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T Town Tommy said:
I seen a piece on him on the SEC Network about what he was involved in with Aerospace Engineering. Pretty impressive stuff. Kudos to Josh.
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To be honored by THE Boy Scouts is pretty impressive in itself lol. After chatting with his dad, I understand where he gets his brains, personality, and drive. Very soft spoken, kindly, man. Even told me where he tailgates on game day lol. Already had some minimal insider pals, but looking forward to having a couple of beers and getting the real skinny on the program.
 
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Yeah, very impressed with Dobbs. AE is a major that is extremely challenging without any extracurriculars for very smart people, and to do it with football is no mean feat. Every now and then, you see a kid shine brightly in a place where most kids don't. Craig Krenzel at OSU, Myron Rolle at FSU, and Barrett Jones at Alabama come to mind as similar poster children for programs that routinely land more football players in jail than in high-paying jobs. Kudos to such guys for really taking advantage of their opportunities in life.
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What istillustrates is that any kid who wants to succeed, can go anywhere and do so. Kid was offered by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Duke, etc.. I'm sure many bashed him for not going to an "academic" school. He'll be just fine I think.
 
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Irish YJ said:
What istillustrates is that any kid who wants to succeed, can go anywhere and do so. Kid was offered by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Duke, etc.. I'm sure many bashed him for not going to an "academic" school. He'll be just fine I think.
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I don't know that you can reach broad conclusions 'that anyone with drive can go anywhere and succeed,' since some schools would have kept him from that major or since some places offer a lot of distraction, like Missou did with Dorial Green-Beckham, that can throw even smart people off track. I'm just flat impressed with guys who own their lives, make the right decisions around football as an agent of opportunity outside of sports, and succeed.

That's an impressive list for sure. I don't know that I've seen why he chose Tennessee. Did he want to stay closer to home or something along those lines? Or was it a football decision? I'm glad Tennessee is letting him choose the major he wants--- I know a few ND players who washed out after choosing engineering so it's a risk to the school for sure when you let someone pick that hard of a major. He's also not losing a ton by going to a less well-regarded program, since engineering is so standardized, and probably gains a lot if he wants to work in state. That's especially true since Tennessee has the benefit of being associated with a major national lab, so it has some real cache. Still, I don't know that I'd have had the ability to turn down some of those choices as a high schooler for my hometown school, unless I had no choices that were fantastic in both academics and football. Duke engineering or a Harvard diploma are serious pulls for the "40 year decision."
 
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I don't know that you can reach broad conclusions 'that anyone with drive can go anywhere and succeed,' since some schools would have kept him from that major or since some places offer a lot of distraction, like Missou did with Dorial Green-Beckham, that can throw even smart people off track. I'm just flat impressed with guys who own their lives, make the right decisions around football as an agent of opportunity outside of sports, and succeed.

That's an impressive list for sure. I don't know that I've seen why he chose Tennessee. Did he want to stay closer to home or something along those lines? Or was it a football decision? I'm glad Tennessee is letting him choose the major he wants--- I know a few ND players who washed out after choosing engineering so it's a risk to the school for sure when you let someone pick that hard of a major. He's also not losing a ton by going to a less well-regarded program, since engineering is so standardized, and probably gains a lot if he wants to work in state. That's especially true since Tennessee has the benefit of being associated with a major national lab, so it has some real cache. Still, I don't know that I'd have had the ability to turn down some of those choices as a high schooler for my hometown school, unless I had no choices that were fantastic in both academics and football. Duke engineering or a Harvard diploma are serious pulls for the "40 year decision."
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If you let a football program tell you what major to take, IMO, your not that driven relevant to academics, and sure in the hell are not controlling your own destiny.

He's a GA kid, but I don't think he cared that much about staying close to home. I'll ask him or his dad later this month. If I had to guess, TN was a good mix of several things. Big conference, team on the rise, had his desired major, proximity, etc.. GA Tech is actually one of the best regarded Aerospace Eng schools (top 5 in the nation), so he could have stayed closer to home. If I can find out from him or pops, I'll post back on the 29th.
 
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Irish YJ said:
If you let a football program tell you what major to take, IMO, your not that driven relevant to academics, and sure in the hell are not controlling your own destiny.

He's a GA kid, but I don't think he cared that much about staying close to home. I'll ask him or his dad later this month. If I had to guess, TN was a good mix of several things. Big conference, team on the rise, had his desired major, proximity, etc.. GA Tech is actually one of the best regarded Aerospace Eng schools (top 5 in the nation), so he could have stayed closer to home. If I can find out from him or pops, I'll post back on the 29th.
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Isn't GT notorious for keeping athletes out of its tougher programs? He didn't let a program dictate his major---he chose a school that would let him study what he wanted.
 
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Louisiana budget still unbalanced, but universities poised to stay open

Higher education ill still get a $86 million dollar cut. College education funding has already been reduced by 55% over the past eight years.

