Everything posted by Spindletop
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I believe it. Bottom line is that UT is a fucking great school and always has been.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
I teach on campus now and while this may have been true in 2000, I do not believe it is true today. UT is extremely competitive to get into today. I believe the academic strength of the average student today is much higher than it was when I was a student. That's borne out in the job outcomes--for sure at the business school--where UT's placement into top national firms is miles ahead of what I remember. We talk about how many players from the football team are drafted into the NFL, and how that is a measure (not the only one) of the overall quality of the football program. The academic equivalent of that is how many students go on to work at household names that otherwise recruit only from Ivies and similar schools. That number is 20x of what it was 25 years ago. Just this morning, the CEO of PIMCO was on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast and casually name dropped how PIMCO recruits heavily from UT-Austin. Literally the only university mentioned in the episode, and the episode had nothing to do with academia or higher ed at all. This morning!
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I posted this about a year ago in this thread. Reposting for reference: --- I don't know much about A&M's history over the last 30 years other than them losing some hilarious games like 27-25 and 77-0, so I asked ChatGPT about the QBs being replaced and this is what it came up with: 1992-1995: Corey Pullig 4-yr starter 1996: Branndon Stewart replaced by Mark Farris midseason 1997-1999: Randy McCown 3-yr starter, replaced Mark Farris 2001: Mark Farris replaced by Dustin Long midseason 2002: Dusting Long replaced by Reggie McNeal midseason 2005: Reggie McNeal replaced by Stephen McGee midseason (injury) 2008: Stephen McGee replaced by Jerrod Johnson midseason (injury) 2010: Jerrod Johnson replaced by Ryan Tannehill 2012-2013: Manziel 2-yr starter 2014: Kenny Hill replaced by Kyle Allen midseason 2015: Kyle Allen replaced by Kyler Murray midseason 2016: Trevor Knight (ChatGPT says he transferred from OU? Don't remember this guy) 2017: Nick Starkel (? who is this?) and Kellen Mond swapped back and forth (?) 2018-2020: Mond starts for 3 yrs 2021: Haynes King replaced by Zach Calzada (injury) 2022: Haynes King replaced by Max Johnson, who was then replaced by Connor Weigman 2024: Looks like Weigman about to be replaced by Marcel Reed
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Schools getting a bump in recruiting during a new coach's first full cycle is normal. If Elko finishes with a top 5 class, my hat's off to him. Good job leveraging your employer's NIL and selling playing time, a new vision for the program, and whatever else a new coach sells. The problem for them is that one year of recruiting momentum won't be enough. Marcel Reed is not the answer at quarterback.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
I'll add that Michael Brandl himself is a great, great guy.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
They have to find the $ to fire Earley somehow. Putting him in charge is like Texas going from 2005/2008 Mack to Chris Jesse.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
Does Elko not understand that the signature is ultimately what matters? Or does he think he can flywheel "momentum" into something, like a lower price for the signature later on? I don't get it. (And from the inside, I wouldn't be able to explain it)
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Texas GPA
Ha, I think most Surly posters are pretty clever compared to the typical Internet message board. I mean, have you ever been to Texags?
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Texas GPA
Totally fair, and what you are saying could be true. My sample size is small, and doesn't include the sports you mention as far as I know, but I have been happy to have student-athletes in my class because they take the "student" part seriously and are really trying to pick up the material. Of course, there is self-selection bias because I teach in a major that has a reputation for being difficult. No academic advisor will direct students to our department for an "easy" major.
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Texas GPA
I teach an upper-division elective at the business school and have had multiple student-athletes in my class. As a whole, they are above the average for my class--they show up most of the time, pay attention, and do the work. I don't know what sports they play unless they give me documentation about the specific classes they are allowed to miss due to University-sponsored sports events. One student who plays a sport people know about wrote to me yesterday asking the best way to make up the work they have to miss due to the competition schedule. I am impressed by our student-athletes. They work much harder than I did when I was a student.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
A bunch of my college friends are sending their kids to A&M. The state's population has grown a lot and getting into UT is hard. I am not sure if these kids who grew up as Longhorns suddenly become redass, or remain 2%ers, or something in between. A&M has also gotten so big that Fish Camp fills up within hours or minutes of the slots opening up, so at least, a smaller percentage of the incoming class is getting the immediate indoctrination. At the public in-state price point, A&M seems to be the next best option for a lot of people. Not exactly sure why UT-Dallas isn't higher on people's lists, but for whatever reason, it just isn't. Or maybe getting into UTD is also very competitive (I don't know).
