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In reply to the discussion: Can I get a ROLL TIDE! [View all]bamacrat
(3,867 posts)Alabama has a top 30 Law School - above Pepperdine, Baylor, SMU, Temple, UConn, Pitt, etc..
Alabama has a top 30 Accounting program
UGA has a top 40 Law School
UF has a top 20 Accounting School
Vandy - Vandy is an ivy league school with a southern accent
Just because something is in or from the south and especially the southeast does not immediately make it worse, or dumber or bigoted. SEC Schools especially Alabama have some of the highest graduation rates for its athletes in the country. Also Alabama's center Barrett Jones won the Campbell award last night. The Campbell award is the Academic Heisman.
We place a premium on athletics, primarily football. We do it better than anyone else and like it or not we will for the foreseeable future. Alabama, aside from football, also has 6 Gymnastics National Championships, a Softball National Championship and a Women's Golf National Championship. Last year Alabama won National Championships in Football, Softball, Gymnastics and Women's Golf. How progressive right? We put enough emphasis on women's sports to win the NC in three different women's sports in one year.
I am obviously extremely biased toward Alabama, considering I am from there, live there and went to school at BAMA. This same thing can be said for UGA, UF, UT, et al. The perception that southern schools aren't as good as northern or western or coastal or New England schools is wrong. The SEC has many great institutions and have produced some notable people over the years.
Alabama:
Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird
Jim Nabors
Sela Ward
Hugo Black - Supreme Court Justice
Morris Dees - Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Don Siegelman
Mel Allen - Voice of the Yankees
Howell Raines - Pulitzer Prize Winner
Joe Scarborough -...ok so I'll give you this one, and..
Bernie Madoff - this one, did not graduate but attended.
Timothy Leary - Hell yeah
Jimmy Wales - Co-founder of Wikipedia
Abdurrahim El-Keib - taught here and is now the interim Prime Minister of Libya
I could go on and on for each school. So yeah, the SEC will probably never have an alum as President but to say they aren't quality schools is incorrect.