As a sophomore last season, Mark Ingram became the first Heisman winner in the storied history of Alabama football.
Most observers have assumed that, if Ingram turns in yet another stellar performance during his junior year, he will leave a year of eligibility on the table and make the early leap into the draft.
While that may ultimately end up being the case, the back was in no mood to discuss what might happen seven months from now, especially as there’s a national championship to defend before any decision on his future is made.
“My main focus right now is being the best player I can be for this team and helping this team win games and win another championship,” Ingram said according to the Birmingham News. “Anything else is not necessary to talk about.
“Like I said, my main focus is just to every single day get better as a player and help this team win games.”
After the Penn State game, no one will talk abotu Ingram! 12 carries 27 yds, 1 fumble!
I hope he leaves early so we get a glimpse at his Wonderlic score, and thus, Alabama academics.
Ingram is a retard with no neck.
Sometimes the idiocy on these sites makes me wonder how humans have survived so long.
funi, if the reigning Heisman winner has a sorry game, everyone talks about him.
CleanSlaton, Wonderlic scores don’t say anything about a school’s academic program. But posting that a guy is a “retard” provides an excellent glimpse of your intellect.
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Reporter: So, Ingram, your junior season is still months away, but once it’s over, think you’ll skip your final year … assuming you don’t tear your ACL, etc.?
Ingram: Yeah. Screw this season. I’m just thinkin’ about that NFL contract.
Ask a stupid question …
I personally dont even think he is the best back on the team.
Deborah-
I’m an electrical engineer for the DOD with a master’s degree in materials physics. Consider your shot at my intelligence refuted.
Wonderlic scores DO say something about a school’s academic program, as would any other test of intellect. That particular test would only not apply to intellect if he took the test before & after college– without his respective scores changing. Also, starting a sentence with the preposition ‘But’ is poor grammar; it provides an excellent glimpse into your intellect, douche.
Ingram wasn’t even the best RB on his team last year, Trent Richardson was. Alabama’s O-line made Ingram; he will be a bust in the SEC next season and in the NFL, eventually. Take a look at how Heisman winning RB’s occasionally proliferate at the next level. However he performs, it still won’t grow that retard a neck. [Listen to some of his interviews and then disagree that he shouldn't be in special ed. Try me.]
CleanSlaton,
Way to deliverthe first round knockout!!!
CleanSlaton …
My user name is Deb. Obviously reading comprehension is not required for a master’s degree in materials physics. I have a bachelor’s degree in journalism and scored in the top 3 percent of the nation on the English portion of the Graduate Records Exam. That, in addition to my other qualifications, earned me a full scholarship to Vanderbilt to pursue a master’s in special education. Unfortunately, I was unable to execute that plan due to multiple cancer diagnoses that kept me tied to my health insurance. However, publishers pay me a great deal of money to write and edit books. And I’ve won several awards for my work.
Neither “and” nor “but” is a preposition. Apparently they didn’t teach parts of speech in your degree program. Those are conjunctions. The backward notion that it’s improper to start a sentence with a conjunction is a child’s rule of grammar professionals break for the sake of rhythm and transition. Clearly you don’t read much or you’d know that practice has been commonplace for many, many, many years.
Um … tests of intellect test intellect. They do not test the academic standards of an institution. The intellect test of a single individual would say nothing about the academic qualities of an institution that has served thousands of students during his enrollment. To attempt to judge the academic standards of the institution, you would have to give multiple students the same test prior to enrollment, then test them again after graduation and compare the scores. Even then, the results would be flawed unless the students took the same courses taught by the same instructors. Did you say your degree is in the sciences? Oh my.
Mark Ingram’s performance last year was sufficient to earn the Heisman. If you disagree, complain to the voters. I’m allergic to sour grapes. Yes, we are fortunate to have more than one excellent running back. The success record of Heisman winners in the NFL has nothing to do with Mark Ingram’s IQ or Alabama’s academic standards. Apparently DOD electrical engineers have tremendous difficulty making logical progressions.
“Retard,” “douche,” “special ed,” “prepositions” … well, thank you for reinforcing my original assessment. I just wish you hadn’t told me you work for the Defense Department.
@SoFlaTrojan …
You really aren’t very bright, are you?
What is with the idea from people outside of the SEC thinking it bothers Alabama fans when you say Ingram isn’t even the best back on the team? Everyone I know agrees and its not too heartbreaking to know the lesser back won a Heisman and they’ve got an even better one on the way. Not to mention, if you read Ingram interviews he himself admits that Richardson is a far better back. So yeah, that’s really not a great argument.
