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Posted on 12/5/13 at 12:01 pm to aggressor
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I will say this, students at Mizzou will absolutely LOVE Loftin. He will go to every event he can on campus and support every sporting team and club. He loves to shake hands and just talk. Just a fantastic human being. He is definitely the type of guy who you leaves an impression, I would have to Google to remember who the President was when I was at A&M as the only time I was within 20 feet of him in my 4 years was when he handed me my degree.
BTW, Loftin was the "Anytime, anywhere" guy when asked about renewing the series with Texas. Guy has brass balls.
Yeah I already love him and it is a terrific hire. I confess to not knowing much about how he is on managing the academic side of things, I'm sure he's competent but our previous chancellor Deaton was cut much more from that mold. Which was fine for academics but we were all VERY jealous during our schools' respective SEC moves of now Loftin handled things for you guys and how aggressive he was compared to the very wait-and-see, publicly passive way Mizzou's leaderhip played it. Mizzou's move was trickier and required more finesse, true, but Deaton just didn't have the commanding presence in interviews to give our fans much confidence that we were going to pull the move off.
This hire is a move that sends a clear signal that Mizzou is 100% committed to competing in this league moving forward and Loftin just by nature will always be right out in front leading that charge. I am very happy to have your honey badger join our ranks.
All that being said, I happen to have to driven through Loftin's hometown of Hearne, Texas a couple weeks ago on the way back from a work trip to Tyler and ummm....holy moly, that town is, in the least offensive way I can put it, a dump. One of the only towns in the country to have had a Wal-Mart store close b/c it was losing money...and that was back in 1990. Racial strife, economic woes, you name it seemed like that town has had it. It could really use Loftin to come down and be Mayor once his time as Mizzou is up and lead it out of the darkness.
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Posted on 12/5/13 at 12:12 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
A&M bought out his contract for $800K and he had been reassigned to teaching. He is a likeable person but there is a lot more to running a University than glad handing.
Posted on 12/5/13 at 12:40 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
Hearne? Lead out of the darkness? 
Posted on 12/5/13 at 12:47 pm to Phil Wenneck
Bowtie is awesome. He is the reason we are in the SEC. He is the reason our school has turned a major corner.
Not true. Our rank went down due to our increased student population and budget cuts. The ratio of prof to student is working against us.
The quality of students (test scores and percentile of grad) is even higher. We are getting more kids from outside of texas with better grades. It is harder than ever to get in to A&M. I know kids that are top 15% around town(DFW) that got rejected even with solid test scores.
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our academics have slipped some under his tenure
Not true. Our rank went down due to our increased student population and budget cuts. The ratio of prof to student is working against us.
The quality of students (test scores and percentile of grad) is even higher. We are getting more kids from outside of texas with better grades. It is harder than ever to get in to A&M. I know kids that are top 15% around town(DFW) that got rejected even with solid test scores.
Posted on 12/5/13 at 1:09 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
The SEC stuff and the "feel" for Loftin is why he will always be loved by Aggies. He was truly an Ag through and through and you could tell it was his dream job.
A&M has had a lot of other success during his tenure in terms of growth and research dollars but I don't know how much of that was really him. A&M has a badass Vice Chancellor that is an expert at winning grants and Sharp is a pure politician who knows how to get things done. Perry as Governor for 13 years and appointing every member of the BoR doesn't hurt politically either. That also has caused a lot of ruffled feathers as well, Perry and Sharp both have strong opinions on higher education that aren't popular with some.
Don't really know how well liked Loftin was with the Faculty or how he was perceived by academics elsewhere. He's not an Ivy League/Cal Berkeley type at all. So there is a chance he was a "loved by the masses, meh by the academics" guy but I don't really know.
He's a lot of fun though.
A&M has had a lot of other success during his tenure in terms of growth and research dollars but I don't know how much of that was really him. A&M has a badass Vice Chancellor that is an expert at winning grants and Sharp is a pure politician who knows how to get things done. Perry as Governor for 13 years and appointing every member of the BoR doesn't hurt politically either. That also has caused a lot of ruffled feathers as well, Perry and Sharp both have strong opinions on higher education that aren't popular with some.
Don't really know how well liked Loftin was with the Faculty or how he was perceived by academics elsewhere. He's not an Ivy League/Cal Berkeley type at all. So there is a chance he was a "loved by the masses, meh by the academics" guy but I don't really know.
He's a lot of fun though.
Posted on 12/5/13 at 1:17 pm to Mizzou Fan in Da ATX
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Hearne, Texas
Only thing I know of decent in that town is Johnny Reb's Dixie Cafe. We usually meet my parents there when we sent the kids off to them.
Posted on 12/5/13 at 4:17 pm to aggressor
Mizzou Network youtube channel has now uploaded video of Chancellor Loftin's introduction at ceremony at Mizzou, black & gold bowtie and all. 
Our athletic director Mike Alden who is interviewed in that piece is from Texas as well, interesting how he phrased it that Mizzou "recruited" Loftin to come to our school. I'd say the Big 12 and Texas ties probably had a whole lot to do with making this happen for both parties.
Our athletic director Mike Alden who is interviewed in that piece is from Texas as well, interesting how he phrased it that Mizzou "recruited" Loftin to come to our school. I'd say the Big 12 and Texas ties probably had a whole lot to do with making this happen for both parties.
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