Darius White

GoHornsGo90,

It is hard for me to think of a guy as "hip" who flies outta control screaming at some scribe. But then "hip" is a word that I don't hear much any more.

As far as the offense, our old fart Greg Davis has had a few years better than OSU's best, though I am not really trying to slight Gundy's ability - I think he is good.
 
bishophorn, no worries. Thanks for the history lesson.

Texas Jack, Clay is ranked #45, so I'm guessing you just missed him. We're going to take 26-27 kids this year. It won't shock me at all if 2 of our current 3-stars (McClain and Ndulue) end up as 4-stars by the end of the year. Based on the way Rivals computes their point totals, signing a large class can put teams in the Top10, even if they have 8-10 3* kids.

Corey Cooper is a good friend, but his 'prediction' is pretty hollow at this point. He is an Illinois player and wants his old teammate to join him. If I were guessing, Prater will wait and see how Illinois does in '09. If they are borderline awful, he leaves the state. If Zook puts in a nice year, he may well stay home. We'll see soon enough.

McCay is a Sooner lean. I'd guess you don't have access to the same premium information that I do, so I don't expect you to roll with that assumption, but it's true. We'll land 2 of those 4 WR's, but not sure when/who. If we do, we'll end up with the same # of Rivals100 kids as UT. That's why I feel both programs finish ranked similarly.

In the end, if we're #12 or #8, it doesn't much matter to me. Solid class, all the way around..
 
OldHippie, I cannot reconcile the two, but I haven't thought about it since I learned what I passed on to my friends here because I considered the source above reproach.
 
I would go so far as to say the competition level at which Clay plays is REALLY ******* HIGH.

They play all of the big boys in San Diego...There is a ******* shitload of D1 players coming from this area. Something like 17 NFL first rounders from san diego county in the last 20 years.

Most notable from Scripps Ranch is Kellen Winslow Jr.
 
I wonder. Do most schools even offer architechtural engineering? My first dormmate in Jester studied that. I was under the impression it is not that common of an engineering offering.
 
UT is one of the the very few schools in the country that offer architectural engineering degrees; if this is really what he wants to major in, I think it would be good for us.

From a practical standpoint, I don't think it is much different than a civil engineering degree with emphasis in structural engineering. They just take a few architecture classes instead electives in other areas of civil engineering.
 
If he's serious about studying engineering, I don't think he's going to pan out as a football player. I'm not trying to be negative, I just don't believe it's possible. The last player we had that studied engineering quit football after an injury.
 
Sporting News today has an update. White says he doesn't have a Top 3 or Top 5, that he's just looking for a good fit. Says he would like to visit USC and LSU. Sounds like he's enjoying the process, which is not a bad thing.

Hook'em!!!
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“Do most schools even offer architechtural engineering?”

No, but they do offer architectural engineering.

(Although I approve of the way you did that- archi + tech + tural. You need a copyright for that title before some engineer co-ops it away from you.)

Architecture school accreditation is significantly different and registration boards don’t acknowledge any subset of engineering as a specialty like the Bar does for Attorneys.

“Yea, why not just do Architecture.”

Because he would have to gain admittance to a school of architecture first. Schools of architecture have the highest cut-offs for SAT scores. The hours are pretty daunting too.

My advice to this kid (or any other) is to forget architecture altogether. It’s a consolidating profession leaving little opportunities to be the next Bill Caudill, much less achieving financial security commensurate with other professions.

It’s better to be a client anyway. Get into finance and learn to access capital.

But if he has to do this, and there are no extraneous circumstances, then architectural engineering is the best way into the field. Most schools of architecture admit 60% more undergraduates than they intend to confer professional degrees upon. Of those targeted for removal, most withdraw on their own within two years (of a 5-year degree program) and the rest get forced into an associate degree by an arbitrary third year review.

And as horrible as it is to get arbitrarily reviewed out of architecture in your third year, the survivors face an even worse fate. Two more years of school, a minimum of three years “apprenticing” for little to no pay and a registration exam where the outcome hangs on another arbitrary review.

Then the freshly minted architect faces low (to no) income, bad clients and/or architectural engineers that get commissions that by statute should be exclusive to architects.

With an architectural engineering degree, a student need only go two more years of architectural graduate school, license out in both engineering and architecture and have a chance at a decent professional life. But that finance degree would still come in handy. An architect who can obtain financing for projects would have a great future.

EDIT: commensurate for commiserate. Thanks for all the PMs!
 
Maybe I should of worded it this way...
Engineering is actually one of the least time consuming majors in the broad field of science(and some others) if someone knows what they're doing. (Everyone knows workloads for business majors...etc are jokes
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There are just simply more to read in majors such as biology and biochem. There are more (and easier) material that people usually read to memorize.

Engineering, there are less (and harder) material that people read to understand.

So assuming someone knows what they're doing, the absolute minimum time required to read, comprehend, and apply concepts/knowledge for engineering is shorter than the time required to read, comprehend, and "apply" concepts/knowledge for say biology, biochem...etc
 
I tend to agree with Zuerst. The work in engineering is to "get it". That takes a lot of work and a long time for some, less so for others. Once one "gets it", the work is much less, for a given course.

So there is a difference between "alot of work" and "hard material", I agree.
 
Anyways, so all these engineers want to hear updates on Darius White and when he's going to select the best combination of academics, exposure, lifestyle and football a guy could ever ask for!
 
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