Carlton

That would be an amazing landing spot. If Stafford has 2 more years in him, that would be a wonderful understudy, great offensive head coach, and the owner ship is going to spend money/try to win

I want to express the same appreciation for your contribution as others have to the discussion on here but this is a message board on the internet so you are an idiot for ever disagreeing with me and or having a viewpoint that makes me uncomfortable. I hope you take chili shits as long as you are away from this board.

I have narrowed it down that there are only 15 people who are non-alters or tiger dropping staff. I do like it that some of the alters are better people than their real identity.

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Online education is the future. With virtual reality, it will be the standard. Schools mays even pool resources and work together.

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Technically it is the present for non-traditional students. For traditionally aged undergrads it is unlikely online education will ever make any sort of dent into in-person education. That isn't the experience 18-22 year olds want and even less so for any part of the population who has a memory of COVID.

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It’s not the kids but the admin.

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This I agree with, but with it basically becoming pro football in the common years, I don't think the academic affiliation piece is going to continue to hold weight for too much longer.

I was pissed after we lost to you guys lol, but Man City desperately wants to give us this title. It is funny what can happen now that everyone is playing in the correct position for ManU

The math is on our side but man sometimes the way we play in attack pisses me off to no end. Own goal is our second highest goal sorcerer lol. If we were just willing to move the ball faster play someone touch football more than 5 minutes a game we would be scary but Artera is going to have us sweating it out until the end of the season.

Are you talking about undergraduate or graduate education?

Focusing just on undergrad: since the mid-2000s, the primary strategy has been to grow out-of-state, on-campus enrollment to increase revenue, and that approach has been highly successful. However, there are natural capacity limits. At the same time, the college-going population in Alabama is fluctuating overall. While more out-of-state students are relocating to Alabama before starting college—making the in-state population appear larger—the reality is that it’s actually declining. To sustain the current model, the institution will need to rely increasingly on out-of-state enrollment. At some point, there likely needs to be a greater emphasis on academic research to balance things out, but with research funding potentially tightening due to political headwinds, other options may need to be explored.

As for expanding undergraduate online programs at a well-established, residential institution, it’s far more challenging than it sounds. Of the three schools mentioned, Arizona State is the closest comparison—and they’re essentially a more extreme version of this model. Historically, ASU has been known for massive enrollment growth and chronic undergraduate housing shortages. It’s possible they’ve reached the limits of what they can do on campus and are now turning to online expansion as the next pathway. That said, framing online growth as a response to exhausting a profitable residential model doesn’t strike me as an ideal position. If you’re willing to invest heavily and plan carefully, it might work, but it carries significant risk. In my view, ASU has never had a particularly strong institutional identity beyond being a party school; while that has drawbacks, it also means they don’t face the same cultural or alumni pushback that schools with more deeply rooted identities might encounter.

Alabama, by contrast, is built around the undergraduate campus experience—that is the school’s identity—so any major push toward online undergrad programs would almost certainly generate resistance. We’ve discussed before the challenges of recruiting and retaining faculty for on-campus roles; scaling online education would either require significantly expanding the faculty base or increasing existing faculty workloads, neither of which is likely to be well received. Additionally, Alabama currently lacks the infrastructure and student support systems geared toward non-traditional students. Building those resources presents a classic chicken-and-egg problem, and the funding for robust online infrastructure probably isn’t available right now. I’m also unsure how much of the online learning infrastructure remained after COVID, as many schools in conservative states significantly rolled back their LMS investments.

There’s also the risk of cannibalizing out-of-state, residential enrollment by shifting students into online programs, which could actually reduce net revenue. Since Alabama is neither a small institution like Liberty (relatively small compared to major state flagships), have a long standing online program like Purdue global nor completely at capacity like ASU, the financial impact could be negative. Retention is another major concern—when I was there, stop-outs were the biggest issue, and online programs tend to increase that risk, though it’s possible those dynamics have shifted since then.

You picked two reliability companies (in the sense that McDonalds is popular not because it is good but because it is easy to find and you know exactly what you are getting). You got to go with some snobby brands to make your point lol.

McDonalds advertises practically anything and everything and has for a long time. Movies, Olympics, Monopoly, influencers, Coca Cola to some degree, Happy Meal toys etc.. I get your point but McDonalds isn't the example, they are the poster child for being whores to cross promotion and oversaturation :lol:. You could argue that this type of advertising is part of their brand.

ETA: McDonalds has done cross promotion with Goodyear in the Philippines :lol:.

That's a lot of money to convince Sandkhan to put a down payment on a certified pre-owned S class :lol:

Next Jerome Ford

Bunch of 4th rounders. Doesn't matter, Shanahan/Lynch are on that Belichick style I can identify underappreciated talent better than everyone else so he will do a bunch of weird stuff in the early rounds instead of just drafting studs. Gotta get some pass rushers to help Bosa and some actual studs at wr in fee agency but Shanahan absolutely hates coach stars/divas and most of them happen to play WR and DL lol .