David Price

@aakashgupta The problem in your epistle is that Clemson for 2026 had over 65,000 applications for 5,100 freshman openings. I think that compares favorably with any university

Universities had 17 years of warning. They responded by doing the opposite of what the math demanded. In 2008, American birth rates fell off a cliff. The Great Recession made people stop having kids. Those never-born children would be turning 18 right now. The number of U.S. high school graduates peaked at roughly 3.9 million in 2025. By 2029, that number drops 15%. By 2041, it drops by nearly half a million students per year. Every school in this tweet had access to the same Census data. They all saw the same curve. Administrative positions at U.S. colleges grew 60% between 1993 and 2009, ten times the rate of tenured faculty growth. Non-instructional spending (student services, administration) grew 29% from 2010 to 2018. Instructional spending grew 17%. Average tuition at public four-year schools went from $3,500 in 2000 to $10,560 in 2023. Yale now has more administrators than undergraduate students. 5,460 administrators for fewer than 5,000 undergrads. They built the cost structure of a growth company on top of a customer base that was mathematically guaranteed to shrink. The split in this data tells you everything. Clemson, Syracuse, Duke, UNC, and Indiana are all cutting because the model broke. Alabama, Ole Miss, and the University of Florida are turning away more applicants than ever. Harvard gets five applications for every spot. The middle is where the cliff hits. Elite schools absorb demand. Everyone between elite and community college fights over a shrinking pool. The Fed published a study in December 2024 predicting 80 colleges will close in the next five years. Since 2016, over 100 already have. In 2024 alone, 28 shut down. One per week. These program cuts and layoffs are a decade late. The birth rate data was sitting in Census spreadsheets the entire time. Everyone in higher education administration saw the enrollment cliff coming. They hired more administrators anyway.

@game7__ Poor , poor Duke

It's rare that sports fans agree on anything. But everyone seems to be in agreement today: Duke got robbed this weekend. Dan Hurley and UConn have been flagrantly ignoring the rules for the entirety of the NCAA Tournament. Sunday was no exception. There were still 0.4 seconds on the clock. The game was live. Dan Hurley walked toward a referee on the sideline. He got in the official’s face. Then he pressed his forehead directly into the ref’s forehead. SI called it a “menacing forehead tap.” No technical foul was called. If it had been, Duke shoots two free throws. Down one. With an 86% free throw shooter at the line. Here's what actually happened and why this should be a much bigger story than it is. Braylon Mullins hit a 35-foot three to give UConn a 73-72 lead with 0.4 seconds left. It was the shot of the tournament. Nobody is disputing that. But in the seconds after the shot, Hurley walked toward a referee, got in his face, and pressed his forehead directly into the official's forehead. Sports Illustrated described it as a "menacing forehead tap." The clock still showed 0.4 seconds. The game was not over. A technical foul on a head coach for making contact with an official during a live ball is one of the easiest calls in basketball. There is no gray area. Contact with a game official is a technical. If it's called, Duke's Isaiah Evans steps to the free throw line, trailing 73-72. He shot 86% from the stripe this season. Makes both? Duke wins 74-73. Makes one? Overtime. That wasn't the only violation. When Mullins' shot went in, UConn bench players ran onto the court to celebrate before the game was over. They caught themselves and ran back, but they had already entered the playing area during a live ball. Duke's radio announcers immediately called for a technical. That wasn't called either. Two separate technical foul violations. Zero calls. In the span of 0.4 seconds. And here's what makes the Hurley part impossible to ignore. Three weeks ago, on March 7, Hurley was ejected from UConn's game at Marquette in the final second for getting in a referee's face. He was chest-to-shoulder with the official. Double technical. Ejected. The Big East fined him $25,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct. In the Sweet 16 against Michigan State on March 27, Hurley challenged an out-of-bounds call, got it overturned, and then sarcastically offered his glasses to the ref who got it wrong. Lip readers caught him asking about Lasik. Nothing was called. Two days later against Duke, Hurley was officially "warned" during the game for leaving his coach's box. Told to stay put. Then after the buzzer beater, he went forehead-to-forehead with a ref. Ejected and fined $25,000 at Marquette. Taunted a ref to his face at Michigan State with no consequences. Warned during the Duke game for leaving his coach's box. Then physical contact with a referee in the biggest moment of the tournament. The full breakdown of every missed call and what would have happened if any of them were made is here: itsgame7.com/news/duke-got-… UConn came back from 19 down. Mullins hit one of the greatest shots in tournament history. That part was earned. But two technical foul violations in 0.4 seconds, and neither one called, on a coach who was ejected for the same thing three weeks ago? That's not intensity. That's a pattern. And last night, it changed the outcome of a game.

