Also, ACAC is ACAC. Anything about some student union is an evil, and probably comes from SMU.
I vote to delete this thread. Top five dooktastic take this week.
Gotta talk about something when the football's bad though...
Softball has been competitive, it can happen for baseball as well. It has worked for ORU
Unfortunately the pieces of paper from OSU are worth exactly the same as TU in the professional world these days. That "Harvard of the Southwest" crap went out the door a long time ago and economics means OSU is the better value.
When I was a kid, the OSU-Tulsa campus was Amaco's headquarters before they left for Houston in late 80s. TU was renowned as a good academic school with a really solid law program. Something happened in the 90s where their accreditation was lost or something and the law program lost its luster. I was really impressed with the campus and the faculty to student ratio and when one of their recruiters came to TCU and touted the graduate business program, I figured, "what the hell, I liked growing up in Tulsa and TU had a sterling reputation academically". I don't have inroads or insight like some of you guys on here where you're more informed as to the economic model and feasibility of the university as a going concern, but I really hope TU doesn't atrophy into oblivion like our petroleum industry did in the 80s.
Are you referring to the OU-Tulsa medical school campus at 41st & Yale. I know Amoco owned that property in the 1980s.
Yes, you're right, I stand corrected. It was across the street from the promenade mall if I remember right.
We wouldn’t get the Wichita deal. Without football, the Olympic sports including baseball and basketball would be looking forward to conference games against ORU.
Yeah, this isn't the perception that I hear from TU grads or from OSU grads. OSU grads (my wife included) view us as an elitist school. My degree has gone much farther than hers has, not for a lack of effort on her part and that's despite a downturn in my industry. I'm currently looking to backfill my old position in my company. I am lobbying for TU grads because I know the rigorous nature of our engineering department as well as the relationship our engineers have with the computer science field. On the contrary, outside of maybe the OU grad school, I would be hard pressed to consider any random OU or OSU graduate because I know the lack of rigor that their engineering programs consisted of by comparison. (That's not to say I'm unwilling to consider them, just that their degree impresses me less than others) I also know that we (TU) had a much higher average quality of student as the classes matriculated in terms of talent and intelligence. In my experience, our engineers on average ran circles around those from nearby institutions. Our main competition during my time around 10 years ago was A&M or Colorado School of Mines. OU was an afterthought and OSU wasn't thought of at all.
I dream of the day when Skelly's seating capacity becomes a limitation of the football program due to demand for tickets.
Dos TU still push the TURC program like they used to? The undergrad research program was what pushed some of the engineering and natural science B.Science degrees over other institutions. Grad degrees in science are given more value because of the advanced concepts being studied as well as the research and thesis/dissertation component. There were a ton of undergrads doing grad level research at TU through the TURC program and that contributed heavily to added value of the degree.
Yes, TURC is still a big deal for the science majors. My daughter was accepted into the program after her Sophomore year and actually placed high enough in the research challenge to win an award and a stipend, and had an article published in some fancy journal.
It’s funny how this topic is getting more action than the game on Saturday. Not much chatter here after the team gets a win.
Well, these wins keep making my goal of getting a new coach...harder and harder to achieve.
I keep looking at the schedule and I don’t see 6 wins there, maybe 5 at the most so you may get your wish. The Davis game just sent the whole season out of control.
Program strengths vary from school to school so I will agree with that point, as well as the degree in Petroleum Engineering when I was at TU. That program was, at the time, truly world class as evident by the number of international students from oil producing countries on campus at the time and the quality of the graduates as a whole.