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
Lol Micah Hudson is at A&M now? Greatness
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
So OU has a Charlie Strong clone as coach, and A&M has a Herman clone. What a time to be alive.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
- OU Recruiting 2025: Truck Balls and Broken Dreams
Chances are they've lost another submarine wide receiver since you last hit F5- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
- Yell leaders - Reveille - The Corps - Only Texas school in the SEC - Small town feel with 70,000 students on campus - Consistent 8-4 performance - Maroon carrots - Jizz jars- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
It is unbelievable to me that they are already talking about firing Elko. I thought they would do much worse than 8-4 given the roster turnover they had. Not to mention, residual buyout payments for Jimbo AND Elko, and salary for a new coach, and NIL?- Jimbo 2022: Balls To The Face
There must be something in the water in College Station.- Texas Recruiting Notes 2025: Duck Around and Find Out
A&M and benching senior quarterbacks A&M and making decisions based on optics A&M and losing to Texas- Texas A&M Recruiting 2025: The Land of Melk & No Money
Probably written by AI.- Sub-Educated Cretins: The SEC screenshot mega-thread
This sounds hilarious, what's the story behind fighting in a Home Depot parking lot?- Sub-Educated Cretins: The SEC screenshot mega-thread
Neither team wanted one, neither team got one. Advantage: A&M- Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
I posted this in the A&M thread on the Football board. Reposting here for people's reference: I don't know much about A&M's history over the last 30 years other than them losing some hilarious games like 27-25 and 77-0, so I asked ChatGPT about the QBs being replaced and this is what it came up with: 1992-1995: Corey Pullig 4-yr starter 1996: Branndon Stewart replaced by Mark Farris midseason 1997-1999: Randy McCown 3-yr starter, replaced Mark Farris 2001: Mark Farris replaced by Dustin Long midseason 2002: Dusting Long replaced by Reggie McNeal midseason 2005: Reggie McNeal replaced by Stephen McGee midseason (injury) 2008: Stephen McGee replaced by Jerrod Johnson midseason (injury) 2010: Jerrod Johnson replaced by Ryan Tannehill 2012-2013: Manziel 2-yr starter 2014: Kenny Hill replaced by Kyle Allen midseason 2015: Kyle Allen replaced by Kyler Murray midseason 2016: Trevor Knight (ChatGPT says he transferred from OU? Don't remember this guy) 2017: Nick Starkel (? who is this?) and Kellen Mond swapped back and forth (?) 2018-2020: Mond starts for 3 yrs 2021: Haynes King replaced by Zach Calzada (injury) 2022: Haynes King replaced by Max Johnson, who was then replaced by Connor Weigman 2024: Looks like Weigman about to be replaced by Marcel Reed- Tell Me About Texas a&m
I don't know much about A&M's history over the last 30 years other than them losing some hilarious games like 27-25 and 77-0, so I asked ChatGPT about the QBs being replaced and this is what it came up with: 1992-1995: Corey Pullig 4-yr starter 1996: Branndon Stewart replaced by Mark Farris midseason 1997-1999: Randy McCown 3-yr starter, replaced Mark Farris 2001: Mark Farris replaced by Dustin Long midseason 2002: Dusting Long replaced by Reggie McNeal midseason 2005: Reggie McNeal replaced by Stephen McGee midseason (injury) 2008: Stephen McGee replaced by Jerrod Johnson midseason (injury) 2010: Jerrod Johnson replaced by Ryan Tannehill 2012-2013: Manziel 2-yr starter 2014: Kenny Hill replaced by Kyle Allen midseason 2015: Kyle Allen replaced by Kyler Murray midseason 2016: Trevor Knight (ChatGPT says he transferred from OU? Don't remember this guy) 2017: Nick Starkel (? who is this?) and Kellen Mond swapped back and forth (?) 2018-2020: Mond starts for 3 yrs 2021: Haynes King replaced by Zach Calzada (injury) 2022: Haynes King replaced by Max Johnson, who was then replaced by Connor Weigman 2024: Looks like Weigman about to be replaced by Marcel Reed - OU Recruiting 2025: Truck Balls and Broken Dreams
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