GoldenEye 007
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Not sure what that means. But either way I'm seeing it is an NCAA requirement for the coach to hold a degree. Does he have another degree elsewhere?
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Not sure what that means. But either way I'm seeing it is an NCAA requirement for the coach to hold a degree. Does he have another degree elsewhere?
He might actually have a degree with Rutgers too, Rutgers Registrar isn't .... exactly the best well run department in the world.
GoldenEye 007
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lol, oh. That's rich.
Hey, I'm looking for university jobs. Hire me, I'm competent. I'll get you fuckers into tip top shape!
Well, the fact that it got released is illegal; in the first place so there's strike one. Strike 2 is that he has over 200 credits.
GoldenEye 007
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oh yeah FERPA
is that grandfathered in lol
is that grandfathered in lol
Pristine_Condition
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Hey mre:
These aerial pictures of Lubbock, (looking at the east side of the Texas Tech campus,) just showed up online, and one of them will give you a real good idea of where you'll be staying:
The Overton Hotel is the tallest building in the top right corner of this photo:
Here's a few more of this side of the Texas Tech campus. Too bad the flowers weren't out when the pilot took these...
These aerial pictures of Lubbock, (looking at the east side of the Texas Tech campus,) just showed up online, and one of them will give you a real good idea of where you'll be staying:
The Overton Hotel is the tallest building in the top right corner of this photo:
(To give you an idea of scale, this photo shows about 1/4 of Texas Tech's main campus, not including the Medical School campus or the golf course, either.)
Here's a few more of this side of the Texas Tech campus. Too bad the flowers weren't out when the pilot took these...
(The building wrapped in yellow just behind "The Bubble" is our new state-of-the-art Petroleum Engineering Lab, under construction.)
This shot shows the new construction area around the stadium. The steel frame for the massive new endzone jumbotron and sound system is now complete, and starting to be bricked up. The stone work and brick for the arches of the colonnade that will enclose this entire side of the stadium apparently arrived on site today. It should all be done by the first home game.
From 1974, and it's in the actual transcript himself. He also coached at BC and at ODU, so either those two universities fucked up (doubt it) or the registrar fucked up (someone's getting fired no matter what).
edit.
If it's true that he didn't earn a degree, Barchi has to be fired right away.
1) Find a C&J's.
2) Eat.
3) Repeat #2 as necessary.
4) Get a peach cobbler before you leave.
Cool shots. Thanks for posting them. What is "The Bubble"? A natatorium?
Pristine_Condition
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No, "The Bubble" seen here was originally designed to be a multi-purpose indoor practice facility for football and track. It hasn't been used for football for a number of years though, as it was not really that great for that purpose. Tech is currently designing a new indoor facility for football. I think the eventual plan is for the bubble to be demoed, since It doesn't fit the current specs for hosting NCAA indoor track meets anymore either.
Good guess on the natatorium though, because we do have a similar bubble over our olympic pool facility on the west side of campus (which is not shown in these pics) which is right next door to Tech's now-famous student water park.
These things were a 70's experiment that nobody in the AD is super happy with now. Under the building regulations in the charter that were amended in the 90's, these facilities wouldn't even be allowed to be built. Same for the library which was also built in a modern style. Tech now has very strict guidelines for architecture, landscaping and public art that are pretty unique. Every building on the main campus (the Health Science Center is a seperate entity) must be built in the Spanish Renaissance style Tech is known for, and for every project over $500K, an additional 1% is tacked on for public art acquisitions, and another 1% is tacked on for landscaping.
For a campus that's grown as fast as Tech has, and has raised as much money as Tech has recently, this has served an important purpose--to avoid runaway "construction boom" projects. University administrators at fast-growing schools often lack discipline and just want to throw up buildings everywhere (and put their names and the names of their friends on them.) Because of these rules, each project costs more than it might elsewhere, which makes every project more carefully considered from both a design and funding perspective.
perfectchaos007
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Yeah your campus is spread the hell out, just like A&M's. At UT you can walk from one side of campus to the other in 10 minutes while at A&M it takes almost 30. I'm sure Tech is the same way if you say that first pic only represent 1/4th of the campus. Buldings at UT are mostly compact and tall to save precious real estate. We're looking to expand with a medical school now, but there's currently no where to put. As a result, UT recently bought out some land that public businesses currently occupy, and there are talks about demoing the Erwin Center. It's the price we pay for having a major University in the middle of a city with 820,000+ people
BertramCooper
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College Station is a college town that has no idea what a college town is supposed to look like.
