NHR: Wall Street Journal's College Football Grid of Shame

[wisemaniac]

Interesting piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal on where the Power 5 teams fall on their Grid of Shame.

From the Journal:

The big winner on this year’s Grid is closest to the top right corner: Stanford, an academic powerhouse that will contend in this year’s Pac-12. This top right quadrant is the Grid’s lone safe zone: an exclusive club for programs that are both good at football and have done relatively well off the field too.

But many of the top teams in the country, like No. 1 Alabama and No. 4 Florida State, can be found in the bottom right, where the football is strong but the program’s off-the-field performance leaves much to be desired.

Then there’s the place where no program wants to be: The bottom left. This is where fans and professors can clink glasses and agree to watch something else on Saturdays.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/college-footballs-grid-of-shame-1472764117

 

[WV_Celt]

That is possibly the dumbest thing I've seen today.

 

[herdalicious]

Interesting placement for Ohio State.

 

[andy4theherd]

Interesting placement for Ohio State.

Maurice Clarrett and a coach resigning in shame was sooooooooooooo long ago. They are upstanding citizens these days.....

 

[GreenDuke]

unc cheat placed way to high, they should be below the bottom of the graph and off the grid.

 

[Rock98Dog]

Maurice Clarrett and a coach resigning in shame was sooooooooooooo long ago. They are upstanding citizens these days.....

Well, the Pryor and friends tattoo gate was more recent than that.

 

[Rock98Dog]

That is possibly the dumbest thing I've seen today.

Why? It's just combining two sets of data, both pretty easily verified.

 

[andy4theherd]

Well, the Pryor and friends tattoo gate was more recent than that.

yea, i was insinuating that with the bit about the coach stepping down in shame. a whole lotta dirty in Columbus to be that squeaky clean on the chart...

 

[Herd In the Plains]

Boise is in there with all those P 5s.

 

[Rock98Dog]

As is BYU

 

[TheGreenhouseEffect]

That is possibly the dumbest thing I've seen today.

I crack up when I hear an eerbillys response from anyone that doesn't agree with their little world of we are so great. It's hilarious to me.

Sorry, don't mean to rub salt in your wound, it's just that the gap of reality never seems to end.

 

[WV_Celt]

Greenhouse, your constant attempts to label me a WVU fan are getting old and ridiculous. Just because I'm from Morgantown doesn't make me one of their fans. Even when I did my freshman year of college there I wore Herd gear to class. I'm all Herd.

My comment wasn't based on WVUs placement on the scale. I know first hand that the school's position in the academic world is that of a joke. I was more referring to where it placed schools like Ohio State or Pitt.

You have got to stop obsessing over these boards and who is or isn't a spy for WVU. You look pathetic.

 

[TheGreenhouseEffect]

Sorry man.

Okay I've just found it amusing cause to me it's right on point. MIFART is an embarrassing institution and their fans and AD are mostly idiots. Sorry if I offended you in any way.

That said let me just say this.
Crotchbilly Holders is an idiot.
Ex AD NCAA officer of MIFART is an idiot.
Fans who beat up pregnant women are idiots.
A school so pompous it avoids in state games it might lose, in a state that needs hope and revenue badly is....well you get the picture.

Now you have a great day !