Interesting and telling quote from the Chris Hinton article up front: "I was always brought up with education first, because football won’t last you very long,” Hinton said. “In my [recruitment], when I was looking at schools, you had schools, certain schools, great football, always top five every year, but when you look at the academic side, they’re far, far down the totem pole."
Bingo! In the Wall Street Journal ranking of the top 500 US colleges and universities this year, ALL B1G schools except Nebraska are in the top half (Northwestern is #11, Michigan #27 are tops). ALL SEC schools rank in the bottom half, except Vanderbilt (27), Florida (63) and Georgia (147): LSU (247), Auburn (249), Mississippi (311), Kentucky (344), Missouri (348), South Carolina (356) Mississippi State (391) while Arkansas and Bama are lumped together with schools ranking below 400, meaning among the 20% of bottom feeders. Makes it easier to admit and retain poorer students who major in NFL Studies.
FWIW
Bingo! In the Wall Street Journal ranking of the top 500 US colleges and universities this year, ALL B1G schools except Nebraska are in the top half (Northwestern is #11, Michigan #27 are tops). ALL SEC schools rank in the bottom half, except Vanderbilt (27), Florida (63) and Georgia (147): LSU (247), Auburn (249), Mississippi (311), Kentucky (344), Missouri (348), South Carolina (356) Mississippi State (391) while Arkansas and Bama are lumped together with schools ranking below 400, meaning among the 20% of bottom feeders. Makes it easier to admit and retain poorer students who major in NFL Studies.
FWIW
