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  1. Recruiting to Morgantown is hard enough. Reinforcing the stereotype of WVU makes the walk down the "Country Roads" longer.
  2. You got it all wrong. Translation: People are going to go to college. Some will announce now, some later. Some at OU, some other places.
  3. From your mouth to the Lord's ears.
  4. The way to raise test scores is to give equal access to resources. When I worked in HISD, River Oaks Elementary spent more than 8k per student per year. It had two computers per class and nature area. Most rooms had an aide. I also went to a 5th Ward school that spent 1.5k/student. This school didn't have enough books for each student so there was no homework. This was in the mid 1990s after Robin Hood. Equalize opportunity, equalize mentorship, and you'll see test scores rise. This is all pretty much general knowledge now, but here's a link if your interested. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/03/rich-students-get-better-sat-scores-heres-why.html
  5. Ricky's one-hitter and Bevo14 are providing good information on this topic. Please see their replies on this topic. Using data at 16 years old to predict learning capacity/performance of adults is hard (impossible?: brain development continues into your mid-20's). SAT was designed to predict college performance. Even it's proponents only claimed correlation of 0.6. More so, it predicts access to better schools and test prep. It reinforces bias against disadvantaged groups regardless of race. The data on SAT's poor performance leaves us with GPA, which is a test of organization and effort. It may be sufficient. There is mounting evidence that "grit" or resiliency is a better predictor of adult success than other measures of talent. Lots of people are trying to figure out how to measure and predict grit.
  6. Brown, Johnson, Rawlins-Kibonge all fit the model of "guys with athletic ability but little experience." In the 2020 class, Eaton, Arinze, Graham could also be in that bucket. If OU's staff can teach, it's a winning proposition.
  7. C'mon dude, you're better than that. Look at the context of the statement. It was referring to the possibility of Grinch leaving. For him to leave, OU needs to be successful on defense. I was stating I hope he is successful and am okay with him leaving. FWIW, all of 2019, FEI was lower on the Sooner defense than other advance metric aggregates. SP+ and FPI both have OU in the 40s. Is there a reason that you prefer drive-based stats?
  8. Also agree. In addition, the OU defense got away with its pressure philosophy during a year when the Big12 was down on offense. I believe it's plausible that OU comes out with something different this year. Grinch and Co have had a year to learn their players better, and there were significant personnel losses. They may need a different approach just to tread water. No intel, just conjecture. RE: duration of Grinch's tenure at OU. He was listening to offers after this past season. FWIW, if Grinch fashions a top 10 defense next year and then jets, I'm cool. That would equal a lot of W's, significant improvement in skill, and allow Riley to recruit an outstanding replacement. Plus, the OU defensive staff is in much better shape. At LB coach, Brian Odom is an Oklahoma guy who also may be ready to ascend if/when Grinch leaves.
  9. Also agree. But OU's starting at such a low baseline. From 2016 - 2018, the defense was bad at everything. I can't bear to rewatch most of those games, during seasons won conference championships, because the defense is SO BAD. In 2019, they were bad at some things and okay at others. They dedicated themselves to bringing pressure, and were successful to a point. It appears they're doubling down on that tactic. Some of these guys coached at Missouri. The Tigers brought in recruits like this, guys with good tools who weren't refined. I would have loved to trade OU's defenses for the Tigers defenses during this time.
  10. I basically just look for the names of the recruits. I'm not interested in his opinion of signing them or his reflections on their ability. His assault on the English language shows a disturbing lack of self awareness.
  11. He seems like an outstanding athlete, but I don't know where he'll play in this defense. But these coaches are more likely to maximize his skills and match them to his responsibilities.
  12. Local govt committee in Norman = asshat neked dancing
  13. Would've been a good get, but I felt he was redundant with Mario Williams. I'm not worried about WR recruiting at OU. I'd rather they take 15 defensive players this cycle.
  14. Neither this episode nor the responses of Ok St fans are surprising. The information bubble Gundy was raised in and has lived in throughout his life is quite uniform. Within this bubble, he's had authority for 20 years so his outdated views haven't been challenged. The administration is in a tough spot because Gundy's performance relative to expectations is fantastic. However, basic leadership theory holds that Gundy must go as he can't lead men who've lost faith in him or recruit their replacements. Hubbard's done Ok St a favor, but he'll be pilloried. And the fans are right, he should've declared for the draft rather than risk injury playing for those colors.
