The Official #1 Tennessee vs Vandy SEC Tourney Game Thread (Thursday 7PM EST SEC NETWORK)

#178
#178
AthensVol2007 said:
I believe UT’s program is pretty solid, it was called Bio-Systems Engineering when I was in school. I didn’t take any classes in that department though so can’t speak on it too much. Just based on overall agricultural studies across the board, MS State is probably the best ag school in the southeast and I would venture to say Auburn is pretty strong in that arena specifically, given their strong engineering presence. Some in my part of the world, believe Auburn is starting to slip in it’s ag school. Our Director of Agronomy is an Auburn alum and refused to allow his kid to go to Auburn to study Ag and talked him into to going to MS State.
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Interesting. I had several friends that got Ag Engineering degrees from UT that had well paying jobs lined up well before graduation. They have done really well for themselves.
 
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txbo said:
Interesting. I had several friends that got Ag Engineering degrees from UT that had well paying jobs lined up well before graduation. They have done really well for themselves.
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My folks were going to make me double major in it and Ag Economics because UT had reciprocity deal with other states in the southeast, where out of state kids could get in-state tuition if their land grant didn’t offer that dual program. I had no desire to do it but for the savings I was going to muscle through it. First semester in, we learned that FL only participated in that at the graduate level, so I was like well too late, I’m already here, time to drop the engineering tag. The one and only class I took was a surveying class and our first lab was surveying around one of the buildings on the ag campus. Your starting and ending points were the same and you should come out with the same elevation when it was done. For every foot you were off you were docked 10pts from a 100. When my partner and I wound up 11ft off and we were staring at a minus 10 for our grade I knew ag engineering was not for me.
 
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#181
AthensVol2007 said:
My folks were going to make me double major in it and Ag Economics because UT had reciprocity deal with other states in the southeast, where out of state kids could get in-state tuition if their land grant didn’t offer that dual program. I had no desire to do it but for the savings I was going to muscle through it. First semester in, we learned that FL only participated in that at the graduate level, so I was like well too late, I’m already here, time to drop the engineering tag. The one and only class I took was a surveying class and our first lab was surveying around one of the buildings on the ag campus. Your starting and ending points were the same and you should come out with the same elevation when it was done. For every foot you were off you were docked 10pts from a 100. When my partner and I wound up 11ft off and we were staring at a minus 10 for our grade I knew ag engineering was not for me.
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That’s kinda rough when inches matter…
 
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AthensVol2007 said:
My folks were going to make me double major in it and Ag Economics because UT had reciprocity deal with other states in the southeast, where out of state kids could get in-state tuition if their land grant didn’t offer that dual program. I had no desire to do it but for the savings I was going to muscle through it. First semester in, we learned that FL only participated in that at the graduate level, so I was like well too late, I’m already here, time to drop the engineering tag. The one and only class I took was a surveying class and our first lab was surveying around one of the buildings on the ag campus. Your starting and ending points were the same and you should come out with the same elevation when it was done. For every foot you were off you were docked 10pts from a 100. When my partner and I wound up 11ft off and we were staring at a minus 10 for our grade I knew ag engineering was not for me.
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LOL. That's a great story. Off by 11 feet in elevation going around one building. I'm laughing pretty hard.
 
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AthensVol2007 said:
My folks were going to make me double major in it and Ag Economics because UT had reciprocity deal with other states in the southeast, where out of state kids could get in-state tuition if their land grant didn’t offer that dual program. I had no desire to do it but for the savings I was going to muscle through it. First semester in, we learned that FL only participated in that at the graduate level, so I was like well too late, I’m already here, time to drop the engineering tag. The one and only class I took was a surveying class and our first lab was surveying around one of the buildings on the ag campus. Your starting and ending points were the same and you should come out with the same elevation when it was done. For every foot you were off you were docked 10pts from a 100. When my partner and I wound up 11ft off and we were staring at a minus 10 for our grade I knew ag engineering was not for me.
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That’s pretty hard for a car salesman to understand.
 
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txbo said:
That’s pretty hard for a car salesman to understand.
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I was trained to do civil settlement surveys on storage tanks. The closing value was something on the order of a quarter inch to validate the data .that was back to a benchmark. We started using optic equipment. It got a lot easier when laser equipment became available.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
I was trained to do civil settlement surveys on storage tanks. The closing value was something on the order of a quarter inch to validate the data .that was back to a benchmark. We started using optic equipment. It got a lot easier when laser equipment became available.
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I’m too drunk to taste this chicken.
 
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AthensVol2007 said:
I believe UT’s program is pretty solid, it was called Bio-Systems Engineering when I was in school. I didn’t take any classes in that department though so can’t speak on it too much. Just based on overall agricultural studies across the board, MS State is probably the best ag school in the southeast and I would venture to say Auburn is pretty strong in that arena specifically, given their strong engineering presence. Some in my part of the world, believe Auburn is starting to slip in it’s ag school. Our Director of Agronomy is an Auburn alum and refused to allow his kid to go to Auburn to study Ag and talked him into to going to MS State.
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Thanks a lot. What are some of the jobs that folks do with Ag degrees these days? It’s gotten so technology advanced as I imagine There’s been lots of changes over the years.
 
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txbo said:
Interesting. I had several friends that got Ag Engineering degrees from UT that had well paying jobs lined up well before graduation. They have done really well for themselves.
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that’s good to know. What types of jobs if you don’t mind me asking?
 
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VolPack22 said:
Here are the main stats people look at comparing two players that play the same position. One player made 2nd Team All-SEC and one player was not selected to an All-SEC team.

Player A:
.298 BA
.433 OBP
.595 SLG
1.029 OPS
34 Runs
50 Hits
7 2B
2 3B
13 HR
52 RBI

Player B:
.323 BA
.392 OBP
.672 SLG
1.064 OPS
48 Runs
63 Hits
15 2B
4 3B
15 HR
51 RBI
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Player A Beck? Who’s player B?
GBO!!
 
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taylorvol said:
that’s good to know. What types of jobs if you don’t mind me asking?
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I had several fraternity brothers that majored in Ag Engineering and only one is really involved in the agricultural aspect of it doing some projects for Natural Resources Conservation Service like streambank stabilization projects, water quality work. The others seem to be doing well in engineering jobs that are not really agricultural related. I would say out of all my classmates that majored in agriculture fewer than a third are in ag related jobs. Many of them are equipment sales type jobs. That's probably true for most majors though, in terms of how careers go.
 
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It wasn't that long ago Tennessee couldn't even get into the SEC tournament. They just needed to be in the top 12 of 14. Now we're #1 in the nation and have been dominant. Insane the difference and so fun to watch. Go Vols!!
 
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My dad told me a story where him and some of his friends borrowed the survey equipment and went to a small town and started surveying right down main st when asked what they were doing told someone the interstate is coming through ... caused a huge stir and actually made the local paper there
 
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taylorvol said:
Thanks a lot. What are some of the jobs that folks do with Ag degrees these days? It’s gotten so technology advanced as I imagine There’s been lots of changes over the years.
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I’d say most are going into some kind of sales position; ag retail, ag technology (equipment, irrigation, precision ag software) or product/manufacturer rep. The money is on the rep side but it’s a hard life being on the road all the time; if you’re doing it right. I would venture to say that 25%+ of sales reps (at least the good ones) are or have been divorced (it was close to 50% of my colleagues in my first sales job). I took a pay cut to get off the road and take a more normal 8-5 job.
 
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Do any of you baseball junkies have a radio app for the games?
I’d like to listen to the Georgia, bama game.
GBO!!
 
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