I'll take my walkable urban campus, thanks.
I'll take my walkable urban campus, thanks.
Pristine_Condition
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It's actually not that bad. The nice thing about Tech is, for the most part, your dorms, athletic facilities, student rec/leisure facilities, specialty labs and stuff like the Law school and the Med school are on the outside edges of campus, but most of the stuff you'd need as an undergrad (most of the buildings representing the colleges your arts/sciences prerequisites are in, Engineering, and the Student Union) are on the inside, fairly close together. Your big colleges' buildings, (like Business, English, Communications, ect) as well as the larger science labs, are located just outside the center, but inside all that more remote stuff.
The Tech campus is surprisingly walkable. Even though the bus stops are all over the place, I never took a shuttle bus while I was a student there, not even once, and I didn't get a bike until my last year.
Well, you pick your poison. UT might not have a ton of land in Austin, but they've got tons and tons of land out in west Texas, keeping your pockets fat with oil/gas money. Meanwhile the University that actually represents west Texas gets none of it. So I'm having a hard time squeezing out sympathy for ya, buddy.
perfectchaos007
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It's actually not that bad. The nice thing about Tech is, for the most part, your dorms, athletic facilities, student rec/leisure facilities, specialty labs and stuff like the Law school and the Med school are on the outside edges of campus, but most of the stuff you'd need as an undergrad (most of the buildings representing the colleges your arts/sciences prerequisites are in, Engineering, and the Student Union) are on the inside, fairly close together. Your big colleges' buildings, (like Business, English, Communications, ect) as well as the larger science labs, are located just outside the center, but inside all that more remote stuff.
The Tech campus is surprisingly walkable. Even though the bus stops are all over the place, I never took a shuttle bus while I was a student there, not even once, and I didn't get a bike until my last year.
Well, you pick your poison. UT might not have a ton of land in Austin, but they've got tons and tons of land out in west Texas, keeping your pockets fat with oil/gas money. Meanwhile the University that actually represents west Texas gets none of it. So I'm having a hard time squeezing out sympathy for ya, buddy.
But if you look at a map, it's really hard to consider Lubbock "west Texas". UT-Permian Basin or UT El Paso, now those schools are more in west Texas geographically. You can't represent the Panhandle AND west Texas. Pick one! ;p
Pristine_Condition
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Hey, we've got system schools in El Paso and the like too... but I don't make the rules. Everything west of Ft. Worth (besides south Texas) is considered west Texas. It's been that way since the days of the cattle drives. That's why Ft. Worth is called "The Gateway to the West."
Wiki don't lie either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas
Now that you've been properly schooled, I urge you to email your chancellor and board of regents, and have them cut us a check for the money you guys've stolen over the years. I figure $5 Billion would be a nice way to say "sorry chums."
We'll even promise not to spend it all on football. Although a giant, Colossus of Rhodes-sized statue of Crabtree's catch sounds like a good way to spend the money to me...
If it were up to my friends who attend Tech right now, they would have one of Kingsbury up right now.
Pristine_Condition
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LOL. Yeah. Dude is getting the love right now. Hope he can keep it going, but expectations are pretty crazy now.
Sirpopopop
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Love the board crazies at Rutgers going all Penn State on the Deadspin writer.
Tweeting him names. Sending nasty e-mails.
Tweeting him names. Sending nasty e-mails.
perfectchaos007
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Last year it was Leach @ Wazzu with similarly lofty expectations. Fortunately for Kingsbury, he's coming into a program that is already on the right track. A 7-5 record for Kingsbury in his first year would be solid, but I'm sure fans are expecting 10-2.
Hey, we've got system schools in El Paso and the like too... but I don't make the rules. Everything west of Ft. Worth (besides south Texas) is considered west Texas. It's been that way since the days of the cattle drives. That's why Ft. Worth is called "The Gateway to the West."
