The Clemson folks have tried to justify their football drubbing by saying that Dabo runs a better overall program. Their main point is that Clemson is ranked 3rd in the power 4 conferences in graduation rate, and Georgia is last. The first question would be, is this because we have more guys going pro early or is it due to a large volume of transfers? Regardless, that's not a great stat and I'm surprised that it is not being used against us in recruiting. That being said, does it matter? For decades colleges played the game by saying things like: graduation rates matter, the well well being of the student athlete is paramount, that college football has a greater purpose beyond the playing field. Whether that was true or not at some point in the past can be argued, but it's certainly not true today. It's all about the money and this is true for every aspect of college football and basketball. Colleges accept portal transfers without looking at a transcript and the new football player (money maker) is admitted to the institution without a second of scrutiny, in a way that a regular student never would be. Duke and Kentucky have brought in one and done basketball players for years, knowing that their future lottery draft picks will never complete their final quarter of their freshman year, nor will they graduate. So, why should graduation rates matter, why pretend that they do? if college football is nothing more than the NFL's developmental league, which seems to be the case, then college football is nothing more than a business designed to make all of it's participants money, nothing more? I think it would be refreshing to just honestly admit it.
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