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Washington Huskies get an A- for the Jedd Fisch hire
DerekJohnson
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I learned Alabama is a better school than Washington. That is what I learned. Creep, true?
Thanks Taft!
UW No. 15 and Alabama No. 91 in US News ranking of public universities.
F- for having to make a hire in the first place
Huh?
Most definitely not.
It's chinteresting though. Alabama, like Oklahoma did for several years, has been throwing every penny they have to attract kids who achieved certain levels of success on the PSAT. So, National Merit Commended, Semifinalist, Finalist, all that shit. Basically they make it an offer they can't refuse to kids whose parents can't or don't want to pay to say no to an admission offer by making it free, regardless of need.
It's a bizarre prestige structure in higher ed. What I described above is the ultimate merit award structure, but the most elite schools don't have merit and REALLY look down on that practice. Why? Not immediately obvious until you think about it. Harvard, as the paradigmatic prestige play, believes (rightly) that they don't have to buy students in that way. So they give full aid to anyone smart enough to get in if they actually need it. If they don't need it, they assume you'll pay full freight and you don't get a penny, whereas Alabama will whore out their mom to buy a kid with a 31 ACT. "Presidential Scholars" at Alabama are like vice presidents at banks. So Harvard would say, "of course Oklahoma had to buy kids with good test scores. otherwise, they wouldn't get them. we? don't need to do that." So you're left with the reality that U of Alabama has a pretty decent 50th and 75th percentile ACT/SAT number (relative to what you'd expect), but they got there in a decidedly used car salesman way (according to academis elitists).
But, no. Alabama is ranked like 170 in US News which, like it or not, is the ranking bible. That is almost 30 spots lower than the lowest ranked Pac12 university, to put it into perspective. And, mind you, US News changed their formula this year in a way that was meant to benefit large state schools (that's why UW shot up) by de-emphasizing things like class size. This grates on them like nobody's business because there is not a school that is working harder to burnish its academis image than Alabama.
Executive Summary: Bama is not in UW's hemisphere academiscally.
@themoreyouknowdawg
as head coach Fish has one winning season, none as a player since he never played football
who did you want UW to hire?
He inherited a winless team at a basketball school and got them to 10 wins in year three.
You are such a dumb cunt sometimes.
It's poasts like this where I want to make the gaming license on the house.
But I just can't do it.
this isn't your finest evaluation work.
Sometimes?
Yeah, well a coach with one winning season who never played football, a gutted team from last year, not much experience left, two big name hires (their dad's names, that is)…. good luck with that
ANSWER THE QUESTION!
somebody that played football?
So if Andy Reid, Jon Gruden or Sean McVay had any interest, you’d just say “Nah, I’m good. Gimme Brent Brennan.”
WSJ Rankings (for fun):
#93 - UW Tacoma
#134 - UW Seattle
#270 - University of Alabama
I suppose, if they have like… put on a helmet? been in a 3 point stance?