Texas Longhorns (big hat, no cattle; please don’t Horns Down us)

[BuckeyeNation27]

I didn't know Texas had some Michigan transfers.

 

[Jaxbuck]

That's one way to announce your presence to the SEC with authority

 

[NFBuck]

 

[OregonBuckeye]

I didn't know Texas had some Michigan transfers.

Tarik Black brought some buddies with him

 

[BB73]

Clearly trying to renew their rivalry with the Aggies.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Nick Saban turned down one hundred meeeelion dollars rather than deal with the toxic culture surrounding the Texas football program.

https://thespun-com.cdn.ampproject....port-nick-saban-1-main-reason-rejecting-texas

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

That's one way to announce your presence to the SEC with authority

Texas is a bottom.

 

[cincibuck]

That's one way to announce your presence to the SEC with authority

They could claim academic superiority in the Big 8/10/12/10/8. That isn't gonna happen in the SEC.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

They could claim academic superiority in the Big 8/10/12/10/8. That isn't gonna happen in the SEC.

Yep. Clearly inferior to Vandy and roughly equal to Florida.......though they'll never admit that and will cling to their delusions of being Berkeley and tsun rolled into one.

 

[BigWoof31]

Quick Power Rankings of the SEC Academic schools (Pre Texas/OU additions - ORD feedback welcome):
https://www.al.com/living/2017/08/h...ll 14 SEC universities based on its criteria:

I personally think Auburn is way too high but I don't do this for a living so whatever.
The top three are entirely accurate. Texas will jump UGA upon their admission because we don't have a medical school.

 

[cincibuck]

Auburn, Alabama, and LSU have been helped by having programs used by Redstone Arsenal, the army's flight and missile center, and NASA's Houston base.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I thought I'd read Surly's expansion thread. Today, I learned that the 5.27% of Duke's student body that are from Texas are at Duke because they couldn't get into Tejas. Jesus, these fucking guys.

 

[cincibuck]

I thought I'd read Surly's expansion thread. Today, I learned that the 5.27% of Duke's student body that are from Texas are at Duke because they couldn't get into Tejas. Jesus, these fucking guys.

UT ended legacy enrollment
and came up with a diversity admissions plan that said that anyone who graduated in the top 10% from a state-accredited high school was automatically qualified for admission to the Austin campus - all they had to do was find the money to pay for it. I can only imagine how that went down in the 'burbs of Houston and Dallas, but it took away ACT/SAT scores as an argument against diversity enrollment. The legislature then ruled that only 75% of incoming frosh could be from the top 10%. The other 25% would allow admission to those who didn't make the grade. Might help explain why 5.26% of Duke's freshman class come from Texans who couldn't get into UT.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

UT ended legacy enrollment
and came up with a diversity admissions plan that said that anyone who graduated in the top 10% from a state-accredited high school was automatically qualified for admission to the Austin campus - all they had to do was find the money to pay for it. I can only imagine how that went down in the 'burbs of Houston and Dallas, but it took away ACT/SAT scores as an argument against diversity enrollment. The legislature then ruled that only 75% of incoming frosh could be from the top 10%. The other 25% would allow admission to those who didn't make the grade. Might help explain why 5.26% of Duke's freshman class come from Texans who couldn't get into UT.

And every one of those Duke kids would qualify for the other 25% in the unlikely chance they weren't in the top 10% Under the top 10% rule UT was noticeably easier to get into than we were. They changed it to top 6%, and now they're roughly equal to us. Those 5% of Texans on Duke's campus would have had no problem getting into UT. They just had their sights set on something bigger, although I'm sure some applied to UT as a safety.