Who cares ?
And yet another pathetic response.
Thank you !!!!
I'm sure a lot of people agree with me
And Duke was basically an FCS quality program at best then. They won 9 games in 5 years. Two of those years they didn't even win a game.
O'Leary has long since moved on, right? Is the object of the post to show that the lower the academic requirements, the easier it is to win? Now, that is a revelation. If one wants to graduate all Phi Beta Kappas off the football team -- assuming that would be possible -- then good. A laudable goal. But make sure you add in club football to the mix. It is the nature of, well, human nature. Some smart, some not so.
Well, apparently some posters what to go the Bama / Saban route.....kid doesn't start ....push him out the door to make another scholly available, grey shirt, etc. etc. Essentially throwing away young lives in the quest for a championship ring. I am proud that Tech fields a competitive team of REAL student athletes, not a minor league team for the NFL that barely skirts the NCAA rules
I don't take exception to any of that, save one part. But as for the rest: Alabama has always, as I can remember, done exactly that. If I remember reading about this somewhere, it is one of the reasons Dodd felt he had to leave the SEC: August had become a tryout camp for dozens of players when only a handful could get scholarships. Bryant may be a legend among football fans and coaches, but his cheating was also legendary. As for the other, i don't think they "throw away" young lives. If those kids can play they will wind up somewhere, maybe a year late, maybe not, but if they can play, and want to (and are any good of course) they'll be fine. Coaches track that religiously. Just not at Alabama. The dream may be lost, but not the life.
BIGLY FU to the haters!!!!!!!
Kinda pumped, are you?
Yeah. It was about time we won a 50-50 game. I don’t understand and probably never will understand those that want us to lose so we make a change they want to happen,
I don't know if it is unique to this board or not, but we sure see some of it, and I don't think it is exaggerating it. A very weird view of things.
I have talked to a few of them. They blame the recruiting purely on the offense we run. A new coach with a new offense would do much better. I made a statement that we were not recruiting well (compared to factories) due to academic load and their answer was Calvin Johnson says hello. This guys is a tech grad and helping to run one of the alumni groups. I could only shake my head