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re: College Football Top 25, Ranked by Academics (Time Magazine)
Posted on 12/19/14 at 8:29 pm to LegendOfCobb
Posted on 12/19/14 at 8:29 pm to LegendOfCobb
Nah. Topic is beneath me. It's definitely beneath all Bama's graduates this year... 
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Posted on 12/19/14 at 8:40 pm to Old Hellen Yeller
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Because their football players aren't graduating. That obviously has a lot to do with the high standards at GT, but no degree is no degree.
No degree from GT May be better than a degree of interdisciplinary studies from Bama. That degree will get you absolutely no job anywhere. It won't even help you get a welding job.
Posted on 12/19/14 at 9:23 pm to LegendOfCobb
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but fails to take into account the fact that athletes are generally getting into schools they have no business being in.
Ding ding ding.
Posted on 12/19/14 at 9:25 pm to skrayper
Harvard of the south
Posted on 12/19/14 at 9:27 pm to skrayper
I hate these polls - you can always find one that favors your school over another.
Posted on 12/19/14 at 10:25 pm to Monticello
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Monticello College Football Top 25, Ranked by Academics (Time Magazine) The methodology for the rankings is stupid. Graduation rates for football players has nothing to do with the quality of the academics offered at the school. If anything a high graduation rate means the school is good at steering athletes towards easy majors and has a ton of "tutors" to do their work.
Posted on 12/19/14 at 10:58 pm to skrayper
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#17 Georgia Tech
Posted on 12/19/14 at 11:54 pm to GIbson05
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#3 Alabama
Kicking arse on the field and in the classroom.
Paying off players on the field and teachers in the classroom.
Posted on 12/20/14 at 4:35 am to LegendOfCobb
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frick you I come to these boards for low brow debate regarding each member institution's relative academic merits!
*golf clap*
Posted on 12/20/14 at 8:28 am to skrayper
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Actually, Alabama does a much better job of graduating their players than Tech does
Uhhhhh that doesn't mean they graduated with better grades....cause Tech would blow them out of the water. This poll is not totally accurate about academia amongst college football ranked teams. And graduation rate is based on the average make student at the school and that can be misleading.
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:04 am to skrayper
Reading is not in the skillset of posters here. Thus substantiating their schools' ranking. 
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:06 am to reel_gator8
GPA of top 25 would be interesting as well.
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:29 am to skrayper
These are somewhat important rankings IMO.
It's not like the majority of football players are enrolled in the Engineering college at GTech. The idea of college athletics is to get kids educated while they play sports. Graduating players is important. Not graduating players is bad.
It's not like the majority of football players are enrolled in the Engineering college at GTech. The idea of college athletics is to get kids educated while they play sports. Graduating players is important. Not graduating players is bad.
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:32 am to SouthOfHere
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No degree from GT May be better than a degree of interdisciplinary studies from Bama. That degree will get you absolutely no job anywhere. It won't even help you get a welding job.
I'd say degree trumps no degree every time. A person without a degree can make a fine living if they apply themselves. But spending 4 (or 3 or 2) years at college and not having a degree is a waste. Getting a degree (especially when getting a free education) is always better.
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:46 am to skrayper
This "study" actually has nothing to do with academics, just football graduation rates.
This post was edited on 12/20/14 at 11:48 am
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:56 am to Indfanfromcol
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This "study" actually has nothing to do with academics, just football graduation rates.
Someone might be silly enough to believe those 2 things are somewhat related.
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:59 am to skrayper
Yeah, stopped reading at academics and bama #3
Posted on 12/20/14 at 12:00 pm to Old Hellen Yeller
They are related, but academics does not equal graduation rate.
The title of the article is just click bait.
Eta: by their standards, school A could graduate 90% of players with a general education degree, team B could graduate 65% with an engineering degree, and they would have team A as better academically.
The title of the article is just click bait.
Eta: by their standards, school A could graduate 90% of players with a general education degree, team B could graduate 65% with an engineering degree, and they would have team A as better academically.
This post was edited on 12/20/14 at 12:03 pm
Posted on 12/20/14 at 12:28 pm to Indfanfromcol
These threads are always ridiculously dumb. GA Tech is a better academic institution than Alabama. Full stop.
But also lol @ how these threads always attract Florida and Georgia posters who somehow believe their schools are elite academic institutions. LOL. There is one good academic school in the SEC: Vanderbilt. The rest of the schools are interchangeable for virtually any employer outside the southeast and none carries any prestige, UF and UGA included. Sorry to piss on your parade.
But also lol @ how these threads always attract Florida and Georgia posters who somehow believe their schools are elite academic institutions. LOL. There is one good academic school in the SEC: Vanderbilt. The rest of the schools are interchangeable for virtually any employer outside the southeast and none carries any prestige, UF and UGA included. Sorry to piss on your parade.
Posted on 12/20/14 at 1:49 pm to Chronic
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These threads are always ridiculously dumb. GA Tech is a better academic institution than Alabama. Full stop.
But also lol @ how these threads always attract Florida and Georgia posters who somehow believe their schools are elite academic institutions. LOL. There is one good academic school in the SEC: Vanderbilt. The rest of the schools are interchangeable for virtually any employer outside the southeast and none carries any prestige, UF and UGA included. Sorry to piss on your parade.
Too shiny.
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