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  1. Speaking of crappy SEC officiating, the Razorbacks did themselves no favors yesterday with some bonehead plays, but they were in it the whole game - until the refs decided they shouldn’t be. 18 penalties for 193 yards vs. 4 penalties for 30 yards for Miss. State.

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    Arkansas (2-7, 0-5 SEC) was penalized 18 times for 193 yards — both single-game program records. The Razorbacks had 15 penalties for 158 yards after halftime. 

    Mississippi State (5-4, 1-4) was penalized 4 times for 30 yards as it snapped its 16-game SEC losing streak.  

    Arkansas interim coach Bobby Petrino was clearly upset with the officiating after the game. 

    “Are you trying to get me fined?” Petrino said when asked if the officials were overzealous. “I do want to say something but I can’t. That’s how they handcuff you. I’ll just say watch the video.” 

     

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  2. 2 hours ago, mdmost said:

    Yes, the Common app is pretty easy at figuring out who needs what. We sent her scores out a couple weeks ago through the College Board site even though a lot are test optional. There's a checklist the Common app gives on what you need to turn in and what's optional. Though it feels like optional is not really optional unless it's not going to help their application. Our guy said to send her scores to all but two of the colleges she wants to apply to. One was a head scratcher because that school is test neutral and said a score would not be counted against you if you submitted it. He said her school would be on the low end of what they get which is still funny to me as her score is better than 92% of the people who took the SAT. 

    We plan to apply to these Nov 1st schools by Thursday. We had planned on applying early to UT but when we took the tour on Columbus Day they said don't apply early unless you are completely done and ready because applying early had no bearing on getting in or not it just meant you'd get a decision faster. 

    We did an open house of UT-Dallas on Saturday. She has a direct admission offer from them through Common and it would save us some money if she lived at home for the first year. I really want her to go out of the city though, just for her to grow as a person. We are facing the very real possibility that maybe she's just not ready. She's applied to North Texas and was accepted already. I think she just wanted that as a backup. UTD would be fine for her as she could double major in psychology and child development. They told her it would just be one additional course since both are under the Psychology department and share most of the same coursework. She wants to be a child/teen therapist. The direct admission offer is confusing. She's not admitted if she applies. She just doesn't have to turn in the personal essay, counselor recommendation, and teacher evaluations/other recommendations. The admissions person we talked to said they'll just flag her application when it comes in so she's put in the highly considered pile. 

    As a side note, I'm curious why UTD is not part of the UT system's CAP program.

  3. 8 minutes ago, safe sex said:

    I think the biggest obstacle to decent schools is funding, staffing, and paying the staff appropriately. We could at least try it for once.

    Abbott, Morath and the Leg have made that very difficult.  So the districts then turn to TREs and bonds, which then the GOP machinery goes into motion to fight.  It's happening in several DFW-area districts right now for the upcoming election.  Richardson ISD has never had a bond voted down in over half a century, but it may well happen this time.

  4. On 10/15/2025 at 8:34 PM, bluto said:

    they better be careful or Ohare will get his ass lickers on council to name it David duke blvd as bo French and mercy culture cheer on. 

    Bo French is the worst person to come out of TarCo/FW in a long time, and that is quite a distinction given the competition from Tim O’Hare and some other real winners in past years.

  5. 1 hour ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    Haven't been to El Fenix probably since LL baseball days, went tonight, was honestly pretty damn happy with it. Fast & hot, $2 draft Modelo pints. 

    Their chips are definitely from a bag now though, I knew going in that was a popular more recent complaint. 

    I had the Wednesday special at the DT Dallas location about a month ago and it was the best meal I’ve had there in a long time. 

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  6. GoFundMe scraped public IRS data to create donation pages for over 1.4m U.S. nonprofits - including their logos and options for ongoing monthly donations - without their consent.  They stood to make millions off of platform fees until a couple folks noticed it and raised a stink.  

    https://abc7news.com/post/gofundme-created-14-million-donation-pages-nonprofits-bay-area-organizations-had-no-clue/18013410/

    They've now reversed course on the suggested 15-17% "platform tip" default - but otherwise acting like it's all just normal.

    https://thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles/breaking-gofundme-reversing-course-on-nonprofit-pages/

  7. 20 minutes ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    Ian Johnson 

    Just coming here to say this.  He's alive and well and seems to be doing fine - still married with kids, running a State Farm office, etc.  

     

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  8. Man, he was soooo smooth.

    I was a P1 of the Questlove Supreme podcast (also RIP), and he talked so frequently on there over the years about his time with D'Angelo and how formative those experiences were (especially making 'Voodoo').  This has got to hit him hard. 

  9. I am so, so, so utterly tired of this performative bullshit from our AG.  And now that whole Turning Point media ecosystem is dogpiling TCU (and their obsession on X with this week's in-person Pride events honestly makes me worried for their safety a bit).  https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2025-10-02/texas-ag-paxton-to-investigate-tcu-over-turning-point-event-school-says-was-not-booked

     

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    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he intends to “look into” TCU after a conservative activist alleged the university discriminated against her for her talking points.

