Windy City

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So SEC fanbases can moan about having beat each other up too much come playoff time when they lose.

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Case western reserve is not really a undergrad school. Also it’s a great school that partners with Cleveland clinic, a S tier hospital.


Also I’m embarrassed to see A&M these days. Our education took a huge hit

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a) Agreed . . I like Case on every front and of course if you are doing the fine pencil work on STEM majors or doctoral or graduate studies you are going to disregard these crude rankings altogether and hone in on much more salient details like academic placement, grant money, research partnerships, etc.

b) Yes . . .no one talks about the fairly populist bent of the supposedly conservative Austin legislators and how A&M became a useful tool to churn out degrees to the masses with a Costco approach. I rail endlessly against the Top 10%/7% rule as it is a corrupt deal between grade inflation maniacs at public high schools window dressing average kids as 4.0 students and A&M administrators wanting to stack heads on the campus no matter the cost.

But all that being said, something still feels veery off about how these this data mining output settled.

Looking at the academic factors

1) Resource expenditure per student
2) Research income per faculty member
3) Institutional income
4) Faculty-to-student ratio
5) Staff-to-student ratios
6) Clarivate’s list of highly cited researchers
7) Citation counts
8) Nobel Prize laureates
9) Fields Medal laureates

That criteria apparently penalizes certain institutions like Cal-Berkely which sports a lower academic profile in these rankings than Emory, which is fine but frankly undistinguished research university.

Berkeley, , what your politics, is one of the great centers of global research and teaching

It has produced the fourth most Fields medal winners and the fifth most Nobel Prizes in all universities of the world. It was instrumental in the Manhattan Project. It has outside of MIT and Stanford the best engineering program in the country. Its business and economics programs are some of the best in the world. Its computer science department is one of the best in the world. Its liberal arts programs are all top notch

But its academics per this system are inferior to:

1) Tufts University
2) Maryland
3) Penn State
4) Ohio State
5) Oregon Health & Science University
6) Emory
7) Wisconsin

All fine schools but no one in their right minds should put them on an academic tier above Berkely in almost any discipline.

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They put a #1 by Penn, but above them is No Bachelors Degree. Chalk one up for Mike Rowe.

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Mike Rowe is probably not talking about the Ivy League and Stanford students whose business plans catch fire and they get stuffed full of VC dollars to the extent that they drop out of their elite Computer Science department.

Think Mark Zuckerberg rather than Joe the Plumber.

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I would, if my child had acting talent, much prefer they go to a hands on "we're getting you ready to be a working actor" school. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a successful Australian actor in Hollywood and that is because they take training to be a working actor seriously.

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For the actual film and stage-play production process, it is very much an old school guild like approach where you learn from established hands to develop practical experience . I have known a few families whose kids wanted to try their luck and ended up getting into the cinematography and production side of things and really had to pay their dues but now are fairly well established in the industry. None of them went to film school.

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What do the numbers repesent?

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If you could read, you would know.

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You and I both know your kids have zero chance of getting in.

But hey, A&M will take anyone

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Unfortunately, both A&M and Texas are hostage to the state legislature and therefore offer spots to kids that benefit from grade inflation at middle to low quality public high schools. Even then, they usually opt for meaningless liberal arts degrees because the engineering and b schools are oversubscribed.

State legislators love it, but it victimizes really talented kids at high quality publics and most definitely elite private schools. It is a sort of forced mediocrity in the two student bodies and definitely drags down the average student talent at both campuses.

And most of the posters here who actually graduated from either school should be honest with themselves that they would not get in today and there kids likely won't get in either except through CAP or Blinn Team due to the screwed up priorities in Austin.

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By the way, your area is about to get inundated with new growth, as you know. New condos, Hard Rock Casino, all kinds of crapola.

I just remembered, I hunted ducks one time not far from where they're building that casino. A flooded flat on the Oklahoma side. Sad to see that area blow up with people.

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The folks that built Craig Ranch in McKinney north of Dallas, home to the TPC course and Byron Nelson tournament, are building a smilarly massive planned community on Texoma.

Craig International Preston Harbor

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The Project
Plans for Preston Harbor include an extensive variety of homes (single- and multi-family), a resort hotel, retail shops, restaurants, and a marina on Lake Texoma. The entire community will interlink through a series of walkable paths, peaceful bike trails, and golf cart paths…plenty of space for outdoor activities.

The capstone will be the Margaritaville Resort Hotel on the lake — great for relaxing weekend getaways!

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It’s a cool city, but imo not what it used to be. Looks more Nashville than anything.

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Yeah, you had to know the original Austin to really appreciate and regret what it has become today.

Austin has always been known as quirky and original. People from Austin just kept them to themselves and did their cool stuff and public gems like Zilker Park, Barton Springs, and Ladybird Lake were full of fun locals.

Fast-forward thirty years and you now have a spazzed out, hurriedly constructed, incoherent downtown skyline that is boxy and unoriginal and crowds out a lot the fun space that used to be along the river.

You have way too many me too dubious quality restaurants and music venues.

You have unbelievable and depressing urban sprawl that has exploded all around the city core. It is jammed full of middle class and lower middle income folks living in the type of cookie cutter, gated low quality McMansions that gave the Dallas and Houston suburbs their drab, soulless rep.

And amidst it all you have the huge number of flat brimmed cap Cali douches and expat mid tier east coast Jersey shore finance bros flooding into the area at a record pace.

Makes me pine for the old days I tell you.

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No that’s not factual. Mendoza might have not been a big star out of HS but he was very good at Cal. He led them to a 21-14 win at Auburn. Cignetti got him from the portal.

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He was a 4 star rated transfer prospect by On3 and the 12th overall best transfer portal prospect int he country.

He was ranked below Beck, Iamaleava, and Mateer

Clemson - Loss
La Tech - Win
Ole Miss - Loss
A&M - Big Loss
McNeese - Win
Kentucky - Win
MSU - Win
Auburn - Win
Bama - Loss
Texas - Loss
Tennessee - Loss
Arky - Win


6-6 record

Tigers hatin on Lane for his passive aggressive shitty comments to the LSU fanbase

He bolts for a new opportunity.

Jeff Landry narrowly escapes the Governors mansion being burned to the ground by angry fans.

The nuances of this story seem never ending.

The 30 for 30 team is probably having to rewrite the script every few hours.