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  1. Just now, Blotto said:

    A lot of mediocre private schools artificially inflate their tuition to appear more prestigious. And then they turn around and give all but the wealthiest students (90%+) financial aid . I'd be shocked if that werent the case at Baylor. 

    That's about right. From the Googles: "Financial aid is a critical part of most students' education. Currently, about 70 percent of Baylor students are on financial assistance or scholarship aid."

    4 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Baylor financial aid talk not going away.

    Bro that's fucking terrible on Disu. What ever. 

    Meh... lemme know if they get it under eight. 

  2. 8 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    And the poorest 90% of Baylor comes from much wealthier families than than the poorest 90% of Texas.

    Yes, Baylor is a rich kids school.  So is TCU.  Not sure what there is to even debate there.  It's over $50k a year for a mediocre education, and it's over 80% white kids from well-to-do suburbs.

    The bourgeoise is prevalent but not as numerous on the Baylor, TCU or SMU campuses as you think.
    A lot of kids are offered partial academic scholarships and then get sold a bill of goods on how much of a better academic experience that they're going to get based on being in Waco, Fort Worth or Dallas than at a big state school. 
    If you have a major like pre-law or engineering then you probably break even if your financial award offsets a significant portion of the cost of private school tuition  ($51,750) vs. UT/Aggy ($13,500) within a decade, but if you're an education or communications  major you're going to be making those student loan payments into your 70s. 

  3. "Top 15 expectations" not met as team is No. 27 NET/No. 23 BPI with two regular-season games to play. 

    In ither words, bitch and moan that your picnic was flooded out when the reality is you expected the temperature to be 78 and it's only 71 with occasional wind gusts.  

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  4. 3 hours ago, MotownHorn said:

    They truly think that WV and Texas are rivals. Upside down Longhorns flags flying all over that shitty Motown. The students do Horns Down 24/7/365.

    I think it's hilarious that they've spent a decade+ convincing themselves that we're rivals and now we will never play them ever again.

    Not the impression I got and I was at that game. Fans I sat with were excited about the win -- mainly because Noah Farrakhan was finally eligible -- but it didn't mean more or less than any other Big 12 game. They'd also pretty much resigned themselves to a down year in the wake of Huggins' situation developing so late. 

    Also, Kaden Shedrick's absence -- he played four minutes -- was everything in that game. They consistently worked the ball around the perimeter for 25 seconds and then drove into the paint. There was just no presence there to stop it. 

  5. Why does the NCAA claim that the NET rankings matter so much if this is their most recent release? 

    With only 18 days remaining before Selection Sunday, the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee tabbed South Carolina, Ohio State, Stanford and UCLA as the No. 1 seeds in the latest top-16 reveal. If the season ended today, Virginia Tech, Texas, Iowa and Southern California would be the No. 2 seeds. 

    Other than the obvious (South Carolina at No. 1) and Stanford (fourth), they've given No. 1s to UCLA (sixth) and Ohio State (seventh). 
    Among the 2s, USC is 12th and Virginia Tech is 14th. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, Pancho said:

    Your drive by takes on the basketball board are nearly as terrible as slavery

    It's not as ridiculous as it seems with nine Big 12 teams in and Texas Tech in freefall.

    Several bracketology sites have the Red Raiders at a No. 7 seed, which they're clearly not going to hold. But when you factor in the challenge of avoiding Round of 32 conference matchups, it opens the door for a seed that's four or five places higher than our NET. 

  7. 36 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    I was laughing when they took the big white stiff from Michigan. Every one said he was the next college unicorn, but he's not a guy that makes his team better.

    Arterio Morris opting to take his game to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections rec yard did not help, either.

  8. 2 hours ago, StrippersAndNobelPrizes said:

    OMG it is so on brand with Baylor that their court is named after Mark Hurd. That clown unsuccessfully tried to hook up ( tried for two years 🤣) with a contractor he hired, lied about it, covered it all up, and got fired. What a pathetic loser🤣🤡!
    Other amusing anecdotes, in addition to him constantly trying to touch her boobs:

    "You had been telling her about many different women that were crazy about you … including Sheryl Crow."
     

