CDAGRIZ said:
Do you know how a decision matrix works?
Here's your quote again: "So, you're telling me that an African American kid from CA or WA has academics as one of his top priorities for choosing a school to play football?"(emphasis added)
The answer is, sometimes yes. I don't know why you have such a hard time grasping that student-athletes of color consider academics as part of the equation.
See how you spin sh*t, alleging stuff that I never said. I never said that NO AA KID EVERY MAKES ACADEMICS A TOP PRIORITY. There are exceptions to everything. But that's exactly what you spin it into. I asked you to tell me why Vanderbilt, who plays in the SEC, and is recognized as one of the top academic institutions in the country, can't sign 4-star and 5-star kids who routinely state in interviews that academics are one of their most important things in their decision. Of course, you buy into it, hook-line-and-sinker. So easily duped. Alabama and Georgia are way down the ranking of academic excellence within the SEC.......... but these recruits all state emphatically that they chose these two teams because of academics. Yeah right, and I'm Santa Claus! They want to get to the NFL, and Georgia and Alabama give them the best chance to do that.
What do you expect a kid to say "I choose Georgia because my girlfriend goes there"??? That may be the reason, but he's gonna say that academics was important in his decision. And you'll buy it too!
Same story for Duke in the ACC, and Northwestern in the Big Ten.