FortWorthTide
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re: Which SEC school would you send your son to play at....
Posted by FortWorthTide on 6/8/13 at 5:31 pm
[quote]Academic parity? I mean my original claim was that we are the only other school to take education seriously....
I would make the claim that Texas A&M is closer to Harvard, than South Carolina is to Texas A&M. Does that make us academic equals?[/quote]
I can't believe what I just read. Y...
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re: Which SEC school would you send your son to play at....
Posted by FortWorthTide on 6/7/13 at 8:51 pm
Petroleum engineering degree? That's the point. Yes, y'all dominate in that area. But there is more to a school than a few core competencies. And as far as your business school, it's good, but nothing out of the ordinary....
re: Which SEC school would you send your son to play at....
Posted by FortWorthTide on 6/7/13 at 6:43 pm
Again, I don't like their arrogance either and think that liberal arts degrees are crap also. But for business, law, and other "professional" occupations, Texas offers a better degree. A&M owns the engineering (which is where the high salaries out of school come from - but there is a ceiling in engi...
re: Which SEC school would you send your son to play at....
Posted by FortWorthTide on 6/7/13 at 6:28 pm
[quote]Look man, in the state of Texas (the world's 14th largest economy) there isn't a better degree to hold than a Texas A&M degree, especially with our cult-like almuni network. We offer the best degree in the state of Texas (other than Rice). That is all that matters. [/quote]
Best degree in ...
re: Which SEC school would you send your son to play at....
Posted by FortWorthTide on 6/7/13 at 5:41 pm
[quote] quote:
people like to hire their grads and their grads make more money. These things are true
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But this is because the O&G industry pays more than most others at the moment. That hasn't always been the case and it won't be forever. Don't get me wrong, A&M is a great...
re: Which SEC school would you send your son to play at....
Posted by FortWorthTide on 6/7/13 at 4:39 pm
I was born and raised in Texas (also live there now after graduating from UA). This A&M academic crap is hilarious. Yes, it is a good public school. Texas is much better. Aggies like to claim that A&M is an equal academic school with "different strengths". That's just not the case. A&M is a great st...
re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1
Posted by FortWorthTide on 5/29/13 at 6:45 pm
[quote]no, it doesn't. Our contract with CBS is for 14 games and is like $65m. That's the very top game and we aren't getting $5m per. People wildly exaggerate how much money comes from tv. Right now everyone gets about $20m annually for tv. In the future it's estimated at $28m for the whole season....
re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1
Posted by FortWorthTide on 5/29/13 at 6:17 pm
[quote]It really doesn't. It makes some sense for Bama
Other schools have a fixed big time OOC game
Other schools have a fixed neutral site conference game
These two things mean that with a 9 game schedule combined with the fixed opponent, they will alternate 5 and 4 home games through those ...
re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1
Posted by FortWorthTide on 5/29/13 at 5:56 pm
[quote]Point taken.
But you're measuring a season's worth of SOS.
1 game a season does not make.[/quote]
You're correct, but most teams in the SEC aren't even scheduling one big game. UF and South Carolina have one every year. UGA's is iffy because GT isn't a great opponent in many years, b...
re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1
Posted by FortWorthTide on 5/29/13 at 4:12 pm
[quote]Will not happen, at best it will move to Atlanta or Dallas one year, BIG is going to 9. [/quote]
This is what I don't get. Again, unless your coach is a coward, going to 9 doesn't have to mean getting rid of one good matchup per year OOC (and yes, that includes home and homes - you just sc...
re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1
Posted by FortWorthTide on 5/29/13 at 4:08 pm
[quote]9th conference game does nothing for anybody. And Saban knows it.
It doesn't improve SOS.
It doesn't improve TV programming.
It doesn't improve OOC scheduling (ie. cupcakes).
The only thing it does is rotate the conference through quicker on an annual basis.
And that has NEVER been t...
re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1
Posted by FortWorthTide on 5/29/13 at 3:52 pm
Going to Michigan State and to Georgia Tech in coming years.
And besides that, a neutral site game is still a lost home game. In fact, when we play neutral site games 3 or 4 years in a row, like we are right now, it's actually guaranteeing the loss of a home game. With a home and home, you only ...
re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1
Posted by FortWorthTide on 5/29/13 at 3:46 pm
Why would we drop the easier OOC games when no one else is doing it? That's part of why Saban wants the 9 game slate. It's uniformity for all schools. He's publicly stated that he wants 9 SEC games, one premier OOC game, and 2 games against other teams in the big 5 conferences. But he can't make tha...
re: Vote to keep 8 game schedule was 13-1
Posted by FortWorthTide on 5/29/13 at 3:03 pm
So everyone is just trying to deflect by talking about OOC games. We already play one top tier opponent per year, which is more than most of y'all (except LSU and the teams with permanent OOC rivals) do. Why would we drop the easier OOC games when no one else is doing it? That's part of why Saban wa...
re: Part of SEC Network deal could be to "level" the schedule....
Posted by FortWorthTide on 4/18/13 at 3:13 pm
[quote]Cockopotamus Part of SEC Network deal could be to "level" the schedule.... One way to deal with the 9 game schedule issue of uneven home and away games is to give everyone a neutral site conference game, although logistically that is probably impossible [/quote]
Why would it be impossibl...
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