The media can't hold back...
I hate to even dignify such things as calling this part of a "curse." And, I think we all knew people were not even going to wait for people to finish mourning before jumping on UM for one of their former players being in a senseless tragedy.
It just frustrates me. Someone has actually died and some lowlifes go on Miami Herald (and I'm sure other) message boards and post how a Miami player could have this coming or how this is par for Miami's course. How can a person die and the people who don't even wait 24 hours after his death to criticize him aren't the ones who themselves should be criticized?
Miami, like many schools has had problems. But, they are the program people love to hate. The scapegoats of the ills of college football. Never mind that according to, yes, Sports Illustrated, "...over the past decade, Miami has had fewer player arrests or NCAA-related incidents than almost any other major program in the country." Never mind the fact that the players some other schools and the media criticize have become the players all schools seek to recruit. I went over a lot of this after the UM/FIU brawl so I'll cut it short.
But, when can we get to a point where a player, person, or anyone can die and people can deem it the tragedy it is and leave it at that?
UM has been cleaning up it's image (and, until convenient to say otherwise by the media has seperated itself from the "bad" image of old.) Miami as a city and we as a society have to work to get crime and violence down.
Below, the article from SI last year the quote was from. Also, an article on the alleged "curse."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/stewart_mandel/10/18/mandel.bag/index.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20071128/us_time/seantaylorsdeaththemiamicurse