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As graduation gets underway at The University of Alabama this weekend, the school said more than 100 Crimson Tide student-athletes are celebrating earning their degrees during the spring semester.
Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa is among the trio of football standouts from championship teams — which also includes Shyheim Carter and Bo Scarbrough — who will go through commencement ceremonies this weekend after earning their degrees earlier this year. Alabama Athletics’ website states Carter graduating with a master’s degree.
This also includes a seven-time NBA champion, an NCAA champion, 16 All-Americans, and three Academic All-Americans as well as 31 who earned master’s degrees, Alabama Athletics said in a news release.
“Seven-time NBA Champion Robert Horry, who played for the Crimson Tide from 1989-92, is returning to the Capstone after earning his bachelor’s degree this spring,” the release states. “The [Alabama native] led Alabama men’s basketball to three Southeastern Conference tournament titles and two Sweet 16 finishes in the NCAA Tournament, before going on to win more NBA championship rings than any player not to have played on the 1960s Boston Celtics.”
A few members of last year’s basketball team will also get degrees including John Petty, Alex Reese, and Jordan Bruner. The trio will walk along with December grad Herbert Jones, AL.com reports.
The full list of Alabama Athletics graduates can be seen here.
College football is in trouble as long as Saban is there. Crazy to see their hoops team doing so well also. Kind of reminds me of Florida like in the Tim Tebow days.
Pretty amazing in that what Saban wants, Saban gets. Saban lost Jamies Winston to FSU over having shitty baseball facilities. He said never again. Look at bama now and they have amazing baseball facilities. He also does pretty damn good at getting upperclassmen to stay till graduation. A few more get away early these days, but that’s because bama is so well stocked, he can afford it. An embarrassment of riches there.
That’s interesting about Winston. Didn’t know that. Money talks though, and Bama athletics brought in 189.3 in 2020. I’d imagine you could upgrade quite a bit with that.
My daughter graduated from bama, with great academic scholarships. My son in law got a full ride as an electrical engineer. They invest a lot of that football profits in academics. Lots of smart northern kids going to Bama.
These rype of stories shod get a lot of play instead of the constant focusing on hoodlums who resist arrest. Horry returning for a degree,, Scarborough, Tua…that’s great.