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

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There is a whole lot of penis envy in this thread.

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The whole thread is funny considering most on here are equating the premise in the op to mean its the Bama football team

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probably plagiarized it somewhere from something he saw.

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some solid, well written copypasta is always appreciated IMO.

Yes indeed and I will continue to post the truth about UAT. Also most bama fans have the reading comprehension of a 3rd grader so you will have to read (or have someone read to you) the same comments several times. Now go genuflect to some five star high school quarterback. Hope you get a life!

RollTide!

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Woodrow Wilson

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They have become avatars of the worst behavior and bear witness to a complicated legacy of an earlier segregated society.

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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.

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Former AU running back says Auburn is a racist school
Auburn transfer finds home at SIU By Zack Creglow, Daily Egyptian April 15, 2004(U-WIRE) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Brandon Jacobs walks hastily across the Auburn campus, quietly counting the days until he reunites with his friends at Southern Illinois. A season at Auburn left him questioning his ability,his decision to attend there and himself. When his best friend at Auburn, Tony McClain, chose to transfer to SIU last fall, Jacobs was left alone. "I got a few friends at Auburn, but I can count them up on one hand," Jacobs said in his baritone Cajun muffle. Two weeks ago, he decided to join McClain as a Saluki.As he finishes the semester at Auburn, he continues to envision how his career might have gone -- how it should have gone. He thinks of Auburn vs. Alabama,86,000 screaming fans watching him carry the football. But that isn't what he remembers. His memory evokes Auburn fans chanting, "You Suck!"and being told by Auburn coaches that in the pre season he would start -- only not to receive a carry in the final four games -- and the condescending manner he feels blacks are treated in Auburn, Ala. "At Auburn, there isn't that many great people,"Jacobs said. "You are everything to these people if you are an athlete. Normal black people don't get treated like we do. If you aren't an athlete, they don't want anything to do with you, and that isn't right."

He had entered Auburn as the gem of the recruiting class, a 6-foot-4, 260-pound running back widely considered the top junior college prospect in the nation only to finish the season as a whisper. He was relegated to the bench in a sport he had dominated since he was 4 years old. "It killed me," Jacobs said. "It had me wanting to quit. It killed my insides. I never even had left the field before Auburn. I was never the one on the bench.I still haven't adjusted to that. It still kills me." He never felt farther from home.

In sun-baked Napoleonville, La., home of Jacobs and his legend, his mother Janice answers questions regarding him daily. People ask about him at the post office and the super market. It doesn't matter where. Everybody in the town of 750 people is interested in how her son is doing. Everybody cares. One of his high school teachers even started a professionally designed website for him, www.brandonjacobs.net. Football is tradition in the Southern town. When Jacobs played, people flooded Napoleonville from allover with the town's two stoplights directing their influx of traffic. More than 8,000 fans piled into the lone grandstand and scattered around the field just to watch him run. "Oh Lord, when he played, the whole town just went crazy," Janice said. "He brought people out to football games who never went to a game before. People came from everywhere."

After rushing for 3,022 yards and 38 touchdowns, he chose to resume his career at Auburn. He had the opportunity to attend the home state school, LSU, and had offers from Miami, Texas and Nebraska. After failing to meet academic standards, Auburn placed him at Coffeyville (Kansas) Community College.Quietly tucked away in the vast grassy plains of rural Kansas and the nearest city, Tulsa, more than an hour away, Jacobs and his Red Raven teammates developed a strong bond. "That is it, just hang out with guys," Jacobs said."But we had fun playing football, working out and lifting weights. We had fun doing those kinds of things. I remember going out and having water balloon fights. We would just joke around, making fun of each other. They don't do that at Auburn. "When somebody had a problem at Coffeyville, they didn't run to the coaches; they ran to their teammates."

The chemistry spilled onto the field. The Red Raven offense was unstoppable as he and Muhammad Abdulqaadir formed the most potent backfield in the nation during his freshman season. "When he and Muhammad played together, Muhammad always wanted Brandon to go in there and mash it up a bit before he went in," said SIU defensive line coach Bryce Saia, who joined the Saluki staff this winter after six seasons at Coffeyville. "When Muhammad blew out his knee, you saw tears come out of Brandon's eyes." After Abdulqaadir left for SIU, Jacobs no longer had to share carries. The ball was his. Saluki head coach Jerry Kill first saw Jacobs when he made a visit to Coffeyville to recruit future SIU players Frank Johnson, Linton Brown and Jamarquis Jordan. In the third quarter of the Dalton Defenders Bowl,which pitted the Red Ravens against Rochester (Minn.),Jacobs broke lose on a counter. He outran the entire secondary and walked into the end zone for an 85-yardtouchdown. He finished the game with 259 yards on 24carries. "Little did [Kill] know, No. 27 would be playing for him someday," Saia said.

