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Originally Posted by ohio_eric

It's allo politics sadly. At the big universities like Penn St or Alabama or Florida they have a bunch of rich old alumni who just live to give money to the football teams and go to football games and spend money like water. But in exchange for the money they demand a winner. They want national titles and to beat their rivals. So athletic directors to get the results necessary to keep the athletic department chock full of money.


Is it right? Well if you got a coach like Joe Pa or Jim Tressel who give a lot of money back to the school, Tressel even gave a bunch of money back to the school he used to caoach at Youngstown State, then it's ok. But if you get a coach like Saban who I wouldn't trust to stick more than five years then it seems like it might be a waste.

I think it is absurd how much money alumni do pour into the jugaunant known as UA football. Yeah it is tradition rich but that tradition is in the past. 12 more national championships aren't realistic. Our fan base, most of whom have never taken a single class at UA, is too dellusional to understand that though and they hail Saban as the next coming of Jesus. Half of our student body can't even go to a game because they don't allocate enough tickets for the students because they don't make as much money off of our 5 dollar tickets as they do general admission. Isn't college supposed to be about those students??