A Blast From the Past: Sport's Illustrated's Indictment of UM Football

From SI.com, a blast from the past: the June 12, 1995 article "Broken Beyond Repair: An Open Letter to the President of Miami Urging Him to Dismantle His Vaunted Football Program to Salvage His School's Reputation."

Now breath, because that's quite a title. The article lays out concisely the many crimes of UM football. Among others:

During the past decade your school enrolled and suited up at least one player who had scored a 200 on his verbal SAT—the number you get for spelling your name correctly. An on-campus disturbance, involving some 40 members of the football team, required 14 squad cars and a police dog to quell. Fifty-seven players were implicated in a financial-aid scandal that the feds call "perhaps the largest centralized fraud upon the federal Pell Grant program ever committed." And among numerous cases of improper payments to players from agents was one in which the nondelivery of a promised installment led a Hurricane player to barge into an agent's office and put a gun to his head.

And perhaps our favorite:
"[T]he 1986 episode in which your mascot pointed a toy machine gun at a visiting team just before a game."

Read it and understand why this more recent screw-up wasn't really that much of a big deal: