I'd love to know the mysterious classes and cake walk major that allowed a football player who doesn't take full-time classes during the season to earn enough credits to graduate in 3 years.
THAT is the 1st joke - the second is watching your mom cry that you couldn't enjoy fake graduation day.
Most players take a full-time course load during the season. You have to schedule it right so that the harder/more time consuming courses are in the Spring. But yeah, I get skeptical of a major that can be done in 3 years. Computer Science took me 4 1/2 years.
The typical undergrad takes 12-15 credit hours per semester. Football players, due to the proliferation of offseason strength and conditioning programs now take summer classes quite often. Let's say this young man took 15 hours per semester. That's 30 per year, and 90 in three years. Combine that with 3 summers of 12 hours a piece(6 per summer term, most schools do two), that's 126 hours, which is more than enough at most schools(120 is the minimum). That's not including classes he may have tested out of, or any AP/IB credits he pulled. Let's also not forget that some people do take online classes, which are easier to stack. Alabama probably has a lenient credit transfer policy, which means it would be easy for this guy to knock out some prereqs at a community college(online) and have them count. It would be hard for someone in a STEM to pull off graduating in three years, especially at a school like Miami, where they rarely take AP credit, and online courses are nonexistent. That said, this young man probably isn't majoring in a STEM, and is most likely doing something like business or something, which makes this quite plausible. He's doing this at Alabama, not Miami, not Vanderbilt. Alabama.
All that said, this is a freaking joke. In a college athletics landscape where coaches can bail at the drop of a dime, a player who graduated should be free to go wherever he wants for his last year. This is another example of Saban being a dictator, and a hypocrite. If there was some outstanding player at UGA that wanted to transfer to Bama, he would certainly stand up and fight for that kid. Let's be honest, this is a bit player, wanting to transfer. Let him go, and then beat the living tar out of him if you face UGA down the road. Saban probably knows that kid better than he knows himself, you know him and Kiffin would abuse the living **** out of him in a championship game situation.
