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Row Todd.

(01-16-2013 09:27 AM)Smaug Wrote:  Row Todd.

Seriously, Todd, row. It's the only way we can get you the tutoring you need.

Until people have had enough and stand up and demand a change it will continue. The people in this state continue to cover up for what is going on. Some of these same people who allow this corruption continue justify it in their head and think its OK and then scoff at other forms of crime that go on. I see some of these same people sit across from me in Church and they think their poop does not stink. As long as people allow it it will continue and it will continue to get worse.

I have interviewed former SEC athletes for employment and some of them had about a Jr high level education. Something is terribly wrong there. You are a sick bastard if you think it's OK that this crap is allowed to go on.

(01-16-2013 10:32 AM)ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:  Until people have had enough and stand up and demand a change it will continue. The people in this state continue to cover up for what is going on. Some of these same people who allow this corruption continue justify it in their head and think its OK and then scoff at other forms of crime that go on. I see some of these same people sit across from me in Church and they think their poop does not stink. As long as people allow it it will continue and it will continue to get worse.

I have interviewed former SEC athletes for employment and some of them had about a Jr high level education. Something is terribly wrong there. You are a sick bastard if you think it's OK that this crap is allowed to go on.

Amen. Roll Tide.

Most excuse the largess heaped upon football programs by pointing out that 90+% of the money is from "charitable donations" and the university is "on the hook" for very little of what is spent. How this makes sufficient difference is in the eye of the beholder. At schools like Bama and the 2 or 3 dozen other programs operating "in the black", the money that pours into the university every year justifies whatever excesses the program may enjoy. What does seem to escape the understanding of many is that spending $100,000 per player (pupil) annually DOES make a positive difference in result - like 3 BCS NCs in 4 years. All this in a state that leads the nation in slashing per pupil spending in K-12 education - almost $1400 per pupil since 2008 - when Alabama was already in the "Bottom 10" nationally for the majority of its 133 districts.

There really is nothing in that article that hasn't been said here in the past. As long as BCS NCs are more important to the important people (the ones the state legislature actually cares about) than good paying jobs attracted by a pool of well educated workers, we will continue to have to bribe businesses to come here by favorable tax schemes, supportive state paid infrastructure- roads, interchanges, etc.- and lower than national level income workers for comparable jobs.