GregoryPeck

No Naval Academy or Air Force Academy, but the Merchant Marine Academy is there.... :cool:

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Well. That’s what I am curious to see what the contract says. If you listen to the new COO WTAW interview, the first one ever at A&M, there are some big time centralization and efficiency efforts coming. She is headed down the path Elsa Murano started but never fully got implemented before she was submarined.

Apparently the consultant’s report will be posted in its entirety sometime in the next few weeks. Probably won’t make a lot of waves except for people who are in non-faculty functions in College Station. But for those people, it will cause some anxiety.

Here is mine.

With Emmert saying "No students, no fall sports," here is what aggy will do. I suspect others will follow our lead.

1. Limit dorm rooms to single occupancy
2. Require and simultaneously limit (with rare exceptions) students take one in-person class. All other classes will be online. Sections/portions of every course will be offered in-person. The rest will be offered online. Students will sign up for in-person courses based on their class standing just like regular registration.
3. Student ticket availability for football will be reduced by 50%
4. Former student/seat license holder ticket availability will not be reduced
5. In-person classes will be taught by graduate assistants and non tenure/tenure track instructors with limited exceptions. The institution will hang its hat on "our best teachers are in the classroom." In reality, those with tenure - who already teach less frequently - will be protected from returning to the classroom unless they want to.
6. College Station enrollment will be down 10-15%. Other TAMU system schools will get hammered at 25-30% unless they reduce tuition and offer some huge incentives. Students will stay home and save money.
7. Colleges and University's will work with their lobbying groups to reduce the amount of student loan money available to students who only take online classes or to reward those taking at least one in-person class with financial incentives.

Reasons why:
1. This gets around Emmert's "no students, no sports" requirement.
2. It gets student dollars back into the B/CS economy. Too many people make too much money off of students being in B/CS. Their voice is loud.
3. Half occupancy for dorms is better than no occupancy. See: money
4. Aggy will have to show we are doing something noteworthy to protect students. Reducing ticket availability by half allows the university to say "we did our part."
5. Our 200 person lecture halls will be capped at enrollments of 50. Everyone else that needs those courses will have to take them online.
6. The in-person requirement will be sold as making sure students get the "college" experience and access to the learning community .
7. Institutions, particularly college towns like B/CS, Clemson, Columbus, Lansing, need students in town. They will advocate for financial incentives for students to return to campus out of a "quality learning environment" initiative. In reality, its about the money.

I wanted to go to a game to watch his antics. He didn't disappoint. The first half, I was amazed at how he kept his energy up. This was the game that he didn't let the team leave the court during halftime. He said "It is 56(?) steps to our locker room. I kept them on the court because I thought we could use those 112(?) steps to get better in the second half."

It worked. I forgot about watching him in the second half and was impressed with the effort of the team.

Even ranger fans who are Aggies May be longing to watch the stros after Saturday.

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On a side note, is Hamm finally done and we can rename this?

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Howdy, Taylor.



I kid. I kid. :cheers:

Any chance we can chat about that experience? My oldest is starting to explore this option. Getting answers is like drinking from a fire hose.

Not a horse collar because he did not bring him to the ground by pulling on the collar. Just slowed him down.

He limped off after the touchdown.