TxHoops

I thought I was clear when I referenced last year's incredible 7th place conference finish? You Aggies have trouble keeping up.

Interesting you bracket your statement in the last 5 years. Since the year before Texas was in the bcs championship game. Interesting, yet very predictable. I will use the same argument with aggy but extend my bracket to 75 years. Damn that's sad!

Super fascinating scenario. Since murder is obviously not a "lesser included offense" of attempted murder, prosecution is not barred there. And I would assume murder has at least one additional element that has to be proven that attempted murder does not. Still, I have a hard time having this pass the smell test with me. When the conduct is exactly the same in either charge - and he was found crazy the first time - let it rest IMO.

I will help you out here: [Hidden Content] Just click on any thread with several replies and there is a good chance you will find one. Or just look for a Smitty reference to "low information voters." Pretty blanket statement IMO.

No it wasn't. Reading a challenge for you Tigers?

With that gem of a sentence, no one will doubt you are an lsu fan! 😂

I have everything imaginable. Directv is my favorite toy. Glad to be an SEC contributor!!

UT may be many things, poor isn't one of them. It has a larger endowment than the GSP of the whole state of Lousiana!

Gotta love an article that contradicts itself in a 2 sentence blurb...

  Fair enough.  I was talking about universities overall and not the actual athletes.  We were just on different topics!  :)

  Don't let A&M middle of the pack finishes be your guide.  They were equally mediocre in the Big 12, maybe even more so.  They just went from losing to Texas Tech on a regular basis to losing to LSU on a regular basis...

  Shocking.

  I remember not long ago when A&M was proud of its academics.  The quality education you could receive in College Station was one of its selling points.  Has this unprecedented success, i.e. 7th place conference finishes, in football gone to your heads and made you change your priorities??

  Wow!! Made Bowl games??  They actually were able to finish 6-6 or better??  Amazing!!!!

  UNC nor UVA will join the SEC for the same reasons Texas won't.  I would be willing to make a sizable bet on that.  (2 more of the Public Ivies.)

  That looks much better.  A&M and Missouri leaving for the SEC actually boosted the SEC rankings and hurt the Big 12 (especially adding WVU).  The Big 12 was formed by geography.  When the move is made, UT will join the ACC, Big 10, or Pac 10, all of whom are very sound academic conferences that don't have the stigma of the SEC (see SWC of the 70s and 80s).   Edit - By the way, I don't have a problem with Time Magazine.  It was just that article could not have meant what you thought it did (or appeared to have thought it did).  If they want to rank the universities, I would think they could do it justice.  I would also assume Northern Illinois would not rank No. 2.

And if you believe the conference can not be brokered out of existence before 2025, I have a LOT of stuff I would like to sell you.  A LOT.

  Did you actually read the article?  Or is reading comprehension not your friend?  Hard to tell with you aggies... 

  Of course you do.  It is the one conference in the country where the mediocre programs like Ole Miss, Miss St, Vanderbilt, and now A&M find it acceptable and not laughable to claim the championships of its league opponents.  We would have let you guys do that in '05 if you hadn't been too proud!

  You should favor that approach.  A&M (unless piggybacking the accomplishments of programs who have won a championship in the last 75 years) is much better off with an academic evaluation than a football evaluation.

  You know what I said is true.  You of all people since you follow UT football more closely than most of my fellow alumni.  #aggyobssessionneverdisappoints  

Found the list. I was right. Just a ranking of the "teams" not the schools according to how the kids do in the classroom. Northern Illinois at number 2 might have been your first clue. Smh

I am guessing that is a list of the team's academics. Since paint by numbers is a core class at sec schools, I would expect the gpas to be higher. They are, however, as originally stated, well below the acc, big 10, big 12, and PAC 12 academically. Sorry.

😂😂😂 Did you find a list ranking the actual academics of the football team??? Texas ranks higher than every school on that list. Lsu as the 11th ranked academic school in the country?? Where is the sec school that they hang their academic hat on - Vanderbilt? Please tell me you were joking when you hit enter and didn't believe you were actually posting a serious list of the best academic schools in the country. Since you didn't post a link - I will assume you were going for comedic relief.

Agreements change when pressure is exerted from the right places. That's how the business world works and the dollar rules everything. Again, there is no way Texas would ever join a conference with the low education bar and stigma of the SEC. The academics would never let it happen. So rest easy. It would never be a consideration on Texas' part.