OTF Premium And it's goodbye to A&M

[Ojeezy]

Stop chasing your tail Gerry!!

[Quinncent McManning, Jr.]

13 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

Mark McBath a form Texas QB is a accomplished cancer surgeon 

That’s awesome!  Cool to know the former longhorns that have become docs in addition to dr robin  

that said even if Turntine were to want to be a doc that would have to wait until he is done with an nfl career and he may be an early round pick with a long career.  Rolle wasn’t in the nfl that long. And he took a Rhodes scholarship which looks pretty good on that med school app. Then neurosurg would be a seven year residency not counting additional years for fellowship. So it takes a rare breed to make a crap load of nfl money and then say I’m going to study like crazy for years then be on call every few nights for another 7 years. 

[Bobby Burton]

Stanford is a great academic school. Without question.

However, to go somewhere where you don’t have an inkling who your head coach would be next year would be baffling given the amount of NFL money at stake, much less NIL money. 

[BobInHouston]

37 minutes ago, Quinncent McManning, Jr. said:

That’s awesome!  Cool to know the former longhorns that have become docs in addition to dr robin  

that said even if Turntine were to want to be a doc that would have to wait until he is done with an nfl career and he may be an early round pick with a long career.  Rolle wasn’t in the nfl that long. And he took a Rhodes scholarship which looks pretty good on that med school app. Then neurosurg would be a seven year residency not counting additional years for fellowship. So it takes a rare breed to make a crap load of nfl money and then say I’m going to study like crazy for years then be on call every few nights for another 7 years. 

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif went to medical school in Canada while playing OL for the Chiefs. He graduated in 2018 and got a Super Bowl ring in 2020. He retired from football during the pandemic. 

[TezInDallas]

8 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

OnTexasFootball has been informed that Texas A&M is out of contention for 5-star OT John Turntine III

Texas vs. Michigan is where we hear the most noise right now. There is confidence in Austin ahead of July 4th announcement. Michigan does think they are in it. 

Stanford is the third team on the list. 

What about Samari Mathew’s?? I’m hearing SC did a great job on his visit… not sure if you’ve talked about this already lol I’ve been carrying mail all day and I’ve finally gotten a chance to look at the board. 

[Bunk Moreland]

6 hours ago, BurntOrangeMD said:

There is absolutely no way that I would recommend anyone who is from Texas, to go to medical school in California. Here's a few reasons why: To begin with, the cost of the out of state medical education would be double to triple, compared to Texas. Once football is over, you are on your own financially. Then, you are pretty much stuck there, because your residency would most likely be in California. California has lower average physician salaries, especially when adjusted for their higher cost of living, and the ridiculous higher taxes that you would pay. Then you will find out that your malpractice premiums and payouts will significantly impact your income, because your insurance cost will be a lot higher. Cali has a high percentage of uninsured residents, which will negatively impact your medical environment, which has led to higher burnout rates. California has become a third world 💩 🕳️. Type the following into Google: Why is California so bad to practice medicine?

 

“California has become a third world 💩 🕳️.”

This is such a laughable comment. Stop believing everything you see on the news. I was born and raised in Texas, attended both Stanford and UT (I would have chosen Stanford over UT for undergrad 10 out of 10 times), have lived in both Texas and California as an adult, and have lived in California for almost a decade now. Yes, the cost of living is very high. But I love living here and so does pretty much everyone I know. I’ve lived in the Texas heat much of my life—70 degrees and sunny year round is fine by me, thank you very much. 

[AusMOJO]

I'd honestly be surprised if Texas lost out here. But that's just my opinion. 

[Bear19]

11 hours ago, GoHorns1 said:

Stanford is a excellent school period.

Stanford academics are not what they used to be.

[Bobby Burton]

8 hours ago, TezInDallas said:

What about Samari Mathew’s?? I’m hearing SC did a great job on his visit… not sure if you’ve talked about this already lol I’ve been carrying mail all day and I’ve finally gotten a chance to look at the board. 

What we know at this point is that he moved up his commitment date following the South Carolina visit.

At the same time, Texas is not recruiting another un-committed corner currently.

[Born Burnt Orange]

3 hours ago, Bear19 said:

Stanford academics are not what they used to be.

Based on what?

[MarkInAustin]

There is a typical mix of undergraduate courses that med schools require, rather than a major.  The STEM load required is less than for any science or engineering degree and could be managed by a history major.  The trick is to have a near 4 point average in those required courses.  Most American med schools, for admission, do not require undergraduates to have taken any calculus or calculus based introductory physics, for example, among the 10-11 required STEM courses.

As a practical matter there is no barrier to med school raised by an Aggie undergrad education. 

I suggest that the undergraduate environment for a football player who must maintain a high grade point average and schedule his labs to not interfere with football practice requires a strong commitment from the school and the athletic program to provide individual attention to scheduling, mentoring and tutoring.  Typically private elites do this well as a matter of course, but I suspect that Texas and Michigan, public elites, and Aggie, a strong near elite, will do this well upon demand.

[Longhorns1]

15 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

He told me in the spring brain surgeon might not be the path but something in the world of medicine will be. That's a lot of school to juggle while playing high-level football.

 

We had a baseball player in our engineering class. Aside from being a nice guy, it was impressive he had the time for both. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Longhorns1

[MarkInAustin]

26 minutes ago, Born Burnt Orange said:

Based on what?

At least in 2020, based on US News survey of faculties, Stanford had the single strongest faculty.

Eleven of the 67 schools on the list below have all academic departments ranked 30th or better in the nation. The private elites in this group are Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell; the public universities in the group are UC Berkeley, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCLA, and UT Austin.

Texas was #14 overall, while being one of the eleven with every one of the 15 departments surveyed in the top thirty.

Faculty may not be the best and certainly is not the only measure of a university, but it would be difficult to ever say Stanford has "slipped" if it has the strongest overall faculty in America.