I honestly don't really care what he does with his money. It's his money. He should do what he feels is best with it. I've never indicated otherwise.
I'm just calling a spade a spade. He refused to pay for 100% of the stadium upgrades, even though the upgrades would benefit his holdings financially, because he knew that the city of Miami would enjoy a public good from those upgrades and he did not want them to enjoy a free ride. Then he turns around and gives about the same money as he wanted from the city of Miami to the University of Michigan, even though he gets no financial gain from anything the University of Michigan does.
He looks at the city of Miami as a moocher trying to get a free ride, and he looks on the University of Michigan like a doting grandfather to be showered with (very expensive) gifts.
That's fine. I have no problem with that. It's his choice. You can't just MAKE an owner love the city that is home to the sports franchise he owns.
However, I do have a problem with this in one very specific, particular way. I would like to see those stadium upgrades done, one way or another. Whether it's public financing or private financing, I would like to see the upgrades done. The cartel that is the NFL seems pretty adamant that there must be public financing for this sort of venture, and there's a lot of peer pressure involved in that. He could pay for things himself, but the peer pressure makes it less likely, IMO. So the easiest way to get this done would be to convince the public to help with the financing. But the optics on this donation are so poor, it leaves so many people with such a bad taste in their mouth, that Steve Ross has actually damaged his ability to revisit the public financing issue at some later date. This is the primary problem I had with his vindictive, ill advised public political vendetta he's decided to carry out with his political action committee. In the end, I feel these are all scorched earth tactics that aren't going to benefit anyone. Not himself, not Miami fans, not the city of Miami, nobody.
And that I do kind of have a problem with. I would prefer more efficient means of getting things done.