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Petty…but I like it. :lol:

So few out of state students get in at A&M and Texas, I don't know that those numbers really mean much. Here's the rankings strictly based on in-state rates:

1. VANDERBILT Cost of attendance: $99,994 (private)

2. OKLAHOMA Cost of attendance: $58,823 (in-state, $40,145)

3. AUBURN Cost of attendance: $63,540 (in-state, $39,516)

4. KENTUCKY Cost of attendance: $60,838 (in-state, $38,344)

5. MISSOURI Cost of attendance: $59,232 (in-state, $36,070)

6. ALABAMA Cost of attendance: $60,400 (in-state, $35,392)

7. TEXAS Cost of attendance: $72,916 (in-state, $35,386)

8. MISSISSIPPI STATE Cost of attendance: $53,422 (in-state, $34,431)

9. ARKANSAS Cost of attendance: $56,256 (in-state, $33,988)

10. OLE MISS Cost of attendance: $52,938 (in-state, $32,148)

11. SOUTH CAROLINA Cost of attendance: $57,412 (in-state, $31,602)

12. TEXAS A&M Cost of attendance: $60,480 (in-state, $30,320)

13. TENNESSEE Cost of attendance: $49,672 (in-state, $30,212)

14. GEORGIA Cost of attendance: $52,156 (in-state, $29,920)

15. LSU Cost of attendance: $45,446 (in-state, $28,770)

16. FLORIDA Cost of attendance: $54,010 (in-state, $25,830)

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Y'all can reminisce over CBS all you like but ABC/ESPN has been a vastly superior product. It's been great getting high-quality conference games in the 11:00, 2:30, and 6:30 timeslots every week, rather than getting a terrible 11:00 game, all the good games simultaneously at 2:30, and a second-rate late game most weeks.

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The fact that some folks are downvoting this just goes to show how stupid people can be.

Dan Orlovsky must not have any really old male relatives. When he reaches the point where he can no longer cut his own toenails (and if you live long enough, there's a good chance that will happen to you, as my 98 year old father can attest for the last 3 years), he will have to eat those words. Now, why Sumrall needs them now, I can only imagine. :lol:

When I have time on a trip from my home (Wichita Falls) to Norman, I like to stop off at the Meers Store in the Wichita Mountains. The burgers are huge, but the huge bowl of peach cobbler is the real attraction in my mind.

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However I'd be curious if any Texas fans have any stories about why the Cotton Bowl seating is the way it is and always has been.

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I've always wondered why it is what it is. Naturally you'd think Texas would sit on the south side and Oklahoma the north.

I'm curious the reason as well.

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Best guess: Texas didn't want the end with the tunnel. They have to give OU a few hundred seats in the north endzone to compensate, and I would imagine that the OU fans who get those seats aren't necessarily excited about being stranded in a sea of burnt orange.

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Can’t find data from this year but the year the pitch clock was added, the average length of SEC games was 2 hours 49 minutes. That was down 21 minutes from the previous year

What takes the most time isn’t the pitching changes. It’s the reviews taking so long. They’ve already capped mound visits, added pitch clocks, and pitching changes are limited to 90 seconds from the time the coach starts walking to the mound. They also made run rules mandatory in SEC games.

The three batter minimum for pitchers is dumb at the college level. And limiting pickoff attempts is just inviting easy stolen bases, which results in more runs, and longer innings

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I would be interested in seeing the data from this year. My personal experience tells me that while the pitch clock worked to bring game times down initially, they have been creeping back up. As I pointed out in my prior response, pick off moves are now being used as a work around to circumvent the pitch clock, and the trend just keeps getting worse. The limit will stop that.

Pitching changes take up a huge amount of time. No one comes to the park to see the coach make pitching changes.

While replay takes up time, it has all but eliminated the long arse, deranged arguments that used to be common, so I think that just about is a wash.

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nobody knows what the’ve got until the games are played. throw a freakish 2026 Oklahoma-like run into the mix and now more than ever, winning a CWS is one part talent, one part coaching and two or three or four parts Baseball Gods.

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This. The Athletic had an article last week about the recruiting class of 2023. Maybe half of the top 20 prospects that made it to campus had careers that more or less fulfilled expectations, and the top college draft prospects in this years’s draft largely came from outside the top ranks of recruiting.

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SC's is indeed a carryover from the ACC tenure.

When we were independent, the team was still pretty successful, all things. Developed some legit USMNT players like Brad Guzan, Josh Wolff, and Clint Mathis.

But the program is in the doldrums right now. It had strong support when I was in undergrad, and I enjoyed going to games.

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Times have changed. Generally speaking, if the USMNT is using guys that played college soccer, that's usually considered a failure. The top prospects are playing professionally in their teens, so college soccer isn't a pathway to the pros like so many other college sports are. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but that's one reason why it will never develop into anything.

The red card was ridiculous. A yellow card? OK, but that’s not an option for VAR so they should have just let it go. Instead, VAR had to be the center of attention and talked the ref into the red card.

As bad as that was, however, the officiating situation in the World Cup is much better with VAR than without. Officials still make some bad calls, but it isn’t because they simply didn’t see it, or just saw it wrong.

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Was Texas A&M always this wealthy, or has this been a new development from the SEC move?

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Before the 1967 expansion, Kyle Field was fighting it out with Razorback Stadium for smallest stadium in the conference. We kept adding to the stadium as the student body and number of alumni grew, but it took a while for that to really generate big demand for tickets and more revenue. Joining the SEC and rebuilding the stadium changed things dramatically. The timing was perfect. Now, the stadium provides a solid financial foundation.