    Chloe Cole, 21, wrote on X that Texas Christian University canceled an event by the school’s Turning Point USA chapter where she was scheduled to speak. However, school officials said the Oct. 7 event was never canceled because it was not booked in the first place.

    Kathy Cavins-Tull, vice chancellor for student affairs, said in a statement that the university’s Turning Point chapter requested the university host the event after an unaffiliated party invited Cole to appear on the campus on that date. The requested space was already booked for another student event, she said.

    University officials explored options to accommodate the event and notified the group Sept. 25 that a secure space was not available given the short notice, Cavins-Tull said. School officials offered to find another date or space for the event, she added.

     

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  10. 17 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Top 10 based upon rankings.  #11 if you go off US news.

    He wasn't going to get into Texas and didn't want aggy.  It's a really pretty campus, tucked in the mountains and it's only about 5 hours from DFW.  Based upon his GPA he got significant tuition reciprocity.  Meaning he paid a little over AR in-state as a kid from TX.  He loves it.  I want to say more than half the student body are from Texas.  If you're kid is into Greek life, it's off the charts as well.  

    Ton of money pouring into NW AR.  Bentonville/Rogers area is a booshie as you can imagine.  If you are into the outdoors - hiking/fishing/boating/mountain biking, it's got prime locations

    Another thing I'm learning as a UA parent is that there is a LOT of resentment from the rest of the state towards the growth and success of NW Arkansas.  A prime example is all the butthurt in Little Rock and the eastern part of the state over the end of their half a century plus of playing some home games at War Memorial, which has a great gametime atmosphere but is a total dump, and costs the school millions in lost ticket revenue and logistics costs every time they play there instead of on campus.  

  11. 3 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    I get that it is personal for people who send their kids to these places. I paid for the entire experience of ATM for a child when it was a better academic institution than the diploma mill it has become and I still feel the need to defend its academics occasionally because of that. That said, objectively, the academic rep and the talent output for business-related degrees suck at Arkansas. I've hired Arkansas grads over the years and I am related to two more, one of whom is grant-winning and published MD, and I stand by that position. The rankings all agree. 

     

    I've hired grads from blueblood schools that were terrible, and I've hired folks who went to small directional schools who were fantastic.  So, YMMV.   Anyway, back to football. :) 

  12. 3 minutes ago, scramblyn said:

    we are talking about football players on this thread. not a student's experience, however, putting my extreme bias against UA aside, see below.

    I 100% acknowledged UA is on the rise. my "I don't give a fuck" about their academics was in relation to talking about football players experience. My kids are avoiding SEC all together so it's not something I will start caring about, but suffice it to say, a lot of UT Exes who have sent their kids to UA have a very similar view as you do.

    That's fair.  And I will also say that over our visits up there the past couple years, we've totally fallen in love with the whole Northwest Arkansas region (the hiking/MTB opportunities alone are fantastic), to the point that I would be fine to throw in the towel on the Dallas suburban rat race and relocate up there if I had fewer commitments to keep me here for now.

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  13. 9 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I give a fuck about academics. And I care about academics for my kid when he's going to go to college. I can't speak to anyone else's thoughts and experiences as a parent, but it matters to me and mine. What a dumb statement. 

    If you're definition of "top notch" is a college campus that isn't hideous and kids can get fucking laid, well, I guess we can just agree to have different standards. 

    Well, my kid is in his first year there, in the honors college and Fulbright College of arts/sciences, and so far those classes have been a rigorous and engaging academic experience for him.  Their acceptance rate in low-to-mid 70s puts them in the middle of the pack in SEC (on par with Mizzou, LSU, OU, etc.) and the % of accepted applicants choosing to go there is rising, so I imagine you'll see the acceptance rate drop in the next decade.  So no, it's not Vandy or UT, but it is definitely improving in that area.  

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  14. 1 minute ago, texifornia said:

    Their AD publicly said their football organizational setup isn't national championship caliber. They need a guy that can really rally the boosters and has some CEO to him.

    I think the AD said that to wake up a lot of their big money folks to the fact that they’re gonna have to step up in a way they have not previously - and build a new NIL structure.

  15. This doesn't seem great.  I agree the Tx Dems need a new strategy, but this is a lot of institutional knowledge and experience out the door a year before the midterms.

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    Six months into his tenure as chair of the Texas Democratic Party, Kendall Scudder is moving the party’s headquarters from Austin to his hometown of Dallas, prompting an exodus of top staff and throwing the party into a state of upheaval ahead of a critical midterm election, according to interviews with over a dozen people familiar with the dynamics.

    Every member of the party’s top staff, including the executive director, chief of staff and two communications staffers, is departing after Scudder required them to agree to move to Dallas by November — or else be laid off. A fifth top staffer has already quit, and more departures among the seven other staffers are expected.

    https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2025-09-25/texas-democratic-partys-move-to-dallas-prompts-top-staff-exodus-roils-organization-ahead-of-2026

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