LSU President F. King Alexander on Monday confirmed that the universities in his system would be able to stay open through the end of the year but that the cuts still could be severe.

“It’s not the drastic scenario, but it’s still really, really going to hurt,” Alexander said. “It’s going to be layoffs, all kinds of layoffs, and we might have to close an AgCenter station or two.”

Most critically, the LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport reported it wouldn’t make payroll in June under the budget scenario, according to the LSU budget.

Cuts would be made to “critical student services,” such as academic advisement, tutoring and financial aid counseling, which would hurt low-income students.
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How health care -- not LSU football -- turned the tide in Louisiana's budget debate

The legislature was informed that without lesser cuts, LSU Medical Center would have to cut 100 resident jobs.
But as the session played out over the next three weeks, it was hospital operators and doctors, not offensive coordinators and defensive backs that seemed to change minds. The epiphany came when officials with the state's new privatized safety net hospital system explained how they could walk away from contracts and end lease payments if lawmakers chose to make deep cuts.
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Hospitals had agreed to assume the charity-hospital system in exchange for state funding. The legislature was considering eliminating these payments. The hospitals considered this a breach of their contract. Those hospitals lease publicly owned buildings. Walking away from those contracts would have cost the state $300 million. Payments are made in advance, which would have had an immediate impact.
 
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Irish YJ said:
To be honored by THE Boy Scouts is pretty impressive in itself lol. After chatting with his dad, I understand where he gets his brains, personality, and drive. Very soft spoken, kindly, man. Even told me where he tailgates on game day lol. Already had some minimal insider pals, but looking forward to having a couple of beers and getting the real skinny on the program.
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There are always guys at these sec schools that are great college men and nice leaders, (see Barrett Jones as an example) but we all know the majority of guys are there to win a football game and play in the baby nfl. The institutions allow it, promote it and these guys are not there for education. I would like to see it like the old days when a kid was introduced before the game they stated his major and how he's doing grade wise--if not its just minor league football. Most of these sec schools need football to promote the school and bring in $$$$$. Among the top 22 universities in this country for high $$$$ endowment there is one sec school-A&M. The rest of them need that 50-100 mil every year that the league provides. I have no problem stating the on field product of the sec is tops but like I tell my friends if I wanted to watch pro football I'd do it on Sunday.
 
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Irish YJ said:
Got to hang with Josh Dobbs's (Tenn QB)father yesterday. We were in a meeting with several Wells Fargo execs (he's VP of something at WF) who are trying to win our business.

They invited me to a Boy Scout event that WF is sponsoring at the CFB hall of fame that is honoring several folks including Josh (he's an Aerospace Engineer Major), Dikembe Mutombo, and others.

I knew Josh was a smart kid, but Aerospace Engineering.... good lord. Just thought I'd drop this here since most of the time we are digging on the SEC for academics...
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So there really ARE some rocket scientists in the SEC!

Who'd have thought?

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USCe news, Offseason moves - Will Muschamp evaluated the spiritual component of the football program and decided to part ways with the Gamecocks chaplain of seventeen years.

Muschamp looks to expand spiritual component of his program

-The idea behind moving on from (Adrian) DesPres was to upgrade that part of the program and to put multiple people in various roles to do so. DesPres did good work and was well-liked during his time at South Carolina and was particularly well-liked by fans who got to know him, but Muschamp and South Carolina want someone (or multiple someones) who can relate to and reach a higher percentage of the players. As Muschamp has said multiple times, his vision is to serve the South Carolina student athlete and this move was made to improve the program’s ability to do so from a spiritual standpoint.
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DesPres wasn’t necessarily fired as much as he was not retained. Similar to the eight assistant coaches and multiple support staff members who worked under Spurrier that were gone from the first day, so was DesPres.
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DesPres attributes it to more than the coaching change:
“I love the guys on the team, the coaching staff and the university as a whole. God called me to be the USC chaplain and He also called me away from that position. And that’s good, too.”
 
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Hmm. Good coach. Not shocked though. 3T must not have covered his tracks delivering the bags to all those 5 star DLs.
 
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NCAA Investigators trying real hard not to look at Laremy Tunsils Instagram right now...

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Lol Tunsil just admitted to it and then got quickly taken away... rough night for him...
 
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Irish YJ said:
Hmm. Good coach. Not shocked though. 3T must not have covered his tracks delivering the bags to all those 5 star DLs.
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Oh... I had my tracks covered. Bo just couldn't leave good enough alone and contacted the player during the dead period. When asked by Saban about it, Bo wasn't truthful, hence the "resignation." Bo knows cell phones... Bo just don't know when not to use them.
 
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Oh... I had my tracks covered. Bo just couldn't leave good enough alone and contacted the player during the dead period. When asked by Saban about it, Bo wasn't truthful, hence the "resignation." Bo knows cell phones... Bo just don't know when not to use them.
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3T... come on man, get your guys some burner phones.
 
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