The University of Alabama's vaunted football team is so good at beating up its opponents on the gridiron that students often leave home games early, much to the chagrin of legendary head coach Nick Saban.So the school has come up with a unique -- and some say creepy -- idea: Starting this season, the university offers an app the students can download onto their phones which tracks their location. That way the school would know if they left the game early, The New York Times reports.
Privacy concernsThe use of the app brings up lots of privacy concerns. CNN reached out to the university for comment on that and hadn't heard back yet. But Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne told the Times it really shouldn't be an issue because students can either close the app or delete it once they leave the stadium. Alabama doesn't have problems getting students to stick around to the end of exciting Southeastern Conference games.
I know there are bigger issues for y’all to report than an uninformed narrative on colleges’ football attendance methods ? I dunno
DanHuff23 love to see it
Tracking them like a hurricane?
It’s a rewards app.. totally voluntary
Whoop, there goes Democracy
WTF? Authoritarian, Dictator
smartereveryday 👀
Completely normal behavior
That's disturbing.
What, I would not get there in the first place. What happens to the freedom. And what happen if one jump the fence out.
It's Alabama,what did you expect?
These seems very typical of Alabama
Alabama needs to focus less on football and a little more on progressing past the 1950’s. 🤷🏼♀️
It’s a free country right?
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