re: Texas AM - how is this possible?

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I will say the 1940 thing is kind of silly as A&M athletics and the school as a whole were radically different for most of the post-WW2 era.

Up until the late 60s, it was basically a small military academy with compulsory ROTC membership and a narrow academic mandate. UT-Arlington had far more students in the 60s than Texas A&M College. UT-Austin had 4x the enrollment back then.

It wasn't until the 1970s when it was decided on as the new flagship institution for the state that it started to grow academically and athletically. Anything prior to that, you might as well be talking about the Citadel.

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So prior to 1970, The Aggie Yell Leaders were trying to run the University like West Point, The Naval Academy, etc, etc. Ok, got it

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Title for the #19 ranked department?

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Huh?

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Congrats on that, I guess.

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Thanks!

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Shame it hasn't translated to anything but mediocrity with your major programs.

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Texas basketball is currently ranked in the top 10 and baseball has gone to the CWS 3 times in the last 5 full seasons

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So prior to 1970, The Aggie Yell Leaders were trying to run the University like West Point, The Naval Academy, etc, etc. Ok, got it

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No dips$%t . . . .but you knew that wasn't the point. Prior to the University expanding in the 60s there was only cadets. There were no women and no normal, everyday students.

Oh, and I think you will learn that middies and cadets don't actually run the academies either.

I don't think anyone wants to trade places with Longhorn football fans. I will just leave it at that.

Sark is trending as yet another fail. He has already ruined Quinn Ewers, is completely bungling his transfer approach by banking on Bama rejects and cash-money dudes like Xavier Worthy that don't even want to be in Austin.

His bet on Arch Manning is going to be hilarious to watch. The kid that is ducking camps and posting mediocre results against 140 lb private school kids is likely going to be Sark's last stand.

You just lost your wife-beating maniac of a basketball coach and A&M broomed you out of the CWS with little effort last year.

But hey, there is always the swimming team.

I get why you are falling back to flimsy academic smack that no one takes seriously.

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Texas basketball is currently ranked in the top 10 and baseball has gone to the CWS 3 times in the last 5 full seasons

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#16 on this list

Texas is pretty okay at a whole bunch of sports. Print the shirts!

Texas A&M has a losing culture. On paper they should be up there with texas and Oklahoma. They should be far above tech, baylor, and tcu…. As it is I think Houston has a better football future and that is fricking SAD.

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I realize this is a sports board, but academics is the purpose of universities despite what t-shirt fans seem to believe. In that arena, Texas towers over A&M, and the rest of the SEC not named Vandy for that matter.

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I know Longhorn fans whisper this to themselves when leaving their far flung, mid-tier country, suburban Club Corp country club in their nine year old BMW and wondering what happened to all their hopes and dreams.

We all know the realities are far different from the sunk-chested, very average realities of most Longhorn alums.

My co-worker's son just popped over to "The University" from Austin Community College. He was a pretty unmotivated student in a fairly ok North Texas public high school but just had to be in the same frat as his dad.

So he did his three months of penance while already pledging and backfilled one of the thousands of slots that seem to open up as the "Top 7%" auto-admits drop out and head back to whatever desperate far West Texas or Rio Grande valley town they hail from.

You can try to stretch that into some sort of "towering academic presence" but Texas and A&M and most other universities are just public Universities and that has its realities that preclude them from becoming truly elite private universities.

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Aggies are constantly at war with themselves, logic and heterosexuality.

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Funny coming from a Utx fan!
Same could be said for Utx supporters

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But Texas has been doing that a lot more lately.

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by constantly being rewarded as the No. 1 athletic department in the country?

You aggies are trying so hard this morning it's utterly adorable. Y'all wish you could be us so bad that it's honestly sad at this point

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I realize this is a sports board, but academics is the purpose of universities despite what t-shirt fans seem to believe. In that arena, Texas towers over A&M, and the rest of the SEC not named Vandy for that matter.

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You are correct, this is a sports board, If you want to discuss academics, go hang out on the academic sites or go to your local University and listen to a lecture from a leading academician that is open to the public regarding your favorite subjects.