What We All Knew but Never Bothered to Quantify. SECHQ Heavy on the Gumps.

With the help of some Alabama fans I would like to submit the following...

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Go research the alma mater of every admin in the SECHQ. Come up with a percentage of Alabama grads. If that number is anywhere near 7%, which should be the correct percentage based on the number of Universities in the SEC, then Ill let this issue go.

If its more than a few percentage points above that then either Alabama grads make the best administrator hires out of all the schools in the conference, a conference that includes Vanderbilt #14 in the nation in education, Florida #42 in the nation education, Georgia #54, TAMU #69, Auburn #103, USC #103 and UT #104 or there is major conscious bias in the hiring at SECHQ.

BTW, Alabama is #110. Literally half the schools in the conference are ranked higher, 3 of them twice as high.

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...added a few more Alabama grads. Those were only out of the ones I could find. About half of the 47 people listed I couldnt find any graduate info on.

So out of the roughly half of the 47 people I could find graduate info on, 9 graduated from Alabama. Which puts the SECHQ at a ~20% Alabama graduate staffing. If the ratios are consistent with the mystery half that I couldnt find information out on, then that "9" should double to 18 bringing the percentage up to...

38% or over one third of the staff at the SECHQ are graduates of the University of Alabama.

Again, assuming a random hiring of graduates across the conference, that number should be closer to 7%. That number goes down even further when you include prospective applicants that graduated from the thousands of Universities outside the SEC, of which the SECHQ has a few of, so its not like they arent considered for employment.

Man, this is so good I think Im going to make it the subject of my next topic. Thanks Alabama fans who participated in this discussion. I also would like to thank the Auburn fan who got this set in motion.

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Thanks again Alabama fans from a previous SEC Rant topic. I couldnt have done it without you. Your incessant, mindless trolling aka, Grolling(Gump Trolling), provided me with the motivation and strength to delve deeper into this not-so-hotly but has-always-been-plainly-obvious-from-the-outside, contested matter.

Yall have been right all along. Bama doesnt lose. They only beat themselves.






...and their sister-wives





...and their uncle-daddies





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TL;DR - Alabama stacks the deck from the top.

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Cant believe I missed this point. For all those making the argument that its only natural for there to be more U of Alabama grads in the SECHQ since its in the same State, well explain all the missing Auburn grads @ SECAHQ....

Credit goes to ibleedprplngld...

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Your logic is sound. Problem is, there are two state schools in Alabama. One of which makes up a much larger percentage of the graduates in the HQ office. If your logic held true, there would be closer to an equal amount of representation from both schools.

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