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  1. 6 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    I don't know how I feel about the Miami race. Visually, it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. The scenery should be so much better than COTA, which compared to seeing it along side Monaco, Austria, etc., is definitely the "racetrack out by the airport." 

    Nothing says beautiful scenery like an NFL stadium parking lot and suburbs.  Can't wait for those background shots.

  2. I've got no problem scheduling games in cold weather to have a home field advantage.  There was zero reason whatsoever to schedule that game, in that location.  There are dozens of other cities w/ the appropriate stadium and fanbase and cold af temps.  Props to the MN fans though - that's a memory they'll have forever.

  3. Did a search and didn't see them mentioned, but the Meal Simple Parmesan Green Beans are like crack to me.  At least one night a week, I eat a family sized container as my whole dinner.  Spread them out on a baking/cooling rack so they don't get soggy and cook them a little longer for maximum crispiness.  Not good for the cholesterol, sodium or fat, but damn tasty.

    https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e-b-meal-simple-parmesan-green-beans/2543505

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  4. 7 hours ago, ousux said:
    7 hours ago, Dr.Dre said:
    Do the walk ons or scout team guys GPA count toward the average.  Could see a utility for getting some aerospace/chemical engineering/plan ii type walk ons.

    If they're on the roster, sure. There is no rule that says only scholly players count.

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    Why are only scholarship student-athletes included in the APR?

    The membership made the decision to only include scholarship student-athletes in the metric in part to create consistency across the measurements of all schools. There was also an initial concern about the academic success of scholarship student-athletes. The APR came into place to address concerns regarding how student-athletes in certain sports were graduating. Those tended to be the scholarship student-athletes. It’s not that they’re not concerned about walk-ons and their academic success, it’s just that they traditionally have not been a problem.

    https://www.ncaa.org/news/2014/5/27/academic-progress-rate-q-a.aspx

  5. 17 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    Previously CUSA was better than the Sun Belt but over the last few years with their new ESPN contract the Sun Belt became far more desirable.

    True.

    17 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    The Sun Belt made more money and was a better athletic conference in every metric despite CUSA having more big markets.  

    True.

    17 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    Again the Sun Belt had been talking with Southern Miss BEFORE Texas/OU made their move.

    True-ish.  There was some flirting, but there was nothing close to an invitation/defection.  The SBC wasn't going to add an 11th team and not have a 12th.

    17 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    I follow this very closely. 

    Oh, well then by all means, you must be correct.  Certainly no one else might be a little more closely connected to any of the schools involved here, or the people in those conferences that are actually making the decisions.  

    17 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    Both of you are incorrect. 

    lolno. It is humorous how you take several true statements, but ignore others, and come to your own conclusion that isn't based in reality. 

    The premise that multiple conferences and many teams underwent significant realignment completely unrelated to, and only coincidentally in the same couple of months as, a seismic shift at the top of the food chain, is preposterously idiotic.

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  6. 2 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:

    Sun Belt wasn’t affect by Texas/OU.  They had 10 and added more because they wanted to.  Before Texas/OU was a thing there were already rumors about the Sun Belt expanding with Marshall and Southern Miss.  The Sun Belt could have stopped there but they added James Madison and Old Dominion to go to 14.  They didn’t NEED to go to 12 or 14 and nothing about Texas/OU forced them.  The Sun Belt started its own expansion dominoes separately of what occurred between the Big 12/SEC.

    Not even close to accurate.  The Sun Belt was forced to be proactive or have its top teams picked off by CUSA after CUSA had been pillaged by the AAC.  They had to expand to solidify and protect themselves.  Without UT and OU going to the SEC, the SBC stands pat at 10.

  7. 2 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Oh Hoffenheim - they don't even play in Hoffenheim anymore because the town has like 3 people in it, they built their new stadium in the bigger town of Sinsheim down the road. It's like if Texas State had a donor move them to San Antonio.

    eh, no.  Hoffenheim is 5km away by googlemaps, but more like 2km between the edge of either. Hoffenheim is part of Sinsheim.  More like if a Texas State donor moved them to Kyle.

