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re: Has the record SEC payout been discussed?
Posted on 2/1/19 at 10:56 pm to Smart Post
Posted on 2/1/19 at 10:56 pm to Smart Post
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Aggy wants to grow so Ol' Ags can get rich building apartment complexes in College Station
While that’s an inevitable outcome for some entrepreneurs and business owners, it isn’t the reason we’re growing in spades.
My feelings are mixed on the subject, but I think the issue is a factor of several confounding variables: (a) THECB and TEA are pumping massive amounts of resources into College and Career Readiness, therefore, HS students are better prepared for higher education (the data on this effort is still emerging, so that’s just speculation on my part); (b) A&M is actively recruiting more students of color; (c) dividends finally coming to fruition from Dr. Gates’s Vision 20/20 endeavor (e.g., increased research expenditures, 45.5% indirect costs from grants, hiring top-notch tenured faculty, international collaborations); and (d) we have a massive amount of land on which we can expand—which gives us huge opportunities for expansion. The sky is kind of the limit.
Again, both pros and cons can be argued about each of the above.
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Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:02 pm to EKG
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Does that mean you’re only able to view the more competitive(?) SEC games that air on CBS, and not the ”lesser” SEC Network games that typically air at 11am?
It really depends on what is on that same timeslot.
Typically on a college football Saturday, AFN broadcasts (live) 3 games that start at 12pm Eastern, 1-3 games that start at 3:30pm Eastern, and then it depends on what the evening games are up against. They tape delay many more.
Keep in mind what they are competing against as well (NBA, MLB, World Series, NHL) during those timeslots.
AFN can show, at most, 3 simultaneous sporting events. They have 8 channels:
-AFN Movie
-AFN News
-AFN Sports
-AFN Sports2
-AFN Prime-Atlantic (Central European Time-focused)
-AFN Prime-Pacific (Japan/Korea Time-focused)
-AFN Spectrum (primarily evening network shows and premium shows)
-AFN Family/Pulse (it switches at 8pm)
They used to have a 9th one called Prime-Freedom (Arabic Standard time) but it was a failure.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:03 pm to Hugh McElroy
Helps when you have a free labor pool too
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:05 pm to NFLSU
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I was simply beating tFarmer from Spring, TX to the punch
How much is he paying for rent to be living in that little Cajun head of yours?
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:21 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
CGSC, I don’t know why, but I’m still not seeing the entire picture.
Hope you don’t mind me asking a few follow-up questions.
Thanks for your patience
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You said, “... in Korea ... AFN refused to broadcast any program that was on the Longhorn Network. Even AFRTS knows better than to force that shite on servicemembers overseas.”
Then you said: “AFN is not allowed to endorse any non-DOD element on behalf of the DOD, and showing anything from the Longhorn Network, even tape-delayed, can be interpreted as the DOD officially endorsing them. (and given the large number of A&M graduates in the Armed Forces, many of them in very senior roles, the last thing an AFRTS executive wants to hear is an irate Colonel or General Officer because of a certain bias)”
How can that be reconciled with, “They broadcast BTN and PAC12 Network events all the time?” Is that not considered an endorsement of those networks, or is it more of an issue that the Academies typically play on those networks more frequently?
The whole process sounds kind of arbitrary, but I’m sure there’s a method to it.
I’ve had a few cocktails, so there’s that impediment as well.
Thanks for the convo. It’s an interesting process.
When I’m elected POTUS, y’all will be able to see every single game—wherever there happens to be a camera filming the action.
Hope you don’t mind me asking a few follow-up questions.
Thanks for your patience
. You said, “... in Korea ... AFN refused to broadcast any program that was on the Longhorn Network. Even AFRTS knows better than to force that shite on servicemembers overseas.”
Then you said: “AFN is not allowed to endorse any non-DOD element on behalf of the DOD, and showing anything from the Longhorn Network, even tape-delayed, can be interpreted as the DOD officially endorsing them. (and given the large number of A&M graduates in the Armed Forces, many of them in very senior roles, the last thing an AFRTS executive wants to hear is an irate Colonel or General Officer because of a certain bias)”
How can that be reconciled with, “They broadcast BTN and PAC12 Network events all the time?” Is that not considered an endorsement of those networks, or is it more of an issue that the Academies typically play on those networks more frequently?
The whole process sounds kind of arbitrary, but I’m sure there’s a method to it.
I’ve had a few cocktails, so there’s that impediment as well.
Thanks for the convo. It’s an interesting process.
When I’m elected POTUS, y’all will be able to see every single game—wherever there happens to be a camera filming the action.
This post was edited on 2/1/19 at 11:24 pm
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:32 pm to EKG
Conference Networks represent between 12-14 schools. The Longhorn Network solely represents one school. It's not that hard...and the Academies primarily play on CBS Sports Network.
This post was edited on 2/1/19 at 11:33 pm
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:38 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
Got it.
A succinct slap in the face.
I need those occasionally.
Guess it sucks to be a horn fan oversees (though I lift my glass to those baws anyway).
