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What We All Knew but Never Bothered to Quantify. SECHQ Heavy on the Gumps.
Posted on 11/29/17 at 5:29 pm
Posted on 11/29/17 at 5:29 pm
With the help of some Alabama fans I would like to submit the following...
Thanks again Alabama fans from a previous SEC Rant topic. I couldnt have done it without you.
Your incessant, mindless trolling aka, Grolling(Gump Trolling), provided me with the motivation and strength to delve deeper into this not-so-hotly but has-always-been-plainly-obvious-from-the-outside, contested matter.
Yall have been right all along. Bama doesnt lose. They only beat themselves.
...and their sister-wives
...and their uncle-daddies
etc.
TL;DR - Alabama stacks the deck from the top.
*EDIT*
Cant believe I missed this point. For all those making the argument that its only natural for there to be more U of Alabama grads in the SECHQ since its in the same State, well explain all the missing Auburn grads @ SECAHQ....
Credit goes to ibleedprplngld...
quote:
Go research the alma mater of every admin in the SECHQ. Come up with a percentage of Alabama grads. If that number is anywhere near 7%, which should be the correct percentage based on the number of Universities in the SEC, then Ill let this issue go.
If its more than a few percentage points above that then either Alabama grads make the best administrator hires out of all the schools in the conference, a conference that includes Vanderbilt #14 in the nation in education, Florida #42 in the nation education, Georgia #54, TAMU #69, Auburn #103, USC #103 and UT #104 or there is major conscious bias in the hiring at SECHQ.
BTW, Alabama is #110. Literally half the schools in the conference are ranked higher, 3 of them twice as high.
quote:
...added a few more Alabama grads. Those were only out of the ones I could find. About half of the 47 people listed I couldnt find any graduate info on.
So out of the roughly half of the 47 people I could find graduate info on, 9 graduated from Alabama. Which puts the SECHQ at a ~20% Alabama graduate staffing. If the ratios are consistent with the mystery half that I couldnt find information out on, then that "9" should double to 18 bringing the percentage up to...
38% or over one third of the staff at the SECHQ are graduates of the University of Alabama.
Again, assuming a random hiring of graduates across the conference, that number should be closer to 7%. That number goes down even further when you include prospective applicants that graduated from the thousands of Universities outside the SEC, of which the SECHQ has a few of, so its not like they arent considered for employment.
Man, this is so good I think Im going to make it the subject of my next topic. Thanks Alabama fans who participated in this discussion. I also would like to thank the Auburn fan who got this set in motion.
Thanks again Alabama fans from a previous SEC Rant topic. I couldnt have done it without you.
Your incessant, mindless trolling aka, Grolling(Gump Trolling), provided me with the motivation and strength to delve deeper into this not-so-hotly but has-always-been-plainly-obvious-from-the-outside, contested matter. Yall have been right all along. Bama doesnt lose. They only beat themselves.
...and their sister-wives
...and their uncle-daddies
etc.
TL;DR - Alabama stacks the deck from the top.
*EDIT*
Cant believe I missed this point. For all those making the argument that its only natural for there to be more U of Alabama grads in the SECHQ since its in the same State, well explain all the missing Auburn grads @ SECAHQ....
Credit goes to ibleedprplngld...
quote:
Your logic is sound. Problem is, there are two state schools in Alabama. One of which makes up a much larger percentage of the graduates in the HQ office. If your logic held true, there would be closer to an equal amount of representation from both schools.
This post was edited on 11/30/17 at 11:21 am
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Posted on 11/29/17 at 5:49 pm to nola000
Posted on 11/29/17 at 5:57 pm to nola000
quote:
So out of the roughly half of the 47 people I could find graduate info on, 9 graduated from Alabama. Which puts the SECHQ at a ~20% Alabama graduate staffing.
So 9 of 24 people in an office graduated from the university located in the same town? Imagine that.
I am certain that there is probably a little bias in the office. But our fans often come off as whiny little children with this incessant complaining about the refs and the SEC office, etc. etc.
quote:
If the ratios are consistent with the mystery half
There is no reason to believe that whatsoever. It could easily go in either direction.
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:13 pm to nola000
Why would anyone with a brain assume representation would be equal? It’s a false premise. The conference office is in Birmingham—no one who didn’t graduate from a school in Alabama would choose to move there for work (unless they were in a medical field). If the office were in Jackson it would have a disproportionate % of Piss/State grads. If it were in NO? LSU grads.
One reasonable solution might be not to hire anyone with an affiliation to ANY SEC school. But even then, the emoloyees’ children would inevitably go to the state school and the employees would develop a tie to the school.
Just accept the fact that the league office will have a disproportionate representation of graduates from the state where it is located.
One reasonable solution might be not to hire anyone with an affiliation to ANY SEC school. But even then, the emoloyees’ children would inevitably go to the state school and the employees would develop a tie to the school.
Just accept the fact that the league office will have a disproportionate representation of graduates from the state where it is located.
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:19 pm to nola000
Wait
It's so sad how some of you think about this as much as you do. 
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:21 pm to nola000
Alabama has graduates?! And I thought up till now they got their team gear from WalMart!
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:51 pm to nola000
1. Why would anyone assume that a league office staff would have equal representation.
2. I really couldn't care less where Administrative assistants, secretaries, receptionists and other staff like that come from, because they're far more likely to be hired locally.
This "research" literally means nothing
2. I really couldn't care less where Administrative assistants, secretaries, receptionists and other staff like that come from, because they're far more likely to be hired locally.
This "research" literally means nothing
Posted on 11/30/17 at 9:10 am to nola000
OK, so who wants to move to Ala-freakin-bama, to "represent their school" at the league office? Take one for the team?Sounds like a prison sentence....
Posted on 11/30/17 at 9:20 am to nola000
and the Bama obsession continues....
Posted on 11/30/17 at 9:33 am to nola000
Our fan base is an embarrassment
Posted on 11/30/17 at 9:43 am to nola000
Some posts are just... 
:wtf: :wtf:
:wtf: :wtf: Posted on 11/30/17 at 10:09 am to nola000
Ok now do one of every other conference and see if the city/state it’s located in has a larger number of graduates from the nearest university.
Then do another analysis of businesses operating similar size offices and see what the percent of employees are from the closest universities.
Correlation =/= Causation
Then do another analysis of businesses operating similar size offices and see what the percent of employees are from the closest universities.
Correlation =/= Causation
Posted on 11/30/17 at 2:03 pm to nola000
Posted on 11/30/17 at 5:10 pm to nola000
My take away is that 85% of the people that graduate from the University of Alabama work at the SECHQ.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Posted on 11/30/17 at 6:00 pm to nola000
Brother, you've got issues beyond counseling and medication.
Posted on 11/30/17 at 9:46 pm to nola000
If these morons understood the job duties at SEC head quarters then they would understand the bias. The no calls against Bama makes you wonder.
Posted on 12/1/17 at 8:25 am to nola000
quote:
Yall have been right all along. Bama doesnt lose. They only beat themselves.
I was driving back from Knoxville and thinking same thing passing through Birmingham. Why is the SEC HQ so full of Bama alumni instead of equally divided between Auburn, UAB and some USA/HBCU alumni? I know Tuscaloosa is an hour away but that's still some shady arse bullshite they should avoid for the mere image aspect. But they blatantly hire Bama grads and don't give a frick. Time for the HQ to move to Atlanta. Dilly Dilly.
This post was edited on 12/1/17 at 8:27 am
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