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Ohio state is drooling over Julian Sayin. We will see. At least arch has in game experience. Our defense should be better than theirs.

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16 minutes ago, TexasExe14 said:

Ohio state is drooling over Julian Sayin. We will see. At least arch has in game experience. Our defense should be better than theirs.

There is no better QB on any roster than "5 star recruit that hasn't thrown a live pass yet"

11 hours ago, westexhorn said:

 

hopefully one of our freshmen WRs will look like Dallas Wilson (2025 5 star from Florida who almost committed to Oregon)

This kid looks kinda athletic and might be a problem when we face them at the swamp this season

This video is fucking garbage.

On 4/16/2025 at 11:32 PM, Napoleon said:

 

Even if Arch didn’t place out of some Math, English, and possibly Science/ Language/ History courses…

…but coming from a prep school with tons of planning for his success, he probably placed out of 6 to 30 hours…

…Arch will have completed 6 Fall/Spring Semesters and 3 double summer sessions by the end of this fall.

That is the equivalent of 4 1/2 years to graduate while never having to worry about whether or not he could get into the class that he needed. And doing it with tutors for each & every class.

Arch will have at least one degree before he leaves UT.

 

Placing out is overrated nowadays since the students only get credit and no longer get the actual grade points to help buffer their overall GPA. During the 90s coming in with 30 hours of an A was a nice blockade against fucking up in school.  

15 minutes ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Placing out is overrated nowadays since the students only get credit and no longer get the actual grade points to help buffer their overall GPA. During the 90s coming in with 30 hours of an A was a nice blockade against fucking up in school.  

Holy shit you guys got the points from high school classes counted for your GPA? No wonder college seemed more debaucherous back than, you couldn't fail out.

2 hours ago, texifornia said:

Holy shit you guys got the points from high school classes counted for your GPA?

not from the classes, from the AP exams.

15 hours ago, Bevo14 said:

I would be disturbed if any receiver, let alone a true freshman, generated 200 yards in a spring game against something that is supposed to resemble a defense.

Well their defense was pure ass last year.

43 minutes ago, futureman said:

not from the classes, from the AP exams.

5 on an AP test counted as an A (4.0), 4 was a B, 3 was a C (but you could just accept it as no-grade credit on the 3 and 4 scores). Rolling in with 15+ hours of 4.0 was a nice buffer.

26 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

5 on an AP test counted as an A (4.0), 4 was a B, 3 was a C (but you could just accept it as no-grade credit on the 3 and 4 scores). Rolling in with 15+ hours of 4.0 was a nice buffer.

Yeah I went in as like a second semester sophomore. Saved a good chunk of change and time. 

3 hours ago, Murfdogg21 said:

5 on an AP test counted as an A (4.0), 4 was a B, 3 was a C (but you could just accept it as no-grade credit on the 3 and 4 scores). Rolling in with 15+ hours of 4.0 was a nice buffer.

So happy for you olds. 

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6 hours ago, texifornia said:

No wonder college seemed more debaucherous back than, you couldn't fail out.

Oh, it could be done.

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12 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

Oh, it could be done.

Over the course of my first full year at Texas, I lived in a rental home that one of my buddy's parents owned in south Austin. During those first 9 months in town, I had 7 different roommates. I was the only one eligible to return to campus for my sophomore year at Texas, out of 8.

I went in with zero AP points because I had no guidance or money in HS for the exams. Multiple other guys went in with 15+ hours already counted due to AP, with A's and B's for each of them. Those fuckers finished at UH, Texas State, ATM, Sam Houston, or working on the ship channel. You are damned straight it can be done. Apparently a good first step for it is to become roommates with me.

Almost no one I hung out with as a freshman ever graduated. Most didn’t even make it past sophomore year.

Back then it was possible to max out even higher.  I took every AP exam I could (paid for by my school district) plus juco TX gov & history.  I started out with 60 hours & graduated 6 semesters later with 150 hours.  The biggest advantages were the ability to get into every class I wanted (yay TEX) and never needing to take more than 15 hours a semester.

Shit, I’m so old (graduated early 80’s) I don’t think ‘testing out” was even a thing, but like CTJ, I didn’t have any guidance or money to do anything about it had I known. 

There was some orientation fee we had to pay to attend that little introduction and they allowed you to fill out paperwork to see if you qualified for a poor person refund. They actually said on the form (paraphrasing), “No one ever gets this money back, so don’t expect it. But you can try, dumbfuck!” 

I got the money back, maybe even a sympathetic call 🤣

30 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

Shit, I’m so old (graduated early 80’s) I don’t think ‘testing out” was even a thing, but like CTJ, I didn’t have any guidance or money to do anything about it had I known. 

There was some orientation fee we had to pay to attend that little introduction and they allowed you to fill out paperwork to see if you qualified for a poor person refund. They actually said on the form (paraphrasing), “No one ever gets this money back, so don’t expect it. But you can try, dumbfuck!” 

I got the money back, maybe even a sympathetic call 🤣

Is this also back when college was like $500 a semester? 

8 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

Is this also back when college was like $500 a semester? 

