Wall Street Journal Grid of Shame

[letsgiveacheer]

Here is the third annual Grid of Shame according to the Wall Street Journal.

Our "weakling" comnection is easily understood but hopefully corrested this season, but I would guess the embarassed ranking is a result of a large percentage of our athletic budget coming from student fees.

Grid of Shame

[Magic95Fan]

Agreement on the student fees part. That is the only thing I can think of that would put us in the "embarrassing" category.

[glick1980]

Our budget isn't as subsidized as many of the teams rated better than us in the admirable/embarrassing category. One the easily sticks out is SWTXST@SM.

Edited August 29, 2013 by glick1980

[untjim1995]

Honestly, we are exactly where we should be when you put together everything that the WSJ used for their graph. Our record in the last 8 years is 19-64. The 19 wins are over these powerhouses: MUTS (2), ULL (2), ULM (2), FIU (1), FAU (3), Texas Southern (1), South Alabama (1), WKU (3), Troy (1), Ball State (1), Indiana (1), and SMU (1--with Phil Bennett as head coach). That is embarrasing and weak...

[UNTLifer]

Honestly, we are exactly where we should be when you put together everything that the WSJ used for their graph. Our record in the last 8 years is 19-64. The 19 wins are over these powerhouses: MUTS (2), ULL (2), ULM (2), FIU (1), FAU (3), Texas Southern (1), South Alabama (1), WKU (3), Troy (1), Ball State (1), Indiana (1), and SMU (1--with Phil Bennett as head coach). That is embarrasing and weak...

The above wouldn't qualify us as a powerhouse, but why are we not considered admirable? I call B.S.

[glick1980]

Honestly, we are exactly where we should be when you put together everything that the WSJ used for their graph. Our record in the last 8 years is 19-64. The 19 wins are over these powerhouses: MUTS (2), ULL (2), ULM (2), FIU (1), FAU (3), Texas Southern (1), South Alabama (1), WKU (3), Troy (1), Ball State (1), Indiana (1), and SMU (1--with Phil Bennett as head coach). That is embarrasing and weak...

The shame component is based on APR - we are strong, recent history of major violations - we are strong, percent of budget subsidized by students - we are fairly weak, and player arrests - what have we had one this offseason and two last offseason? - probably average or slightly above average. We must really bring it home in the ick factor. Look where TCU ranks in that portion. They just had a freaking drug ring uncovered in their football program...and a QB get a DUI....

[Texas Stranger]

WSJ writing about football? Meh.

Does DCTF write about mutual funds?

[Aquila_Viridis]

If we're going to be on the map, we need to move to better territory. Unfortunately I think some are happy just to be on the map.