Gavin Belson

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@TylerIAm

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@mostlysports @EBoKnowss L

[College Baseball News @CollegeBSBNews]

One of the worst fields in the sport. Barely even looks like baseball.

Every time I see it, I’m like “How is THIS what Texas plays on?”

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@VanLathan have you seen the Oscar Robertson trophy

[Every The Sopranos Frame In Order @FrameInOrder]

S03E07 - 399 of 596

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@TheRewatchables @netflix National Treasure for july 4

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@HoodCertified @DragonflyJonez @stillwork4beccy i will never forget how mad i got the first time i saw that “unrealized air yards” tweet when it dropped

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@BarstoolBigCat https://t.co/tPJRHm6cr2

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

The rise in the Savannah Bananas popularity and the country’s descent into fascism are linked, I just can’t prove it

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@BarstoolBigCat you're not retiring from hot dogs are you?

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@Phillies explain in NFL terms

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@TomFornelli last name literally translates to good day

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@Phillies solo shot of course

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

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@ryenarussillo im taking Michael Jordan

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@RyanRutherchevy they are right tho 8-4 would be a complete disaster

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@ShamsCharania

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@OhioTate update the log

[Jeff D. Lowe @JeffDLowe]

I have made the ultimate suburbs purchase. This collapsible grocery cart is amazing.

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@JackFritzWIP season starts now

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@RapSheet good boy Ian

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@PFTCommenter bye week before both eagles games = nfl rigged