Thought I’d drop this here. I knew Jesse fairly well while he was here. We knew a lot of eachothers networks etc.
Not a Blake loyalist but as someone mentioned he probably thought he was smarter than him. That being said, he liked Blake.
One time at a Canes basketball game Jesse myself and a prominent booster/BOT member (one that surprisingly doesn’t get mentioned here on CIS that often considering his influence to football) are standing next to each other shooting the sh*t before tipoff. Jesse sees some students holding a Fire Golden sign. He took offense to it and says “Hey Cane14, booster isn’t that some bull**** that a student is holding that sign at a basketball game?” I snapped at him and said Jesse, let’s get one thing straight here, Football is the only thing that matters here at the University and we’ve failed miserably... And the booster who is the nicest guy in the world and is relatively reserved flat out agreed with me and Jesse just stayed quiet. Ironically enough I think this was the basketball game that Cristobal was introduced for his 1 month stint.
Another funny story he mentioned is about Blake James and a country club that gets mentioned here on CIS. My folks belong to that club and the waitlist is forever. That being said they usually like to extend an invite to the Miami AD and he generally accepts. However, Blake was cheaping out and didn’t want to do it. He told the club, f u I’m Blake James and I know a lot of people here. I can practically get on here whenever the f I want to (kind of true and not true). That didn’t sit well with them. Not sure what happened after but I did see him there about 2 years ago. Definitely burned some bridges but what a pompous pos Blake James is.