youtu.be/Y7_hwk0cF4E?si… Bill is spot on

Ed Orgeron Houston Nutt Hugh Freeze Lane Kiffin Pete Golding This is why Ole Miss fans no longer recognize cheating. It’s been engrained in them since 2005.

Learned something yesterday: In Oxford, MS, if someone steals your wallet, don’t call the cops. Don’t try to stop them. Loser behavior. Instead, go steal somebody else’s wallet because that’s the way it works. And don’t even think about trying to stop others from stealing.

@RebelsVaught Cheaters gonna cheat

Yall notice when Florida State stole Chris Jones from Ole Miss even though he was signed Pete Golding didn’t hold a press conference and cry. He dropped his nuts and got another linebacker.

@SpotterBrett @BrennonChapman And no one in Clemson cares what you think ….

@BrennonChapman I despise Clemson and the last sentence describes the author of the tweet.

That Dabo Swinney press conference wasn’t about principle or integrity. It was about a coach who failed to evolve, watching the game pass him by, and panicking as he feels the end coming. Sad. Desperate. And Very telling.

@BrennonChapman Spoken like a true Ole Miss apologist!

@Sturgeworld Offering him 8 choices is the mistake. He eats what you put on the table

Roadside sobriety tests are getting ridiculous. Last night I had to fold a fitted sheet.

@Notwokenow Gatorade

I am incredibly hangover. Water isn’t helping. What’s the best hangover cure?

@kitkattb34 FSU says hello

@scshrink You’re a Clemson fan, sit this one out buddy

By the way Indiana is beating Oregon, are we sure Alabama wasn’t the second best team in the Playoffs?

@kitkattb34 Last time we met baby it was 44-16 as time ran out with us on the 5 yard line. I am not sitting anything out cupcake

@dsonoiki Glad you are not my lawyer

lawyer here the woman who was shot in Minnesota is a legal observer that means she is allowed (legally) to park in the middle of a federal law enforcement operation, direct the ICE agents to operate around her car, and run them over to death if they object this was murder

@Vern_Funquist Alabama ain’t better than FSU

Alabama is better than Oregon. So is Ole Miss, Georgia, and Oklahoma for that matter. Argue with a wall.

@3YearLetterman SEC propaganda

Indiana is a good team but probably an 8-4 team against a full SEC schedule like what Georgia played Anyone can win a few playoff games when you haven’t been beaten up all year

@conscience_x @KamalaHarris This is satire, right?

I honestly thought the American people would choose Kamala Harris without hesitation. As you know, everything that happens in the U.S. is constantly pushed in front of the rest of the world, so whether we like it or not, we end up following your politics too. Anyway, I won’t drag this out. Kamala Harris was a real opportunity for you and you let it slip away. She’s both a very strong woman and someone who projects trust and seriousness.

Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela do not make America safer, stronger, or more affordable. That Maduro is a brutal, illegitimate dictator does not change the fact that this action was both unlawful and unwise. We’ve seen this movie before. Wars for regime change or oil that are sold as strength but turn into chaos, and American families pay the price. The American people do not want this, and they are tired of being lied to. This is not about drugs or democracy. It is about oil and Donald Trump’s desire to play the regional strongman. If he cared about either, he wouldn’t pardon a convicted drug trafficker or sideline Venezuela’s legitimate opposition while pursuing deals with Maduro’s cronies. The President is putting troops at risk, spending billions, destabilizing a region, and offering no legal authority, no exit plan, and no benefit at home. America needs leadership whose priorities are lowering costs for working families, enforcing the rule of law, strengthening alliances, and — most importantly — putting the American people first.

Claustrophobia is the fear of closed spaces. For example: I'm going to the liquor store and I'm scared it will be closed.

@dustinb429 We need to go with young blood not retreads

Here’s a list of schools that Clemson would beat out for Chad Morris as an OC if he is indeed the hire Thread Below: 🧵