The Miami metro area has spent much of the 21st century popularizing things that Americans explicitly or implicitly do not like—content creators, cryptocurrency, NBA superteams, etc. Now, the 305 seems bent on degrading the popularity of something that Americans explicitly and implicitly do like: college football.
On Thursday, University of Miami president Joe Echevarria gave an alarming interview to Yahoo Sports’s Ross Dellenger where he proposed numerous paths for the Hurricanes’ football future—none of them in the ACC and none of them good. Working from the contention that life in the conference is impoverishing Miami—home to the No. 1 football and No. 14 men’s basketball teams in the land, mind you—Echevarria espoused thinking that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could render college football a shell of its former self decades from now.
