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

One last point. Whatever money Texas is putting in to their System schools clearly isn't doing much. UT Arlington, UTSA, and UTEP are all unranked Tier IV schools that certainly aren't going to join the AAU anytime in the next century. Thus comparing them to A&M and Texas is just foolish. What Texas as a State needs to do is provide a Tier I or at least Tier II education to its growing population and not for A&M and Texas to try to go from Top 20 schools to Top 10 while the other schools in the State are a mile behind (outside of the private schools).