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  1. Mensa qualification = top 2% on any of over 200 accepted "intelligence" tests. Allowing for variation of performance day to day and instrument to instrument, it is fair to estimate that sets the bar at roughly 4% of the population eligible. Other than special programs, Texas auto-admits top 6% by exactly one metric, one that does not permit re-takes. So Mensa is perhaps slightly more selective than is Texas. And is full of nerds who think scoring well on a standardized test is something about which they should structure their lives. Plus/minus coke, monkeys, and strippers.

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  2. I've not read the entire thread, nor have I gone back to watch the game over. I may be wrong, but I have come to think a few things on this matter:

    1. QE, though a man of significant talent, can not be relied upon to take the top off a defense

    2. Playoff teams will scheme for this and smother us. The only really good team we've played handled us.

    3. All wise-cracks aside, Arch may give us a chance to hit those throws

    4. It stinks to bench a starting QB, especially when we sit at 9-1, but it needs to happen because

    5. The future is likely to be better the sooner we start working on it in games

    Hookem and thanks, Quinn, but I think its time to let the team move on

  3. 29 minutes ago, Yuk said:

    BAS is not a thing. How many aggies do you know that ever expect the worst? They pat each other on the back for victories they will win in future or could have won if they had a chance to play. They are the most overconfident bunch of underachievers in the sport, and it's not even close. If BAS was a real thing, their boards wouldn't be so entertaining every time Lucy again pulls the back. Instead, that raw pain of reality hitting them in face is what is so damn exhilarating for the rest of us normal folks. 

    One of the first symptoms of Brainless Aggie Syndrome (aka "BAS" or, less redundantly, "aggy") is the crippling and nearly complete inability to take in information that contradicts a fantasy worldview. Close behind is the departure of the capacity to draw simple conclusions from clear and relevant data.

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  4. 46 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

    There is a bit of a flaw in your theory here.  Mar, himself, likely did not call all the penalties.  He also was not the only one who failed to call penalties against OSU or Baylor.  He was merely the most visible.  I’m not sure how it’s clear that he hated Texas more than any other official in that game.

    The SEC has some games historically that looked shady.  I have little doubt they protect their golden geese when needed.

    It is time to organize officials nationally rather than by conference.

    This would be helpful, as would breaking up crews and assigning officials as individuals and tracking officials with quality metrics. There should never be a "team" wearing black and white stripes. If you are a quality official, you don't need any kind of "continuity" to interact with the other officials. You position yourself according to your assigned role and watch what you should accord to your assigned role. If someone on your crew is making a mistake, you have incentives to speak up in-game and after the fact to ensure you don't get the mark of shame for missed calls made by your fellow officials.

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  5. 20 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Can't get to 16 teams fast enough and byes get eliminated. Lets pray for 2026!

    What would 16 look like? Autobids for top 6 conference champs and top 3 CCG losers, 7 at large? Retain top auto-seeding of conference champions? Conferences won't like a plan that diminishes the value of their CCG unless they are highly confident in the offsetting gains stemming from the new way, and maybe not even then.

  6. 29 minutes ago, DaysOff said:

    Everyone stfu with the conference realignment type pod shit in this thread. This is the skull fuck pig thread.

    Not being an ag, I would rather spit and roast the pig than engage it intimately, however violent that contact might be.

  7. 18 minutes ago, Saint Austin said:

    That's not an option though. It's 1+7 (which is what we currently have and sucks) or 3+6.

    Obviously OU is the primary rival, but to join this conference and NOT play A&M or Arkansas every year would be a fucking travesty

    They'll need to tweak some things in '26 so that we alternate A&M/Arkansas at home each year, but to not play you're top three historical rivals every season when you're in the same conference as all three for the first time since 1919 would be lunacy. 

