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quote:What date is considered the genesis of the "modern era"? In my mind, post WW2 is that I consider the modern era. But I can see an argument for starting it in 1998 since that's when the true Playoff era began... probably need more time but 50 years from now I think we'll say '98 was the start of the modern era. Probably not there yet.

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The “modern era” probably really should start with integration.

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Auburn having the second highest instate cost for a public university is outrageous.

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Based on their respective websites — the difference in in-state tuition for Auburn and Alabama looks to be roughly $800. The rest of what makes up the numbers are basically made up guesses on housing, food, transportation, “miscellaneous” or “personal.” There is no fixed formula for “cost of attendance” — schools are required to include certain categories, but tuition is the only fixed cost.

If anyone thinks it is $4K more expensive to attend 1 year in Auburn as an undergrad vs 1 yr in Tuscaloosa, you don’t have an accurate grip on reality and/or have never been to both places.

Interestingly, the estimated total cost for undergrad off-campus instate is almost the same: Ala $37,446 vs Aub $37,216.

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In wasn't until 1995 that Keith Dunnavant, in a book entitled Coach, would write of Bryant, "His tendency to drink to excess was well known among his friends and among the news media, yet no one ever reported a word about this. Although he never drank at work or let it affect his job, the coach often overindulged in social situations. Whether he was an alcoholic depends on one's definition. But he liked to drink to have a good time, and it was difficult for him to stop before he got sloppy drunk." Not long into our conversation, I realized that The Great Bear Bryant was drunk. Or to use Dunnavant's phrase, "sloppy drunk."

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Looking at the methodology, Tennessee basically got dinged for being too conservative politically, as did most of the southern states on the list

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Alabama got dinged for not mandating equal pay by gender and race, not having protections against sexual harassment and being only 1 of 5 states “with no public accommodation law protecting non-disabled people against discrimination.”

On equal pay, I would love to force my employer to pay me what some of the senior women and people of color in my organization make, no matter how stupid that concept is.

Apparently the author is unaware that federal anti-discrimination laws on race and sex apply in Alabama, making it wholly unnecessary for Alabama to have duplicative laws on the subject.

And if you aren’t disabled, exactly what public accommodation do you need?

Brent Fullwood from Auburn has to be on the greatest all time forgotten list. He started one year—the year after Bo Jackson won the Heisman. He averaged an insane 8.3 yds per carry on 167 carries. I don’t know what the SEC record is for YPC for a player with over 100 carries in a season, but that has to be close if that’s not it.

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No one gives a shite about the butt-wipe tree cult.

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And, yet, here you are.

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Fralic, Bingaman and Guevara O for

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Bingaman had a hit. Guevara was tagging the ball, just right at dudes. Fralick had a bad night.

We only gave up 5 hits and lost by 1. Tough night. That’s baseball.

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Do sec teams ever get 4 seeds OU seems like we went from a site fire number 2 to maybe a 4

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Nah. The 4s are your auto qualifiers. If you aren’t a 3, you aren’t in.

(The Google actually says it’s happened 2X — gata in 2019 and bammers in 2014-ish)

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1971--Alabama, Ole Miss, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU

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I don’t know about the other schools, but Auburn integrated basketball in ‘68 and football in ‘69.

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Allow me to retort: We went 9-3 at Texas A&M, at Miss State, at Arkansas, and at Ole Miss We’ve only lost one series all season in large part because Aidan King for Florida pitched out of his mind against on Friday.

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UGA would still be one of the best teams if not still the best team. I just don’t think the title would be out of reach going into the last weekend of the season if you only play one of the teams (instead of all 3).

UGA certainly could have improved its RPI stock with its pre-con schedule — 1 whole game away from Athens, and that was at Kennesaw.

But RPI also got screwed by the SEC schedule — LSU, SoCar and Mizzou all at home. Not your fault those teams suck, but you should also at least acknowledge (1) having the good luck of them being on your schedule and (2) playing them at home made for a very easy 9 of your 21 wins.