Washington Huskies get an A- for the Jedd Fisch hire
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I learned Alabama is a better school than Washington. That is what I learned. Creep, true?
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Thanks Taft!
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UW No. 15 and Alabama No. 91 in US News ranking of public universities.
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F- for having to make a hire in the first place
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Huh?
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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
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as head coach Fish has one winning season, none as a player since he never played football
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who did you want UW to hire?
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He inherited a winless team at a basketball school and got them to 10 wins in year three.
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You are such a dumb cunt sometimes.
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It's poasts like this where I want to make the gaming license on the house.
But I just can't do it.
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this isn't your finest evaluation work.
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Sometimes?
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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
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ANSWER THE QUESTION!
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somebody that played football?
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So if Andy Reid, Jon Gruden or Sean McVay had any interest, you’d just say “Nah, I’m good. Gimme Brent Brennan.”
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WSJ Rankings (for fun):
#93 - UW Tacoma
#134 - UW Seattle
#270 - University of Alabama
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I suppose, if they have like… put on a helmet? been in a 3 point stance?
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So Fish raped and pillaged Arizona. Got loadsock and the rest other than the QB and wide out who now get to go 3-9. Good signing day
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Let Jedd cook
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Sounds like Jedd is serious about getting his own guys in there.
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I lied. There is one P12 school ranked below Alabama.
Pac 12 combined with Big 10
#3 Stanford
#9 Northwestern#15 Cal and UCLA (tied)
#21 Michigan
#28 USC
#35 Ilinois and Wisconsin (tied)
#40 Rutgers and Washington (tied)
#43 Buck and Purdue (tied)
#46 Maryland
#53 Minnesota
#60 Michigan State and Pedo State (tied)#73 Indiana
#93 Iowa
#98 Oregon
#105 ASU and Buff (tied)
#115 The Fighting Fafitas and Ute (tied)
#142 Beav (hi Benny)
#159 Nebraska#178 Cuog
As I said, the current US News formula was tweaked because Cal was paying a price in the rankings for things that really are drawbacks to going there. One of my kids almost pulled the trigger but made a better decision IMO. They'll play with the algorithm again and the public schools will slide … again.
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people that usually boast about academic standing are usually the music majors, sociology, not the hard core majors
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I have not found that to be the case. At all.
In fact, in my travels with and among many of the most severe boasters, it is usually the hard science and math people who think of themselves as being more qualified and deserving to be alive and breathe air. Mind you, among my children are some heavy quants, so I don't have an axe to grind.
That said, you have not lived until you have sparred with an MIT math person. Among that crowd, there are more than a few who actually believe that they are Plato's philosopher kings and the rest of us should just follow their lead in every aspect of running a society - and not just on quant matters. It is my experience with that crowd that makes the rise of the Third Reich a lot less mysterious in its origin story than it once was for me.
The social science people are usually a lot more grounded. Especially so these days.
But we are generalizing from about 100,000 feet. I've known an asshole or two in every demographic you care to mention.
Also, majoring in music is not easy. In fact, back in the day before comp sci was a separate major, companies used to recruit music majors because they tended to display acumen for picking up computer language and programing, which makes sense if you think know a bit about how music is studied. As a group, they are also known to do well on the LSAT, which is heavy on logical reasoning. I'll bet @haie can share a bit on this.
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the MITers do have huge egos, yes
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I love academic smack talk
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You love PFF (elite) smack talk.
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Where do MY Carson Cougs rank on your polls?
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So does Coach Fisch, I love sweet sweet vindication