A succinct slap in the face.
I need those occasionally.
Guess it sucks to be a horn fan oversees (though I lift my glass to those baws anyway).
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:39 pm to KaiserSoze99
The University of Texas at Austin won a Supreme Court decision to use race in admissions policies. Our student body is minority-majority.
Try again with the racism claim.
To EKG: The college readiness initiatives in Texas public schools are failing. Sorry. Your racial mix still skews heavily Caucasian (prove me wrong, please).
Plus, your growth has outpaced state funding, so much so that your per-student state funding is less than UT Austin. You need to hire about 400 more instructors to have a comparable student-teacher ratio to UT Austin.
But BIG. And SEC, SEC.
Try again with the racism claim.
To EKG: The college readiness initiatives in Texas public schools are failing. Sorry. Your racial mix still skews heavily Caucasian (prove me wrong, please).
Plus, your growth has outpaced state funding, so much so that your per-student state funding is less than UT Austin. You need to hire about 400 more instructors to have a comparable student-teacher ratio to UT Austin.
But BIG. And SEC, SEC.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:40 pm to teamjackson
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Oversee lol
Pi are round. Cornbread are square/aggy
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:52 pm to KaiserSoze99
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You really are this fricking stupid.
State law requites that A&M accept the top 10% of high school graduates. The fact that A&M is forced to accept 70% of all applicants means that people want to attend A&M. We are the "it" school and that makes you want to dig shite out of you arse and throw it at kindergartners.
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You are a pathetic psycho, mad as frick about an Aggie meat-skewering the love of your life and teaching your children to hate you.
Don't shoot anybody.
This is a pure classic. Frame it.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:54 pm to KaiserSoze99
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And 10% v. 7%.
You do the math.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 11:59 pm to Smart Post
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The college readiness initiatives in Texas public schools are failing. Sorry. Your racial mix still skews heavily Caucasian (prove me wrong, please).
You don’t have to apologize to me.
I was part of the external evaluation team who reviewed the CCRS in their nascent stage.
Complications abounded from the start, but bureaucracy made sure to put more HS kids into every Texas public university as a result of the flawed initiative.
Regardless of their failure (my personal opinion), CCRS did manage to better align and articulate HS skills with college expectations.
But as I said, the data are still emerging. That’s another post.
I didn’t say our university doesn’t heavily skew towards White students, but intense efforts and resources have been allocated for several years now to address the issue. We’re not where we should be, but we’re working on it.
And we’re miles ahead of where we were.
I disagree with your phrasing of hiring more instructors.
Too many adjuncts and instructors (as opposed to assistants, associates, and full professors) was a big impetus behind Vision 2020.
I’m as locked in to A&M hiring practices as I can be, and we’re pulling in more decorated and funded Associates and Fulls than we ever have.
I just don’t happen to like that those hires are occurring within very specific colleges and not in others.
But that’s me being emotional, rather than pragmatic.
Bottom line: We may need more faculty, but the hiring process is as rigorous as it’s ever been, yet the university doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to make knee-jerk appointments, just to place professors in classes.
Posted on 2/2/19 at 12:02 am to OldSchoolHorn
I did the math. UT Austin gets 30 percent more applications (50k to 35k) and each school has an auto-admit rate of about half.
Because UT Austin has a 30 percent lower auto-admit percentile cutoff (7 vs. 10)... It seems like a wash.
Therefore, the admissions standards that are left solely to the institutions are higher at UT Austin to account for a 36 percent vs. 70 percent difference in overall admissions rates.
What does aggy think?
Because UT Austin has a 30 percent lower auto-admit percentile cutoff (7 vs. 10)... It seems like a wash.
Therefore, the admissions standards that are left solely to the institutions are higher at UT Austin to account for a 36 percent vs. 70 percent difference in overall admissions rates.
What does aggy think?
Posted on 2/2/19 at 12:02 am to teamjackson
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Oversee lol
Did I make a typo?
Oy. Hate that.
Thanks for the correction, though I’m just going to leave it, if that’s ok with you.
Posted on 2/2/19 at 12:12 am to Smart Post
if yall are so great why is the average mid career salary of an A&M undergrad almost $5,000 more than that of a whorn?
Y’all are closer to SMU than A&M in that regard
Y’all are closer to SMU than A&M in that regard
This post was edited on 2/2/19 at 12:13 am
Posted on 2/2/19 at 12:21 am to texag7
I never give much credence to anything self-reported by an aggy, such as salary. You fudge your endowment and likely your pay.
UT Austin does offer more undergraduate degree plans than aggy... About 170 to 130.
UT Austin does offer more undergraduate degree plans than aggy... About 170 to 130.
Posted on 2/2/19 at 12:25 am to Smart Post
Posted on 2/2/19 at 12:27 am to CGSC Lobotomy
You threatening Charles again, Major Aggy? That poor guy.
Posted on 2/2/19 at 1:04 am to Smart Post
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You threatening Charles again, Major Aggy? That poor guy.
You mean.....YOU?
Such a fricking tool.
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