MarkInAustin

Giving us "Moore/Endries" as an entry? Or are they each at +1300? As an entry that would be difficult to turn down.

While many of these rivalries are historic, some are so new as to be unworthy of mention. Not a strange list on the whole, of course. What is being weighed by the reviewer is inconsistent, however. Tradition, or competitiveness, or recency? The top 5 all fill the bill, but putting OU vs. Nebraska at 6 when they don't play each other more than once a decade makes no sense to me. I am sure there is method to the madness if not madness in the method.

I thought the topic headline was Texas Hoops Recruiting Gays. Well, nothing wrong with that but it is probably the smaller group of Division 1 ready players, and how do we know who they are, anyway? So I read the article. Glad Texas is fishing in a bigger pond and I will get my eyes checked.

Nobis was also the best offensive guard in the SWC by far. A few years earlier I had seen the only other SWC lineman who was the best at his position on defense and offense. Like Nobis, Holub was a unanimous All American LB. And he was an astonishingly good offensive Center. I believe that if Nobis had played OG in the NFL he would have been as good as Fuzzy Thurston of the Packers. Holub did get to play OLB at an all AFC level with KC until his knees got banged up and then he became an All AFC Center. Three linemen/LBs I saw live 1960-1965 were outstanding [when I was at Rice and then UT Law].. Nobis, Holub, and Lilly - in that order. Lilly was only best on D, at least against a good Rice team that went to the Sugar Bowl in 1960.

That was one nail biter of a football game. I believe that Texas, USC, and tOSU were simply better than everyone else that year and Texas claimed the Natty by beating the other two by a total of one TD split between the two games. That OL had a fine moment I like to rewatch as much as I love 4th and 5. On the play after VY's TD they went for two, and the Texas OL stormed USC so remarkably that VY ran straight in for two points.

Hawaiian in Ann Arbor winter? See ya in the portal.

Some talk at the Spurs SBN blog [Pounding the Rock] that Harper would be redundant, because he is much like Castle and Fox. To me, Indy's run featured depth, especially at Guard and Wing, that says Castle, Fox, and Harper would be a feature, not a glitch. San Antonio at 14 could take a BIG if they can get someone who spaces the floor well or who alternatively is a banger underneath, since Wemby can play in space.

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.

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.

This looks like a team that might compete in AA if it did not have to play every day. That is what SEC ball is all about, however.

The East's best NBA teams each lost their best player to bad injuries during the playoffs. Hope both those guys heal well.

USC is the national men's track and field champion. Oregon is a perennial contender in T&F. Texas currently is neither.

Hope there is no recount

In an infield that was shaky, Mia, on one leg, was a greased lightning star.

That BS interference call raised my blood pressure until it was reversed. Congratulations to the whole softball program. Hook 'em!