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I'd guess finishing the wrap-around.

I'll agree to that

Well yeah. ND and Miami both deserved it more than any G5 or SEC school other than Georgia or Ole Miss.

Frustration with the corruption and fraud that created the conditions for a cluster of mediocre programs to prosper at the expense of the rule-abiding.

It looks better for ND if Miami wins, doesn't it?

It sounds great until the conference schedule gives us Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Rutgers, and Ohio State

Have you ever read an Alabama board? It's all gibberish written by the literate half of the fan base.

Listen to Hans "Grinch" Gruber over here

Earned while Northern schools played by a different set of rules. Now we're living in an era where the gloves are off and there IS a limit where many SEC schools won't be able to keep up. Honestly, we're probably already there. You think Alabama is going to win another trophy in the next five years?

Oh yeah MSU is doing a campaign of their own. It started more recently but has already achieved $1.6B from 130000 donors----an average of 50% more per donor than Alabama's campaign. It also is aiming for $4B, more than double Alabama's biggest campaign in their entire history. I'm not sure...

Michigan State, one of the less well-off northern schools, just got a $400M donation for athletics. I might be wrong, but I can't seem to find a single Alabama alum who could front that amount.

This is a fantastic article. It's the sort of thing exemplifies what sports journalism should be.

Endowments are a reflection of the university's donor base. In a sustained arms race without limits, schools like OSU and Michigan (and ND!) are holding all the cards

If you added up the endowments of Alabama, Ole Miss, Miss St, Auburn, LSU, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida, collectively you'd get to about half of what Michigan has. They're all poor compared to northern schools with the gloves off.

I support tight restrictions on athletic spending for public schools

In the new era of college football, poor southern schools no longer have an advantage. That and constant comparisons to when they did have that advantage.

It's a really great argument. And he doesn't even get to the part where Oklahoma didn't deserve to be ahead of ND either.

Also started very suddenly. SEC was very average for most of its history, but suddenly something changed around 2007 for some reason that just elevated the entire conference.

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He failed in the NFL because he had asymmetric advantages at certain schools, without which he was average