Link: Oregon edge rusher throws shade at Alabama education.

[AlexanderFan]

Kayvon Thibodeaux on why he chose Oregon over Tide: ‘Do you know the stigmatism of Alabama education?’

The defensive end claims he chose between winning a national title and working for best company in the world.

www.al.com

I do love me some irony. I think further in the interview he says Knight will give him a job simply because he went to Oregon. That feels like an impermissible benefit to me.

 

[BhamToTexas]

Stigmatism? Yeah great education.

 

[GrayTide]

This coming from someone who is obviously not a Rhodes Scholar candidate.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

So just to get this straight - he prefers the association with an organization that uses child sweatshop labor to make overpriced and overrated tennis shoes than the guy who started the Wikipedia site he plagiarized for his book reports so he could keep playing football.

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

Does he know the difference between the word he used - stigmatism - and the word he intended - stigma? Obviously not.

There are 253 DI football programs (FBS + FCS). Of those, Alabama's most recent APR was 990, or tied for 12th best. Oregon's most recent football APR was 968, tied for 109th, and exactly equal to the FBS average.

 

[AlexanderFan]

It’s the off-season, I thought this would get some laughs and groans.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Does he know the difference between the word he used - stigmatism - and the word he intended - stigma? Obviously not.

There are 253 DI football programs (FBS + FCS). Of those, Alabama's most recent APR was 990, or tied for 12th best. Oregon's most recent football APR was 968, tied for 109th, and exactly equal to the FBS average.

If you're going for an education in Oregon, you go to Oregon STATE, not to the satellite college in Eugene. Oregon State is one of those schools like Purdue or Georgia Tech ("not a lot of people know that...I may be the first one to notice that")....

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

I'll say this for him: he legitimized, for an instant, my unleashing my grammar nazi tendencies in a football thread...

 

[AlexanderFan]

I'll say this for him: he legitimized, for an instant, my unleashing my grammar nazi tendencies in a football thread...

This was too good to pass up.

I won’t lie, I wanted this kid, Saban wanted this kid, he was very highly ranked out of high school. It just doesn’t seem like he put the work in in the classroom to be running that trap about education at a Southern school.

It’s also the second weird interview given by a high profile college football player.

 

[Isaiah 63:1]

If you're going for an education in Oregon, you go to Oregon STATE, not to the satellite college in Eugene. Oregon State is one of those schools like Purdue or Georgia Tech ("not a lot of people know that...I may be the first one to notice that")....

I live about 90 minutes from UO and about two hours from OSU. Corvallis is the nicer town of the two, that's for sure. Most recent SAT and ACT scores of 2020 matriculants (source: collegeevaluator.com):

College Name	SAT Average	ACT Average
Oregon State University	1,195​	25​
University of Oregon	1,190​	26​

Pretty much a push here...

Edit to add Alabama numbers from the same source: 1200 and 27...

 

[Evil Crimson Dragon]

I got a good laugh out of that................he doesn't sound very intelligent, but maybe he should ask Greg McElroy about his education

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[BamaNation]

Kayvon Thibodeaux on why he chose Oregon over Tide: ‘Do you know the stigmatism of Alabama education?’

The defensive end claims he chose between winning a national title and working for best company in the world.

www.al.com

I do love me some irony. I think further in the interview he says Knight will give him a job simply because he went to Oregon. That feels like an impermissible benefit to me.

You can't fix stupid. He fits perfectly where he is.

 

[BamaNation]

Ima leave this here...

UA Enrolls Record Numbers of National Merit Scholars

The University of Alabama continues to attract and enroll an increasing number of scholars from across the nation.

news.ua.edu

 

[BamaNation]

I'm guessing he's excited about working in a Nike store as a stock boy. Who knew?

 

[B1GTide]

I'm guessing he's excited about working in a Nike store as a stock boy. Who knew?

He is about to be very rich, but his comments were asinine

 

[CB4]

Wasn’t he the guy that, when told one of his teammates was “pescatarian” replied “That’s okay. I consider myself tolerant of all faiths and religions”…….

 

[TideEngineer08]

A more perfect gif to sum up what should be everyone’s thoughts on this guy could not be found.

 

[BamaNation]

Also, replace the "Alabama" stereotype with any other and the metaverse would be callling for his cancelation. Why should this be any different?

For the record, I'm 100% anti- cancel culture, but this kind of thing really irritates me supremely because everybody who retweets, writes about it, etc. just lets it fly by.

 

[BamaNation]

He is about to be very rich, but his comments were asinine

He certainly won't be getting paid for supreme intelligence ... which is his insinuation.