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Any reports on anyone else being shot?

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What I saw says there were 2 victims (Hardy being one). No details on if they were random or direclty involved in some altercation at this point.... update, now I'm seeing 3 victims mentioned.

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He got waitlisted because UGA saw his admissions profile and knew he was capable of getting into better schools.

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This is accurate, in fact I think it was actually the recruiting folks at Univ of Georgia that explained this to us when we visited with my daughter. Schools are finding that while they wait out decisions for the really high achieving / highest qualified students (who they likely will not get) - they are losing others that are almost as qualified because they are waitlisted. Probably have teams of data scientists and Phd's in statistics cranking through this stuff to optimize the offers they decide to make. This is another reason they do the early acceptance process - to try and sort some of that out early in the process.

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If there is not that many applying then it will drive your acceptance rate up.

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This.... a major driver of low acceptance rate is a high number of applications. There are only so many spots available. Schools tout exclusivity based on acceptance rate, but in a lot of cases they inflate their application numbers by making it easy (and cheap) to apply with low/no app fees, test optional standards, no essay requirements, and use of the common app. The more applicants, the lower the acceptance rate. (NOTE: This is not the case with Vandy - and probably not with some of the other "top" schools - but pretty quickly it becomes a factor for the rest of us. It is really easy for graduating seniors to blast out a dozen or so applications. In 2000, the average number of applications sent by a student was between 1-4, now it is 6-7.

And where do they blast those applications to? Well Perception is a big driver. This is why football is so damn important to schools. Winning football grabs the attention and sounds like a lot of fun for an 18 year old. I see lots and lots of kids in St. Louis who have no connection what-so-ever wearing gear for Alabama, Auburn, Texas, LSU, etc. Very few wearing Iowa, Purdue or Indiana (3 schools that have a solid alumni base here - but not surprisingly the Hoosier gear is much more common this year). Location/Good weather is also a factor. Southern schools are getting a lot of applications from out of state, just like the population in general is migrating south. Many of those applicants don't have much chance of acceptance - but they have nothing to lose by applying.

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Wasn't the '07 game played at Arrowhead Stadium?

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Yes, game was at Arrowhead

There is one on here with the Rock M painted so it is recent - but not the best picture


Memorial Stadium Centennial Project

This one is better

NEZ from Inside Stadium

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Just inexplicable. Terrible execution.

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Mizzou just turned it over 3 times while I was reading this.

I know I'm late to this conversation... I have a cousin who was (retired now) a lineman for a rural electric company - his crews would get called to disaster areas for hurricanes, tornados, etc. He told me ice (the kind that shows up when water freezes, not the other kind that's in the news now) was a 1000 times worse than any tornado or hurricane he worked. Significant damage from hurricanes (mostly on the coastline) and tornados (direct path) are fairly localized, where the ice is really widespread. Not that hurricanes and tornadoes aren't devestating - they are - but the time to get everything back up and running is so much longer with the ice.

None from Mizzou, but one of the most famous plays in Super Bowl history came from Mizzou's Mike Jones making The Tackle.

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The road unis and helmets they wore in Norman this season were very nice looking.

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Well - tbh, I had to look away so often during that game I don't remember what we wore. I'm not superstitious, but just in case we should probably never wear them again!