University of Miami director of athletics Blake James, who has had a rather interesting past week or so, attended Monday night’s Alabama-Clemson national championship football game in Santa Clara, California.
It wasn’t pleasure. It was business. A scouting mission of sorts.
The man whose job priority is to help guide Canes football back to an elite national level needs to know first-hand what the competition looks like, what the goal is, and this was it.
UM also is believed to have an interest in Clemson’s Jeff Scott or Tony Elliott as its new offensive coordinator, and, although he wouldn’t say so, I believe James and one or both of the Tigers’ co-coordinators might manage to bump into each other at some point after the game.