  15. They should use any excuse to ditch dude. As a Sooner fan, if the school wants to ditch the nickname too, fine. Make it the Oklahoma Crimson and lets move on.
  16. When considering UT's response so far, you have to consider the counterfactual responses. Do nothing in response to the players requests or oppose them and there would be swift backlash from ESPN, former players, and society at large. Herman's done well so far. The demands the players have listed are free (taking down monuments to traitors) or relative cheap (funding minority programs at higher levels; probably a good idea for the school anyway). They gave UT an out on the school song, players don't need to sing it.
  17. So if you know the history, you can't reasonably prefer "American Indian," and the people I know prefer Native American. They explain it simply: they aren't Indians.
  18. Organizations kept American Indian in their names because they felt the rest of America wouldn't recognize them if they made changes. Yeah, that's the reason. They felt we were too stupid to keep up based on the "black or African American" debate. While Native Americans certainly resent colonization, they also want to succeed in American society. They, like BLM, aren't calling for a return to the 1600s. They're calling for equality here and now.
  19. Your example proves the point. Jewish people don't want to forget AND don't want statues erected of Nazi's. In fact, Germany has none of these (link below). Taking the statues down doesn't mean forget about the traitors. It means stop celebrating them. No memorials to evil
  20. Nah, it isn't a circular problem. HtownHorn (and presumably his ilk) doesn't care about the statues. Others do care the icons to a treasonous group and want them gone. So take them down. I grew up in Oklahoma in a community with a substantial Native American (yes I'm judging your use of language) population. My family still lives there and works directly to serve this community. If there were monuments to Columbus there, I'd help take them down. That's the direct analogy. Your analogy breaks down because UT can help historically disadvantaged groups. UT can and should help address the old and fresh scars of racism, just like the Indian Health Service helps address those issues now. How do UT and the Indian Health Service do more now is the question at hand. Your football team is teaching you. Learn.
  21. You're right, BLM is intent on dividing Americans into two groups. The first, the one who think police misconduct against minority communities is OK,. The second believes police misconduct against minorities is wrong. Because BLM focuses on one topic doesn't mean they don't care about others. Just because you don't know about the other work they do doesn't mean it doesn't happened. Your claim that it there are 8 - 10 black people who have been wrongly killed by police is factually incorrect. That is the number of black people who've been murdered by police on camera, irrefutably. Just because it isn't documented on camera for you to see doesn't mean it didn't happened and doesn't mean it was legitimate. America's police long ago lost legitimacy in minority communities because of these extrajudicial murders, rogue detention practices, and general harassment. Again, because you didn't experience it, doesn't mean it didn't happened. Your post shows obvious ignorance. Ignorance can be combated with knowledge, if you're willing to learn. Listen to the 18 year olds on the UT football team. They'll explain to you an American experience different from your own. You and they will benefit.
  22. It's good you don't look at icons like these to revere. However, "the campus as a whole" includes minorities for whom these statues have deep negative meaning. Since these statues don't have meaning to you, but do have negative mean for others, I guess you won't mind when they're gone.
  23. 1. From its inception, BLM is a political organization explicitly, by definition, because it's trying to influence policy positions of politicians. 2. Direct donations by a govt entity are almost certainly prohibited. 3. The demand is likely shorthand to mean "donation towards the policy objectives of BLM," which I think is an easy compromise. You guys are doing a great job educating each other in a relatively civil manner. Kudos.
  24. Agreed. And that coach did a terrible job vetting the recruit. Hopefully the dude who quit really took advantage of his educational opportunities and is doing something great for society. Alternatively, he learned that he can game the system with little consequence and remains a charlatan.
  25. This rewards dishonesty and teaches a bad lesson, but it really doesn't affect the team. Here's a "cliff notes" version of the way recruitments in the Ivy's worked (and I think still do looking that the public reporting of recent scandals): There's no talent based scholarships (athletic/academic) but "need-based" aid is available to almost everyone who is a quality recruit. So if the coaches want you bad enough, the school can be free or at least discounted. The negotiation is usually between the coaches and the admissions office because being talented athletically and academically remains rare. Each sport gets a certain number of "points" that the coaches can trade to get someone with substandard academic scores into school. The coaches can allocate all the points to one recruit or distribute them across several recruits. If you child is good at school and doesn't need money, going through the coaches to the admissions department doesn't really cost the coach much. The file just gets flagged as an athlete. Unless she/he is really good at one or the other (in which case they don't really need to worry), it will increase your chances of acceptance a couple of fold.
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