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It is incredibly bad at UT and A&M, and as the two largest/most prestigious institutions the discrimination from those schools has the biggest economic and cultural impact. UT is 6% black, the flagship university of a state with a black population 2x that proportion. If I recall correctly this is sadly even better than when I graduated 10 years ago, I believe it was 4% black at the time. Aggy has over 70k students and 2% of them are black, basically a meme of what you'd expect reading texags. For context, SMU and TCU - known across the state for being bubbles for rich white kids - are both 5% black. More than 2x the black student population of aggy and comparable to UT. That's where our flagship public schools are. It's shameful. Interestingly, UT's 37% white population mirrors the state, it is asian students massively overrepresented at 23%. This is true to a lesser extent at aggy (10%) but to no one's surprise, aggy is much whiter than the state as a whole (57%). Tech is just 6% black and majority white, below the state but probably not as bad relative to the area it primarily serves given most of the state's black population is on or east of the I-35 corridor. The two major DFW campuses appear to be doing the best in a relative sense. UNT is 14% black, slightly above the state and slightly below the 16% of the DFW metro. UT Arlington is 15% black; UT Arlington gets pretty close to the state at 31/31/15 white/hispanic/black, but has a large asian student population as well. Texas State probably most closely reflects the state but still overrepresents white students at 42%, 41% hispanic, 10% black, 3% asian. UH is 10%, close to the state but well under the 17% of the Houston MSA. Pretty bleak overall, because the full picture is one where black students are significantly underrepresented at the largest public universities and are sub 5% in aggregate at the top two campuses.

ERCOT will probably get censured by the Legislature for being woke in next year's session.

Blue was the better back at the end of last season and it wasn't particularly close. Baxter is getting the hype because he was the 5 star and you'd expect a bigger jump from a player going from year 1 to 2 than one going from 2 to 3, but I don't think it's a hot take to say Blue will be heavily involved or will be the best back. That'd just mean picking up where things left off (ideally a better version where both have made progress).

Logically you'd think this based on the antivax and conspiracy theory stuff but polls show it's pretty evenly split, if not a little worse for Biden. I have no doubt some of that are disaffected and/or low info Democrats that will come home. How many don't? That's the million dollar question. Trump's gotten 46% of the popular vote twice and is likely to fall in line with that again. His support has a low ceiling, but a high floor given the cult of personality. I don't imagine RFK ultimately peels off too many Trumpers because of the cult element. If RFK gets an electorally significant number of votes, it's because of defected D/independents, which hurts Biden.

I'm not arguing with the latter. That wasn't the claim. The former was.

Ah, yes, "definitely look better" (which I think everyone would agree with and is documented in averages) is totally the same as "basically every single poll has Biden ahead now." This is my point.

RFK is a little worrisome because of how low info the American electorate is and how well funded their campaign is. He's not getting double digits but if they lean into a disinformation campaign they can definitely get up into the 5%+ range and swing the election to Trump. Maybe he'll run out of money, maybe he'll say some outlandishly stupid things (didn't stop Gary Johnson from hitting that threshold), maybe more detailed media coverage will effectively shine a light on his nuttiness. It's early, but there's a universe where he's a big problem.

I'm sorry, what? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/ https://www.economist.com/interactive/us-2024-election/trump-biden-polls/ https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024#! I'm not one to make a ton of polls this early either way but the copium on this board can border on disinformation at times.

This is the correct answer.

What is three precision strikes on an aid convoy? Negged again, you piece of shit.

No one is ever "far beyond that," especially not 2024 Texas given historical context and coaching/roster turnover. The staff worked very hard to establish the conditions that allowed for a 12-1 season last year and now several of the players and coaches that made that possible are gone. To think Texas wouldn't invest in a culture guy is a head scratcher.

Putin was in the KGB for 15 years and has openly mourned the collapse of the USSR. Any strategic goals seem to pale in comparison to the nostalgic? - I don't know if that's the right word - desire to reestablish the Soviet empire/sphere of influence, regardless of whether or not it's strategically sensible or viable.

Jesus, fuck this bitch ass post. You were happy to keep banging the drum, then when presented with the obvious logical extension to your argument you just fold and say "well war is bad amirite" Negged. I am embarrassed to read shit like this out of someone who graduated form the University of Texas.

You joined a college sports board in the middle of the NCAA tournament, baseball/softball season, and spring football. Yet you have proceeded to make zero posts in any of the sports forums, instead opting to talk about crypto and attempting to...*checks notes*... cry wolf about communism over the idea that Boeing is an example of a company for whom safety has to come before juicing profits. Fuck off weirdo. You'd fit in better on TexAgs.

Even if it is a mistake - and I agree it's unlikely someone literally said/thought, "Oh look it's perhaps the highest profile aid organization operating in Gaza, let's light'em up!" - it's emblematic of so much more. That's the point.

It's not like he was living on the edge last year. I imagine he's the one every-down LB with the names you mentioned all rotating situationally/for spells. Gbenda's my bet for the other week 1 starter to have a veteran presence in there, and because Michigan is going to be one of his higher snap count games.

This is the kind of thing that can have outsized impact on public perception, in turn driving a shift in public opinion on the conflict and the political calculations for elected officials. Is that fair? No. Israel has been brazenly committing atrocities for months. Sad as it is, the death of seven innocents is a mild Tuesday morning in this conflict; but because of their nationalities and the organization the victims were affiliated with there is a spotlight on the horrific, indiscriminate nature of the violence. I don't know that it will happen. Isarel is such a thorny issue here and most people that do have an opinion are very much dug in. In general I disapprove of Biden's handling of the conflict, to put it diplomatically, but I'm conscious of the fact that he is walking a political tight rope and the consequences of stumbling on that are catastrophic.

A good kid from a good family, one might say?

The entire Boeing saga over recent years is just a metaphor for contemporary American society/economics at large, nothing being more illustrative of that than the fact that the bolded is a controversial statement. The race to the bottom continues.

"Texas voters can walk backwards through a field of dicks, court says."

Not to mention if they even get halfway to what they want it'd be an unmitigated disaster.

Never thought I'd want to join Estonian Secret Service but here we are.

It was pretty clusterfucky. I mean, it's always clusterfucky but especially last year. I chalk it up to being the highest profile matchup between the two teams for a while, and the first really big one post COVID. In 2021 Texas had some of the wind taken out of its sails when they got rolled by Arkansas, and it was hot as fuck. 2022 OU was a train wreck and everyone knew it. 2023 was a matchup of top 10-12 teams (don't remember where exactly OU was ranked), Texas was #2 or #3 and obviously the profile was riding as high as it had since 09 with the Bama win. College Game Day, perfect weather, all that.

Offseason is for lurking the recruiting board. For most of recent history the football board has also been good for laughing at spiked kool aid but I have been overserved myself this year so I've got nothing to say on that front. Honestly, CR is a better place than the football board in the off season. It's an election year, after all. Never a dull moment.