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Hurricanes AD Blake James defends Miami’s commitment toward football program

The Miami Hurricanes football team may be in the midst of a bye week, but the criticism they received nearly two weeks ago from longtime ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit still lingers over the program.

During ESPN’s College Gameday broadcast that aired Sept. 25, Herbstreit cited issues in the athletic department as reasons why the Hurricanes haven’t been relevant in more than a decade, saying, “You have an athletic department that clearly is not really showing that this is something they are willing to try and make changes ... Until you get a president and an AD and a coach together on the same page, I guess football doesn’t matter.