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Tolga Ozyurtcu

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professor, historian, writer. UT Austin. the culture and business of sports. all you kids out there, always KEEP THE FAITH!

Austin, TX

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

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Wrote a thing for sport management students, or really for any young people who want to work in sports. In short, we need to figure out and embrace what makes the industry...weird.

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Sports are Weird: A Mental Model for Success in the Sports Industry

Roughly middle-aged in human terms, the academic field of sport management remains a bit maligned and misunderstood, sometimes fairly. Looked down upon by some academic peers, we’re also dism…

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3 years

shoutout to the guy screaming TEXAS FIGHT outside the stadium 28 hours before kickoff. Bro I can hear you on the 6th floor, keep it up.

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1 year

If Victor Wembanyama is somehow a bust, @OldTakesExposed will have like 11,000,000 tweets to choose from.

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Throwback to 3 years ago when @tar___ruh hit me with the best missed class excuse ever: “I’ll be in Tokyo for the Olympics.” (She got the work in on time!) 🤘🤘🤘

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headed to paris ranked #1 in the WORLD

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Best student missed-class excuse ever goes to @tar___ruh . Yeah, we can make some adjustments to an online class if you're busy traveling to....THE OLYMPICS. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

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2 years

I did not have "Damar Hamlin is dead and we're being duped by body doubles" on my 2023 bingo card.

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4 months

I am distinguished.

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4 months

Congrats to my colleagues Dr. Katie Tackett and Dr. Tolga Ozyurtcu for earning the Dean's Distinguished Professional Track Award.🤘🏽 @ozyurtcu

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UT students, holler if you need help. I can’t do much, but can Venmo you something for food, try to sort out resources, etc. Hang in there. DM or email. 🤘🏻🤘🏻

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4 years

Asked my class to share best/worst youth sports experiences. Even when you know what's coming, some of these stories are just heartbreaking. We have got to do better.

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It’s been 27 years since my mother passed. We live with these things. But it breaks my heart a bit that she didn’t even get to entertain the idea of grandkids, let alone know them. She’d find plenty of her spirit and goodness in these two. She would have chuckled at the Crocs.

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3 years

Should professors have entrance/walk up music like wrestlers or baseball players? What would yours be? I think it’d be pretty epic to roll into class backed by Kate Bush Running Up That Hill or We Gotta Know by the Cro Mags.

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I haven’t for many years. Not worth the hassle to track and even if I make them come, that doesn’t mean they are actually “there,” since I’m not gonna police their technology use either. My attendance remains decent, because I’m awesome.

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9 months

Do you require attendance in your classes? Would students come if you didn't?

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1 year

Horns undefeated in the daughter era. @_delconte

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2 years

I will remember this when y'all complain that 11AM class is too early. 🤘🤘🤘

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Longhorn Network

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2 years

Good morning.

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5 months

Fake news! this is the line for my class.

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5 months

Massive line right now for Travis Scott at the Moody Center Students say they’ve been here since 4 AM to get the Cactus Jack & Texas collab merchandise #HookEm | #Texas

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A student had the audacity to ask for a last minute extension on an assignment they've had plenty of time on. I of course gave it to them because we've all been living in a version of hell for 12 months.

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3 years

SPORTS!

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3 years

3 generations of dudes.

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5 months

I am once again begging students to not use AI... on a one paragraph extra credit assignment that you could totally bs and get credit for in an ethics class

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2 years

15th school year on this campus. Let's go!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

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10 months

I was 25 when I came to UT and became a Horn. I’ll admit, there’s a difference between growing up with a team and coming to it later in life. You don’t get as fired up over rivalries, etc. But also: hahahahaha Tech, you jokers, enjoy the fat L!!

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3 years

Moments after receiving his first participation medal, Gus looked at me and said, "Dad, I'll never work hard again."

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8 months

On the eve of the biggest Horns football game in a long time, let's take a moment to celebrate the absolute golden era of @TexasLonghorns sports we're living in. Measure it in Director's Cups or national titles or tournament runs, etc. We have been crushing it in so many sports,

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4 years

Take my classes y'all. You'll have to do some deep thinking and writing, but none of this mess.

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4 years

Online proctoring programs such as Proctorio and ProctorU have given students more stress and anxiety while taking exams.

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Don’t normally get too personal on here, but felt compelled to share today. My mother passed away 23 years ago today. I’ve marked every anniversary by taking some tulips to the water. The pacific, the Atlantic, the Tiber, smaller streams in between...

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An honor to meet fellow South Bay legend @CoachSark before today's big win! A good day to be a Texas Longhorn 🤘🤘🤘

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4 years

Report from the wife on the first day of 3 year old t-ball: our son promptly dropped his pants and peed on home plate.

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3 years

Last game at the Erwin Center, first game for this junior Horn. @TexasWBB looking good!

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4 years

Someone went inside to “get shoes” and came back with a whole new outfit. But still no shoes.

