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Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:27 am
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:27 am
From that well-respected sports publication the Wall Street Journal:
Gotta say though...they nailed KU
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The WSJ Sports Grid of Shame is back after a one-year pandemic hiatus to help solve an always complex equation: How good your team is on the field versus how badly it behaves off it.
The horizontal axis shows how good each Power Five team should be on game days in 2021, calculated from a composite of objective rankings and subjective opinions of college football insiders. The further to the right a team appears, the more games it is expected to win.
The vertical axis is the “shame meter.” It’s a spicy indicator of how closely your team follows the rules, how athletes are doing in the classroom, how much the university subsidizes athletics at the expense of the general student body and whether students are excited enough to attend games.
Gotta say though...they nailed KU



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Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:28 am to CelticTiger
I'm calling horseshite on this entire graphic
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:29 am to CelticTiger
didn't some Gump just get a dwi? list is shite.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:29 am to CelticTiger
Alabama in the upper right box, the way it should be
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:30 am to CelticTiger
Zero U above the horizontal is laughable.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:30 am to CelticTiger
Proud to support an admirable football program that does it the right way.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:33 am to CelticTiger
Is there any particular reason why Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss, and Florida are all more “admirable” than UGA considering that they have all been put on probation since the last time UGA was put on probation, and UGA hasn’t had any major academic scandals regarding its players recently, nor do their players perform worse academically compared to those schools?
Seems like the vertical axis is totally arbitrary, imo.
Seems like the vertical axis is totally arbitrary, imo.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:35 am to schmoo
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Alabama
According to the data Alabama is an “Admirable Powerhouse.”
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:37 am to CelticTiger
Bama leading the SEC again.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:39 am to TeddyWestside
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Seems like the vertical axis is totally arbitrary, imo.
To be fair, the entire graphic is arbitrary
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:41 am to CelticTiger
Absoute Garbage.
1-UGA as a school spends zero dollars on sports as a cost to the student body, it's the other way around, the athletic department give millions to the general fund of the school.
2-Every ticket is sold out to every game and the fans travel and take over other stadiums.
Yet these clowns have UGA in the bottom quartile of this metric.
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how much the university subsidizes athletics at the expense of the general student body and whether students are excited enough to attend games.
1-UGA as a school spends zero dollars on sports as a cost to the student body, it's the other way around, the athletic department give millions to the general fund of the school.
2-Every ticket is sold out to every game and the fans travel and take over other stadiums.
Yet these clowns have UGA in the bottom quartile of this metric.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:43 am to CelticTiger
Clockwise, you have the Nick Saban quadrant, the Larry Coker quadrant, the Jeremy Pruitt quadrant, and the David Cutcliffe quadrant.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:44 am to CelticTiger
Ole Miss, Auburn, TX, and Miami... all rated WAY above UGA in the admirable axis.
Jeez.
There's clickbait, then there's clickbait. You really gotta hand it to the WSJ's crack team of sports journalists.
Jeez.
There's clickbait, then there's clickbait. You really gotta hand it to the WSJ's crack team of sports journalists.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:51 am to CelticTiger
SEC Big 4 Admiral/Powerhouse
Bama
Auburn
Ole Miss
State

Bama
Auburn
Ole Miss
State


Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:53 am to CelticTiger
The fact that they put the whorns that high on the “Admirable” scale tells me all I need to know.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:58 am to Wildcat1996
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Zero U above the horizontal is laughable.
My first thought as well . . . .
July 6th - NORMAN, Okla. —
Running back Mikey Henderson has been dismissed from the Oklahoma football team, coach Lincoln Riley announced in a news release Tuesday night.
Norman Police Department officials confirmed to KOCO 5 that the department requested an arrest warrant for Henderson after investigators determined he was part of an alleged armed robbery on April 15 at the Crimson Park Apartments.
August 26th -
Running back Seth McGowan and wide receiver Trejan Bridges have been kicked off the Oklahoma Sooners football team amidst amidst an ongoing robbery investigation, though neither man has been charged to date.
"They're not members of our program anymore," head coach Lincoln Riley told reporters on Thursday.
Bridges, McGowan and another man were accused of robbing a man of marijuana, per Nolan Clay of The Oklahoman. The victim said he was beaten up by the three men and that Bridges held him up at gunpoint and threatened to kill him, and that the robbery took place after he refused to sell marijuana to McGowan.
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