I'm surprised Shannon got fired. Granted, I haven't been paying attention to the Miami Hurricanes that much lately. I know they are not world beaters any more but, like you said, Shannon did a fine job over there.

Addressing Mookie's question about player graduation rate, I don't know what it was under Don James. I think it was decent.

I can speak with 100% certainty about graduation rates under Neuheisel and Ty Willingham. Neuheisel's players had a higher graduation rate than Willingham. An article was published about 3 years ago about college football player graduation rates, and UW's dipped after Willingham took over. I was never a fan of Rick's, but he seemed to have a knack for getting the most out of his players at that time.

Willingham, on the other hand, is a loser both on and off the field. Anyway, sorry to digress into football discussion here.

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