WSJ: Grid of shame deems BYU powerhouse but less admirable than UofU

Recommended by Blaze Bullock, Deseret News

Published: Friday, Aug. 31 2012 3:28 p.m. MDT

With the college football season starting Thursday, the Wall Street Journal made a grid rating every major college football team on how good the team should be this season and the amount of shame it has brought to its fans.

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Summary

The shame scale factors in NCAA rules-related scandals, player misconduct, financial state and academic performance. BYU is rated better in the powerhouse rankings than U of U, but the Utes are considered more admirable than the Cougars, according to the Wall Street Journal grid.

Vanderbilt is considered the most admirable school on the list with Stanford shortly behind. However, Stanford is considered more of a powerhouse than Vanderbilt.

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Read more about the grid of shame on the Wall Street Journal.

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atl134

Salt Lake City, UT

Well the two schools have been virtually tied if you average their final Sagarin ranking positions over the past half five years (Utah leads by only an average of 1-2 positions a year, a rather trivial difference). I would have to think their More..

4:20 p.m. Aug. 31, 2012
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Caprice

PROVIDENCE, UT

Great article! It was enlightening to read about the grid of shame or the shame scale. Very interesting that the Wall Street Journal deemed BYU a powerhouse but less admirable than the U of U. It will be amusing to see if the two schools live up to More..

5:06 p.m. Aug. 31, 2012
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sammyg

Springville, UT

Pretty lame to waste a reader's time with an article that you have to subscribe to the WSJ to read.

3:36 p.m. Aug. 31, 2012
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