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The last time an NCAA study was done, Tech had the highest SAT scores in the country at 1065. That's athletes. Not the general student population. Jackson State's average for the student body is less than that. Which suggests that athletes would be even lower.

I would bet that not one of Deion's could get admitted to Tech.

This is somewhat dated, but useful: "In the last 10 years, a mere 287 players have emerged from high school as five-star recruits — the best of the best. That’s fewer than 30 players per season regardless of position. By our best judgments, just 97 of those have lived up to the hype and become...

Tech has always had the ability to raise money. But with different donor bases in the Foundation, Alumni, and GTAA as well as by each school, it's been tribe vs. tribe. If Cabrera could insist on real development goals ... just like they have for each College ... it would be a very different result.

Not to rain on your parade, but ... Jackson State has an acceptance rate of 69%, is classed as below average, average SAT of 930 and average ACT of 17. Tech has an acceptance rate of 23%, is classed as very selective/highly competitive, average SAT of 1465 and average ACT of 33. How many JSU...

Not run by the university, no.

Auburn set up a whole new organization to deal with NIL. Rather than pay a coach $10M a year, they think a good coach for half of that and then an organization that pays players. Yoke for example, is one that can be used to pay players for their take on a game, or ask them a question ... and...

I wouldn't pay any attention to it. Auburn's prez was asked about the AD and made a ham-handed remark that directly led to the AD resigning. Moral: If you are not prepared to take questions, don't.

Ironically, this ("In the new world of college football, we need to focus on paying players, not coaches.") is what Auburn figured out about a month after hiring Harsin.

I highly doubt that Cabrera was Ken's source. Which means someone else leaked it.

Agreed.

There's a press conference at 11am introducing Key as the interim coach. Rumors are Cabrera and Neville will be there to speak as well.

Not everything that factors into a job offer and job acceptance is publicly known. For example, at Auburn ... it's not the money or resources. Those abound in spades. The key question is, "Do I want to work in an environment where Jimmy Raine selects my recruits and tells me what plays to run?"...

Not really. Rich Rodriguez was all set to accept the job at Alabama until his wife said, "No way in hell am I moving to Tuscaloosa." That's when Alabama turned to the next guy on the list, one Nick Saban. It isn't ALL financial.

I think almost everyone knew, or suspected, that both would be canned on Monday. That's not wild speculation. That's deductive reasoning. My point is that I do not believe Tech intentionally leaked information in advance. Ken had his sources and reported what he understood to be true. But ... at...

Probably not. Transfers can now find any reason whatsoever to move on. Tennessee didn't get moving again until they cycled all of Butch Jones' recruits out. We live in a world now where the team will change annually. I don't think any team can delay decisions because a player might make a...

Well, you should send a letter to Cabrera telling him to revise his Institute's process for terminating employees. Cabrera didn't leak it, someone else did. I'm fine with how it was handled. Seems like a typical playbook and the press got the jump. It happens.

Who says Tech leaked it? I don't think they did. I think Ken assumed what was happening and reported it. I have it on good authority that neither TStan or Collins were informed until Monday am.

You could do it a hundred different ways. The affected parties were told at 8:43am. Where are the players at that time? Presumably in class. So you pull all the players out of class before you tell the affected parties? You think they are not going to text him in advance? No, that's a crap...

Look, I have a half dozen Auburn players in my classes. They ALL know Harsin to get canned. There is no surprise going on.