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Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:19 pm to cyde
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It's kind of terrifying how many people don't understand how contractions work.
Contractions work any damned way we feel like it down here.
Actually, I do cringe at a restoration business near my house with the word "Ya'll" in its name. I had a friend visiting from Boston last winter and I made a point of explaining to her that most of us know how to properly spell our bad English.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:21 pm to Gump4heisman
quote:Can't waste scholarships on players who will never see the light of day. This happens at every school at the end of every season. Pay close attention to the kids who "transfer" after the bowl games. Shite, some are "processed" before the bowl and don't even make the trip.
So guys that arent good enough to play for them, they fake an injury, give them a new car and a chance to play for another school? Sign me up for being processed.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:25 pm to pvilleguru
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Sounds like a great system
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Sounds like an illegal system
FIFY
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:25 pm to cyde
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It's kind of terrifying how many people don't understand how contractions work.
Your'e right. I'ts disturbing.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:26 pm to sjmabry
We've got a few scholarship juniors and seniors that have never played a meaningful snap, so to answer the OP, "processing" on the rant means "I am butthurt"
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:29 pm to boogiewoogie1978
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Sounds like an illegal system
Well, call the police.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:32 pm to elposter
Any chance that it makes an episode of Cops? I'd watch.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:35 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Serious answer is they have used lots of methods. Greyshirting, medicals, transfers, "discipline", etc.
They sign between 9-12 more players than they have room for (this has happened every year for the past 6 years), evaluate them during spring training, then from the end of spring training until June, they use their evaluations to make determinations and systematically cut the 8-12 players needed to get to 85 by the deadline. The last few cuts are generally announced the week of or the week or so before the deadline.
Colleges -- and, no, not just Bama --do engage in some shady stuff. But let's not exaggerate the proportions without some sort of concrete evidence, nor pretend there are never legitimate reasons for somebody to go on medical or transfer to another college, especially at major programs like Bama, LSU, Ohio State, SC, and, yes, Auburn, where competition for spots involve several extremely talented players, some of whom don't pan out and don't plan on riding the pine for four years. The epidemic proportions being trumpeted make for nice trolling material, I grant, but ignore the potential real issues that occasionally happen. Philon getting a greyshirt and having to transfer? A bit skeevy on Bama's part. Kamara seeing the writing on the wall and transferring? Not even the same thing.
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Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:45 pm to Eric Nies Grind Time
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nick saban hates black people
Wish I'd known that before I voted for him.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:46 pm to randomways
Similar practices take place in the academic realm at universities too.
I know at many law schools, they will offer many scholarships to students, but the caveat is that they must maintain a certain GPA. Then after the first semester a bunch of those kids on scholarship are no longer on scholarship and some of them are no longer in school.
You get a scholarship because it is expected you can perform at a certain level. When you cant meet expectations the scholarship is taken away. It's not criminal, it's business.
I know at many law schools, they will offer many scholarships to students, but the caveat is that they must maintain a certain GPA. Then after the first semester a bunch of those kids on scholarship are no longer on scholarship and some of them are no longer in school.
You get a scholarship because it is expected you can perform at a certain level. When you cant meet expectations the scholarship is taken away. It's not criminal, it's business.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:46 pm to cas4t
quote:lsu has never done this, or pulled a kids scholarship offer at the last second
Offer lots of scholarships only have so many available kid ends up at South Alabama
Posted on 12/10/14 at 1:57 pm to SECSolomonGrundy
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Similar practices take place in the academic realm at universities too.
I know at many law schools, they will offer many scholarships to students, but the caveat is that they must maintain a certain GPA. Then after the first semester a bunch of those kids on scholarship are no longer on scholarship and some of them are no longer in school.
You get a scholarship because it is expected you can perform at a certain level. When you cant meet expectations the scholarship is taken away. It's not criminal, it's business.
I think one of the reasons that this is such an emotional issue for lots of people is that there is this image -- not always accurate by any stretch of the imagination -- of a poor kid using his athletic ability to rise above his circumstances and get a free ride at college when he would otherwise never have had a serious chance to do so. It's a compelling narrative, and, as I said, not always accurate, but accurate often enough that it's tough to separate our feelings from the cold logic of how the system works. So when we see a kid who can't measure up, or a kid who is injured, we feel the need to hope for the best for him (I'll occasionally look up players who had career-ending injuries, for example, just to reassure myself that even if they didn't make the pros, they did okay for themselves.) It's part of the American Dream story that society sells to us from a young age.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 2:00 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Serious answer is they have used lots of methods. Greyshirting, medicals, transfers, "discipline", etc.
They sign between 9-12 more players than they have room for (this has happened every year for the past 6 years), evaluate them during spring training, then from the end of spring training until June, they use their evaluations to make determinations and systematically cut the 8-12 players needed to get to 85 by the deadline. The last few cuts are generally announced the week of or the week or so before the deadline.
We have actually become more sophisticated than this. While lesser programs have to rely on small time tactics like drug arrests, we've found ways to step up our game. The latest method is to get an assistant coach hired on as a head coach of a non-power 5 team, then transfer the kid to that coach's program, where he becomes a 1,200 yard running back. Works like a charm...until the coach moves on to a team in your own conference.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 2:01 pm to olddawg26
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I've seen it a few times but not really following. Do other schools not do this? Is it grey shirting?
Its nothing Mark Richt would have time for. There are only so many good hours the big swing sets are available.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 2:08 pm to randomways
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Philon getting a greyshirt and having to transfer? A bit skeevy on Bama's part.
Philon never had to transfer because he never signed with Bama nor was he ever a student at Bama.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 2:10 pm to olddawg26
If "ya'll" is meant to be a concontraction of "you all" then its spelled "y'all." It is'nt spelled ca'nt or wo'nt.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 2:14 pm to pvilleguru
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Philon never had to transfer because he never signed with Bama nor was he ever a student at Bama.
Poorly worded on my part. He was informed very late in the recruiting game that there wouldn't be a spot available for him in that class, so he had to find another college with an available spot. It was hard to watch. I'm not saying Bama did anything wrong, per se, just that they really could have handled it better.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 2:30 pm to BamaGradinTn
quote:I kept up with Dee all season, watched a couple of games and I was so happy to see him dominate on the field.
We have actually become more sophisticated than this. While lesser programs have to rely on small time tactics like drug arrests, we've found ways to step up our game. The latest method is to get an assistant coach hired on as a head coach of a non-power 5 team, then transfer the kid to that coach's program, where he becomes a 1,200 yard running back. Works like a charm...until the coach moves on to a team in your own conference.
Posted on 12/10/14 at 2:33 pm to olddawg26
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Mizzou fans - Ya'll = You all
You sure about that?
Pretty sure it's y'all. And we say "Hey yous guys!" Get it right.
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