WestQuad

January 21st, 2016 at 7:26 AM ^

You're stealing Yoda's idiom.  You need to post some Fargo stuff.

Dodd: Or maybe he's in the house and you think I'm stupid.
Hank: Son, I could fill out a steamer trunk with the amount of stupid I think you are but no, that's where he went.

 

or something.  

 

 

(I did not down vote you.)

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Optimism Attache

January 21st, 2016 at 5:54 AM ^

1) Austin generally and UT are fun places to be.

2) It's still a huge football school with great history

3) The recruits probably count on some reversion to mean--i.e. Texas can't stay bad forever, right?

edit: forgot acdemics--some kids care about that and UT is pretty good in that area, at least as far as colleges with FBS teams go

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somewittyname

January 21st, 2016 at 11:04 AM ^

UT has a top 7% rule, meaning that you have to be top 7% in your class to get in, so I find your quite dumb comment dubious. I won't put it in the highest tier with the likes of Berkeley, UNC, UVA, Michigan, UCLA, but beyond that I think it is as highly regarded as any other public university.

Also worth noting that with rankings that place more emphasis on value or upward mobility, schools like UT Austin and PSU often do particularly well.

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Optimism Attache

January 21st, 2016 at 7:37 PM ^

I just said it was good, not great.

And I think you're confused about the rule. It's not that a student must be top 7% to get, it's that they automatically get in. But it only goes for in-state students. I think it is a fair policy and helps a lot of kids from lower socioeconomic areas--kids who probably wouldn't get in otherwise. But that may also lower the quality of the median student.

http://alcalde.texasexes.org/2012/11/txexplainer-why-top-10-percent-is-…

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JonnyHintz

January 21st, 2016 at 5:44 AM ^

Why were we still pulling in top classes during Rich Rod and Hoke's tenure? Yeah, our program is on the upswing right now, but Rich Rod was 15-22 and Hoke went 31-20. 46-42 in a 7 year stretch where we missed a bowl game 3 times, and we still consistently pulled in top 15 classes and a few top 10. As much as I disliked Brandon, he was onto something with regards to the brand. Sometimes the simple name of the school, history, tradition, and academics do have a strong impact on a recruit's decision.

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McSomething

January 21st, 2016 at 8:10 AM ^

His first class was on a short timetable, and had a few gems. His second and third showed some promise. And his fourth cratered under the looming possibility of him being fired, and then actually getting fired.

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GoBlueInNYC

January 21st, 2016 at 7:15 AM ^

Strong's been there all of two seasons, and pretty much everyone remotely close to the program knows he had to basically blow up Brown's program and rebuild from scratch.

Plus, Austin is a great city, UT is a great academic school, the facilities there for the football team have to be bonkers, and Strong still has a good reputation in most people's eyes, the last couple years, notwithstanding.

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sj

January 21st, 2016 at 9:40 AM ^

I think the attacks on Texas doing poorly are a little harsh. The last few years of Mack Brown's recruiting were pretty bad, then Strong came in and kicked out 9 players for bad attitudes. Of course they're bad - they don't have Texas-caliber players, but there's no reason to think that won't change. Their future is probably better then their present

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11574697/texas-longhorns…

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