    Hurd was walking around Madrid with Fisher and stopped at an ATM to show Fisher he had an account balance over $1 million.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-sex-letter-that-got-mark-hurd-fired-as-ceo-of-hp-2011-12

     

    A good way to lose $600k if your institution collapses and isn't called Silicon Valley Bank. (No CR)

  9. 3. Baylor  10-6                                                   Texas                       @ Tech                         11-7
    4. Kansas  9-7                                                    K-State                    @ Houston                  10-8
    5. Tech  8-7                   
    @ WVa.                      @Okla St                Baylor                           9-9
    6. BYU  8-7                     TCU                           
    @IowaSt                 Okla St                          10-8
    7. TCU 8-7                     
    @BYU                        @WVa.                     UCF                                9-9
    8. Texas 8-8                                                      @Baylor                  Oklahoma                    10-8

    If we can win at Baylor -- which I legit think we can -- we can move up to the No. 6 seed and have an (according to the settled science) infinitely better chance of making the Big XII semifinals than if we're between a 7 and 10 and would face Iowa State or Houston in their first game in the tournament in the quarterfinals. 

  10. 6 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

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    Coach K- .766 career win%

    Roy Williams- .774

    Bob Knight- .710

    Dean Smith- .776

    Adolph Rupp- .822

    John Calipari- .759

    Bill Self- .769

    Lute Olson- .737

    Jerry Tarkanian- .784

    Rick Pitino- .710

    Mark Few- .836

    Tom Izzo- .710

    John Wooden .804

    great college basketball coaches win 70%-80% of their games, for decades at a time. that’s what they do.

     

     

    Nobody's arguing we have Adolph Rupp. 

    Yet 40-18 -- isn't that -- (checks math) .689? 

    Oh, sure... you want to label him a failure because he took on situations in schools (Fresno State, UTEP) not called Kentucky, North Carolina or UCLA. 

    But then again, Rick Barnes going 402-180 here (,691) with one losing season in 16 years was inadequate. 

  11. 7 minutes ago, Ignatius said:

    I’m thinking whoever CDC’s peer was in 1923 fucked up by not snapping up the Aztec Club coach; look at that turnaround in only 3 days! You know that shit would have cost like $150…

    How can you ignore the academic success Doc is having with these kids? 

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  12. I've been doing some research to track down missing data from the UT basketball media guide/official records and discovered this eight-game trip to El Paso from 1923-24. 

    I couldn't help but think of many of you "demanding a consistent level of play" when these were the results. A century later, and college kids are still college kids, and wins and losses can't be preordained by a coach's skill set. Seven wins in eight games away from home but you guys would have been bitching that ol' Doc Stewart isn't the guy to lead this program. I mean, how else can a team that beats someone 39-12 on Christmas Eve come back on the first day of Kwanzaa with a pathetic 15-point offensive output in a five-point loss???

    Dec. 24       at Aztec Club                                         W           39-12

    Dec. 25       at Sag Shea’s All-Stars                         W           32-19

    Dec. 26       at Texas College of Mines (UTEP)     W           53-11

    Dec. 27       at Aztec Club                                         L             15-20

    Dec. 28       at El Paso High School All-Stars        W           20-8

    Dec. 29       at Colonia Dublan Mormons              W           35-15

    Dec. 29       at Texas College of Mines (UTEP)     W           40-18

    Dec. 31       at Colonia Dublan Mormons              W           45-15

  13. 1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

    People are actually thinking Texas might make the sweet 16? While a spectacularly lucky set of circumstances makes anything possible, thinking that the sweet 16 is reasonably attainable at this point is laughably stupid. 

    We are 24 in the BPI right now -- 

    If we get a 7 through 10 seed, you're almost certainly correct. 

    0-2 (including OT loss) to Houston
    0-1 neutral site vs. UConn
    0-1 at Marquette (assuming Shaka doesn't play Northern Iowa or Abilene Christian in the Round of 64)

    But if we work out way up above that, then the Second Round opponents would include a field of teams like the current three seeds in ESPN's bracketology: Iowa State, Alabama, Duke and Creighton. Then you're a strong shooting night from Abmas or Disu or a solid defensive night by Shadrick away from pulling an upset. 

    A lot depends on how things go in Waco on Monday. That game is huge. 

     


     

  14. 5 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

    Once in, this team is capable of anything in those first two rounds. I'd love to see Terry lead this year's team to the second weekend. 

    I'd believe "anything" would be much more likely should we win out in the regular season, not lose until we play Houston or Iowa State in Kansas City, and draw a six seed. 

    Anything below that will likely put us as a 7 or 8 seed, and playing a 2 seed on the first weekend is a tall order. 

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