Re: RGTurner & MexMustang
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:52 am
thank you tristate, my niece actually turned down a full-ride to Rice.
I brought up Stanford as a retort to the poster who tried to pooh-pooh the importance of sports at a university. Stanford, arguably one of the 2 best universities in the world and with a rich history in FB (much like SMU), endowed every scholarship in its football program because they understand this. Cal-Tech or MIT are ridiculous comparisons. Stanford is not. They are a power school that was determined to continue to compete at the highest levels. They just have deeper pockets than us. I agree that Turner gets high marks for the past 10 years, but I judge him over his 23 year stay here, not 10.
Which brings me to MexMustang. His point is that no college president should hang around more than 12 years, certainly not 23 and absolutely not 30. It leads to potential problems that he described in good detail. I completely agree with him on this point and IMO is the main reason we have become stagnant on the academic side, which to me is much more important than the athletic side. The response by most on this thread is to attack Mex personally while not addressing the concerns he brings up. I think that is revealing of the posters, not Mex.
I brought up Stanford as a retort to the poster who tried to pooh-pooh the importance of sports at a university. Stanford, arguably one of the 2 best universities in the world and with a rich history in FB (much like SMU), endowed every scholarship in its football program because they understand this. Cal-Tech or MIT are ridiculous comparisons. Stanford is not. They are a power school that was determined to continue to compete at the highest levels. They just have deeper pockets than us. I agree that Turner gets high marks for the past 10 years, but I judge him over his 23 year stay here, not 10.
Which brings me to MexMustang. His point is that no college president should hang around more than 12 years, certainly not 23 and absolutely not 30. It leads to potential problems that he described in good detail. I completely agree with him on this point and IMO is the main reason we have become stagnant on the academic side, which to me is much more important than the athletic side. The response by most on this thread is to attack Mex personally while not addressing the concerns he brings up. I think that is revealing of the posters, not Mex.