Secondly, a wonderlic says nothing about an academic institution. Leinart and P. Manning made the same score which in turn would mean USC and UT are of equal academics. If that’s the case, everyone can go ahead and stop ragging on SEC schools for being terrible. If G. McElroy takes the Wonderlic he’s most likely going to make a 30+ seeing as how he led his team to a N.C. while graduating in 3 years and getting accepted to graduate school.
There is NOTHING on those tests that take a college education to understand. If anything the quality of a player’s H.S. is more to blame/praise. I guess Ingram was raised in Michigan as a child prodigy but became “retarded” as soon as he got to UofA…?
I might of meant Sanchez and P. Manning. Oops. Leinart scored a 35. Guess who doesn’t care? The entire Cardinals nation.
Deb,
Why is it that you must always lay out your life story on CFT? You have spoke about being so liberal that they should let you work at the school where you teach. You told us how you are a civil rights activist and how the only person who knows more about pro football than you is your brother. No one cares!!!!
By the way everyone outside of UF and Vandy the SEC is not known for academics. S if CleanSlaton thinks Ingram is a retard let him have his opinion.
I also think its a compliment to Bama to say the Heisman winner is not even the best back on the team. I also think its safe to say that it was a down year for Heisman candidates.
There you go Deb pleaase flame away
Deb,
Why is it that you must always lay out your life story on CFT? You have spoke about being so liberal that they should let you work at the school where you teach. You told us how you are a civil rights activist and how the only person who knows more about pro football than you is your brother. No one cares!!!!
By the way everyone outside of UF and Vandy the SEC is not known for academics. S if CleanSlaton thinks Ingram is a retard let him have his opinion.
I also think its a compliment to Bama to say the Heisman winner is not even the best back on the team. I also think its safe to say that it was a down year for Heisman candidates.
There you go Deb pleaase flame away
Deb,
Deb why is it that you always come on to CFT and tell your life story? We know your so liberal that you feel they shouldnt let you teach our children. We know that you are a civil rights activist and that the only person who knows more about pro football than you is your brother. Nobody cares..this is a college football site not Dr. Phil!!!
If Clean thinks Ingram is a retard let him have his opinion. I also think it s acompliment to Bama to say the Heisman winner is not even the best back on the team. We also all know it was a down year for Heisman candidates.
As far as the SEC goes everybody knows outside of UF and Vandy the conference is not very good academically.
I thinks it awesome that you as a women are so into sports but please quit getting so bitchy!
Poor, SoFlaTrojan … not only intellectually limited, but psychotically repetitive as well.
YOU attacked me. If you don’t want to be scratched, don’t poke the cat.
Yes, it’s a football forum. So glad you noticed. People make smart-ass comments and others respond–a pattern not unique to me. CleanSlaton called Ingram a retard; I responded. Believing an engineering degree qualified him to edit my post, HE launched into his personal biography. And YOU were absolutely DELIGHTED. In fact you PRAISED his “first round KNOCKOUT.” I simply responded in kind.
My my, how quickly they forget … well, some things anyway. You’ve forgotten “everybody knows” is not a valid argument for anything. If you researched, you’d learn Alabama has a fine academic reputation. You’ve forgotten you have NO interest in me. So why try to memorize my posts? You’ve made some personal comments, too. But I never cared to remember them.
And you’ve forgotten the definition of “bitchy.” It means catty and spiteful. That’s exactly how you sound. You’re in a bitchy snit because CleanSlaton’s knockout wasn’t a knockout after all. Maybe you should call Dr. Phil to work through it. The rest of us would like to focus on college football.
SoFlaTrojan:
Who are these everybodies you claim know that the conference is not very good academically? Alabama usually is near or at the top in USA Today Academic All-Americans (even outperforming Harvard), has a Rhodes Scholar at starting quarterback, and is ranked in the top 100 of public universities in the country by US News and World Report. Auburn has been the alma mater of a dozen or so astronauts and is world renouned for its engineering and veterinarial/agricultural programs. While I’m not as familiar with the other schools’ programs, I think that’s two right there that prove the SEC is not the intellectual wasteland you seem to think it is.
Clean:
It does not bother me at all when someone suggests that Trent Richardson is a better back than Mark Ingram. Why should it? The idea that there is someone even better at that spot than the current Heisman winner is a reason for celebration, not insult.
CleanSlaton,
Okay, let’s say we take your word…. that you are intellectually competent. Why do you sound like a “tunnel dweller?” That perplexes me. Like they say, water seeks it own level.
You must be young, and feel a need to impress everyone here. The University of Alabama doesn’t need your stamp of approval.
And I see you keep up with the main stream news by knowing Trent Richardson’s name. If you really want to display your NCAA knowledge, then you would have brought up Eddie Lacy. But you knew that, right? I guess you were going to wait until the mainstream news gets it first, so you wouldn’t look like you were boasting. How modest of you.
