Assistant Head Coach their. This was probably a recruiting move made by Bama, Cristobal knows South Florida inside out.
Mario Cristobal appeared to have FIU uprising until a surprising 3-9 season
More news on the Miami-NCAA mess. If you’ve been trying to keep up with the NCAA’s investigation of itself, today they announced these findings:
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- Knowingly circumvented legal advice to engage Nevin Shapiro’s criminal defense attorney.
- Violated the internal NCAA policy of legal counsel only being retained and monitored by the legal staff.
- Paid insufficient attention to the concern that engaging the criminal defense attorney could constitute an inappropriate manipulation of the bankruptcy process.
- Did not sufficiently consider the membership’s understanding about the limits of the enforcement staff’s investigative powers.
- Did not violate a specific bylaw or law.
Additionally, the report found:
- Enforcement leadership exercised insufficient oversight of the engagement of the criminal defense attorney.
- The legal and enforcement staffs took appropriate action to rectify the situation once they realized select enforcement

