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re: Which SEC school is most similar to yours?

Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:00 am to
Posted by Old Money
Member since Sep 2012
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Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:00 am to
LSU and Alabama were really a like to me. My friends at Bama loved LSU and I loved Alabama.

Not in architecture but the way people carry themselves/paty.
This post was edited on 5/28/14 at 10:02 am
Posted by StopRobot
Mobile, AL
Member since May 2013
15391 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:02 am to
TAMU & AU both have on campus barns and lots of 1960s cement minimalist Soviet Block buildings
Posted by HandGrenade
Member since Oct 2010
11225 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:02 am to
So the history is different, but they're all still land-grant ag schools.
Posted by BigD Ag
Dallas
Member since Dec 2011
1635 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:02 am to
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The Land Grant ag school posse of Texas A&M, Auburn and MSU, but are worlds apart on things like athletics and number of homosexuals.



You forgot land grant schools: University of Georgia, University of Florida, LSU, Arkansas, Mizzou...

Most similar to TAMU...hmmm, it'd have to be a land, sea, and space grant university with an endowment that could purchase the entirety of SEC schools. Can't think of one.
This post was edited on 5/28/14 at 10:06 am
Posted by ShaneTheLegLechler
Member since Dec 2011
60152 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:04 am to
We almost renovated Kyle into a giant barn FWIW
Posted by LSUbase13
Mt. Pleasant, SC
Member since Mar 2008
15060 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:05 am to
That's the best that I could do. Texas A&M and Vanderbilt are the outliers that don't apply.

LSU - Florida
Georgia - Ole Miss
Tennessee - Kentucky
Mississippi State - Auburn
Alabama - South Carolina
Arkansas - Missouri

Posted by WildTchoupitoulas
Member since Jan 2010
44071 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:11 am to
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Louisiana's forward thinking legislature said "This is some dumb shite. Let's put our agricultural and mechanical school at our flagship university." and three years later merged the new college with LSU ...If State and Ole Miss would have been combined like the legislatures of Louisiana

Not quite, they moved the A&M college from the University of Louisiana to Louisiana State University, and then basically sold the University of Louisiana to Paul Tulane.

Tulane still has The University of Louisiana as part of it's official name:



Located in New Orleans, Tulane traces its origins to the Medical College of Louisiana, the Deep South’s second-oldest medical school, which was founded in 1834. By 1847, the Medical College was part of the newly established public institution, the University of Louisiana.

Tulane emerged as a private university in 1884 when the public University of Louisiana was reorganized and named in honor of benefactor Paul Tulane, a wealthy merchant who donated more than $1 million in land, cash and securities “for the promotion and encouragement of intellectual, moral and industrial education.”


For Mississippi to have done something similar, they would have simply sold Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) to a private interest.
Posted by ShaneTheLegLechler
Member since Dec 2011
60152 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:13 am to
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For Mississippi to have done something similar, they would have simply sold Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) to a private interest.


Maybe then the Ole Miss student body would be as wealthy as it pretends to be
Posted by InThroughTheOutDore
Middle TN
Member since Nov 2008
7383 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:18 am to
quote:

That's the best that I could do. Texas A&M and Vanderbilt are the outliers that don't apply.


The right answer for Vandy is Tulane from 1933-1965...
Posted by NGATiger
Member since Dec 2013
3044 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:20 am to
quote:

Greek like at Bama, Georgia, and Oxford is similar.


The Try-Hard Trio of the SEC
Posted by Numberwang
Bike City, USA
Member since Feb 2012
13163 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:21 am to
Arkansas is land grant, but the founders minimized the ag portion at the start, (maybe due to the university being in the least agricultural area of the state, with the poorest soils).

It later grew some, but only after the liberal arts and law school side were far more well-established. It was never military-like and has been co-ed forever as far as I know.

There is a farm, but its a mile north of campus separated by part of the city.

I don't know enough about Mizzou to know if that comparison is correct. I know we aren't as ag/military/farmy as A&M, LSU, AU or State. We have a big system with those programs spread out over other campuses.
This post was edited on 5/28/14 at 10:27 am
Posted by CapstoneGrad06
Little Rock
Member since Nov 2008
72188 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:23 am to
A combination of Georgia and Mississippi.
Posted by GhostofCrowell
North Ave
Member since Oct 2013
1701 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:25 am to
quote:

quote:
Greek like at Bama, Georgia, and Oxford is similar.



The Try-Hard Trio of the SEC


u mad cuz we stylin' bruh
Posted by StopRobot
Mobile, AL
Member since May 2013
15391 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:28 am to
quote:

Greek like at Bama, Georgia, and Oxford is similar.



The Try-Hard Trio of the SEC


Those houses do add a lot to those universities. I believe Tennessee outlaws Greek houses where students actually live. AU does not have sorority houses (is this still true).
Posted by flyAU
Scottsdale
Member since Dec 2010
24849 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:30 am to
Sorority dorms.
Posted by parkjas2001
Gustav Fan Club: Consigliere
Member since Feb 2010
45000 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:31 am to
Still true and never will...they just built all new dorms two years ago.
Posted by roadhouse
Chicago
Member since Sep 2013
2703 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:39 am to
None of you motherless dirtballs are similar to us in any way.
Posted by Numberwang
Bike City, USA
Member since Feb 2012
13163 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:41 am to
quote:

Those houses do add a lot to those universities. I believe Tennessee outlaws Greek houses where students actually live. AU does not have sorority houses (is this still true).


That's so weird. Arkansas has some of the biggest greek houses in the country.
Posted by TeLeFaWx
Dallas, TX
Member since Aug 2011
29179 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:43 am to
LSU is pretty similar to Texas A&M in history. Education wise, Vanderbilt is the only school that compares.
Posted by StopRobot
Mobile, AL
Member since May 2013
15391 posts
Posted on 5/28/14 at 10:56 am to
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LSU is pretty similar to Texas A&M in history. Education wise, Vanderbilt is the only school that compares.


Oh yeah. TAMU is the 69th ranked US college. Vandy is 17th. They're like education twins!

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