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Kentucky, UNC, Duke, Kansas have all won NCs in the modern era.

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What is the modern era?

IU won a title in 87 . . . is that modern?

SB Nation has a good article on this awhile back.

Purdue - Rob Zombie flavor serial killer



Duke

Black and White Silent films monster



Ohio State

Peyote Fever Dream



Syrace Otto the Orange Clown

John Wayne Gacey award



And this was Ole Sarge at A&M

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Are both cults?

Poor AgriCULTure and Mechanical College

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I find Penn State pretty culty.

I also find Longhorns to be pretty culty in their own way.

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No, just addressing how people like you spew your vitriol for players, especially those who played in Alabama, because you're fat, lazy, and too stupid to know different.

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LOL . . so many mouth breathing jock sniffers on this site. Definitely getting these vibes.

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You and the rest of the fat stupid pricks on this board that couldn't muster up half the manhood Ty Simpson displayed this season if your life depended on it can GFY.

Not only was Ty injured in the Missouri game and stayed injured the rest of the year, he was also dealing with gastritis and lost weight and dropped down to 190 lb roughly. This board has to be the lowest IQ bunch of dumb shits this side of California.

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I may be a stupid prick, but I am not fat. Lets get that straight.

And if this post tells me one thing, it is that the melodramatic, ragey, way- too-invested in Bama football, low IQ dips$!t Paul Finebaum callers of the world post here as well.

I am glad Ty Simpson decided to gut through looking and feeling like a Somalian famine victim this year. Maybe Kalen DeBoer should have thought that through when trotting him out on the field to produce a four loss season including a historic playoff beatdown.

Lets all give the guy the purple heart for his accomplishments.

Gotta say their is a lot of accuracy in the appraisal, with the exception of the real oil money being in Ft. Worth and oil money being the cause of it all. That is a 1980s sort of view that has died out.

Lots of Dallas billionaires come from Tech, Banking, Health Care, Hotels, and Commercial Real Estate. Then there are the dynastic lay arounds like the Walton and Koch heirs

The comments on churches, cars, and other aspects are pretty much spot on. Nothing says Dallas like a insurance litigation defense attorney who has never set foot on farmland driving an F350 Extended Cab Dually to pick his kids up at private school.

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So SEC fanbases can moan about having beat each other up too much come playoff time when they lose.

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Case western reserve is not really a undergrad school. Also it’s a great school that partners with Cleveland clinic, a S tier hospital.


Also I’m embarrassed to see A&M these days. Our education took a huge hit

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So

a) Agreed . . I like Case on every front and of course if you are doing the fine pencil work on STEM majors or doctoral or graduate studies you are going to disregard these crude rankings altogether and hone in on much more salient details like academic placement, grant money, research partnerships, etc.

b) Yes . . .no one talks about the fairly populist bent of the supposedly conservative Austin legislators and how A&M became a useful tool to churn out degrees to the masses with a Costco approach. I rail endlessly against the Top 10%/7% rule as it is a corrupt deal between grade inflation maniacs at public high schools window dressing average kids as 4.0 students and A&M administrators wanting to stack heads on the campus no matter the cost.

But all that being said, something still feels veery off about how these this data mining output settled.

Looking at the academic factors

1) Resource expenditure per student
2) Research income per faculty member
3) Institutional income
4) Faculty-to-student ratio
5) Staff-to-student ratios
6) Clarivate’s list of highly cited researchers
7) Citation counts
8) Nobel Prize laureates
9) Fields Medal laureates

That criteria apparently penalizes certain institutions like Cal-Berkely which sports a lower academic profile in these rankings than Emory, which is fine but frankly undistinguished research university.

Berkeley, , what your politics, is one of the great centers of global research and teaching

It has produced the fourth most Fields medal winners and the fifth most Nobel Prizes in all universities of the world. It was instrumental in the Manhattan Project. It has outside of MIT and Stanford the best engineering program in the country. Its business and economics programs are some of the best in the world. Its computer science department is one of the best in the world. Its liberal arts programs are all top notch

But its academics per this system are inferior to:

1) Tufts University
2) Maryland
3) Penn State
4) Ohio State
5) Oregon Health & Science University
6) Emory
7) Wisconsin

All fine schools but no one in their right minds should put them on an academic tier above Berkely in almost any discipline.

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They put a #1 by Penn, but above them is No Bachelors Degree. Chalk one up for Mike Rowe.

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Mike Rowe is probably not talking about the Ivy League and Stanford students whose business plans catch fire and they get stuffed full of VC dollars to the extent that they drop out of their elite Computer Science department.

Think Mark Zuckerberg rather than Joe the Plumber.

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I would, if my child had acting talent, much prefer they go to a hands on "we're getting you ready to be a working actor" school. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a successful Australian actor in Hollywood and that is because they take training to be a working actor seriously.

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For the actual film and stage-play production process, it is very much an old school guild like approach where you learn from established hands to develop practical experience . I have known a few families whose kids wanted to try their luck and ended up getting into the cinematography and production side of things and really had to pay their dues but now are fairly well established in the industry. None of them went to film school.

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What do the numbers repesent?

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If you could read, you would know.