OL Marques Pair should write a book

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OK, before this argument goes any further I need to clarify my original comments about having a Communications degree. First of all, I was NOT trying to criticize or minimize Marques (or anyone else for that matter) for earning a Communications degree! There is nothing wrong with having a degree in Communications. My own sister earned her degree in Communications with a minor in English and she is doing quite well for herself.

What I was trying to say was that a Communications major can be earned at pretty much any university. It's not like it's a highly specialized, narrow field of study that only a handful of universities provide. That's where I was going with my comments. I was not trying to devalue a Communications degree. The reason I said what I said was because Marques could have earned a Communications degree virtually anywhere. If he really wanted to be a starter, earning a Communications degree shouldn't have been something to keep him from transferring.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Whether or not a degree is useless or not has nothing to do with one outlier who happened to do well with it. If you read the statistical data on mean salaries, and read into how much a joke the coursework is... And still decide that is for you...

Well...

And if you must know, I am a third year Mechanical Engineering student at TTU.
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Ah, the foolishness of youth. And this coming from somebody who completed the degree you seek. All any college degree is worth is what you make of it, including a ME or a Communications degree. A person might start with a higher salary in ME, but if you really want to make it big, that degree and starting job aren't going to get you there.

Mr. Pair may very we'll knock the top out of it down the road, and I hope he does just that. I tip my cap to any athlete who puts in the time their sports take, while staying on track to graduate.
 
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EZE said:
Ah, the foolishness of youth. And this coming from somebody who completed the degree you seek. All any college degree is worth is what you make of it, including a ME or a Communications degree. A person might start with a higher salary in ME, but if you really want to make it big, that degree and starting job aren't going to get you there.

Mr. Pair may very we'll knock the top out of it down the road, and I hope he does just that. I tip my cap to any athlete who puts in the time their sports take, while staying on track to graduate.
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Well said. I was an education major. Didn't use my degree and sought work elsewhere. Thru hard work, the engineers work for me now. The degree had nothing to do with it. A degree is an achievement, but not a certain path to success. Hard work and luck have more to do with it than anything. Unless you are a Dr or lawyer, the degree just gets you in the door.
 
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I just love arrogant posts from engineering majors who haven't even graduated yet. The majority of us that post have degrees and perhaps multiple ones. As a matter of fact, many of us may be the type of folks that either decide to hire you or not. Brush up on your communication skills by getting Mr Pair's help.....
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Whether or not a degree is useless or not has nothing to do with one outlier who happened to do well with it. If you read the statistical data on mean salaries, and read into how much a joke the coursework is... And still decide that is for you...

Well...

And if you must know, I am a third year Mechanical Engineering student at TTU.
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Why is it always the engineering majors that are the high and mighty a holes????
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Whether or not a degree is useless or not has nothing to do with one outlier who happened to do well with it. If you read the statistical data on mean salaries, and read into how much a joke the coursework is... And still decide that is for you...

Well...

And if you must know, I am a third year Mechanical Engineering student at TTU.
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You had me until your last sentence. There's no reason to pick Tech over UT for anything, particularly engineering.
 
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Ten_Titans said:
Whether or not a degree is useless or not has nothing to do with one outlier who happened to do well with it. If you read the statistical data on mean salaries, and read into how much a joke the coursework is... And still decide that is for you...

Well...

And if you must know, I am a third year Mechanical Engineering student at TTU.
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Calm down there, sport. So you are a 3rd year ME... so you are just now starting the real classes, congrats on making it through dynamics, I guess.
When you do graduate and get your pick of jobs you are still most likely going to be a CADD monkey until your boss decides you want kill anyone if he lets you do real work.
Just because someone isn't an engineering major doesn't make them stupid. And being a TTU BSCE I know the propaganda about UT is pretty bad in Brown Hall, but as a UTK MSCE I know that both schools have their strengths and weaknesses and we should save our derision for the idiots that spent 10x as much for on West End for a program with worse FE pass rates.
 
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How bad must Marques Pair be not to see the field this year? Anyone that has been around 5 years should be able to play on this line.
 
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MSCE09 said:
Calm down there, sport. So you are a 3rd year ME... so you are just now starting the real classes, congrats on making it through dynamics, I guess.
When you do graduate and get your pick of jobs you are still most likely going to be a CADD monkey until your boss decides you want kill anyone if he lets you do real work.
Just because someone isn't an engineering major doesn't make them stupid. And being a TTU BSCE I know the propaganda about UT is pretty bad in Brown Hall, but as a UTK MSCE I know that both schools have their strengths and weaknesses and we should save our derision for the idiots that spent 10x as much for on West End for a program with worse FE pass rates.
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Check out TSU's FE pass rates. It's pretty sad. I studied the day before and passed. Also hate when I hear people joke about how they passed by 1 point. Unless it was different a decade ago, in TN it says "you passed" and that's it.
 
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Probably_in_Class said:
You had me until your last sentence. There's no reason to pick Tech over UT for anything, particularly engineering.
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Tech and UTK are comparable in FE pass rates, and if you ask around in the Nashville area atleast, TTU engineers are highly regarded as much or more so than UTK. Take that for what it's worth, but the tuition is about half at TTU so that alone makes it more appealing if the education is comparable.
 
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BoColoco said:
Sad, but true - it's hard to comprehend that he couldn't beat out Kerbyson.
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People complained about our line last year in particular Tiny Richardson. I couldn't even imagine Kerbyson trying to block Clowney. Is his defense he is clearly playing out of position.
 
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