re: Bama has led nation in academic AA's 5 years straight. More impressive than wins

Brooks and Fullwood would have been Academic All-Americans at bama, the last college football factory left in America. Hell if you can ride an escalator or navigate a revolving door you can graduate from bama. What a truly awful place with the most racist, bigoted Neanderthal fans in the entire world.

Those Dodge Chargers help their players get to class faster than everyone in the country

I don’t get it. Are you proud of your retards?
Why do you care anyway? You never went to college.

Alabama also leads the US in cousin fricking and illiteracy, congrats

Alabama Cousin fricking

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Alabama also leads the US in cousin fricking

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yeah, but you should see my cousin. She hot as hades

Yet we manage to field the greatest dynasty in big time college sports or professional as well.

We somehow manage to turn out two of the three greatest football coaches ever, college or professional.

And even though our university is located in a deep south conference/state and recruits a majority of deep south minorities who are at the very lowest of levels academically we manage to embarrass the best money can buy. Whipping the Stanford educated boys and girls 5 years in a row.

Not bad for an awful place and I'll take it. BTW, our awful state and place provided Stanford their current leader and likely the finest person in California (admittedly a low bar to hop) in Condi Rice, a huge Bama fan! Roll Tide!

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SMU has already proven that anyone can be great if they don't follow the rules.

The state of Alabama is just fine thank you, it is the misplaced priorities of bama football that is a big problem.

Yay for grade inflation

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. Hence the ludicrous and totally unmerited claim of several Bama national football championships. They have become avatars of the worst behavior and bear witness to a complicated legacy of an earlier segregated society.

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, Michelle Pritchett, John Phillips, Brian Downing, and many 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.

Selah

You should post more, that was quality.

But, and I'm sure you are aware, Alabama has grown into a big time regional university under Saban, enrollment has skyrocketed over the past decade - especially out of state- which has funded high quality improvements across campus, new programs as well as more diversity (I think, on the diversity part based on what I've seen, no numbers on that).

It has always been the case that the quality of an education falls primarily on the shoulders of the student, and while Alabama is certainly not a premier educational school - they now are offering more and more quality programs to those students looking to get as much as possible from their time in college.

As a state / public university, Alabama still has a duty to maintain itself as available to its residents for secondary education. But in terms of tuition, enrollment and the other factors mentioned above, Alabama has made huge improvements and gains under Saban - at the same time the general insanity from the other portion of the fanbase have also grown more frequent in a similar fashion.

I guess that is the trade off.

Winning national championships rocks too