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8 months

Alright, let’s try something…in the wake of the whole Pitchfork thing, a lot of us will rely on sites like this one for music discovery. What accounts bring you the good stuff? For me: @micro_chop and @funkentechno are unreal. Their recommendations give me LIFE. So, Gino

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1 year

And again.

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1 year

Horns undefeated in the daughter era. @_delconte

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5 years

Yesterday was a GOOD DAY. Met the legend @icecube who was as cool you'd expect!

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Hustlin in Crestview

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5 years

take as many classes with me as possible. also: go to class, do the reading, and have as much fun as possible.

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Burnt Orange Nation

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Quote tweet this with your best advice for incoming Texas students. We will share the best ones.

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Texas summer. Cracking open a cold one, blasting ZZ Top, and flying down the highway. (Drinking Diet Coke in my Subaru on the way to the Aldi in Plfugerville)

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3 years

2 weeks in a row that my opposing “coach” in 3 YEAR OLD “SOCCER” has shut down my suggestion to just let all the kids on the field at the same time. “It would be unbalanced” Um, 90% of them are picking flowers anyway and you’re using a stopwatch for subs? Bro. Please. Bro.

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Time to introduce my son to international soccer and destroy his mental health.

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4 years

I'm old.

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Off to “school”

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3 years

Throwback to 1991 and these NFL trading card PSAs

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4 years

so if the students put the groupme link the zoom chat, they want me to join right?????

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4 years

Worth it. Maiden voyage.

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4 years

I may have just asked for a skateboard for Christmas. Can a mid-life crisis start at 37?

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10 months

Kids helping with online course content today.

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4 years

West Texas is the best Texas

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8 months

Better pay than most entry level sports industry jobs.

@FOS

Front Office Sports

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The Buffalo Bills are asking for fans’ help shoveling snow ahead of Sunday's playoff game. The team wants anyone interested to meet at the stadium at 10 p.m. on Saturday night. • $20 per hour • Complimentary food • Snow shovel provided • Must be 18 or older

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Sixth Christmas for Gus, first Christmas for Frieda. Best Christmas for me.

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6 months

Thrashin debut in Crestview

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It begins!

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10 months

Ah yes, using AI to write your extra credit assignment that you could also just totally make up on your own in 5 minutes. In an ethics class.

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5 years

Big day in young man’s life!

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5 years

Starting year 6 of going to work in this building. Still feels surreal at times.

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4 years

“faculty members may use their class times creatively to keep students connected, such as presenting optional lectures” Ah yes, that celebrated fountain of creativity: the optional lecture.

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7 months

🏆call for papers! Sports and Innovation Symposium at the Smithsonian this October!!🏆 Beyond honored and excited to be co-hosting this event with @EricSHintz . Looking for academic and industry submissions on a wide range of sports tech & innovation topics, with travel and

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3 years

LoL what do I know??? Be nice. Lift weights. Don't have too many opinions. Hug your loved ones. I think that's it.

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5 years

First day of school!

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1 year

The chatGPT essays lack the panache of old fashioned plagiarism.

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4 years

Shoutout @HEB for being amazing, as always. A rare beacon of competence. Also shoutout my supermarket sweep skills, coming in handy 20 years later.

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3 years

UT should lead the push against this. Because: 1. who cares? 2. the best response to a horns down is clearly just to win.

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

9 months

Found it! My favorite course evaluation comment of the semester. Prompt: Identify the aspect of the course that you found most challenging, why you found it was challenging, and suggest one thing that could be done to help future students meet that challenge more effectively.

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4 years

Child sound asleep, wife out with friends. Time to get wild and throw on this YouTube video on note taking methods.

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

3 years

Publication day! This one was a long time coming... On Muscle Beach and innovation in 20th century fitness. With @JanTodd1 via @IJHSofficial Some free copies at the link below, would love to hear what folks think!

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Critical Mass: Oral History, Innovation Theory, and the Fitness Legacy of the Muscle Beach Scene

The original Muscle Beach, in Santa Monica, California, is a site that looms large in the historical imagination. At once a hotbed of physical culture practices and a pop culture reference point, t...

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3 years

For my 38th birthday, here are 38 life lessons. Thread.

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4 years

Just bought a new house...what are your national/regional/family traditions to ensure good vibes and positive mojo in a new place?

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3 years

THAT'S ME! ps while my body disagrees, I feel like this headshot is still pretty accurate after 7 years. of course, I've looked like this for the better part of 2 decades, so that's a tradeoff.

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Playing the Long Game Conference

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Conference organizer Tolga Ozyurtcu studies the intersection of sports & culture from historical and contemporary perspectives. An award-winning professor, he teaches classes on the business & philosophy of sports and endeavors to help his students Play the Long Game! @ozyurtcu

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4 years

It feels like unsolicited academic advice season, so here goes: Professor friends, here are the secrets to success this semester: 1. Be a human. 2. Treat your students like humans. I think that covers it.

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

3 years

but how will I get brownie points with my students for making thanksgiving week attendance optional?

