Time’s up, must fire Herb Deromedi
It’s far overdue, but it’s time for President Michael Rao to fire Herb Deromedi.
His record speaks for itself.
It started when he spearheaded the 1997, $30 million bonds for renovations to a football stadium that on most Saturdays sits empty. People can talk about the sports fee, the state of the art baseball stadium that floods, the displacement of the field hockey team, and other things, but Herb, along with other administrators, gambled on football as a way to enhance CMU’s national reputation.
Unfortunately, their big bet has not paid off.
The marketing plan was simple: Build the stadium and we’ll win football games.
Obviously, that has not happened, and the lone man left in the decision is Herb.
If the school takes $30 million from education and spends it on sports to get a decade worth of losing football, a budget bleeding department and non-existent student participation, someone should be held accountable.
Herb has been in charge from day one, seemingly answers to nobody and has received all the gifts he has requested. He has no excuses.
Which leads us to today, on the verge of losing Division I-A status.
How can this make anyone proud of our program? Where is our dignity?
CMU has no business competing at the Division I-A level and when we start winning games at the lower level people will not even remember.
Herb’s chance has come and gone. He was a great football coach, but his legacy is now tarnished given his record as AD.
My charity-giving checks read the University of Chicago, an academic institution where I know my money won’t be helping a bleeding athletic department.
Fire Herb.
Dave Borough
Chicago resident
Class of 1997
