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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Anyone else catch the irony of a debate on higher education philosophy breaking out in a thread on the University of Alabama?
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I apologize for responding to your post which also had nothing to do with Saban.
But thank you for taking 1 quote out of context and pretending that it's something said literally. That quote is, nonetheless, the current state of affairs.
PS No politics involved. I haven't seen any reference of right/left blue/red etc.
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MaxBuck
SoCal, Baby!
I think this whole nonsensical exchange originated with someone who repeated the usual commentary about S-E-C academics. Be careful, or you'll label yourself as someone who should be rooting for the Tide.I apologize for responding to your post which also had nothing to do with Saban.
(Have you been shopping for herbicide with Harvey Updike?)
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So now I'm an SEC fan that approves of lower academic standards?
Can't wait to see what straw man will be posted next just b/c you don't like my opinion.
Can't wait to see what straw man will be posted next just b/c you don't like my opinion.
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
Guilty as charged.I think this whole nonsensical exchange originated with someone who repeated the usual commentary about S-E-C academics. Be careful, or you'll label yourself as someone who should be rooting for the Tide.
(Have you been shopping for herbicide with Harvey Updike?)
I'm opinionated.
It's my opinion that the academics at University of Texas are much stronger than those at the University of Alabama. It's an opinion supported by several studies, but still just an opinion. It's my opinion that given the academic climate at both schools, Saban would find it more difficult to recruit the same level of athlete that he is currently able to recruit and to keep his athletes eligible. No one has published much in this area, so I can't say that this is an opinion supported by studies.
I should have left it at that, but I wandered away from Saban and pondered just what might happen were he to be offered 10M a year by Texas, which led to several other opinions I hold, which rightfully belong elsewhere as Saban is not to blame for the misplaced values which produce such contracts.
That being said, it's my opinion that paying a coach 10M a year at a time when colleges, for whatever reason, pay full professors less than 6 figures, does nothing to inspire youth to pursue academics so that they can be ready to receive an education in higher level math, science, physics or engineering and pursue those careers in an ethical manner. There are several studies out there that show a steady decline in math and science skills among American school children. Those same studies show that this slide has been accompanied by a drop in the number of American high school students taking higher level math and science courses.
It's my opinion that there are very few paying jobs that call for a degree in football or basketball and yet colleges continue to put kids into those programs and call it kinesiology, criminal justice or communications.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Nick Saban says “Maybe I should have recruited a better place kicker, ya think?”
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That was an assinine call. 57 yards opeining yourself up for a possible block, or...the return. Just idiotic.
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