@thedailytexan

The Daily Texan

3 years

. @UTAustin administration may introduce shortened semesters and final exam schedules, plus a week-long Thanksgiving break, during the 2022-2023 school year.

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29 days

Ok this needs an update: best excuse I ever got from an OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST. Nice work @tar___ruh !!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

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Throwback to 3 years ago when @tar___ruh hit me with the best missed class excuse ever: “I’ll be in Tokyo for the Olympics.” (She got the work in on time!) 🤘🤘🤘

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

2 years

Sport Management/Sport Studies job at UT starting this fall. I know it's late in the jobs calendar, but please share. Accepting ABD applications.

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

9 months

Why would you expect fairness, rigor, or logic from a sport that produces a top 25 ranking before a single game is played? And then bases all decisions in the coming months for the assumption that the initial ranking was good and useful?

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3 years

Between getting old and “doing” sports for work, I don’t get too fired watching games these days. But I AM HYPED for this @TexasWBB game right now! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

5 months

I don't know what exactly to do with this data, but @TexasLonghorns have 55 Olympic gold medalists, several with multiple golds. In case you're curious, the Aggies and Sooners have 23 medalists each. That's including silver and bronze.

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

4 years

awesome thread about tracking down @Rickthelaureate I had the pleasure of teaching Ricky when he came back to finish his degree and he was pretty much the model student, even though there was literally a statue of him on campus at that point. Wrote a killer final on Nietzsche.

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Chris Jones

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Back in 2004, Ricky Williams, the American football player, left the Miami Dolphins after a third strike for smoking weed and disappeared. He’d had a notable career besides, but this was the capper: He said goodbye to his coach from Hawaii and vanished off the face of the Earth.

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8 months

@Tyler_A_Harper I'm gonna push back on the gel gang. uniball jetsream ballpoint .7

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

4 years

publisher: "do you want to publish this article as open access, here's a bunch of good reasons why..." me: "oh sure, that does sound like a good idea" publisher: "cool, it's only $3000" hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

4 years

I know my last name is a mess, but when you send me a generic email addressed to "Tonga"? yeah, that's getting deleted.

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

3 months

If you like sports in the least bit, you should be turning on ESPN for the softball national championship. 🤘🤘

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2 years

A contender for my best course survey response ever. Question: what was the most challenging aspect of the course? student response: Readings but only because I don’t like to read.

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3 years

Shoutout to the random friend a student brought to class today who dove right into the discussion and crushed it.

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

5 years

I wrote a thing! who said I wouldn't be able to work a nintendo classic into a proper academic piece?

@IllinoisPress

Illinois Press

5 years

Is #bodybuilding , #surfing , and #skateboarding your life? Learn about the rise of #lifestyle #sports in “Living the Dream” by @ozyurtcu from the latest issue of the JOURNAL OF SPORT HISTORY:

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@_motherslug Eve Babitz Slow Days, Fast Company (so good!!), The Big Sleep, anything Fante, City of Night (Rechy), Play It As It Lays Ok these are all LA books, but suitable for reading in any part of the state.

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4 years

@kdrobbins @pterrys @UTAustin I��ll contribute to this if we can make it happen.

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

4 years

One good reason not to pay college athletes is that rich schools will monopolize talent and there won't be any competition. Do we really want a world where Clemson and Alabama are the only title contenders, year in and out???

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Tolga Ozyurtcu

4 years

As we faculty continue to (fairly) grumble about our current teaching expectations, let's not ignore the real MVPs: academic advisors. Unsung heroes normally, superhuman at this point trying to navigate shifting schedules, angry/anxious students, etc. I see you, @UTJesy

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9 months

Bringing this energy into finals week.

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no context college football

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2 years

Notice this happened AFTER @Imthatjones4L took classes with me 🤔🤔

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Jonathan Jones,OLY

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3️⃣rd Fastest Man in the 🌎 right now… God is good❗️

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4 years

A tale in two pictures: (Not pictured: dad catching churro puke and not spilling a drop in the store)

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4 months

Sometimes you gotta put on your flight suit and hit the road.

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6 years

Framing is everything. I am at the office on a holiday weekend Sunday because I am a committed educator who goes above and beyond. Not because I chronically fail to take care of things in a timely manner.

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3 years

Easter: aftermath.

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5 years

Me, to students: don’t leave your citations till the end, they take longer than you think Also me: just gonna deal with these citations later

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5 years

A student made this for @CollegeGameDay Not gonna lie, this feels like a pretty significant life accomplishment. #HookEm

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4 years

petiton to replace the Eyes of Texas with Tanya Tucker's "Texas." And while we're at, let's nip the Journey "tradition" in the bud and replace it with anything by UGK, Willie Nelson, or any other remotely relevant Texas artist.

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4 years

Worth it

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A big welcome to @aquasia_shaw as she joins our faculty in sport management and physical culture and sport studies! A great addition to @utexascoe and @UTexasKHE 🤘🤘🤘

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4 years

What will change for the better in the post-pandemic world? My hope: a return to affordable and community based youth sports.

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