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Macklemore

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  1. 2 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

    I have not seen one yet.  But I will post when it is available or pm you.  He was a Texas grad.  Worked as attorney at Lewis Brisbois.  

    Thanks I was able to figure out who it was from the information on this thread. I didn’t know him but see he was friends with some of my friends from Facebook. Awful tragedy. May he rest in peace.

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  2. 9 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    You sure?  Are we closer to ole miss or Berkeley?

    We’re much more like UGA, UF, Tennessee and Alabama than Berkeley. Hopefully, UNC and UVA join the SEC soon. They fit in very well with us. So does Michigan but they won’t join the SEC. Our fans would have hated being in the PAC 12. Thank God that never happened. 

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  3. 1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

    Did the guy find out from the ole miss student body or the Twitter verse?

     

    I don’t understand smart affluent kids going to places like ole miss and bama but hey maybe their path is already paved if they’re rich

    All three of those schools are more acclaimed than Texas.  Change that 1250 to 1450

    Bama has a very pretty campus, hot girls and a great football program. UGA has the same and is a pipeline to Atlanta jobs. They also have a traditional college social scene with traditional college students (meaning not a lot of part-timers or older students). OU and Arkansas give great financial aid packages to good students from Texas. There is a huge LSU alumni base in Houston and it’s a natural draw for kids of their alums. Ole Miss is a great party school and Auburn has a good engineering program.

    There are a shit ton more attractive traditional college experiences to be had in the SEC than schools other than UT in Texas. No one wants to go to Lubbock. Cougar High and UTD are commuter schools with lots of non-traditional students. Baylor and TCU are private and Christian which is a turnoff for some. Rice is elite but is a small school with a a crappy football team and nerdy social scene. aggy is fucking weird. It’s a major problem for Texas that we don’t have a bunch of schools other than UT to offer what the other SEC schools provide. Cougar High tried to mandate that all freshman have to live on-campus. Great idea to change their commuter school reputation. Unfortunately for them, John Whitmire and other idiots raised a fuss about no longer catering to non-traditional students and they backed off. 

     

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  4. 5 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    We've proven we can win the NC in any conference; we don't need the SEC to play good football.  

    On the flip side, name a good academic institution in the SEC aside from Vandy?  Maybe Florida?

    Florida is ranked higher than us for undergrad. We’re a better school overall when factoring in the Law School, McCombs and our other grad programs. UGA is very solid. Lots of Texas kids from the suburbs are at schools like Arkansas, Ole Miss and Alabama because of how hard it has gotten to get in to UT.

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  5. 28 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    "Patriots" lol.  Go join the military if you're such a patriot, otherwise shut the fuck up.

    Oh God, I hate that we are joining the SEC...

    Like what?

    I sure as hell don’t. Most UT fans are happy that we’re joining the best football conference in the land. We have a lot more in common with the SEC schools than any other conference. I absolutely hated the talk of us joining the PAC 12. Football season is going to be a hell of a lot more fun.

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