Is it done?

[HuffyCane]

It is when these folks are not even mid-career yet. More mid-level executives gives you a greater shot at senior executives… and senior executives gives you more shots at mega-donors / impactful alumni. Same goes for putting TU grads into the Washington pipeline.

I do think the Law School has room for improvement compared to the business / engineering schools though.

The law school is teetering on bottom 10 percent in the nation level. Not quite there. Close though.

Law school apps are up nationwide. That should help.

 

[astonmartin708]

The law school is teetering on bottom 10 percent in the nation level. Not quite there. Close though.

Law school apps are up nationwide. That should help.

Does the admin have any plans to tackle that? Seems like an important piece upping TU’s prestige level.

 

[TULSARISING]

Does the admin have any plans to tackle that? Seems like an important piece upping TU’s prestige level.

I have zero faith in the tu administration, especially if they handle academics like they do athletics

 

[nevadanatural]

I am with ya and against ya here. Hopefully we can keep smikle, Barnes, carrington, Garcia and Archie. If we can keep at least three of the 5 I will be happy. Reed had a really good freshman year. He had a sophomore slump. It happens. If they keep him I hope he works on his game and get back to the form he was his freshman year. We can let Behrend go back to Cincinnati lol.

We have to replace Odom and Willis as they were grads and hopefully they can get a couple of good transfers for them. I for one think he has recruited good players. He can get the grads but with everyone paying for them now, we either need to give someone a tractor or something so we can attract a couple of good players to stick around.

What we need is better scheduling and that is where I wil fault konkol. We played a SWAC schedule. We can’t be doing that. Get our ass in a holiday tournament to play decent teams.

I would like to see Behrend hang around. He’s got some skills but other than the semester at Juco he’s been away from the game for 5 years. You’ve got 13 scholarships and, if done properly, a game rotation of 8-9 players but you need big skilled players for practice and spot duty. Give him a chance to put some muscle on that lanky frame and coach him up.

 

[HuffyCane]

Does the admin have any plans to tackle that? Seems like an important piece upping TU’s prestige level.

Yes. Very concrete plans. Perhaps more here later.

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

Like I've said before...if we don't fire Konkol (yes i know i defended him early) then it'll show we don't care.

We haven’t heard from Heff in a few days. I wonder if his opinion on the situation has changed.

 

[chito_and_leon]

It’s significantly better than it was three years ago. TU is still not selective like it was up until around 1998. They now accept every one who applies who they believe will succeed. So when they publish a 45% acceptance rate, it’s not 90 to 100% of the people applying will succeed and they only take 45% of them. It means 55% of the people applying won’t succeed if they were admitted. That’s not a good look and something you have to turn around.

Similarly, you can accept 75% of the people who apply, as we did during the Levit era, and then get burdened with skyrocketing costs tutoring them through or stand by while they fail out in droves and the ratings people start asking questions. Also not a good look.

You don’t have to spend much time talking with faculty until they vent about the serious decline in the quality of students, particularly from Oklahoma and Texas. Even strong publics like the Edmond system aren’t preparing the kids.

Still, the free school for national merit semi finalists has proven to be an exceptionally effective marketing strategy. TU was down to barely a handful of national merit scholars per year several years ago and we will soon have a significant plurality of them in classrooms. Enough to cause noticeable gaps between them and their classmates. The days of making a 19 on your ACT and having a 3.25 in high school then making the Dean’s List at TU as a freshman appear to be over.

The overall under performance of athletics notwithstanding, it’s been a miracle over the past three years. At the time, I put the reputational damage of the Levit years at a cost of at least $30 million and at least 10 years to recover, if ever. It’s cost more than that but they are well ahead of schedule of turning it around which is a miracle in a business environment that measures success in 6 year blocks and decades.

Lol, you were a big Janet fanboy back when Janet was the powers-that-be and not the powers-that-were. I'll never forget "we have to do this plan because otherwise we'll lose our accreditation."

My main concern with Brad is that he'll Bill Self us and leave for greener pastures. Anyone see him around town, be very nice to reinforce his love for Tulsa.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

I would like to see Behrend hang around. He’s got some skills but other than the semester at Juco he’s been away from the game for 5 years. You’ve got 13 scholarships and, if done properly, a game rotation of 8-9 players but you need big skilled players for practice and spot duty. Give him a chance to put some muscle on that lanky frame and coach him up.

The problem with that is that we need to get rid of at least 2 players and probably 3, to recruit many of our needs. You start to eliminate transfers out, like Behrend and it can get in the way of having enough open scholarships. We only have one open scholarship right now. As I said we need 2 or 3 additional open scholarships. That cut's down our open scholarships when the POTENTIAL may not happen.

I know Reed and Nash don't show much potential. You can see some potential in Behrend &/or McWright, but if we eliminate both of them for transfer, then where do we go for another open scholarship that we probably need. Amadi? Carrington? They show signs of potential too. It's a dilemma that requires some hard evaluations. We really need to choose 3 out of those 5 to transfer.

 

[goldenhurricane2]

Not sure behrend is what we need if we want to get where we want to be. Same with Reed.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

Not sure behrend is what we need if we want to get where we want to be. Same with Reed.

I don't think they are worth the risk, based on potential.

 

[chito_and_leon]

Not sure behrend is what we need if we want to get where we want to be. Same with Reed.

The nice thing about losing 20 games and having 2 clear best players that graduate is that you don't have much risk getting rid of anyone.