We are so far removed from the elite in college football it is scary. Bama's 3rd string would beat us in a regular game.
Last year was not a one year misstep. We are sliding down the slope to mediocrity and no major change is coming. To put that monstrosity called Crossroads around the stadium and make it the center of the campus is a disgrace. Ugly addition,ugly admin.,and ugly team.
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I watched parts of Alabama's game, and it was as uninformative as ours was. These games are all a joke now, and tell no one anything very real about their team, beyond perhaps whether or not a previously injured player has made progress in recovery. That is really the only meaningful thing they are good for. The scripts, the matchups against your own teammates, the restrictions on hitting certain players, the bogus special teams arrangements, all the other aspects of it make it impossible to say anything meaningful about a team from these scrimmages. It really looks from your post like you are simply a douchebag who is trying to stir things up, or that you just don't understand much about how spring training works for big football programs.
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Pretty sad
The gap is widening at Stanford as well. Wait till Northwestern blows by us which is not far off. How can we be that poor with the built in advantages of the program. Answer is look at the head.
You're right. It doesn't look good.
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It's just a great title. I wanted to read it again.
1 out of 2 isn't bad.
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Recruit knuckle dragging criminals, juice them up with PEDs and dismiss that little issue of attending classes that are beyond the 5 year old level.
many times??????? "College Football Top 25, Ranked by Academics" aren't you just a little jealous of the knuckle dragging criminals or just misinformed?
Link: http://time.com/4147924/college-football-top-25-ranked-by-academics/
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Northwestern, Stanford, and ND manage to graduate players at the highest rates in that list while being top national universities (all ranked top 15 per USNWR -- Bama ties for 103rd). Alabama graduates players sixth best of the top 25 in football for that year. Good for them. But it probably says more about the 18 football schools behind them. Do you think ND, Stanford, and Northwestern might be more demanding and challenging? I'm not one to denigrate anyone getting an education anywhere, so don't get me wrong . . . I'm not echoing the "knuckle-dragger" comments. Just saying that link tells us very little, and that the NDs and Stanfords of the football world are different academically than the Alabamas. Can't deny it.
correctly the had a qb renominated for a Rhodes not to long ago. As of 2015 Bama ranked #4 in grad rate at 86%, ND at 92. We win!!
Just tired of people claiming these schools are inferior because of the criminal aspect when we have had a rash of the same while still maintaining our decline downward.
Link: http://thespun.com/independents/notre-dame/heres-college-footballs-top-25-in-order-of-graduation-rate
And I don't agree with the broad "criminals" comments either. But the fact that they were 6th that year out of the teams that finished in the top 25 football poll doesn't tell us much about their academics. And pretending they are in the same category as Stanford and ND is as ignorant as pretending their players are all criminals.
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But that isn't the point anyway. GSR is just one aspect of overall academics. And the rankings being linked aren't national rankings, rather a comparison among the top 25 in football. I believe Bama was actually below average last year in grad rate nationally for student athletes, but something like seventh among the top 25 football schools. So what I'm saying is congrats to Alabama for pretty good grad rates, but that doesn't tell me a whole lot about their academics overall, their academics related to football, and it sure doesn't give me a basis to think they are on the same level with ND or Stanford.
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