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Shaggy Texas - Shaggy Bevo, Thujone, MS Pain, Butt Hurt, and BBQ (RIP)

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ORD_Buckeye said:
What's really pathetic is that they truly should be the best public university in the country with that oil endowment yet are somewhere between 10th and 15th depending on what survey one chooses. It's similar to the athletic revenue. Where the fuck does it go because it's clearly not buying a commensurate amount of quality on the ground?
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I'm assuming they aren't what they should be because most of their students and athletes come from Texas.
 
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Saw31 said:
And to be honest @ORD_Buckeye, I don't know why you stay over there. I couldn't deal with the arrogant stupidity anymore. Thujone is a national treasure, but aside from that, there is really no redeeming qualities on that website other than the meltdowns when Wooo Pig Soooie holds them to 40 whatever yards in a bowl game...
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Actually, I'm pretty much done on the shag. Some asswipes started posting quotes from this thread, so they're having an orgy of petulant butthurt about it. It would be one thing if it were at least clever and irreverent, but it's just 99% cheap insults. They can't crowd ban me; hell, I'm still over a million points. It's more that, like you, the bullshit and endless cheap, tin star Texas chest pumping is not worth it anymore, so I'm walking. I'll check back for the meltdowns as Charlie leads them to a 7-5 season and another gaping in some meaningless bowl though.

And seriously, is there any public university that so grossly underperforms--both academically and athletically--relative to the financial resources available? $164M athletic budget funding only 20 sports, and they're losing fucking money with no success in football or basketball. On the academic side, they get funded at a higher level by the state than other public universities (must be nice to actually be treated like a flagship) and they've been sitting on those oil billions for a century. What's it bought?

And look at their demographics. Second largest state with massive population increases, and it's not like they're in California having to compete with 8 other University of California campuses, plus Stanford, Claremont Colleges, USC and Cal Tech. Their in-state competition is essentially Rice and maybe aggy, yet their freshman class had 3x more (15% to 5%) students scoring less than 24 on the ACT than Ohio State and twice as many (10% vs. 5%) graduating outside the top quarter of their high school class. And for all their financial resources, they only gave out $1.8M in university merit aid as opposed to the $62M that Ohio State did. I guess they never thought it important to actually build up their scholarship funds because you know, "We're Texas!" That should be good enough for any kid.

Special state funding, billions in an oil endowment, incredible demographics and little in-state competition. On paper, they should easily be the top public university in the country, yet they struggle to hit the top 10. That is mediocrity.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Actually, I'm pretty much done on the shag. Some asswipes started posting quotes from this thread, so they're having an orgy of petulant butthurt about it. It would be one thing if it were at least clever and irreverent, but it's just 99% cheap insults. They can't crowd ban me; hell, I'm still over a million points. It's more that, like you, the bull[Mark May] and endless cheap, tin star Texas chest pumping is not worth it anymore, so I'm walking. I'll check back for the meltdowns as Charlie leads them to a 7-5 season and another gaping in some meaningless bowl though.

And seriously, is there any public university that so grossly underperforms--both academically and athletically--relative to the financial resources available? $164M athletic budget funding only 20 sports, and they're losing fucking money with no success in football or basketball. On the academic side, they get funded at a higher level by the state than other public universities (must be nice to actually be treated like a flagship) and they've been sitting on those oil billions for a century. What's it bought?

And look at their demographics. Second largest state with massive population increases, and it's not like they're in California having to compete with 8 other University of California campuses, plus Stanford, Claremont Colleges, USC and Cal Tech. Their in-state competition is essentially Rice and maybe aggy, yet their freshman class had 3x more (15% to 5%) students scoring less than 24 on the ACT than Ohio State and twice as many (10% vs. 5%) graduating outside the top quarter of their high school class. And for all their financial resources, they only gave out $1.8M in university merit aid as opposed to the $62M that Ohio State did. I guess they never thought it important to actually build up their scholarship funds because you know, "We're Texas!" That should be good enough for any kid.

Special state funding, billions in an oil endowment, incredible demographics and little in-state competition. On paper, they should easily be the top public university in the country, yet they struggle to hit the top 10. That is mediocrity.
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Not to mention that we have JTB and they don't.
 
