Where's Mack?

[RomaVicta]

In the article about DJ's DUI dismissal, the paper reports that Mack is out recruiting this weekend.

Anybody know who he is seeing?

 

[l00p]

Boom was in Ohio for the day. Don't know about Mack.

Hey professors, look at this. You are home doing nothing and Mack is out working over this time frame. Imagine that.

 

[where_are_my_8s]

Hopefully Plano West or visiting Hershel Sims before their championship game.

 

[Lincoln]

He's watching the UNC game.

 

[orangecat]

really? why would he be at a basketball game when he could be recruiting?

 

[JohnnyYuma]

When does "dead period" start??

 

[geezerhorn]

1)Support of other athletic programs.
2)National PR for the program when they talk about Mack and The MNC a couple of times during the game.
3)Mack has a life and doesn't need to spend every waking moment on football.

 

[HornSwoggler]

NCAA recruiting calendar:

web1.ncaa.org/web_files/AMA/recruiting_calendars/DI/Text/Football.pdf

 

[HornSwoggler]

NCAA recruiting calendar, in color, easier to read:

web1.ncaa.org/web_files/AMA/recruiting_calendars/DI/Color/DIFootball-Color.pdf

 

[NickDanger]

Not to mention that it's not against the rules for UT to go after recruits in the Dallas area this year, next year, etc.

 

[RomaVicta]

I suppose that I hoped Mack was out closing some deals, but I bet it's just as likely that he was checking on prospects for next year whose teams are in the playoffs.

I was hoping for a commit or two.

 

[stanhin]

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[ut1978]

The comments about professors "doing nothing" are just inane. With the pressure on them to publish, bring in funding (this means spending a LOT of money writing proposals and talking to funding agencies...you cannot really appreciate how ****** this is until you've done it), look after PhD students, and teach, they do work more than this board gives them credit for.

The really GOOD professors (like National Academy members) are "off-scale"...they could make 250-350K, easily. But they DO earn every penny. Without any doubt, Mack earns every cent of his salary too; he has visibly aged since he got here.

Not trying to take sides in the salary argument but trying to correct some of the stuff that's been posted.

 

[l00p]

Yes I do, Stanhin. I have cameras watching all of them from my helicopters overhead.

 

[stanhin]

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[HornSwoggler]

Mack was back in town for the BB game last night. Shown on TV. Or maybe it was his body double to confuse opposing recruiters...

 

[Bill in Sinton]

Hey 100p it has been a few years since I went to college and I didn't get to go to UT but where I went the professors did try to get funding but I don't remember seeing them too much in the after 5 P.M. ranges unless they had night classes.
Also we had a dean that felt like a good professor would get articles published, get funding, etc. rather than was he or she a good professor. This cost us some good professors who were run off for silly reasons and disgusted the students.
But there was no conflic with the athletic department and in fact the faculty on the whole really supported it.

 

[ut1978]

Bill,

Any professor who is well-published and well-funded, is doing a LOT of work after hours and on weekends. Maybe not on campus, but...I have been through the system and seen the good, bad and ugly. Its mostly ugly.

That said, there ARE professors who only teach and not much else. These guys are also NOT making the big bucks (250-300K) that the good ones do.

Anyway...I'm not posting any more on this; the thread's been hijacked enough already.

 

[Bill in Sinton]

I understand utl but a good professor should be judged on his teaching ability which should be priority rather than on magazine artilcles, etc. I have heard Dr. Garnoff give lectures and he is great and I can tell he is a great teacher and a credit to his profession but the main thing is that he seems to be a great classroom teacher.

 

[stanhin]

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[LibertyValance]

The comment about professors doing nothing is doesn't make sense if you know what those guys go through. All they do is work, do research, write grant proposals, look after graduate students, worry about having enough funding to run their research programs, etc. Its really a tough way to make a living, especially given that they have to constantly deal with all the academic politics that goes on all around them. The politics are the worst part of a professor's job. The politics are brutal, and that is putting it mildly.

 

[ut1978]

OK..I had planned to not post any more on this but...Liberty is dead right. Getting tenure is simply brutal, the more so at a big univ like UT. Then, after tenure, comes getting promotion...that is also a really ****** process. Liberty summed it up nicely.

Bill in Sinton..."magazine articles"??? Seriously??? I am a physicist (not at UT) and I have about 150 articles in journals like Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Nature. They are NOT magazines. And the articles are not exactly your garden variety magazine article...in fact, totally the opposite. And the referee/review proces is simply brutal.

 

[HornSwoggler]

Please take all the professors' v. Mack's worth conversations to another forum or thread.

Some of us are interested in current recruiting activites and our time is wasted by off subject posts.

Thanks.