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wardly · October 31, 2011

this topic may or may not be appropriate for football, but alumni giving does effect athletic budgets. f.y.i.,north texas average alumni giving rate is 5%, same as u.t.e.p. and u.t.s.a. houston is 13%, as is la.tech.,u.a.b.,w.k.,and so.miss. in between is a.s.u.@11%,troy@9%,u.l.l.@7%, and memphis only @6%, which susprised me. at any rate, it just reinforces the fact that we have a long way to go .

Mean Green Matt · October 31, 2011

this topic may or may not be appropriate for football, but alumni giving does effect athletic budgets. f.y.i.,north texas average alumni giving rate is 5%, same as u.t.e.p. and u.t.s.a. houston is 13%, as is la.tech.,u.a.b.,w.k.,and so.miss. in between is a.s.u.@11%,troy@9%,u.l.l.@7%, and memphis only @6%, which susprised me. at any rate, it just reinforces the fact that we have a long way to go .

Do you have something against capitalization?

VideoEagle · October 31, 2011

Alumni giving rate and membership in the alumni association are key components of USNWR ranking of colleges. Our low ranks in both those categories hurts us greatly in their overal rankings.m

GreenGuy123 · October 31, 2011

Do you have something against capitalization?

Is it really that big of a deal? This forum is, for the most part, pretty informal. He still got his message across and I really don't see a point to call him out on it. I thought it was an informative post regardless of capitalization.

Mean Green Matt · October 31, 2011

Is it really that big of a deal? This forum is, for the most part, pretty informal. He still got his message across and I really don't see a point to call him out on it. I thought it was an informative post regardless of capitalization.

No, it's not that big of a deal.

wardly · October 31, 2011

Do you have something against capitalization?

i'm afraid i missed your point. please explain, and talk down to me if necessary. thanks, wardly

kalebschumann · October 31, 2011

Alumni giving rate and membership in the alumni association are key components of USNWR ranking of colleges. Our low ranks in both those categories hurts us greatly in their overal rankings.m

It does not matter how much the Alumni give to count towards that stat also.

UNTFan23 · October 31, 2011

Do you have something against capitalization?

It feels like a txt message to me.

Is it really that big of a deal? This forum is, for the most part, pretty informal. He still got his message across and I really don't see a point to call him out on it. I thought it was an informative post regardless of capitalization.

Maybe the argument stands up on it's its own for you but to me the argument looses loses credibility when someone doesn't capitalize proper nouns, which is what unt UNT is.

:fpc:

Stix · October 31, 2011

He may not care about capitalization, but if he cares about the average alumni giving rate, then I bet he cares about capitalization.

I'm thinking that wardly is a fan of e.e. cummings

UNT90 · October 31, 2011

It feels like a txt message to me.

Maybe the argument stands up on it's its own for you but to me the argument looses loses credibility when someone doesn't capitalize proper nouns, which is what unt UNT is.

Calling someone out on grammar and ending a sentence with a preposition? Bad form?

Censored by Laurie · November 1, 2011

Calling someone out on grammar and ending a sentence with a preposition? Bad form?

Atta boy.

UNTFan23 · November 1, 2011

Calling someone out on grammar and ending a sentence with a preposition? Bad form?

If that's the worst thing that I do, then I'll take my lumps. However, this board is fraught with loads of bad spelling, grammar, and punctuation. It really makes me cringe and wonder how some people managed to get their degrees.

Mean Green Matt · November 1, 2011

i'm afraid i missed your point. please explain, and talk down to me if necessary. thanks, wardly

I see what you did there.

I was not trying to talk down to you at all, just asking a question...

GrayEagle · November 1, 2011

He may not care about capitalization, but if he cares about the average alumni giving rate, then I bet he cares about capitalization.

I'm thinking that wardly is a fan of e.e. cummings

And/or k.d.lang

wardly · November 1, 2011

It feels like a txt message to me.

Maybe the argument stands up on it's its own for you but to me the argument looses loses credibility when someone doesn't capitalize proper nouns, which is what unt UNT is.

sorry, i'm an old man who regareds e-mails and text messages in the same vein. if credibility in your mind is based upon grammer, then put me down with president bush jr. i still think the invasion if iraq was a typo, that he meant to invade iran. thanks, WARD WHITE

kalebschumann · November 1, 2011

It feels like a txt message to me.

Maybe the argument stands up on it's its own for you but to me the argument looses loses credibility when someone doesn't capitalize proper nouns, which is what unt UNT is.

Calling someone out on grammar and ending a sentence with a preposition? Bad form?

Calling somebody out on calling somebody out but being wrong about said calling out of the calling out- bad form?

Is is not a preposotion. Is is a verb. You can end a sentence in a verb last time I checked. (Interestingly enough, I ended that sentence in a past tense verb)

Edited November 1, 2011 by kalebschumann

PlummMeanGreen · November 1, 2011

The below numbers indicates how our endowment coffers compare to all the present CUSA members, ie, the dollar amounts in bold represents endowment numbers for each CUSA school.

North Texas from one source (wikopedia) says we are setting right at $100,000,000.oo.

For North Texas to be elgible for Tier 1 status I believe we have to have at least a $400 million endowment. Well, unless T. Boone takes a likin' to us we will have a nice wait on that one.

East Division

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)Blazers Birmingham, Alabama1969Public18,00011,6811995$332 million

University of Central Florida (UCF)Knights Orlando, Florida1963Public50,00045,3982005$114 million

East Carolina University (ECU)Pirates Greenville, North Carolina1907Public27,00020,9741997 (football)

2001 (all other sports)$103 million

Marshall University Thundering Herd Huntington, West Virginia1837Public15,5009,3142005$70 millionUniversity of

MemphisTigers Memphis, Tennessee1912Public21,40016,7191995$183 million

University of Southern Mississippi (USM)Golden Eagles Hattiesburg, Mississippi1910Public17,25414,0961995$89 million

West Division

University of Houston Cougars Houston, Texas1927Public39,00029,2981995 **$491 million

Rice University Owls Houston, Texas1891 (opened 1912)Private6,7003,2372005$3.6 billion

Southern Methodist University (SMU)Mustangs University Park, Texas (Dallas)1911Private10,6006,0002005$1.37 billion