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    Sources: The MAC is exploring potential expansion. School officials are expected to discuss expansion in the upcoming days. Among those expected to be discussed are Middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky.
     
     
     
     
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    Nothing is imminent about this at this time. A full discussion needs to take place before any action, and there’s no urgency to expand.
  2. 14 minutes ago, Godzillatron said:


    You Mensas know a shit ton about second tier Texas university systems. How about you move that to a new thread and let us talk about conference realignment here?


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    Well since I've posted about half the direct realignment posts over the past week and you have, how many?  None?  So how about you post less meaningless drivel?

  3. 45 minutes ago, TKthunder2 said:
     
     
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    Note McMurphy's following tweet on Marshall:
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    Marshall has officially joined Sun Belt, sources told . Marshall becomes 9th C-USA school to leave & 3rd to move to Sun Belt. 1st reported by Athletic. FCS member James Madison expected move to Sun Belt will make it a 14-team league
     
     
     
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    NCAA announces USF failed to monitor football program under Charlie Strong. USF gets 3-years probation, fined $10,000 plus Strong gets 1-game suspension if he returns to college
  4. 7 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

    these are not similar comparisons

    1. it can easily be argued that the UH medical school is not needed with 2 already in Houston and 1 already on Galveston.....not to mention SHSU not needing a D.O. school in Montgomery County

    2. UH was stupid and even more stupid was the politicians in Houston that fought the UT research campus......that was just jackasses being jackasses

    3. the north Texas state medical school is really Fort Worth wanting a MD program, but the north Texas state system is too weak and too controlled by dallas (city proper) politicians to make it happen......plus by legislative statute TCOM is prohibited from offering a MD degree......so it is actually TCU that offers the MD degree and the "theory" (it is bullshit) is that those MD students can just sit in on the early year classes at the DO school and then there will only be an expense of offering the later year MD classes to make that degree happen

    the issue of course is that you cannot just over fill first year and second year MD classes with a mass number of students like a large university entry level class with 250 students......that is not allowed......it is the same bullshit the north Texas state system did with their shitty law school they talked about how "cheap" it would be and how much money the shitty of dallas would kick in.....then once it got going the shitty of dallas welshed on their money and the  expenses started rolling in to The State of Texas based on "well we have already started going down the path to opening a shitty unneeded law school we can't stop no"

    4. the aggy-sa campus was actually needed until it was started San Antonio only had a single 4 year school (UTSA) and thus UTSA had to be practically open enrollment....SA had a strong community college system, but they needed a new "catch all" 4 year university so that UTSA could finally fulfill their mission to be a high quality research university 

    all of the things you mentioned are legit stupidity and a waste with the exception of aggy-sa.....but with Texas Tech they did not actually "expand" anything Angelo was already a fully functioning 4 year school and so was Midwestern.......Tech and The State of Texas did not incur any expense or spend any new money to move those schools from the Texas State System (Angelo) or from being an independent university (Midwestern) and in fact it has saved Texas money with lower bonding cost for those schools, increased enrollment (more efficiency), and lower administrative cost at Angelo which has kept their tuition lower

    Tech absorbing those 2 universities was not a case of them opening new institutions or major expensive programs at great cost to The State of Texas it was simply those schools deciding they could operate more efficiently and for a lower cost and have more strength with the legislature as a part of the Tech System instead of in their former system or as an independent

    Not going to get rid of TSU.  But moving their law school and pharmacy college to Prairie View (which already has nursing school in Houston) would be good for Prairie View and those schools.

    UNT system dissolves.  UNT-Dallas a satellite campus and stick in Texas State University System.  UH system dissolves.  UHCLC merged into UH which becomes part of UT system.  UH-Victoria becomes Victoria State and UH Downtown Houston State and both join Texas State University system.  Send Angelo and Midwestern to Texas State University system along with W. Texas A&M, merge all the rest of Tech components and make it part of A&M system.  Both UH and Tech get some access to PUF money.

    System realignment talk....

  5. 5 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

    these are not similar comparisons

    1. it can easily be argued that the UH medical school is not needed with 2 already in Houston and 1 already on Galveston.....not to mention SHSU not needing a D.O. school in Montgomery County

    2. UH was stupid and even more stupid was the politicians in Houston that fought the UT research campus......that was just jackasses being jackasses

    3. the north Texas state medical school is really Fort Worth wanting a MD program, but the north Texas state system is too weak and too controlled by dallas (city proper) politicians to make it happen......plus by legislative statute TCOM is prohibited from offering a MD degree......so it is actually TCU that offers the MD degree and the "theory" (it is bullshit) is that those MD students can just sit in on the early year classes at the DO school and then there will only be an expense of offering the later year MD classes to make that degree happen

    the issue of course is that you cannot just over fill first year and second year MD classes with a mass number of students like a large university entry level class with 250 students......that is not allowed......it is the same bullshit the north Texas state system did with their shitty law school they talked about how "cheap" it would be and how much money the shitty of dallas would kick in.....then once it got going the shitty of dallas welshed on their money and the  expenses started rolling in to The State of Texas based on "well we have already started going down the path to opening a shitty unneeded law school we can't stop no"