    Meh, by joining we would have

    1. ditched the B12, its officials, and its officers;

    2. resumed more frequent games against the aforementioned teams;

    3. begun to schedule games against Bama, Georgia, Florida, etc on the (semi-)regular;

    4. secured a spot in a much more financially rewarding conference;

    5. removed a massive recruiting disadvantage;

    6. avoided ever having to play at Tech or Cougar High again

    among other benefits. If the schedule collectively only had only one or the other of Arkansas or A&M, I think travesty might be a bit of a strong word. I like re-opening the rivalries in a general sense, but the Aggies are piss-poor rivals. They and hopeful future ones run their yaps incessantly with boasting when they win and pissing on Texas when A&M loses. They whine, cry, and generally spread their obnoxious idiocy much more loudly since we are back in conference with them. Winning doesn't shut them up the way it does fans I know of other schools we play. They're too aggy consciously to process their status.

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  8. 3 minutes ago, Lidig8r said:

    By everyone, do you mean young men under the age of 28 who believe every pass, either completed or not completed has to be called a "dime," and who are so desperate to find their own relevance in a world which cares increasingly less, that they naively (or stupidly) believe that if they invent new words like "tuddie" or "natty" they will be regarded as erudite and not beholden to terminology or ways of thinking utilized by their elders? (excuse the run on question).

    Not everything associated with "the times" is necessarily better?  For example, See ex-Mrs. Lid the Sequel, fast food (which is only food in the technical sense of the word) and Jorge's margaritas (the ones in the late 70s/early 80s would destroy many today.

    Ok... I have clouds to yell at and kids to get off my lawn.

    Continue.

    Nooo waai, man. Even if yer built like a brick house, ya gots ta show out. Gag me with a spoon about not talking jive. Can you dig it? Bitchin rad words like tuddy are tooootally here to stay, man.

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  9. Maybe Utah would rather help paddle OSU's and WSU's canoe. I don't remember UU's outrage on our behalf on the occasions that refs jobbed us. They were snug and happy in their west coast league with no concerns about B12 refs. Then their shared business plan of group freeloading on the media demand for USC games fell through. They had every opportunity to do something called due diligence. KM is not new to the B12. If they cared about officiating, they should have addressed it before signing up for the money (once their old stream dried up). I abhor the way bad officiating ruins a game, but Utah walked into a league previously quite publicly rife with bad officiating. They have to sleep in the bed in which they lie.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Nivek said:

    Huh, imagine that. We were told we were just imagining the fuckery and the statistical evidence, video evidence were all just sour grapes. Weird.

    SEC refs call far from perfect games, but the pain of being under B12 refs was inhumane. Good riddance to that trash fire.

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  11. 9 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:

    This is peak doctor communication -- not a criticism, just an amusing observation. Your list consists of:

    (a)

    (2)

    (d)

    I congratulate you on developing a unique taxonomy for list-making. It's glorious. 

    I would love to claim credit, but it is an homage to Home Alone.

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  12. 10 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    my edit didn't appear like i wanted

    aggy are eliminating 20ish minors, but eliminating the following makes zero sense

     

    Geophysics UG

    Chemical Engineering UG

    Petroleum Engineering UG

    Design and Simulation of Mechanic Systems UG

    Aerospace Engineering UG

    Analysis, Design and Management of Energy Conversion Systems UG

    Engineering Concepts UG

    Maritime Studies UG

     

    PE major but you can't add a Maritime minor?

    ChemE but you can't add an ASE minor?

     

    this makes no sense

    I saw the list. In fairness, who minors in petroleum engineering? It had never occurred to me that one would minor in engineering at all.

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  13. Grade 2 sprain means on a macro level that part of the tendon is torn in 2. Either (a) he was never going to play, (2) he was going to fail miserably and worsen his injury, or (d) the MRI report that was in the wind was false.

    15 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:

    Lagway talk was smoke all along, it seems.

     

     

     

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  14. 16 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    MOST folks with Sociology degrees go on to be Surly 1%ers that own their own companies.. well.. maybe some.. okay.. I'm not a Surly 1%er but do own my own company. Leave me alone!

    On a serious note, Sociology degree with a deeper dive in Social Media Marketing/Management or polling methodology and funding is better applicable post grad training path.

    Tying over into social media/business/politics is a better path than diving deeper into a specific niche unless you're planning on grad school with a potential Thesis around that area of specialization/focus. 

    All the young Surlyites should be getting into nursing school if they can.  Seriously, though. Become anesthesia APNs and get hired starting at minimum 100/hr.

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