MStateDawg

Illinois will need a QB next year.

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Brian Kelly was an A-hole in that press conference...

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That's because he is an A-hole.

He also killed a kid one time because he was being an A-hole.

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Question, with these schools with endowments over $1B, why the frick are any kids paying tuition?

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At State (and most other schools), the majority of the University's Endowment is going to paying tuition for students. Alumns/Donors donate a lump some of money to the endowment fund for an "Endowed Scholarship". The majority of interest earned off that lump sum donation is what is used to fund the tuition provided under that particular scholarship. A smaller percentage of the interest is rolled back into the endowment to ensure future tuition increases can be covered by future interest earned.

Say you have $1 Billion dollars in endowed scholarships. If you earn 5% interest on average, that's $50 million per year. Save $10 of that to add to the endowment and the other $40 million to pay scholarships. At State, the full cost of attendance is about $30k per year. That's only about 1,300 scholarships at a school with 25K enrollment.

Structuring these endowment to live off interest earned allows them to provide benefits indefinitely. If you just took the lump sump of the endowment and gave it to all students, that money would be eroded in a little over a year: 25k students @ $30k cost of attendance is $750 million.

Poverty rates can be misleading because the same income thresholds are used across all states without factoring in the cost of living.

If a married couple living in Jackson, MS makes $20K per year, they are considered to be below the poverty line.

If a married couple living in San Francisco, CA makes $25k per year, they are NOT considered to be below the poverty line.

The Jackson couple would certainly be poor, but the SF couple would literally be homeless.

Neither is good, but saying one lives in poverty and one doesn't is asinine.

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College World Series appearances: MSU - 12
1971, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2013, 2018, 2019, 2021

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At least one CWS appearance in each of the past six decades.

Hands down it's Arkansas. Coastal had 1 insane postseason run but historically it's Arkansas.

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I think it's going to take 15-15 for UGA and 16-14 for everyone else. State might even need 17-13.

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State won't host at 16-14. They need to take 2 of 3 from Bama, 1 of 3 at Arkansas and 2 of 3 from Missouri to get to 17-11 and will get them some consideration. It'd be much better if they swept Missouri to get to 18-10.

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Single elimination format.

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Source?

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Miss State and Ole Miss probably have the most difficult.

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A&M has the most difficult. LSU & Texas are arguably the 2 greatest programs in the history of college baseball.

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Tulane isn't bad and they managed to pull a W unlike Alabama/A&M/LSU

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Tulane was playing their backup QB and it was a 1 score game into the 4th quarter.