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The NCAA announced Thursday that Texas A&M football was placed on one year's probation. Doesn’t really help us but...

In the country where I live, the hospitals are now so full with “pneumonia” patients that they’ve turned away sick people and told them to go home and treat themselves. People who have symptoms can’t get tests. There are ambulance shortages. 30 percent of cases are medical professionals. There are a handful of people starting to die from other diseases because they were turned away from the specialized hospital that treats their problem because it was turned into a Covid or pneumonia ward.

I hear you, but it isn’t a direct equivalent. The fees I mentioned are for a direct purpose/service, whereas your taxes go in a pot of money that is later budgeted and allocated. Your aren’t using those services you mentioned and so the utilities on them are lower and that money gets reallocated. Students aren’t like taxpayers. They make a choice to attend the university and are levied fees for services to which they have access. There is some element of “the greater good” but in general it is a fee for service. Taxes pay for services but are largely intended for the greater good - hence single or childless people paying property taxes that fund the schools.

They are student service fees. No available services, then the fees are unwarranted. Case in point would be the Rec Center. Why pay for use of a building you can’t access? International education fee: is there are no exchanges and travel prohibited then why pay that? Why pay the full athletic fee if you aren’t allowed to attend a game?

Really want to post something sarcastic but going to try to avoid the bad karma and just hope all is well.

I was very surprised by his speed. He has that long stride that makes him seem slower than he really is.

Good initiative, Emmitt.

Well we are his “best” offer but may be hard to convince him to move that far away for us.

Tulsa is the smallest D1 school and has experienced financial problems. Their staff was taking pay cuts long before the current crisis. They may have to make some tough decisions down the road. That being said, a regional conference could be exactly what they need to stay viable. In football they had one winning season 2013-19. During that same period they had four 20 win seasons in basketball. Better, but not outstanding. I don’t think UTEP brings a ton to a conference either except some rich history and the Sun Bowl. But I would take them over TxSt or UTSA for sure. In terms of market, UTSA makes the most sense over any of the above mentioned schools, as much as it pains me to say it.

National death rates would be more informative if we had national policies and if population density was relatively uniform across states. It isn’t. Even within the large states it is difficult. For example in Texas each county has a different policy. State trends are useful but in the case of Houston, DFW, Miami, etc, looking at them individually is probably more useful for understanding trends. Those areas are as big as many countries in terms of population. And they are also were the virus is most likely to thrive. Death rates are important to watch but not nearly as important as infections and hospitalization. Death rates only tell you what has happened and not what is coming. Once a person is dead they are out of the loop to put it frankly. Increased infections will lead to more hospitalizations. Hospitalization is the most worrisome indicator for many reasons. 1) there is some predictive value that death rates will rise; 2) hospitalization is a sign of the number of severe infections, which often lead to longer term negative health impacts such as decreased lung capacity or kidney problems which require medical care (and are expensive and keep people out of work); 3) inform us whether routine or elective medical needs can be carried out. Many people died in China and Italy due to a lack of availability hospitals and doctors. Heart attack victims that may have survived with proper treatment died in their apartments. So yes death rates are morbidly fascinating but not entirely useful while in the middle of a pandemic. Plus the lag in statistics from infections to hospitalization to death is too long to help us understand how fast this is spreading. Focusing on the other indicators will help keep the death rate from going up.

I would drop Tulsa I favor of UTEP or someone else but still love the fantasy.

To where are you referring?

I don’t know about when you attended, but during my ridiculously long tenure at UNT one had to obtain the permission of the Dean of Students (or a similar office) to speak out on campus or protest. And it had to be not only approved but scheduled. Oh and it was only within about a 50x50 area in front of the Union with a plaque that said “Free Speech Area” - although I think the plaque neglected to include the asterisk saying “as long as pre-approved and scheduled.” I don’t know about your definition but it fails to meet the bar of free speech to me. My point being that universities do not allow unfettered free speech, expression, or assembly and students agree to that upon enrolling whether they read the fine print or not.

Democrats in the South switched to Republicans over a period of time beginning in the 60s. Alabama Governor George Wallace was a segregationist Democrat. His politics helped lay the foundation for the modern Republic Party’s approach to white voters. It is why most white Southerners became Republicans. Anyone who knows anything about modern American history knows this. https://www.history.com/news/how-the-party-of-lincoln-won-over-the-once-democratic-south The night that Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, his special assistant Bill Moyers was surprised to find the president looking melancholy in his bedroom. Moyers later wrote that when he asked what was wrong, Johnson replied, “I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come.” ——————————————————In Wallace's 1998 obituary, The Huntsville Times political editor John Anderson summarized the impact from the 1968 campaign: "His startling appeal to millions of alienated white voters was not lost on Richard Nixon and other Republican strategists. First Nixon, then Ronald Reagan, and finally George Herbert Walker Bush successfully adopted toned-down versions of Wallace's anti-busing, anti-federal government platform to pry low- and middle-income whites from the Democratic New Deal coalition."[23] Dan Carter, a professor of history at Emory University in Atlanta, added: "George Wallace laid the foundation for the dominance of the Republican Party in American society through the manipulation of racial and social issues in the 1960s and 1970s. He was the master teacher, and Richard Nixon and the Republican leadership that followed were his students."[47]

If you truly have an open mind about this, the video below is very informative:

Renewed my season tickets and MGSF donation. Did the 110% thing like last year. It’s a smart marketing move and an easy way to pick up a few extra bucks for the fund. No one from my family is likely to attend this season given their health status, but the department needs the money.

Exactly this. Protect the QB, use the LBs to get pressure and rely on those corners to save you if you can’t hit the opposing QB.

Are you sure about that? https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/College-football-conferences-ranked-SEC-Big-Ten-Pac-12-Big-12-ACC-141769988/ https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/2019-college-football-conference-power-rankings-sec-on-top-yet-again-while-the-acc-sputters/

Yes please