re: Thanks to SEC and Heisman - A&M receives record 37,000 applications

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But within the decade of oil discovery on PUF lands, A&M turned tack and demanded a share of the funds Constitutionally directed toward The University of Texas (in short, they wanted the privileges of UT System membership without actually being a member, but that's another story...), which led to the 2/3 UT, 1/3 A&M split, which as I said earlier was opened up yet again to other (but not all) UT and A&M system schools in 1984.

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A&M was founded 7 years before tu. I don't see how this bit of history blinds sip idiocy. The funds for which were established under the Morril Land Grant Act. So unless tu opened in 1876 as a Land-Grant College, and the Board of Regents were all figments of people's imagination, the Texas Constitution simply envisioned one system for the state, but was never actually able to see that to fruition from the very beginning, and subsequent legislative actions verified such, and which is why, most explicitly, a brand new board of regents was formed for tu, 7 years after A&M opened. If you want to be technical about the first written piece of legislature establishing our two schools, and fitting a rigid definition to an ambigious act, technically the Morril Act of 1862 funds set aside for Texas A&M came before the Texas Constitution of 1876. But in reality we both know that much like every other state with a land grant school, the schools were separate and different. If not, is to imply that tu opened in 1876 on the land that is now College Station.