    4. the aggy-sa campus was actually needed until it was started San Antonio only had a single 4 year school (UTSA) and thus UTSA had to be practically open enrollment....SA had a strong community college system, but they needed a new "catch all" 4 year university so that UTSA could finally fulfill their mission to be a high quality research university 

    all of the things you mentioned are legit stupidity and a waste with the exception of aggy-sa.....but with Texas Tech they did not actually "expand" anything Angelo was already a fully functioning 4 year school and so was Midwestern.......Tech and The State of Texas did not incur any expense or spend any new money to move those schools from the Texas State System (Angelo) or from being an independent university (Midwestern) and in fact it has saved Texas money with lower bonding cost for those schools, increased enrollment (more efficiency), and lower administrative cost at Angelo which has kept their tuition lower

    Tech absorbing those 2 universities was not a case of them opening new institutions or major expensive programs at great cost to The State of Texas it was simply those schools deciding they could operate more efficiently and for a lower cost and have more strength with the legislature as a part of the Tech System instead of in their former system or as an independent

    Those two should be in the Texas state university system and the waste of a Texas Tech system go away.

    As for A&M-SA, SAC was fine for open admission.  Texas St. is 50 miles right down the interstate, only 10 miles further than Denton is from Dallas.  No need for an A&M component in San Antonio.  

  6. 5 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

    How a small government state allowed for 7 university systems to emerge including 3 based out of regional areas (West Texas, Houston, DFW) instead of solidifying and supporting consolidation where we’d limit unnecessary bureaucratic bloat/waste and have less squabbling over funding/appropriations is mind bottling.  UT, aggy, and TX State and call it a day.

    UT has a university in El Paso with no medical school, and a medical school in Houston with no university.

    Tech has a medical school in El Paso but no university, and Houston has a university but no medical school.

    Both Tech and UH want PUF money.

    My 5 year old could propose the obvious solution.

    Yes.  Obvious solutions.

  7. 1 hour ago, Augustus said:

    TwiceHorn mentioned this and I thought I'd echo it.

    Our first step in trying to come up with solutions, if we're gonna be at all realistic, is to recognize that drug/alcohol abuse and all the consequences thereof are never going away, can't be eliminated.  So the prohibition guarantees not only the emergence of a black market but also the Fortune 500 success of it.  Hell, there are plenty of multinational corporations that can only dream of the cartels' financial success.

    And it's not just the addicts who are the consumers. In fact, the addicts may be at less risk than a great many purely recreational users given their familiarity with the product and their acquired tolerance for high doses of opioids, for example.

    Decriminalization/legalization may offer more protection for someone like Jake than someone like myself.  If he could've legally purchased xanax--or score some off someone else who's old enough to buy it and purchased it legally--he's probably alive today.  Same is true for so many who die of fentanyl overdose after scoring the fake oxy/perc tablets that are pure fentanyl.  

    In a world where opioid tablets, manufactured by Big Pharma and regulated by the FDA, are available just like alcohol, heroin use would almost certainly decline dramatically.  Perhaps nowhere near eliminated, but plenty of users would opt for a safe pill with a known dosage strength vs a powder off the street that could prove fatal.

    I think objections to legalization entail, among other concerns, one big fear and one mistaken assumption:  The fear seems to be that  people who wouldn't otherwise have begun to use will start, thereby actually creating new addicts.  The misconception is that really is possible to limit/decrease the consumption by addicts (not a chance) and recreational users (perhaps some).  

    Harm reduction becomes much more plausible when we get realistic about the fact that a certain percentage of the population is going to use addictively regardless of any other consideration under the sun.  

    Sorry about being a bit long-winded here.  tl/dr:  leopards can't change their spots, so make the supply safer.

    The rest is thoughtful, but the bold is just wishful thinking.  Along the line of your thoughts, leopards can't change their spots.  Some will always want bigger highs.

  8. 15 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

    The Tech System is the system that does the most of their system schools besides the UT System (the UT System having a much larger pool of resources to do it with) and The Tech System is the one that makes moves that mostly make sense and that go to areas that benefit from things and that does things that are successful

    The vet school is under the main campus, but it is located in Amarillo because that is where the most feed lots are and that is the area that came up with the cash to make it happen

    The Tech System had no issue placing the dental school in El Paso again because that is the area that made it happen and The Tech System had no issue making the El Paso Medical School independent of the Lubbock Medical School because the benefits were there and the local support would be better

    The Tech System also has not merged the medical school under the main campus even though that would make the main campus look better because the results of that would be a net loss in state funding because medical schools are funded differently than 4 year schools.....I would imagine with Austin, RGV, the aggy merger to the main campus, UH getting a med school and SHSU trying to get a D.O. program that funding mechanism might change in the future....then the UT System will probably merge UTSAHSC under UTSA as well

    the aggy system followed closely by the UH System are the ones that do the most to screw system members for the benefit of the main campus.....the north Texas state has the opposite issue now that dick heads from dallas proper have control of the system they suck up resources from Denton to do unneeded shit projects in dallas proper

    Its not just that.  Its things like UH fighting the UT research campus in Houston that would have been of great benefit to Houston.  Its like aggy and UH medical schools when we already have UT Health Science Center in Houston and UTMB in Galveston along with independent Baylor College of Medicine.  Or UNT trying to start a medical school.  Aggy starting a campus in San Antonio.  If Tech got more than just Angelo St., it would be more turf protection instead of serving the state.

    System expansion never goes away.  UNT, Tech and UH systems need to be dissolved.  With aggy its too late.

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