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Hey shag,

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You're already irrelevant
 
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BUCKYLE said:
Hey shag,

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You're already irrelevant
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The issue probably deserves an LJB level of research, but I'll just give it my gut feelings, and that is that the state of Texas can only sustain one, or at best two, elite programs. Right now that's TCU and Wailor. Aggy is middling, while UT and TT are in the shitter. Patterson and Broyles aren't going anywhere, and aggy has SEC money and cache to at least keep them at their current level. Throw in Houston having a dynamic young coach who will siphon some elite talent at least on the offensive side of the ball, and I just don't see a window for Texas to climb out of mediocrity until at least one of Broyles or patterson, if not both, are gone.
 
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cincibuck said:
ORD the low % scores on their fresh class may be due to how they worked the diversity issue. Anyone in the top 10% of their graduating class is eligible. They don't use ACT/SAT scores.
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We still do better than them at the top of the class too by either SAT or ACT scores, though the gap isn't quite as large. And if their classes are being dictated to such a large degree by the 10% rule, why do they have twice the percentage of freshman outside the top 25% as us? With some of the mid-tier Cal campuses like Davis and Santa Barbara, we have better test scores, but they kill us on class rank, yet mighty "if we say we're the same as Michigan enough, it'll be true" Texas can't even do what UC-Davis can. In academics, as in athletics, Texas is a pure under performer given their resources. All chest-thumping (and insecurity driven) braggadocio with no substance. As they would say, all hat and no cattle. All queer and no steer. Fund them like a normal state university, and they would be North Carolina State but without the good BBQ.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
As I've said before; they look great on paper but would be an absolute cancer in the Big Ten. They would barely get their feet in the door before setting out to undo everything that has been built up over the previous century. Let the PAC or SEC! deal with their pathological narcissism. We neither need it nor can afford it.

Now, I don't want OU under any circumstances, but I am heartened to see Boren clearly chomping at the bit to get out. Okie has stood by them every step of the way, but clearly--and in the words of Popeye The Sailor--they've had all they can takes; they can't takes no more." I'll call my money shot right now. Oklahoma will play the 2017 season in the SEC! It'll be announced this coming Winter.

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Seems more and more SEC adds Choklahoma... maybe with Kansas to have a West Div patsy / Basketball school counter to Kentucky.
Ultimately I think Boren's and OU's resolve will be tested over the Okie State issue. PAC is probably the only one willing with room for little brother, and PAC wants UT in there too.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Actually, I'm pretty much done on the shag. Some asswipes started posting quotes from this thread, so they're having an orgy of petulant butthurt about it. It would be one thing if it were at least clever and irreverent, but it's just 99% cheap insults. They can't crowd ban me; hell, I'm still over a million points. It's more that, like you, the bull[Mark May] and endless cheap, tin star Texas chest pumping is not worth it anymore, so I'm walking. I'll check back for the meltdowns as Charlie leads them to a 7-5 season and another gaping in some meaningless bowl though.

And seriously, is there any public university that so grossly underperforms--both academically and athletically--relative to the financial resources available? $164M athletic budget funding only 20 sports, and they're losing fucking money with no success in football or basketball. On the academic side, they get funded at a higher level by the state than other public universities (must be nice to actually be treated like a flagship) and they've been sitting on those oil billions for a century. What's it bought?

And look at their demographics. Second largest state with massive population increases, and it's not like they're in California having to compete with 8 other University of California campuses, plus Stanford, Claremont Colleges, USC and Cal Tech. Their in-state competition is essentially Rice and maybe aggy, yet their freshman class had 3x more (15% to 5%) students scoring less than 24 on the ACT than Ohio State and twice as many (10% vs. 5%) graduating outside the top quarter of their high school class. And for all their financial resources, they only gave out $1.8M in university merit aid as opposed to the $62M that Ohio State did. I guess they never thought it important to actually build up their scholarship funds because you know, "We're Texas!" That should be good enough for any kid.

Special state funding, billions in an oil endowment, incredible demographics and little in-state competition. On paper, they should easily be the top public university in the country, yet they struggle to hit the top 10. That is mediocrity.
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Is that in their "never going away" thread?
If so how have I not been negged into oblivion (to say nothing of even once)


ORD_Buckeye said:
I'll check back for the meltdowns as Charlie leads them to a 7-5 season and another gaping in some meaningless bowl though.
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But it's 7-5 in THE MOST COMPETITIVE CONFERENCE.
Seriously... everyone in the BXII is good, so good. Even Kansas has had recent 9-win seasons or something. I laugh so hard when I read that stuff... like... yea dude... so has Northwestern.
 
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