IIRC it was $18/semester hour in the late 80s, plus assorted fees.  So ballpark, yeah.

7 minutes ago, OregonHorn said:

IIRC it was $18/semester hour in the late 80s, plus assorted fees.  So ballpark, yeah.

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16 hours ago, Park Gothic said:

Is this also back when college was like $500 a semester? 

I think it actually may have been $4 an hour 🤣. Add on the Student Services Fees bundle for tickets to all sporting events (aka blanket tax) for a couple hundred bucks, plus a few other assorted fees and I probably didn’t’t even get to $500. Sound about right, @cafe society?

Out of staters had to add a cool $1,000 to the price tag, but it was still an incredible deal. We had a guy on my hall at Moore-Hill from College Park, Maryland. It was actually cheaper for him to pay the tuition, fees, out of state $1,000 add on AND room and board than had he lived at home and attended the University of Maryland.

 

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1 minute ago, Vito Andolini said:

I think it actually may have been $4 an hour 🤣. Add on the Student Services Fees bundle for tickets to all sporting events (aka blanket tax) for a couple hundred bucks, plus a few other assorted fees and I probably didn’t’t even get to $500. Sound about right, @cafe society?

Out of staters had to add a cool $1,000 to the price tag, but it was still an incredible deal. We had a guy on my hall at Moore-Hill from College Park, Maryland. It was actually cheaper for him to pay the tuition, fees, out of state $1,000 add on AND room and board and it was still cheaper than had he lived at home and attended the University of Maryland.

 

 

In 1982,  It was $4 for sure.  There was a minimum which came up when the folks wanted to know why I was taking only 12 hours...

Yeah back then you had way more students from out of state then would even be possible nowadays. UT also had provisional admission back then. So if you were a total fuck up in high school, but graduated in the top half of your class you could still gain admission to UT if you took like 12 hours of classes at UT during the summer and made like either a 2.5 or 2.75.  

48 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

Is this also back when college was like $500 a semester? 

Fall semester 1962 - registered for 15 hours and paid about $15 for my student blanket pass. 
Total cost was slightly less than $100. 

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1 minute ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Yeah back then you had way more students from out of state then would even be possible nowadays. UT also had provisional admission back then. So if you were a total fuck up in high school, but graduated in the top half of your class you could still gain admission to UT if you took like 12 hours of classes at UT during the summer and made like either a 2.5 or 2.75.  

I was a total fuckup in high school and was only in the top 25%, but could breathe. So they let me in.

2 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

Fall semester 1962 - registered for 15 hours and paid about $15 for my student blanket pass. 
Total cost was slightly less than $100. 

You overlapped the tail end of my parents at Rice. Tuition there was $0/hr back then.

28 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

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There was a full time, lifetime student @ UT when I was there.  He resembled that.  I don't remember how many degrees he had earned.

Looks like an undergrad living in Jester with meal plan today can expect to pay about $30k total for fall & spring.  My bills came to about $3k for the same.  First year scholarships like National Merit & TX Valedictorian covered everything. Then I made $1k/month off my T/A job for second and third year, so bills were never an issue.   It was a helluva bargain.

2 minutes ago, OregonHorn said:

There was a full time, lifetime student @ UT when I was there.  He resembled that.  I don't remember how many degrees he had earned.

Looks like an undergrad living in Jester with meal plan today can expect to pay about $30k total for fall & spring.  My bills came to about $3k for the same.  First year scholarships like National Merit & TX Valedictorian covered everything. Then I made $1k/month off my T/A job for second and third year, so bills were never an issue.   It was a helluva bargain.

Back when @TheAuditor and I were in school, there was an old dude (really old, older than we are now) in school who looked just like Santa Claus. Even had a red t-shirt.

Just now, Vito Andolini said:

Back when @TheAuditor and I were in school, there was an old dude (really old, older than we are now) in school who looked just like Santa Claus. Even had a red t-shirt.

I bet it was the same guy who was still there in '88.  I rode the bus with him a few times.

Just now, OregonHorn said:

I bet it was the same guy who was still there in '88.  I rode the bus with him a few times.

I was about to say, he was always at the bus stops 🤣

Sorry, how about that Arch Manning? Looks like we got a player!

55 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:

I think it actually may have been $4 an hour 🤣. Add on the Student Services Fees bundle for tickets to all sporting events (aka blanket tax) for a couple hundred bucks, plus a few other assorted fees and I probably didn’t’t even get to $500. Sound about right, @cafe society?

Out of staters had to add a cool $1,000 to the price tag, but it was still an incredible deal. We had a guy on my hall at Moore-Hill from College Park, Maryland. It was actually cheaper for him to pay the tuition, fees, out of state $1,000 add on AND room and board and it was still cheaper than had he lived at home and attended the University of Maryland.

 

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I think it was $3 per semester hour my freshman year (1978) and increased to $4 the next year.  UT was harder to get into then, but a whole helluva lot less expensive.

10 minutes ago, cafe society said:

I think it was $3 per semester hour my freshman year (1978) and increased to $4 the next year.  UT was harder to get into then, but a whole helluva lot less expensive.

