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  1. 11 hours ago, utee94 said:

    We've had our own issues, like an assistant coach who got involved with a chubby trainer, Case McCoy's video escapades, and of course Ol Freak Nasty.

    But at least none of them were murderers.

     

     

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    seriously you are going to just leave this one out...

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  2. I thought 32-5 Tech over TSU was a real shit kicking, but losing 18-1 as Clemson to Kennesaw State is really shitty too.....Xavier mist feel really shitty because Clemson stomped them in 3 games to open the season

    the Tech game there were really not any out of control innings (well 6 runs is pretty out of control I guess), but there were several 6 run innings

    and just looking aggy has one of the shittiest OOC schedules I have seen in a long time

    3 games with See You Later McNesse State

    1 Incarnate Word

    3 Wagner

    1 Lamar

    2 ASU

    1 USC (this and the above ASU in a tournament)

    1 Texas

    1 TSU

    3 Rhode Island

    1 Sam Houston

    1 PVAMU

    1 Houston Baptist

    1 Texas State

    1 UTSA

    1 Air Force

    1 UH

    1 Tarleton

    1 Rice

    if you say that Texas State, Rice, and Sam Houston are "good opponents" (they all three can be) other than that you have Texas, ASU, and USC.....and out of all of those only ASU is more than a single game none are a series......hopefully a bunch of those teams are able to rework their pitching to have one of their better starters face aggy for those single games that would be really funny....of course the alternative is aggy wins most of those, gets the shit kicked out of them in conference, and falls on their ass being unprepared for the NCAAs

     

  3. 3 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    strong systems lobby on behalf of their constituents

    weak systems don't have a flagship that lobbies for their constiuents

    let's go clockwise around the state

    the amount of lobbying done by aggy on behalf of:

    aggy texarkana: 0

    aggy commerce: 0

    aggy prairie view: 0

    aggy corpus: 0

    aggy kingsville: 0

    aggy laredo: 0

    aggy san antonio: 0

    aggy kileen: 0

    aggy stephenville: 0

    aggy canyon: 0

    the aggy lobbying score stands at zero, point, zero.

    I realize to a degree you are poking at aggy, but sadly that is in fact a reality

    aggy at one time was doing some OK things for TAMU-K with the Kleberg Institute, but then they started to pull some of that back....they have taken things from them with horticulture, and they have screwed them in engineering too.....they straight fucked them on the Erma Lerma Derma Herma Rangel Pharmacy School

    they ignored WTAMU until Tech went for a vet school and then suddenly they tried to pour money up there for a "collaboration"

    they do jack shit for Commerce and Laredo......now that SA is open and they got a campus for it they have done jack shit for it.....TAMU-CT was just a grab for "area" and was never needed

    PVAMU just plods along and as long as they do better than the shit show that TSU is well then PVAMU is "doing just fine"

    Texarkana is a fucking after thought......they are fucking off masses of money in another "area grab" for Fort Worth and whatever "system center" bullshit they put there

    Tarleton was an after thought too, but for some reason they are getting some resources......Corpus is the only one that really gets major attention it seems and I believe that is because it would be easy for the politicians there to look and say "Kingsville aggy" and "this area nothing UT"......well except the UT Marine Sciences Institute that is right there in the area and the Harte endowment is a lot of money they do not want to lose access to....it would be easy for them to fuck that off, but the citizens of Corpus have called them out before and with Galveston already there as a marine facility for aggy and with the UT Marine Sciences right there by Corpus and Kingsville as an aggy system campus.....well fuck around too much and it could be UT-CC

    really where aggy fucked up badly there was not-so-sharp failing with a merger of Kingville and CC  which would have made a really nice university with a lot of quality and complementary programs.....it really would have been a better merger than UT-B and UT-Pan Am when it came to fit and future possibilities........but not-so-sharp is a fucking idiot and did not sell it and of course did not offer shit to incentivize it and the Kingsville residents saw it as a way they were definitely going to get fucked like they always do and the Corpus residents saw it as a way they would start getting fucked like Kingsville

    the problem is not-so-sharp is not a system chancellor he is a fucking cock gobbling college station idiot that looks over the shoulder of presidents of college station and fucks around and stifles them and runs them off....and all the other system schools get "promotions from within the system" which means loyal yo college station people that even if they are good people they just take the "title" the money, and ride the job into retirement and repeat 

    the second shittiest run system is UH for some of the same reasons on a smaller scale.....including the dual "chancellor/president" position

    the third shittiest is north Texas state that has been hijacked by city of dallas fuck heads that steal state higher ed dollars for "spend in our area hey look some janitor jobs in dallas proper" bullshit.....and they fuck the Denton campus over in the process and they leave TCOM alone, but they also do not do jack shit for TCOM......the UT System would be well served to make a move on TCOM and take it away and merge it in with UTA and also offer a MD degree in addition to the DO degree and ramp up the research and them merge UTSW in with UTD

    I believe sooner than later the UT System will be lobbying The State of Texas to amend the funding formula for medical schools so that there is not a funding penalty for a medical school being under the administration of a 4 year university

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  4. 8 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Their schedule is pretty favorable. They avoid Georgia, Bama and Ole Miss. Get LSU, Notre Dame and Texas at home. Of course, they always have the 3 auto wins in non-con against creampuffs.

