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Pancho

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  1. Another thing they tell us when reffing is to “mirror calls” meaning if you let 2-3 things go in the 1st quarter you’ve got to let that go in the 4th quarter. That foul (sure, it was a foul) wasn’t called a lot in this game. Also, Clark had a blatant—and i mean blatant—push off when she did a drive and pop in the paint either earlier in that quarter or in the 3rd and it went uncalled. I was actually shocked because of how blatant it was. But even if you think that UConn player flopped on the Clark push off, then you have to acknowledge the Iowa player faking that contact in that final second situation. It’s going to be a major Iowa fan advantage, so Sunday could get interesting.
  2. Well the amount of fans on this site who supported the foul call would have said “YOU CAN’T CALL THAT AT THIS POINT IN THE GAME!” Had the jerseys said Texas instead of UConn.
  3. You should have been the bigger person and done this months ago. You were just as immature and are to blame as well.
  4. So then the question is this—is the rest of sports America just sick of Clark because I’ve seen no one in thousands of posts defend this call. I’m a ref and even I was like this when Gina made that call:
  5. Why would Buzz leave A&M? He made it well known he wanted to get back to Texas for him and his family. A&M isn’t firing him any time soon as they have no basketball history and don’t give 2 shits about basketball.
  6. I mean we are coming up on nearly 20 years since Tennessee last won a NC. I'm not sure what they are expecting but Pat is not coming up from the ground any time soon...
  7. You can’t “easily argue” that Arkansas has a better history than Texas—they just straight up have a better history. No sane Texas fan would argue otherwise.
  8. I bet the over for UConn/Iowa I don’t think either of them will beat Souf Carolina tho…
  9. Well, let me be clear—yet again: K-12 is underfunded and college tuition is out of control because of 1 main, huge, giant reason—their state governments are purposely underfunding them and have been for decades. This has been happening in *certain* states for a long, long time.
  10. They don’t start over if someone is out.
  11. Because our society as a whole is dumb as fuck.
  12. The structure of higher ed has changed. I’m not sure if you’re in higher ed or just going by when you were in college. Degree plans have changed to be more streamlined and more Pathway oriented. As I have mentioned not only in reply to you before but on this board in general, this has resulted in some departments having to justify their existence or restructure their degree plans to keep up with what’s happening. Also, you’re starting to see more programs implement Capstone Projects and more Service Learning regardless of the discipline/program/major. This is a huge change. This used to be for more Workforce programs, but the For Credit/Academic programs are starting to do this. And yes, the occasional History credit for bio majors or Comm credit for Nursing majors is definitely necessary. As far as attendance is concerned, there is all sorts of research that shows higher attendance in class equates to more student success. While you personally may not have needed to go to class, that doesn’t apply to everyone. The average student needs to be in class as it allows them to learn in different ways via active learning and get questions answered they normally wouldn’t have. Also, I’ve had students tell me the friends they’ve made in the class helped with with other classes than mine, helped them find jobs, helped them find their best friend, or helped them through encouragement. You also shouldn’t forget—an element of this is also where you grew up, your educational background from the time you were little until high school, your access to study tools/tutors in high school, etc. Most students don’t have that. That could be a big reason why you didn’t need to go to class. I have way more stories of students who tried the “I don’t need to come to class and will still pass” but ended up with a F in the class than I do for those who didn’t come to class and made an A (and I knew they’d make an A).
  13. I was reffing high school ball in Austin in 2006. There was a girls basketball tournament at Hays, and Mulkey’s daughter’s team was in it. Sure enough, she comes waltzing in and the entire arena just stared. She was the loudest mofo in the gym screaming at the refs every chance she got. It was my game off so I was watching some friends ref until my next game. She never let up. Her daughter picked up a charge and she yelled as loud as possible “THATS HORRIBLE, THAT WASN’T A DAMN CHARGE!” And I don’t think my friend blew his whistle the rest of the game. This was me in the stands:
  14. For a family vacation? Nope. You say yes to this, then I have approve every other similar request coming in after that. For a college function, medical reason, religious reason, military reason, or government duty? Yes—but I made exceptions on a case by case basis. It also comes with knowing the student and their credibility. I’ve let students take exams (regular or finals) or do speeches early a few times when I taught—one was pregnant and was having major complications (she did her exams and speech in the hospital bed), one student had to get chemo treatments and a few times it was during my class time, one student got a really good job with an oil company and they needed him to start a certain day, and one student got called to Active Duty (he was scared and started crying in front of me…felt really bad. He struggled on the major speech but was a great student. Should have gotten a B in the class but I gave him an A). The student who got chemo during my class, well I found out the next semester she passed over the summer. That was my first. I was really, really in shock for a few days.
  15. I had a student who told me her and her family were going to Europe on vacation and asked to take the exam when she returned. This was in October. I told her no as taking a vacation during the school year isn’t an excused absence in my class. She whined about how that was the time where the tickets were the cheapest so it was the only time they could book. I said “was it really THE ONLY TIME you could book? You don’t get special treatment because you consciously chose to take a vacation during the school year. You have to accept responsibility for your actions, that’s how life works.” Ultimately, I let her make up her exam but with a 50% late penalty attached to the final grade. She made a 23. She dropped the class a week later.
  16. in higher ed, we’re noticing students come to class for the first 6-7 weeks then just stop coming. This is nationwide. And they still expect a passing grade in the class even when they’ve missed the last 9-10 weeks of the course.
  17. *I work in higher ed Here are the reasons we are seeing for student increases in absences and the thousands of students who just haven’t returned post pandemic: - Need to work to provide for themselves - Need to take care of family - Mental health/anxiety/depression - Thought they can just take the class online and it will be easier (a la Zoom class during the pandemic) - Outside influences telling them there’s no need to go to college or for an education - Faculty aren’t working with them when they explain their plights (I’ve reamed out a few faculty for this) - Cost - No idea what they want to do in life so they don’t do anything The enrollments post-pandemic still haven’t recovered in both K-12 and higher ed. I can’t speak too much on it because it’s not my area of expertise (but I do deal with dual credit so I speak with high schools all the time), but something I’m noticing is the rise in homeschooling. This has been the case since around 2018.
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