Wiki don't lie either: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas
Now that you've been properly schooled, I urge you to email your chancellor and board of regents, and have them cut us a check for the money you guys've stolen over the years. I figure $5 Billion would be a nice way to say "sorry chums."
We'll even promise not to spend it all on football. Although a giant, Colossus of Rhodes-sized statue of Crabtree's catch sounds like a good way to spend the money to me...
Yeah I made the drive from San Antonio to El Paso a couple years ago and couldn't help but notice all of the Texas Tech University road signs. You guys must have a lot of satellite campuses/buildings/ land in that area.
edit nm. Apparently no laws were broken.
Is this him btw?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGoVSEpy7cA
perfectchaos007
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I do that too often to be a television reporter without a prompter. Sometimes I'll be telling a story, and then my brain goes "......." and I'll end up boring the audience with looping drivel that goes nowhere.
Sirpopopop
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That would be him. Usually he was pretty good on the mic. Not a rambler. He was a pretty big fan of Rutgers sports as an undergrad.
BertramCooper
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At Aggie commencement.
Whoop.
Whoop.
Plug your ears and tie yourself to the wall. We don't want to lose you.
Pristine_Condition
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So it's like when the Nazis opened up the Ark of the Covenent in Raiders?
"Don't look at it!!! Don't look at it!!!"
I was thinking Odysseus, but that works too.
BertramCooper
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I made it. Barely.
I'm sorry, but if you want your name announced for getting a bachelor's degree, go to an 800-student private Christian school.
More than two hours of nothing but names being announced. Fucking madness.
And that's only one of the ceremonies that was held this weekend.
BertramCooper
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GoldenEye 007
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Graduation had about 7,500 total candidates spread over 3 days and 5 total ceremonies. The platform guests and everything have to be doing coke or doing shots in the back or something to sit through all of that.
Didn't help one of the ceremonies had Bill Clinton speaking so that one went longer. I think it totaled almost 3 hours. They usually last about 2 hours.
Didn't help one of the ceremonies had Bill Clinton speaking so that one went longer. I think it totaled almost 3 hours. They usually last about 2 hours.
BertramCooper
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Au revoir, Aggieland.
It's been...interesting.
It's been...interesting.
GoldenEye 007
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Pristine_Condition
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The Outside the Lines special on Kolton Houston aired this morning. If you missed it, you can watch it here.
Hopefully he gets a chance to play. The kid has been through a lot.
http://m.espn.go.com/general/video?vid=9262213&src=desktop
Hopefully he gets a chance to play. The kid has been through a lot.
http://m.espn.go.com/general/video?vid=9262213&src=desktop
Could've used him on the line but if that's the kinda character he is I'm glad he won't make it onto the team.
SEC thugs
perfectchaos007
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Did you touch the giant aggy ring in front of their traditions center? I was surprised how cheap the thing felt. I'm pretty sure it's a hollow plastic ring with no metal.
Another QB transferred last month too. Does that make Connor Wood the last remaining QB on campus? lol
Christ, what now?
Thanks for clearing that up. I was scouring thread titles to see if one screamed "ChiTown Massacre Thread."
BertramCooper
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They have a "traditions center?"
Is it where one goes to get indoctrinated?
(No, I did not touch the giant ring, nor any other ring for that matter.)
Pristine_Condition
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Nah. That requires a program called "Fish Camp." (Not joking)
You didn't touch any goats or sheep either I hope. I'd hate for you to be the cause of a domestic dispute.
ConfusingJazz
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Did you walk on the grass?
Actually, it would have been better if you had gone buck wild like the drum major and dotted the i on that sumbitch.
BlackGhost
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Thoughts about this?
Seems reasonable. Obviously that could all change depending on how they all play this season.
GoldenEye 007
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I've been doing some serious research in UF and Gata nation. Solid school.
Wish me luck on round one of interviews on Monday from UF. I feel a little dirty even considering this.
Wish me luck on round one of interviews on Monday from UF. I feel a little dirty even considering this.
Good luck! Are you going to lifelong them like every junior that gets a GAF account?
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