    Their road schedule is South Carolina, Mississippi State, Auburn, Florida and Arkansas in Arlington. Not exactly scary.

    I'm not saying they are sniffing the playoff or anything but 8-4 is doable with that schedule if Weigman actually stays healthy. 

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    hey fuck face what are they chopped liver?

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  5. On 2/9/2024 at 9:46 AM, markstanco said:

    Army is the most shocking one on that list TBH.  You would think they were 95+.

    Army probably has a few more students that end up not wanting to live the cadet life vs Navy or Air Force and with the ease of transferring now I think they probably lose more transfers than Navy or Air Force....but I would think their graduation rate would be in the 90s like you did

  6. On 2/8/2024 at 9:40 AM, YGIFS said:

    the AAU and Carnegie Mellon committees actually do use that term as well as a few systems themselves.  It even appears in legislative bills in some states.  It's an actual term of art that some take very serious.  Even here in Texas, UTIMCO and THECB will refer, in the official minutes, to the University of Texas at Austin, as simply "The Flagship."  Same with Berkeley and their System President.  Since most states have only 1 or 2 systems, it's not a terribly important differentiator, but about half use it in some form or fashion in a legal sense.  Texas, being fucking goofy, has 6 (or effectively 7 systems now)...so while each System has its own "Flagship" (Texas Tech-Lubbock, A&M-CS, Texas State-San Marcos, et. al.)...the main public bodies overseeing them (THECB, UTIMCO, and a few others) refer to UT as "The Flagship", even outside our system.  Obviously, it bothers the fuck outta Aggies but we don't write the laws or investment policies.  

    I mean take a look at New York.  Kind of an important state right?  Lots of smart people.  Lots of money.  Well, their flagship is SUNY-Stony Brook.  You know that school that you cross off in our NCAA office bracket every few years as a #14 seed.  Although they are legally marked as their state System Flagship (along with Buffalo campus) unlike jackass Aggies, they don't go around talking about it at sports press conferences, because they don't have an inferiority complex to SUNY-Binghamton or CUNY-Queens College. 

    https://web.archive.org/web/20090202101557/http://cio.chance.berkeley.edu/chancellor/sp/flagship.htm

    former UT President Robert M. Berdahl talks about flagships here ^^^

    and Texas State is not actually a flagship for several reasons.....the main reason being that the Texas State University System is what is known as a "weak system" they do not have a flagship and all of the universities in the system lobby the legislature on their own for their funding needs instead of the system doing it for them....all of the other systems in Texas are "strong systems" with a flagship university and the system lobbies the legislature on behalf of the universities for funding needs

    in addition Texas State is not the oldest university in the system and until recently they offered very few doctoral degree programs and Lamar and Sam Houston offered more of those programs and graduated more doctoral degree holders.....Texas State is by far the largest in the system though, but that is probably the least relevant criteria......in all the other "strong systems" in Texas is is pretty clear what one is the flagship without a doubt and generally that one meets all of the criteria of being the largest, the clear research university, the oldest, and the one offering most if not all of the doctoral and professional degrees

    I think that TWU is back to calling themselves a "system" again they did for a number of years and then they didn't for a number of years....and I think they do again now....which is pretty dumb considering that I am 99% sure that all of their degrees are accredited under the Denton campus and nothing in Houston or dallas has it's own accreditation.....I think it depends on the ego of who is in charge there and possibly on "funding mechanisms" and getting money for "system operations" that cover admin cost that would not be covered as just a single university 

    in New York in the past Buffalo, Binghamton, and Albany were "cornerstone" universities in addition to Stony Brook, but in 2022 their governor shitted on Binghamton and Albany and stated that Stony Brook and Buffalo would be called flagships and all the others would "have their strengths leaned into" (which I think most people see as get fucked) 

    that area of the country has always been a bit weird about public education though because they have so many strong private schools that are so much older than many of their public schools that they have let their public schools kind of plod along and be looked at as decent "back up schools" or "well Rutgers it is" (or UMass, UConn, SUNY-(whichever) etc.)

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  7. they should have solidified their football program as the west coast version of aggy and gone "full jimbo" on Deion.....I think $12 million per year guaranteed for 10 years would have gotten is done

    they also could have done one final "PAC 12" type hire and gone after David Shaw or Clay Helton.....the PAC 12 loves retreads and conference coaching inbreeding more than even the SEC SEC SEC

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