re: Texas AD Del Conte talks Education

Buddy of mine went to Blinndergarten then A&M. Not that tough to do.

Jamaal Charles on competing in the Special Olympics

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We played Arkansas two years ago, you were at that game, it was the wildest game. I’m walking through the tunnel and I look over at Commissioner Sankey and he goes, ‘how about that?’ I go, ‘that was the greatest thing ever.’ We lost the game, we knew, but Steve also said here’s what we have to do to get prepared for that game. That game was fantastic because it gave us a barometer of what we need to do offensively and defensively on the lines. Gotta get big dudes.”

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Is this the definition of the old saying of we beat them and made them like it?



It’s nice to be mentioned in a positive light, hats off to him.

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Cal, it’s UCLA, it’s Texas, it’s Michigan, sometimes (North) Carolina

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All of those schools are known for enrolling next to no kids from in-state.

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Yep. Meanwhile A&M is taking advantage of that fact and growing like crazy.

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Yep….quantity over quality…thanks Rick.

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Yep….quantity over quality…thanks Rick.

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They don't care. Large alumni base creates lots of money for the school and the athletic programs.

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Buddy of mine went to Blinndergarten then A&M. Not that tough to do.

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The whole process is a bit of a farce. My co-worker (blisteringly proud Longhorn alum) saw his son get dinged as the young man finished in the third quarter of his class at a large, very respectable big city public school.

His kid did CAP, went to ACC, pledged a frat during that time, and then enrolled his second semester.

Now this would not be any big deal back in the 80s or 90s but now it is an example of the idiotic admission policy.

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You have to be top 6% of your high school to get into Texas. That eliminates 94% (stay with me here I know math is complicated) of the pool of applicants who want a great education from a top 10 public university

Krampus

There a lot of schools where a whole lot of the 94% getting shut out deserve the opportunity to matriculate at a top 10 public university.

Instead they get replaced by the least stupid mouthbreathers at Failing ISD Highs all across Texas who managed out outlast their meth addicted teenage parent classmates to make it across the graduation stage.

Not a dig at Texas, moreso the percantage based admission rules in Texas in general. But let's not pretend an entire student based largely class ranks alone is some holy grail of achievement. Texas could have a better, more competitive student body overall without the dumbass Top x% rule.

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Krampus, we addressed this in a previous thread, you &%^* POS. At least you didn't mention racist rhetoric this time.

Not everyone (75% of Texas counties are still rural) is lucky enough to be born into a privileged existence that includes multi-generation college educated parents and the opportunity to go to $100 million high schools that build $70 million football stadiums. Deserve the opportunity? Please, they were born on 3rd base.

My Sr year in HS ('74) I took typing w/ a bunch of freshman because I had already taken all the math & science classes offered. My HS counselor thought they were doing us a disservice by teaching us college prep courses instead of auto shop, drafting & home economics.

I wanted to go to college, and I knew Stanford, Cornell & Princeton were good schools, but only because Jim Plunkett, Ed Marinaro & Bill Bradley played college sports there. That was about all I knew about them, so I kept the letters they sent me.

I got lucky. Texas found and recruited me, and gave me and ~100 others scholarships. I struggled, but graduated. In 1997, Texas passed the "Top 10% Law", based on the program UT started in '74. I hope I've honored UT's foresight be reaching the top of my profession in the O&G Industry.

As for "Texas being a better, more competitive student body overall without the dumbass Top x% rule", well that is just something that a Top x% reject would never understand, and why others earned, and were given, the opportunity to attend.

BTW, UT's enrollment was capped before 1974, and not because of real estate. The Texas Constitution of 1876 directed the legislature to "establish..., a university of the first class, ... and styled "The University of Texas". "The State of Texas wanted more for their sons and daughters than to be limited to the "agriculture & mechanical arts." It wanted opportunities in business, law, medicine and the liberal arts. Nothing said about being the biggest.

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At least you didn't mention racist rhetoric this time.

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I believe you have me confused with someone else.

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I got lucky. Texas found and recruited me, and gave me and ~100 others scholarships. I struggled, but graduated.

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You didn't get lucky. You earned your spot based on 1974 admission criteria. Congratulations.

But it's not 1974 anymore. Standards for a top public university have changed. Earn your spot, or go somewhere else. You did it in your day, kids today should do it in theirs.

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well that is just something that a Top x% reject would never understand,

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I earned auto-admission to any Texas public University I wanted. UT included. I only considered A&M and UT. I picked A&M. I can tell the story of how I reached my decision if you wish.

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BTW, UT's enrollment was capped before 1974, and not because of real estate

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UT's enrollment is absolutely capped todue to real estate. Even your fellow horns don't dispute it.

All your arguments actually seem to favor A&M's current approach to admissions moreso than UT's. If all those deserving kids from poor to middling schools around Texas are so deserving of a spot at Texas, then why doesn't Texas expand enrollment like A&M and give more of them the opportunity you got? Very confusing take from you all around.

Who ever said he was a few martinis in when he said that probably has a point. Watched his Finebaum interview that was in the afternoon. Out of all the interviews he was the only one that was slurring. Guy clearly likes to have a good time.