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    Hoffenheim (German pronunciation: [ˈhɔfn̩haɪ̯m] (audio speaker iconlisten)) is a village in Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It belongs to the municipality of Sinsheim and, as of 2020, it has a population of 3,191.

    Sorry - I grew up about an hour from there and that simply didn't sound accurate at all.

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  8. 18 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    I want liveries that make it easy to see numbers. That includes numbers on the halo for the onboard camera. 

    THIS. 

    Mandatory for a minimum of the 3 letter designation for the driver or the number to be on the halo so we know who the hell we're riding with.

    Contrasting color numbers w/ a minimum size on the nose and engine cowling, and they have to be approved by FIA before the season so there's no fuckery.

    Have never understood the idea that I'm supposed to be able to even notice whether the color of the camera pod is black or yellow and then which driver goes w/ which color (the senior driver doesn't always apply).  It doesn't matter anyway, because I can't make it out in time to begin with.

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  9. 4 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Incorrect. And to me, the color was never Marlboro red, but more of a bright orange, so the connection was never made.

    You may want to get those eyes checked.  I suspect you're the only one in the history of ever that saw that paint job and didn't immediately think of a pack of smokes.

     

    https://ateliereaurouge.com/marlboro-livery

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  10. 30 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    With F1, I like national anthems given everyone is from different places and the tracks are worldwide. 

    National anthem before a Tuesday baseball game in late July? Pffft.

    This is where I'm at.  National anthem should be for championships and international competitions only - keep it special.  Never have understood why we need to play/sing the anthem before every middle school rock/paper/scissors competition.  Flyovers are fucking awesome though.  

    21 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    So you older guys, why doesn't McLaren rock that livery anymore, even on a special occasion? The papaya is ok. The special Gulf livery is amazing. Having the throwback white/orange would make heads spin. 

    Is there some reason they retired that scheme? 
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    Though they just slapped the Marlboro name on there but had the livery design themselves.

    Not a dig at all, but if I had to venture, you're under 30?  Are you not familiar w/ a pack of Marlboro reds?

     

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  11. 15 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    I think the main problem the state of TX has is that after UT what schools are really that good to send your kids to compared to a state school like Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, etc…. Assuming your kid doesn’t want to go to College Station that leaves Tech?  Private schools like SMU, Baylor and TCU?  UH?  For such a large state the public colleges kind of suck after UT compared to say a California where the UC system seems to have great schools up and down the state.

    Much of that is perception.  I know a lot of folks here don't want to admit anything good about any school other than UT or in the UT system, and your example of the UC system is certainly valid and correct.  But if you're just going off of Carnegie Tier 1, the state has come a long way:  

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    https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2022/01/12/how-competition-for-top-research-university-status-transformed-texas/

    How competition for top research university status transformed Texas
    Texas now boasts more public Tier 1 research universities than any other state.

    Texas is home to the most public Tier One universities in the nation, after the University of Texas at San Antonio’s recent recognition by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
    Over the last 13 years, our Carnegie Tier Ones have increased from three to 11, the number of undergraduates receiving a first-class education has quadrupled from 81,000 to 316,000, and investment in highest-level research has doubled from $1.3 billion to $2.8 billion.

    Understanding where we were, where we are now and how we got here is key to realizing our bright future.
    At the start of 2009, Texas was not prepared to thrive in the knowledge economy. Businesses wanted top universities to fill high-paying jobs and generate marketable ideas, but our supply of skilled workers and innovations was insufficient. Texas had three Tier Ones, the same number as Indiana. North Texas was the nation’s most populous region without a Tier One. And four of our six largest cities lacked a top tier university to serve as a hub of innovation.

    To add insult to injury, we trailed our biggest rivals: California had eight public and three private Tier Ones and New York City was powered by eight nearby Tier One research universities.
    As 2022 begins, our Tier One landscape has improved dramatically. The University of Houston joined UT in Austin, Rice and Texas A&M as a Tier One in 2011, followed by Texas Tech, UT-Dallas, UT-Arlington and University of North Texas in 2016, UT-El Paso in 2019, and Baylor University and UT-San Antonio in 2021.

