The U, what about the Bucky's?

I am currently watching THE U, for the 30 at 30 special by ESPN that I can only hope comes out as a reasonably priced DVD boxed set with extras because it is very well done for the films I've seen. I got interested watching a video on THE U, or the University of Miami for those of you who know nothing of college football. Every college football program has interesting ups and downs and moments and it got me to thinking that every college should do something similar. Obviously THE U had more talent and controversy follow them than any other team through the 80's and 90's, but Wisconsin, for my HOMER example was not even close to a respectable football team until the early 90's. My dad went there in the early 70's and witnessed 4 wins in as many years, all of them in his senior year. Now Wisconsin packs Camp Randall every game and had a great run of Rose Bowls under Barry Alvarez. I'd be very interested to have Alvarez interviewed about turning the program around and some of the early players who aided in the turnaround.

This goes for any school for the most part as well and I think student filmmakers should jump on the opportunity to make a film about the rise or falls of their schools football programs. I use football programs because it'd be pretty rare that any other sport anyone would care about unless you're at a basketball school. Anybody wanting more in depth writing on The U read "The Cain Mutiny". That's on the reading list for me behind "The Book of Basketball", "Open", and "Instant Replay". Very similar to the Fab Five in terms of how a new crop changes the game SO much. The Fab Five is recommended reading to any sports fan about how 5 kids grew together and didn't let anyone else tell them who to be and how to play and invented baggy shorts and black socks in many people's eyes including my own. I can't imagine the money that Jalen Rose, Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson made for merchandisers. College players should make some money I believe, but there's no good way to do that and if football players get paid, why shouldn't gymnasts or wrestlers get paid? Just because those sports operate deeply in the red, does that make the athletes less deserving? Interesting debates I'll save for when I torch Title IX for needing to be abridged in our current day.