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    Default Way too early College Football Poll

    ESPN put out their Way To Early College Football Poll.

    1) Clemson
    2) Alabama
    3) Ohio State
    4) Oklahoma
    5) Georgia

    Looks familiar, doesn't it?

    Sporting News has the same 5 teams at the top, but in a different order.
    1) Alabama
    2) Clemson
    3) Georgia
    4) Ohio State
    5) Oklahoma

    Athlon's top 5 teams looks much the same.
    1) Alabama
    2) Clemson
    3) Ohio State
    4) Georgia
    5) Miami


    I guess we will know more as the spring games shake out the rosters.

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    Clemson all the way!

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    Quote Originally Posted by WinterBorn View Post
    ESPN put out their Way To Early College Football Poll.

    1) Clemson
    2) Alabama
    3) Ohio State
    4) Oklahoma
    5) Georgia

    Looks familiar, doesn't it?

    Sporting News has the same 5 teams at the top, but in a different order.
    1) Alabama
    2) Clemson
    3) Georgia
    4) Ohio State
    5) Oklahoma

    Athlon's top 5 teams looks much the same.
    1) Alabama
    2) Clemson
    3) Ohio State
    4) Georgia
    5) Miami


    I guess we will know more as the spring games shake out the rosters.
    It could also be titled "States that have football coaches as their highest State employees," pretty sad considering some of those States are listed last in social, economic, health care, employment and educational indicators, guess it is just a question of priorities

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    It could also be titled "States that have football coaches as their highest State employees," pretty sad considering some of those States are listed last in social, economic, health care, employment and educational indicators, guess it is just a question of priorities
    39 states, including California, have a college football or basketball head coach as the highest paid state employee

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    Mountaineers. National Champions. /closed

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    It could also be titled "States that have football coaches as their highest State employees," pretty sad considering some of those States are listed last in social, economic, health care, employment and educational indicators, guess it is just a question of priorities
    Nick Saban is the highest paid state employee in Alabama. He has also been responsible for millions in profit for the university. Since he has arrived the out-of-state enrollment has skyrocketed, test scores for incoming freshmen have never been higher, and the economic benefits of the football games have been astronomical. No other state employee has had such a profound positive effect. He is worth every penny he is paid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Mountaineers. National Champions. /closed
    They must have had a helluva recruiting class. To go from 7-6 to National Champions. But I do love the enthusiasm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WinterBorn View Post
    They must have had a helluva recruiting class. To go from 7-6 to National Champions. But I do love the enthusiasm.
    As my dad used to say, if only the first halves counted, WVU would always be #1. It is the second halves that kill them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    As my dad used to say, if only the first halves counted, WVU would always be #1. It is the second halves that kill them.
    I have started many seasons predicting Alabama would win it all. Some years it was even mathematically possible until October. But a true fan still beleives.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WinterBorn View Post
    I have started many seasons predicting Alabama would win it all. Some years it was even mathematically possible until October. But a true fan still beleives.
    Yeah one of my co-workers is a huge Bama fan as she is from there. They are loyal to the core.

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    Never too early....the spring game was great!

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOP View Post
    Never too early....the spring game was great!
    Go Blue

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    39 states, including California, have a college football or basketball head coach as the highest paid state employee
    Some States can afford it, others can't, and when your state ranks in the bottom five in nearly every indicator and your already getting more money proportionately from the Federal Gov't than the majority of States paying football coaches close to twenty four million a year doesn't make sense

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    Quote Originally Posted by WinterBorn View Post
    Nick Saban is the highest paid state employee in Alabama. He has also been responsible for millions in profit for the university. Since he has arrived the out-of-state enrollment has skyrocketed, test scores for incoming freshmen have never been higher, and the economic benefits of the football games have been astronomical. No other state employee has had such a profound positive effect. He is worth every penny he is paid.
    Yeah, yeah, now is that the same school report that claims they graduate 99% of football players?

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Some States can afford it, others can't, and when your state ranks in the bottom five in nearly every indicator and your already getting more money proportionately from the Federal Gov't than the majority of States paying football coaches close to twenty four million a year doesn't make sense
    What states can afford it? You think California can? If so why are we charging students more while cutting higher education services?

    And who is paying football coaches $24 million? No one is. And for some schools their athletic success draws far more students to their Universities.

    I get it, you don't like Southern states that vote Republican and this is your way to attempt to attack them although you miss the forest for the trees.

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