Posts posted by jimmyjazz
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1 hour ago, Derka said: it’s not. it’s a highly rated offense because we get a ton of offensive rebounds and we shoot a ton of FTs (and in conference play were shooting 79.5% as a team). in reality this is not sole great offensive team, it’s an effective offensive team with some glaring holes.
Is it fair to say you don't think the KenPom stat reflects "greatness" of an offense but more its efficiency? (Not a trick question, you follow those stats far closer than I do.)
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I thought some of you aging Texas metalheads might like this poll I saw on Facebook today. It's from a music 'zine called The Texas Beat, and probably dates to the early 1990s. The photo shows Pariah's Kyle Ellison with his bandmate Jared. Kyle is holding his new Les Paul courtesy of his recent Gibson endorsemen deal. I was working with the band recording demos for a second album on Geffen the day it came in. I don't think I've ever seen a prettier Les Paul. I believe the finish was "Honeyburst". It looked like caramel sex. Unfortunately, that album never saw the light of day. They were a cool band, though, pushing back against hair metal in a style not all that different from G'n'R before them.

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In my experience, all housing sucks. It's virtually a rite of passage unless you're wealthy enough to put your kid in a high-rise luxury condo. Best I can recall was on-campus housing at Tyler, but even then they tried to gouge us on move-out. I've had two kids in private dorms (West Campus) which kind of look OK from the outside but in reality it's mid-century prison interior design, and we tried 3 of them. Then they both moved off campus to nearby duplexes and other hovels, and they're still bouncing around between those. I consider it a character building exercise.
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In my experience UT is pretty amenable to students transferring within the university. My daughter changed minors, which is probably not illustrative, but my son CAP'd in to Psych and has gotten the green light to transfer to a major that CAP would have never gotten him into in the first place. His grades are merely "good".
I'm not sure the risk is as significant as @scramblyn seems to think it is. It's a fair conversation, though.
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7 hours ago, DaysOff said: 14 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:
Those schools are so popular for CAP they may require you to start summer school right after high school graduation.I believe my daughter did 6 hrs summer, 9 hrs fall, and 15 hrs spring.
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19 minutes ago, BrickHorn said: Based on anecdotes and Reddit threads, it seems that UT admissions is just randomly picking candidates. Fucking weird. I’ve soured so much on our alma mater in recent years and seeing absolutely unqualified dopes get in while superstars get CAP’d is infuriating. And I don’t even have any skin in the game.
I've mentioned it before, but a friend's kid was top of his class at a highly regarded private school in the west Austin 'burbs. 1590 SAT. Was not admitted to UT EE/CS. Got a full ride to GaTech in the same path. Needless to say, he jumped on the GaTech offer. It's probably the superior school for that discipline anyway.
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Holy crap. That was terrifying. Glad to hear your boy is on the mend, @pops . Closest I can recall with my kids was a rabies scare, a broken collarbone, and a freaky antibiotic reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. None were near as serious as what your boy went through.
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47 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said: My oldest was capped in 2020 and was devastated . . . Four years later she tossed her burnt orange cap in the air at DKR.
Yup, both our younger kids were capped, one to UTSA, one to Tyler. Both are nearing graduation at UT, one borderline summa cum laude (and one ahem not but bless his heart).
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Huge Piece of Shit and alleged Woman Abuser Chris Beard has been hired at Mississippi
in Basketball
After years of mostly laughing at Sampson when he was at OU I'm nearly astonished he has worked himself into the "elite" category.