Here is an novel idea….. Use that Einstein mind of yours and help defend our country from the e-bomb? Hey, how about cleaning up the massive trash in this country.. starting with refraining from telling us your worthless comments. Everything you stated have been ‘personal” attacks” … not a sign of intelligence.
CleanSlaton,
One more thing.. You posting during working hours ….. Is this good use of my taxpayer money?
Nice Job Deb. Let’s count them up:
1) You pointed out that a CleanSlaton (an electrical engineer for the DOD with a master’s degree in materials physics) decided to speculate on Ingram’s future Wonderlic score and then extrapolate the single result to make a progressive determination based on that single result to judge an entire educational institution. I hope he does not work around explosives.
2) You pointed out that “and” is not a preposition (can you say “Are you smarter than a 5th grader?”) and that it is in no way frowned upon in informal writing. I would guess a comment section applies as informal. Maybe not.
3) And then to top it all off, you pointed out that SoFlaTrojan completely ignored the fact that Clean Slaton poured out his life story to provided a level of credibility to his post (actually I would say SoFlaTrojan lauded his story) while lambasting you for doing the exact same thing.
Although it took you a couple rounds, I say you knocked out two idiots. And by the way Clean Slaton… anyone with any knowledge of the history of intelligence tests would tell you that designers have done everything they could do to take the effects of educational background out of the equation. This was to counteract the eugenics movement that was trying to categorize African Americans as having lower intelligence despite the fact that they had not been given the educational opportunities other ethnic groups were given. There has been a continual effort to make sure these tests look for inherent intelligence, not learned.
HAHA…cleanslaton.
Engineers are stereotypically the social retards of the professional ranks, so its amusing you would have gone there.
Also, its interesting that you would attack a kid that has worked his but off and will graduate this fall. So, he’ll graduate in 3 years as a student-athlete. His academics have always been a priority. He had to maintain a B average to play sports in high school and he has carried that classroom work ethic into college with him.
Couple HTWMI’s academic dedication with his physical and athletic gifts and I can see the root of your bias. I imagine you to be the 130 lb, pimple faced geek that was stuffed in garbage cans throughout most of high school. You took your awesome math nerd skills to college and spent the best years of your life studying away with no social life other than your internet girlfriend. You graduated hoping that the scales of karma would even things out with all of those jocks who abused you in HS as your job/credentials (even if only true in your online fanatsy world) would put you ahead of those fading/aging former athletes. So, it drives you crazy to see a kid like the HTWMI who has the complete package and will forever be your superior comparatively in his own professional realm, sports, and life in general based on your attitude/comments so far in this board.
P.S.: even though I think your degree (if it exists) is most likely from some barely credible on-line course, I LOL’d at the DOD portion because the DOD has been hiring bottom of the barrel engineers ever since the end of the cold war due to funding issues and a preference to outsource R&D to the private sector.
Good luck in life, God bless are troops in harm’s way.
*our troops
@rt9278 …
Thanks
So Deb:
… you’re in publishing? care to elaborate without divulging more than you think is necessary?
@Cornerdenizen …
Moving in another new direction right now. Scary in this economy but exciting.
If I elaborate, SoFlaTrojan will have a hissy fit
Not much else to say. Writer/editor and have worked in various segments of the industry covering widely–and wildly–divergent subjects. (That’s why I seem to have an opinion on everything
How about you?
Deb,
You have permission to speak freely. But you two might have better luck on Eharmony.
@SoFlaTrojan …
Thanks, but if I wanted permission for anything on CFT, I’d ask John.
Do you always assume a sexual connotation when one person asks “What do you do for a living?” and the other politely reciprocates? Maybe you should try Dr. Ruth instead of Dr. Phil.
Deb:
I know Im at risk having professional conversation in these parts.. there is afterall, hatred and bitterness to be dispensed by my man So Fla Trojan.
Very interested in publishing myself. I wrote something for Little, Brown Co. a few years ago and trying to move another manuscript now. That’s why I was wondering if there was a particular house for whom you wrote.
@Cornerdenizen …
Afraid not. In the book line, have specialized in works for hire. Organizations/publishers contract me to write books on various topics. Upside: guaranteed money and you don’t have to worry about marketing. Downside: hirer owns rights. Worked with specific houses as an editor, but editors are on the production team. No contact with acquisitions.
Little, Brown is a major publisher and its parent company, Hachette, is a biggie. If you still have contacts there, it’s a good place to start. But if you’re trying to move a mss, you might want to consider getting an agent–someone who’s paid to keep up w/changes in the industry.
NFL Lockout 2011? I predict alot of Juniors staying, because the lockout won’t happen until March and You have to declare in Feb for the draft right?