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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

It was sarcasm. Civilizations have torn down their past but we still know about it. Invading armies razed cities, statues of Lenin and Stalin toppled - hell we still remember Atlantis and it probably never existed. Confederate monuments are not about heritage. Most were put up during the Jim Crowe era to remind Blacks of “their place” in the South. And for the sake of the argument let’s accept the idea that they are about Southern heritage for one second. That heritage isn’t worth honoring because that heritage was firmly based on human bondage and racism. Tear them down and renamed the Army bases. They were traitors.

Well if you put it that way

Unless they audible.

Was Now more of a Pirtle TE

You wish we could have hung on to a walk on that had to do two years at Juco in order to get to FCS? I am sure he is a cool dude, but...

Can someone explain the rationale for keeping such statues?

Yes speedy recovery for all.

Oh and to the original thread topic: yes now I have many people in my community with confirmed, suspected, or possible COVID-19.

And that is foolish. We should be worried about the people who can’t or won’t receive treatment because of hospital capacity. We should be concerned about the “recovered” patients with various lingering health issues. Our health care system is pretty horrible and bankrupts thousands every year. Many never seek treatment for that reason. There have been people who develop kidney issues from this. Even preliminary reports of this triggering diabetes. Heart problems in young people. Deaths are horrible and tragic. But they are the tip of the iceberg. I am not worried about history.