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Tech -- not Texas -- controls its own destiny

By Mark Wangrin
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Mack Brown spent the first 10 minutes of his Monday press conference picking apart the way a certain national ranking system is calculated, how it's not always fair and how it should be fixed. We are, of course, talking graduation rates. "There's never been much serious discussion about that,'' he lamented. Boise State's Forsey A Real Gem Idaho is known for gems, square dancing, huckleberries and, of course, the venerable potato. But the last of the 50 states to be laid eyes on by ...

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