re: TAM is looking worse by the minute

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UT Austin is not the same school it was. For the last 25 years the top 10% rule (now 6%) has massively changed the composition of the student body. Nerdy kids from the top suburban schools and kids from rural schools, many of whom are first generation college students. Bottom line, they don’t care about football and it’s traditions the same. This is turning into alumni that don’t care as much. Another 20 years and the old alumni will be gone and UT will be like UCLA.

TAMU student body is what UT used to be. Top 10% and liberal use of local community college as a first year feeder that’s basically like being a TAMU student. Still care about football and have a pipeline of young alumni. That said, they don’t buy into the weird traditions near as much.

The point: UT fans that are alumni are a dying breed and it will be all sidewalks with no real power. TAMU the opposite.

Disclosure: Went to SEC school undergrad, UT grad and have Aggie family members

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Well done.

This isn’t discussed nearly enough. In a couple decades the longhorn football program will be about what it is today, irrelevant. Not because it won’t have money or a brand or maybe its fair share of decent players, but because the culture of the university will be totally detached from athletics. Most students and people in Austin already doesn’t care. Texas exes born after, say, 1980, are just as likely to give zero fricks about college athletics as they are to watch a college football game.

From an attitude and interests standpoint, the a student body today is akin to UCLA or Cal. In twenty years these people aren’t going to know who their starting quarterback is, much less what conference they play in.