    This spring, these universities will teach more than 316,000 undergraduates and conduct more than $2.8 billion in research, four times and two times the 2009 levels, respectively. North Texas is now supported by three Tier Ones, and each of our six major cities has easy access to a Tier One.
    This transformation has been a team effort in pursuit of a shared goal. In the 2009 Legislative Session, Texas passed House Bill 51 and established the Tier One Competition, which was designed to encourage eight emerging research universities to strive toward relevant, measurable and outcomes-based objectives on the road to Tier One status. House Bill 51 also created two funds, the Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP) and National Research University Fund (NRUF), that promised additional resources as institutions reached major milestones on the journey to becoming national research universities.
    Over the last 13 years, the Tier One Competition has made a billion-dollar impact. TRIP, a public-private matching fund, has used $394 million in state dollars to attract $838 million in private gifts. NRUF has distributed nearly $200 million to qualifying universities, even as the NRUF corpus has grown to $797 million.
    More important, four emerging research universities have delivered on House Bill 51′s objectives to become Texas Tier Ones, to meet the state’s standards for sharing the research program funding. The University of Houston and Texas Tech became Texas Tier Ones and gained access to NRUF in 2012, followed by UT-Dallas in 2018 and UT-Arlington in 2021. Now, UT-San Antonio is likely to become a Texas Tier One this year.

    The horizon is bright for even more Tier One universities. For example, Texas State launched a $250 million campaign last year aimed at achieving Tier One recognition, and Prairie View A&M achieved Carnegie’s second highest designation last month. Among private universities, Southern Methodist University has made impressive gains in recent years and is steadily closing in on Tier One status.
    To achieve the vision of Texas becoming the preeminent state for students and research, Texas leaders should consider a pair of prudent investments.

    First, state lawmakers should materially increase the size of NRUF distributions, which they can achieve without touching the fund’s principal. Since 2012, NRUF has averaged allocations of less than $20 million per year — less than the fund’s growth — even as the number of Tier Ones divvying up those dollars has quadrupled. Consequently, while the NRUF corpus has grown by $264 million over the last 13 years, each Texas Tier One received just $6 million last year.
    Second, budget writers should honor our state’s commitment to generous Texans. Since 2017, a queue of IOUs has formed because officials have not appropriated enough funds to TRIP to keep up with private donations Clearing this backlog would invest $247 million in our state’s rising Tier Ones, encourage additional private giving and resharpen a tool that has had massive success in attracting private funds for our state’s emerging public research universities.
    Tier One universities provide our students with an affordable, transformative education and attract and supercharge innovative businesses that help make Texas a global destination for corporate relocations and business expansions. As a result of the Tier One Competition, Texas has won great laurels. On them, we dare not rest.

    The fact remains that there's a brain drain going on, at the 2nd tier level.  Students that should be going to Tech, UH, UNT, TXST, UTSA are headed to Arkansas, OId Miss, Auburn, etc.  Those states simply don't have the population to fill their flagships with smart enough kids, so they're poaching ours.

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  12. 7 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    A shit ton of Katy ISD kids have been going to Arkansas as well. I don't really have an explanation for it. 

    Arky give a % of in state tuition to TX grads starting @ 3.2GPA.  Get a 3.6 from a TXHS and you're looking at $11,250 for 30hrs, compared to $24,500 straight OOS.

    Can't even count the number of friend's kids at UA right now.  

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  13. 3 hours ago, Codaxx said:

    so?  Have you seen him play lax? 

    I have, ever since he showed up in Austin. There's no way he has the quickness or power to be a better athlete than Tapp or Finkley, in the way that edge rushers are evaluated as athletes.  I've also enjoyed watching the sunshine pumpers in this thread try to hype Burke up as anything more than a project take who will need several years of S&C before he even has a chance to see the field (other than ST maybe).  

    Burke has been a D1 lacrosse player since he stepped on the field as a freshman.  His size is an anomaly for that game and his skills/head are top notch there. From a Longhorn perspective, I hope he becomes what folks here think he can be.  Personally, I don't think has big time college program pass rusher in him, and he's playing somewhere/thing else come fall 2024.

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