re: 2017 U.S. News & World Report Rankings

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frick the 10% rule.

frick it. Let under-qualified minorities take the spots of qualified white kids. I don't give a frick.

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A&M's decision to hire John Sharp and increase its numbers has more to do with its loss of more than 10 places in rank during the last 10 years.

10% rule actually helping A&M by making it more diverse and combating its hayseed reputation.

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1. You can get all that on any college campus
2. Vicodin is hydrocodone
3. No frat boy is banging heroin and still going to class
4. No one fricking does heroin this is the south get some meth

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Good to know Hogfan. Sounds like one pillbilly on this board has some expertise. Party on, Garth.

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I think LSU has has dropped from 128 to 135 over the last few years? As you already know we have plenty of highly ranked majors. We'd be right there with Alabama and Auburn if the state didn't assfrick our budget

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When I was a Freshman in 2011 I vaguely remember the low 120's. I think bad press is what's kept us from moving up, schools doing fine and expanding.

Air Force Academy was mine

"Auburn" sounds Ivy League

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It is well known that when a university simply reflects the attitudes of its football fans it is no longer a university in the true meaning of the word. Football has stalled the University of Alabama’s transformation into a modern university with intellectual, aesthetic or humanistic concerns. The reality is that the NCAA would actually do the University of Alabama a favor by handing down the Death Penalty for its football team. Then perhaps finally its faculty, alumni and students might appreciate the scholarship and learning that mark a university with intellectual fiber and integrity. Until then “roll tide” is the shameful apology for those either naive or without individual self-respect.

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Time for you to get a new auto reply message

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One thing that every Auburn student has is common: everyone one of them would have been accepted at bama.

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Please, give us more nuggets dear auto bot

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Let’s just say what most people think about the University of Alabama. Its football pursuits justify its identity with an uneducated backward white population and a symbolic link to the Lost Cause they hold so dear. Much in the same way as D.W. Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation encouraged the worst elements of southern society a hundred years ago; Bama football still encourages a similar backward behavior from a large segment of its fan base today. The Crimson Tide football team is an outlet for their lunatic fringe fans and gives them a venue to be recognized.
Bama fans overestimate the “esteem” of being the last college football factory and unwittingly rob themselves of the very reverence they crave by their boorish and obsessive behavior. They defend the indefensible and deny the undeniable. Their unhealthy emotional stake in Bama football substitutes for their own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect.

The question is: has Chronic Encephalopathy (CTE) not only affected ex-football players but also metaphorically speaking an entire university and its fan base? These other football victims are driven by extreme emotion and delusions to commit unconscionable often violent actions (Harvey Updyke and others). Even Nick Saban contributes to the lunacy by comparing losing a football game to the Pearl Harbor and 911 tragedies when thousands of Americans lost their lives.

Similar to the victims of CTE, the University of Alabama’s misplaced priorities of gold-plated football fluff over economic substance harms the state’s citizens with the false bravado of football. History reveals that the holy crusade of Bama football acts as an impediment to social and economic progress. For instance the University of Alabama administration allows white-only sororities to continue their policy of banning African-American females from membership. Ironic that most of the precocious Bama “student athletes” are African-American but their daughters and sisters can be excluded from university sororities.

It is well known that when a university simply reflects the attitudes of its football fans it is no longer a university in the true meaning of the word. Football has stalled the University of Alabama’s transformation into a modern university with intellectual, aesthetic or humanistic concerns. The reality is that the NCAA would actually do the University of Alabama a favor by handing down the Death Penalty for its football team. Then perhaps finally its faculty, alumni and students might appreciate the scholarship and learning that mark a university with intellectual fiber and integrity.
Until then “roll tide” is the shameful apology for those either naive or without individual self-respect