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  1. We all have our fun biases and hates, but the more R1 institutions the better for Texas, which is my primary loyalty. I found the newly released R1 list by going to the new website. In any case, you are either R1 or not. UTEP, btw, has a pretty neat campus. It is easy to knock them for their remoteness and student access, but they are serving a very particular geography. They do a lot of research, which is why they were added. It surprised me when I saw the amount of their annual research expenditures. UNT made it on the strength of number of PhDs produced annually, not so much on annual research spending, but we will likely see that number rise in future years.
  2. Been awhile correction. Don't know anything about Carnegie tightening standards, but the information in the original post above is, shall I say, incomplete. UTA remains R1 and UTEP was added to R1.
  3. I enthusiastically second this. This has turned into a holiday tradition for us, and it is VERY special. We went out Thanksgiving night. It is professionally done, but not Disney-like. There is a small-town feel to it, which I really like. The lights this year are better than ever, and the sound of generators is gone (not that it ever bothered me). Thank you Grand Prairie for this holiday tradition.
  4. We won this? Must have had a good night, because our girls team is BAD. In fact, we need a coaching change badly. Oh, I miss Donna Capps.
  5. No matter how they feel, of course, they are going to put a happy face on it for as long as they are associated with it. These kind of news reports are essentially meaningless.
  6. However, this series is very unpredictable. The number of crazy, crazy games that have gone down to the wire, or past the wire, is incredible.
  7. Winning road games is always an achievement. UNT will be tough at home and is the favorite. I'll see if I can get away for this one.
  8. "UTD and UTA hate each other" Legend, if this was ever true ("hate" is a strong term...maybe "distrust"), it has gone away over the last decade. UTA and UTD are so intertwined anymore. There are so many collaborations and partnerships between the two universities; they are really helping each other. The universities are close at the presidential, dean, an professor levels. Students are in joint degree program at both universities. Doing research together on both campuses (and at UT Southwestern) and forming joint degrees that either university alone would have trouble getting in today's environment. For instance, as brand new examples, UTD is currently latching-on to UTA for a joint Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, and UTA is getting a new Ph.D. in geology from going-in jointly with an already existing Ph.D at UTD. Both universities are also working very, very closely with UT Southwestern. UTA even has its own labs at Southwestern. I think UTA does have some limited collaborations with UNT Denton, but not nearly so extensive as with UTD. (Digitizing the maps in UTA's special collections comes to mind.) UTA probably works more closely, in research terms, with the UNT Health Science Center...I know there is stuff going on there. Being in the same system makes a lot of collaborations easier and logical. Anyway, UTA and UTD certainly do not hate each other. Quite the contrary, the two universities have never been closer. This is interesting about the Union project getting shot-down by the Coordinating Board. (The large majority of projects are approved.) UNT will go back with a new proposal. It is likely that the project will need to be scaled-back, or, at the least, other sources of funding will need to take the place of some of the student fee commitment. I was shocked by the $137 million price tag, to be born almost exclusively by student fees, and I think the Coordinating Board was, too, esp. in the current environment. The chancellor and president were not tuned-in to the political (and fiscal) climate.
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