How was it harder to get in?  Size is about the same.  A lot more applicants now.  I knew plenty of pretty average students who got in when I finished high school (1994) or shortly thereafter 

8 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

How was it harder to get in?  Size is about the same.  A lot more applicants now.  I knew plenty of pretty average students who got in when I finished high school (1994) or shortly thereafter 

Only top 5% get in auto now as far as in state goes. 

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1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Only top 5% get in auto now as far as in state goes. 

Yeah.  I think most agree it’s a lot harder to get in now than it was 30 years ago.  

UT is turning away private school applicants with SATs in the 1500s now to maintain space for auto admits. It is harder to get in now.

2 hours ago, Vito Andolini said:

Shit, I’m so old (graduated early 80’s) I don’t think ‘testing out” was even a thing, but like CTJ, I didn’t have any guidance or money to do anything about it had I known. 

There was some orientation fee we had to pay to attend that little introduction and they allowed you to fill out paperwork to see if you qualified for a poor person refund. They actually said on the form (paraphrasing), “No one ever gets this money back, so don’t expect it. But you can try, dumbfuck!” 

I got the money back, maybe even a sympathetic call 🤣

I graduated early 80’s as well. We just didn’t have the support back then. I remember sitting with high school counselor when they do a one time last minute review of ACT and SAT scores and he noticed I applied to Texas and SMU. His advice was you might also want to apply to Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin and SWTSU. No encouragement at all.

24 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Only top 5% get in auto now as far as in state goes. 

Bruh, I was too 5(0)% 

11 hours ago, Catdaddyhorn said:

Placing out is overrated nowadays since the students only get credit and no longer get the actual grade points to help buffer their overall GPA. During the 90s coming in with 30 hours of an A was a nice blockade against fucking up in school.  

That was me , on all levels.  Placed out of 10 hours of Spanish with an A, took 12 hours as a provisional freshman with a 3.0.   Partied like the biker my whole Freshman year and leaned on those 24 hours in the bag.  That was summer ‘88

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1 hour ago, cafe society said:

I think it was $3 per semester hour my freshman year (1978) and increased to $4 the next year.  UT was harder to get into then, but a whole helluva lot less expensive.

I can't speak to '78 but in the early aughts it was definitely easier.  no way in hell I'd have gotten in today.

 

22 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Bruh, I was too 5(0)% 

I was almost top 50%

Fucking off-season, we're down to talking academics and cost of hours ? 

I want to know how much an hour it is to rent a monkey from a stripper 

What a bunch of pussies. Back in the '60s if you could go a mirror you could be admitted.Thing is......they didn't have to keep you. Kids flunked out at a high rate.....and an automatic trip to Vietnam was the reward... I lost two fraternity brothers that way.

5 hours ago, OregonHorn said:

The biggest advantages were the ability to get into every class I wanted (yay TEX) and never needing to take more than 15 hours a semester.

Biggest after preferential football tickets maybe.

To offset everyone always saying they couldn't get into UT today, I'll say I was full ride then and would be full ride now.  

15 minutes ago, WBT said:

Biggest after preferential football tickets maybe.

To offset everyone always saying they couldn't get into UT today, I'll say I was full ride then and would be full ride now.  

This is depressing. I just realized I’m on a bulletin board with a bunch of dudes that could not get in UT today. Me included. Should we start another forum? 

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3 minutes ago, Knewk210 said:

This is depressing. I just realized I’m on a bulletin board with a bunch of dudes that could not get in UT today. Me included. Should we start another forum? 

Texags already exists 😜 

5 hours ago, Park Gothic said:

Is this also back when college was like $500 a semester? 

Try $150.  My books in 1980 cost more than my tuition. 😄

12 hours ago, closetojumping said:

Over the course of my first full year at Texas, I lived in a rental home that one of my buddy's parents owned in south Austin. During those first 9 months in town, I had 7 different roommates. I was the only one eligible to return to campus for my sophomore year at Texas, out of 8.

I went in with zero AP points because I had no guidance or money in HS for the exams. Multiple other guys went in with 15+ hours already counted due to AP, with A's and B's for each of them. Those fuckers finished at UH, Texas State, ATM, Sam Houston, or working on the ship channel. You are damned straight it can be done. Apparently a good first step for it is to become roommates with me.

Man, I didn't even think I would go to college out of high school. I transferred to UT from a Louisiana university with no money in my 20s. I got a rental house with two random people I didn't know off craigslist for about $400 a month on Burleson Rd. UT didn't accept any of my credits from my first university besides my English sequence, and maybe Biology and lab? But idr. I had to start completely over, and I'm the first in my family to go to university and had no guidance or money. It took me 7 years to graduate, take time off to work, and then return to school. I just graduated two years ago. But you can do it for sure. UT gives you a lot of opportunities not to fail out, though.

 

 

4 hours ago, NashLonghorn said:

Try $150.  My books in 1980 cost more than my tuition. 😄

That's honestly not even fair. :( University/college should cost no more than a $500 administrative fee a semester.

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My first morning at UT Engineering as a freshman early 90’s: “I want you to oook at the person sitting on your left and on your right………only one of you will make it through this program”.  It had a very boot camp feel ; )

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