re: Clearing up some misconceptions about A&M

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Are you just a little slow or full blown? serious question

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Perhaps what is confusing you is that you don't understand the correlation between enrollment and fan base? The fact that LSU and A&M had generally the same enrollment in 1977 does NOT indicate that thy had anywhere close to the same fan base at that time, nor for the 15 years that followed. The fact that we had nowhere close to the same size fan base is seen in the fact that we had to sell them a home game every year.

Our enrollment caught up in the 70's, but it takes twenty or thirty years for a large enrollment to lead to a large fan base. A large enrollment is not needed for a large fan base if you are ND, or if you are the flagship school of a state without professional sports, but neither of those routes to a large fan base were available to A&M.

Hence, it too until the 90's for our fan base to catch up an surpass a school like LSU.