Penn DT Transfer Joey Slackman No longer visting UM

Submitted by NeverPunt on December 13th, 2023 at 2:18 PM
https://twitter.com/JoshHenschke/status/1735012443456192572

 

Seems like we'll be moving on from him and vice versa. Something something walter nolen?? Probably not but a fella can dream...

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RibbleMcDibble

December 13th, 2023 at 2:32 PM ^

Isn't Nolen the type of recruit Michigan is unlikely to get due to credit transfers and the fact that he's been at Texas A&M two years? 

I like Michigan's portal strategy, but I thought the team was limited to guys who have been at a school one year or grad transfers? 

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b618

December 13th, 2023 at 4:53 PM ^

THE and QS are the two most highly regarded rankings organizations in the world for ranking universities, but it is based largely on research qualities.

Here is THE's ranking methodology:

If that's not how you would weight things, then your ranking order will of course be different.

njvictor, which is your favored ranking provider?

 

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njvictor

December 13th, 2023 at 5:43 PM ^

I don't have a favorite ranking provider because frankly that's a weird favorite thing to have and they're all subjective anyway. That ranking seems to heavily weight research compared to other factors. I don't need a subjective ranking to tell me that UVA is one of the most prestigious and well respected schools in the world, but I will definitely laugh at any ranking that has UVA significantly below 2 schools that accept more than half their applicants

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b618

December 14th, 2023 at 3:59 AM ^

Yes, THE and QS are geared toward research (i.e., publications, citations, and reputation as judged from large yearly surveys).

UVA is still doing well there as long as you consider top 200 out of thousands in the world to be doing well.

Of course, if you pick a different set of things to emphasize, you get a different ranking.  Maybe UVA is higher ranked if non-research areas, arts, humanities, etc., or acceptance rate are more emphasized.  (Although in a lot of universities, different programs have wildly different acceptance rates, so I'm not sure overall acceptance rate is that useful.)

But thinking THE and QS are laughable rankings is like thinking Science and Nature are laughable places to publish.

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b618

December 13th, 2023 at 3:35 PM ^

Times Higher Education and QS are the most-elite academic rankings of schools.  They take into account publications by faculty, citations of those, research reputation, teaching reputation, industry income of students, research income, etc.

US News rankings (and the like) are the McDonald's hamburger of rankings.

Top of THE's world university rankings:

1    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2    Stanford University, United States
3    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
4    Harvard University, United States
5    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
6    Princeton University, United States
7    California Institute of Technology, United States
8    Imperial College London, United Kingdom
9    University of California, Berkeley, United States
10    Yale University, United States
11    ETH Zurich, Switzerland
12    Tsinghua University, China
13    The University of Chicago, United States
14    Peking University, China
15    Johns Hopkins University, United States
16    University of Pennsylvania, United States
17    Columbia University, United States
18    University of California, Los Angeles, United States
19    National University of Singapore, Singapore
20    Cornell University, United States
21    University of Toronto, Canada
22    UCL, United Kingdom
23    University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States
24    Carnegie Mellon University, United States
25    University of Washington, United States

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Amazinblu

December 13th, 2023 at 3:58 PM ^

Not intending to be political - but, there are two schools in China in the Top 15.   The countries represented in this list:

  1. United Kingdom
  2. United States
  3. Switzerland,
  4. China,
  5. Singapore, and Canada

In a way - two Chinese schools surprises me, and in a way it doesn't.

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b618

December 13th, 2023 at 5:08 PM ^

There is no problem getting smart, competitive students into Chinese universities.  As for faculty and facilities, China has from a while back made it a national priority to make some of its schools elite.  They have the money to recruit top faculty and to create high-end facilities.

Texas did the same with UT Austin a while back, using a bunch of oil money with a goal to make it over time an elite public university akin to Michigan and Berkeley.

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WolverineGoneTerp

December 13th, 2023 at 4:27 PM ^

TA&M is #118, which is higher than Penn State #122, University of Virginia #166, Indiana #198, Iowa #201, etc.

They are NOT, however, higher than the Terps (who clock in at a decent #114).   Also above them are OSU (sigh), Wisconsin, Northwestern and Illinois.  And coming additions Washington, USC and UCLA are also ranked highly.

 

 

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blueheron

December 13th, 2023 at 3:00 PM ^

More favorable depth chart elsewhere?

UM would be a nice accompaniment to Penn on a CV, but you could do worse than Wisconsin, UNC, and Florida. Not sure about Auburn.

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