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  1. But that's not entirely the truth is it? Society has realized that it could be difficult for people to pay for these fines so we have: - Payment plans for these people(I've seen as low as $5/month) But people won't even call to get on these because they're too lazy to do it. Would rather get a warrant issued after avoiding these things and then blame the system once arrested with several people white knighting for them on how unfair this system is. It isn't. - Traffic school(some states have these that get rid of these citations completely if you attend one of these) - Just call and ask for reduction or more time(many many counties allow this as well) But no, we are going to hold the system as irresponsible here instead of the person who drives like a maniac(especially if you're getting these tickets on a regular) even when we know the number of fatalities we see on the roads every year. Once you are done paying these, maybe just maybe be more careful and not get these tickets over and over? I know, too much to ask. And these same people who cannot afford whatever $$$ in speeding tickets can afford alcohol and cigarettes in the same amount every month. Sorry no study to cite here.
  2. Are you saying once you're rich you don't get traffic citations? Or are you saying that the ungodly rich make cars for the poor that only go 15 over the speed limit while theirs doesn't? Bear with me because I'm just spitballing here but I know there has to be a way to not get speeding tickets...ooh ooh, what about not speeding??? I know plenty of people who average 2 tickets/decade, so it is possible to avoid those absolutely gut wrenching anti poor speed traps.
  3. Yes, more Rutgers coaches. Anyone available from the Kansas 2016 - 2018 that Texas can hire?
  4. If nothing else, Harrell should definitely excite high school QB and WR recruits to come to Texas. Way more than Beck.
  5. Again, this picking and choosing of majors doesn't help but I'll play your game. Just like you claim that rankings for Texas gets mired by balancing public obligation with excellence, other schools around the country face the same challenges without enjoying the benefit of being in the second largest state in the union. Its a rigged game given instate vs out of state tuitions. Texas has to be compared to its peers with equal budget like California public schools. And when you do it lags behind UCLA, Berkeley and even Michigan in every single metric you provided. Wisconsin too at times. UT is better than NU, Aggy, OU,OK State etc but like you said allowing those lower rung of society to experience college and get a degree is immeasurably important. So while you walk around puffing your chest claiming UT's superiority over them, its purely due to budgets offered by the state. When it goes pound for pound, it inevitably falls short. And my original argument still holds strong that while its a good enough public school, its no match for Stanford, UCLA, Rices of the world.
  6. Lulz you didn't know shit. #20 rated by Times, you know, a metric that's completely subjective. Do you know what isn't? SAT/ACT scores. Acceptance rates. Those other schools listed recruit better kids, with higher scores. So you can rely on subjective scores all you want I'm going to rely on hard data. K? K! The funniest thing is you goobers think that a public school that enrolls 50K students with an acceptance rate of over 40% is anything on par with finely curated universities like Rice, Brown, Stanford or MIT. It isn't. Its a public fucking school that has a mandate to handout paper diplomas in Kinesiology and Iberian and Latin American Languages and Cultures. And it does a fine job of that, but thats' about it.
  7. Times relies entirely too much on research put out by universities. Its purely due to being a state university of the second largest state in the Union it enjoys the research budget that it does. You can see that in why UT lags behind not one but 2 Cali public schools in UCLA and UC San Diego. Larger state = larger research budget = more research = higher ranking. Skewed and not reliable due to that. The mere fact that it lists Brown and Rice below UT is laughable. Both of those schools and their students would run circles around 95% of UT kids when it comes to IQ.
  8. Yeah, any publication that ranks Texas below Florida is worthless as fuck. LOL, ok.
  9. I worked for Procter and Gamble right out of college and went to Cincy for training for two weeks in January. We'd meet up at 8 and leave at 4, never saw the sun until I got back to Dallas. Madison is north of Cincy so I can't imagine it being any better.
  10. And its fucking muggy 4 months out of the year and it gets dark at 3pm same 4 months. Fuck that BS.
  11. Uh Will Ferrell? Alright, enough highjacking of this thread. Let's fire Tom already!
  12. Fair enough, it lists them way below that. But my point isn't that this school is better or that school is better its for those posters who claim that Texas cannot have top notch football and a top 50 academics. Its possible.
  13. Still lists Michigan way above Texas and also U Dub. So football and academics are possible.
  14. Oh so you were referring to UC Berkeley being behind Harvard and not Texas? Because it sure as hell wouldn't be right. Look Texas is a fine institution but it cannot compare academically to UC public schools or USC or even Michigan. Let's all stop pretending that.
  15. Where do you get this information? Here's the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation And Texas doesn't crack the Top 20. University of Illinois, UC San Diego, etc do however amongst other obvious ones like Harvard and MIT.
  16. In the latest US news rankings ND was ranked at 15, Texas was at 48. I'd say that's way above. Way way above. Wisconsin was the closest at 46, everyone else I listed was 34(Florida) or above that. There's no question that Stanford and USC are better than Texas as universities by a mile. Let's face it, Texas is a public school that has enrollment of close to 50K students. That alone precludes Texas from being as selective as the ones listed above.
  17. After top 10 no one knows or cares about where a university ranks in academics. If you're good enough, you're good enough to succeed no matter what public school you went to. YOU, yourself are a great example of that.
  18. Notre Dame, Michigan, USC, Stanford, Wisconsin and Florida all ranked way higher than UT in academics and are doing better in football. It is possible. Those people that claim whether Texas wants to do better or commit to winning are just experiencing sour grapes because of the underperformance they've seen over the years.
  19. Alabama women typically have the same reaction when losing in the living room or here:
  20. Coach O, I get that Texas' season is over but don't you have to prepare for UGA?
  21. Forget DBU, Kicker U???
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