In the last weekend in March, Jacobs took a visit to Carbondale, Ill., and met with Kill in his office. He heard truth in what Kill said to him. "He is a straight-up guy," Jacobs said of Kill. "I had a lot of one-on-one conversations at Auburn that were untruthful. Even when the guys from Coffeyville would get into trouble here, he didn't throw them out like a dishrag." During the visit, he saw familiar faces, people he used to consider family. He saw three former Red Raven coaches, his former backfield mate, Abdulqaadir, and his best friend, McClain. When it came time for him to leave, he sat at the hotel crying. In that weekend at Carbondale, the gaping void in his life was bandaged. Jacobs felt like he regained a part of who he was, and he signed a financial aid agreement three days later to play at SIU. "I couldn't tell you how it really felt to be backwith those guys," Jacobs said. "I couldn't describe that. I felt good about myself. It brought some pride back that told me I could be the person I was a longtime ago." Kill has already told him he wants him down to 250 pounds and expects him in Carbondale in early June to join the team. Jacobs already has thought out his first carry. "I love hitting someone right up in his chest," Jacobs said. "I'd like to start with an 80- or 90-yard run,maybe run over a couple of linebackers and outrun the secondary." He will still have to fight for more carries, just like at Auburn. Along with him, the SIU backfield is crowded with holdover Antoine Jackson, Minnesota transfer Terry Jackson II and former Coffeyville teammate Arkee Whitlock. But he doesn't care. His family is here. He hopes it will become his home.

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What a hoot that you would refer to Brooks and Fullwood who couldn't read and never went to class. At least all of Bama's kids go to class.

But continue on with your envy and bitterness over something as meaningless as football. What a pompous hypocrite you are. Carry on, spend that time and hate generated energy. Continue to entertain the notion that something meaningless should command such degrading behavior on your part. Especially regarding an academic institution that is at least the equal of your own, but without the threat of loss of accreditation because of your corrupt and futile attempts to achieve at the level as your football superior. You are as looney and empty as Thrower and Green and Scott and... Yall've got some real crazies that overwhelm Bama's crazies. Some of your crazies are at the higher levels, all of Bama's are the "sidewalk alumni". And Bama's are more harmless and just trying to enjoy something fun and good and maybe put too much stock in it, your crazies are full of hatred, bitterness and jealousy. A few of you are really sick. We see traces of it on this board frequently, but you are a great example. You are consumed by it. You defile the whole board.

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Oh yeah, and that sad and bitter diatribe has been bounced around the Auburn boards for years. Here's one example...

scroll down to rowdy 73

So rowdy 73 is NOW Woodrow Wilson!..what a small fricking world!

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As noted, that's been around boards for years. That particular one was just the first one I found.

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What a hoot that you would refer to Brooks and Fullwood who couldn't read and never went to class. At least all of Bama's kids go to class.

But continue on with your envy and bitterness over something as meaningless as football. What a pompous hypocrite you are. Carry on, spend that time and hate generated energy. Continue to entertain the notion that something meaningless should command such degrading behavior on your part. Especially regarding an academic institution that is at least the equal of your own, but without the threat of loss of accreditation because of your corrupt and futile attempts to achieve at the level as your football superior. You are as looney and empty as Thrower and Green and Scott and... Yall've got some real crazies that overwhelm Bama's crazies. Some of your crazies are at the higher levels, all of Bama's are the "sidewalk alumni". And Bama's are more harmless and just trying to enjoy something fun and good and maybe put too much stock in it, your crazies are full of hatred, bitterness and jealousy. A few of you are really sick. We see traces of it on this board frequently, but you are a great example. You are consumed by it. You defile the whole board.

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OldSchoolHorn

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The whole student athlete pitch is a past memory

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This was true in 1930. At that time many didn't even pretend they were students. You should read about ND's George Gipp. Today with all of the scrutiny, appearances have to be maintained.

The good part is that despite the well earned cynicism, there are many kids who do benefit academically. Many would never sniff a college campus or want to, but to play and remain eligible most have to do some work. Some programs at least make sure their kids go to class and make a pass at doing the work. And some kids find that they are more capable than they thought and get at least some kind of degree, others accept the challenge of doing something to the best of their ability. Some learn the discipline of doing something where they have no interest and little ability. So, it's not all for nothing. Of course, there are some real student-athletes, even in places we wouldn't expect.

But yes, the student-athlete concept has been violated at almost all big time D1 schools close to 100 years. Some places much worse than others.

It may be rationalization, but I'm glad the kids get a special platform to display their wares, a few can make a career, and others get confidence, connections, a little education, etc. to have a chance at a good life. That's one of the primary purposes of college right ? Very few of the general student population are there primarily to gain "universal knowledge about life and their world". They are preparing to find work.

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Your unhealthy emotional stake in Bama football substitutes for your own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect.

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But, in reality it’s much healthier than your emotional stake in Bama football...which substitutes for your own lack of personal acknowledgement and respect.