Plant that Flag, flagships
Thanks! I owe a lot to UH and its phenomenal engineering professors.
Iāve been steering high school kids and their parents towards UH engineering whenever I can. The kids are often interested and excited to learn about how connected UH engineering is to the city of Houston, but their parents still donāt take UH serious. Itās irritating to say the least.
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Cornell
Ever heard of it?
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When did the University of Wisconsin leave the Big 10?
As far as the P2 goes, 19 (a majority) are land grants. So yeah, people care.
Manny,
I am a fellow Cullen College Engineer with BS and Masters degrees. I worked for a major international engineering and construction company in Houston. They sent me to Rice for Executive MBA. I always hired UH people for the many positions I had open in this company when they were in the resume pool. You can tell the parents that there are people like me connected to University of Houston. We hire Coogs for CO-OPs,Summer Hires and full-time work. I also went to our Company Foundation and got a donation of $40k/year(1980 Dollars) for five years. I am not alone in this kind of UH support. Keep telling the story Manny!
Go Coogs !
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so 19/35 (including Notre Dame)
Thatās only 54% so there is no direct correlation.
Greater than .5 is a āmoderateā correlation.
So you definitely canāt say that thereās no correlation or even a weak one.
So yeahā¦THATāS why people care.
okā¦so 19/34= 55%
Big freaking whoopā¦still not a strong correlation to Land Grant= P2
Michigan isnāt Land Grant as an example and they are a blue blood Public School
Thatās awesome Glen! Thanks for sharing.
UH has alot of offer and can spring board anyoneās career. Tons of great stories to share and tons of talent ready to represent our city and our university at home and abroad.
Keep up the great work!
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my bad- corrected!
I apologize because I sometimes misconstrue land grant and flagship
I think there is more weight given to flagship schools, rather than land grants.
Itās probably where this argument stems from, so just wanted to clarify that
Of course, the fact that in many states, like Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, the flagship IS the stateās main land grant college is why this DOES matter.
That being said, itāll be interesting once the football season ends and realignment rumors start making the waves again
Hereās my realignment predictions over the next 10 years (1 and a half media cycles)
SEC:
- adds UNC
- adds Virginia
Big 12:
- adds Florida State
- adds Clemson
- adds Miami
- adds Louisville
- will double its media deal value
Big Ten:
- adds Notre Dame (only because Notre Dame will struggle scheduling marquee games)
- adds Stanford
ACC:
- adds USF
- adds Memphis or UConn
- adds Army
- adds Navy
- remains a P4 conference, but will be the lowest paid conference
But Flagship is a BS term.
The University of Houston gets MORE state funding, has MORE students, has a BIGGER endowment, has BETTER academics, and a BRIGHTER future than over HALF of the ā#1 flagshipā Universities in other states.
Would you rather be the āFlagshipā University of Alaska or the University of Houston or even the āflagshipā University of Mississippi or the University of Houston (all things considered)?
We need to stop with the āLand Grantā and āFlagshipā stereotypes
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That could be theoretically true, but you also have to scale state population sizes as well as the fact that UH has way more competition in its own state relative to other flagship universities, which makes it difficult to claim any significance to those statistics
The fact that unc hired Belichick tells me he did not come alone.
He is not going there to enjoy tobacco fields. He wants to make unc a cfp contender and win the cfp to shut all of his critics down. Belichick has enough money to sponsor an entire program. He wonāt do it but his buddies will.
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He has a clause in his contract where he can leave for another job next year without any large buyout
Whatās likely is his son takes over
I donāt see Belichick doing better than Mack Brown at UNC.