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Friday, January 05, 2007

An Alabama Newspaper Reader
Responds to the Saban Thing



'As much as I love this state, I'm sometimes embarrassed to be an Alabamian.

I guess I'll just take a deep breath and repeat the unofficial state motto: "Thank God for Mississippi!"'



And yet by university standards, Mississippi looks a great deal better than Alabama lately. It's got scads of problems, to be sure, but in terms of graduation rates, serious response to sports and alcohol problems, and general academic quality, Mississippi has it all over Alabama at the moment. And Alabama has, with the Saban hire, made things much, much worse.