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Posted on 2/27/23 at 3:22 pm to CasualFan12
Maybe they will say “the heck with it” and apply for membership in the big 12. If they offer up enough money the big 12 might hold their noses and let them back in
Posted on 2/27/23 at 3:23 pm to SaturdayNAthens
They could make Cincinnati their new rival!
Posted on 2/27/23 at 3:54 pm to CasualFan12
That’s sounds good. And there’s TCU too. They might actually win a game every 5 years or so. They should do it.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 5:36 pm to Buster83
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Looks like we got another tshirt fan.
Why do you think that T-Shirt fans exist at any school or for any team?
PS: I have the piece of paper you douchebag. No, I’m not going to show you, and no, I don’t care if you believe me. To your original point, yes I should have worded my initial statement more clearly to accurately paint the picture that the campus is landlocked. My bad. Feel better douchebag? Now kindly get bent.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 5:42 pm to BigBro
tu can only grow up, not sideways anymore, which I think it means they are stuck unless they buy something close to that campus.
Would you guys happen to know if Austin limits how high buildings can be? I read a news article this year about how a building in downtown Austin wasn’t approved to be built that would have been the tallest building in the state if it was.
Would you guys happen to know if Austin limits how high buildings can be? I read a news article this year about how a building in downtown Austin wasn’t approved to be built that would have been the tallest building in the state if it was.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 5:55 pm to JayAg
Not sure on building codes.. but I personally would hate to grow taller just to accommodate more students. I have read that we would like to keep the number around 50k though, but I have no idea if that is accurate or not.
The state of Texas needs another public school to step up their game. I have heard really good things about UTD lately. Tech is getting better, but still has a long way to go and it’s in BFE.
The state of Texas needs another public school to step up their game. I have heard really good things about UTD lately. Tech is getting better, but still has a long way to go and it’s in BFE.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 6:14 pm to BigBro
You can simply do what NYU and other universities do and rent/buy commercial properties in the area… y’all have all the money you need… but why.. I imagine your administration has a long term plan on the benefits of numbers versus quality…
Others choose different paths…
Others choose different paths…
Posted on 2/27/23 at 6:18 pm to BigBro
UTD is easily the 3rd best public option in Texas.
I've floated this idea before, but I'd like to see UTD spun off into a 3rd flagship university under its own independent board. Named something to the effect if Texas Institute of Technology (unintentionally awesome abbreviation aside) and focus heavily on engineering and technology like MIT and CalTech.
As long as it's part of the UT system it will always play second fiddle to Austin. If UTD is going to really eatablish itself as a well known tier 1 university, it needs it's own identity.
I've floated this idea before, but I'd like to see UTD spun off into a 3rd flagship university under its own independent board. Named something to the effect if Texas Institute of Technology (unintentionally awesome abbreviation aside) and focus heavily on engineering and technology like MIT and CalTech.
As long as it's part of the UT system it will always play second fiddle to Austin. If UTD is going to really eatablish itself as a well known tier 1 university, it needs it's own identity.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 6:26 pm to Krampus
Everyone is growing. This month alone I been reading about A&M’s new Fort Worth campus, I think it’s going to be medical related? Tech and U of Houston might get and share a $1 billion endowment
Everyone needs to do their part to accommodate all the babies in Texas go to college. Some dudes in here just trying to take shots at Texas schools when their own babies come to our state for school and work all the time, and we don’t hate.
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Texas Tech, Houston hope for ‘transformative’ $1B endowments in governor’s budget
Everyone needs to do their part to accommodate all the babies in Texas go to college. Some dudes in here just trying to take shots at Texas schools when their own babies come to our state for school and work all the time, and we don’t hate.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 6:27 pm to Krampus
It can go both ways.. Berkeley and UCLA both have their own identity and flourish in the same system.. but I could get behind your idea as well. The problem with your idea is the PUF.. and greed wins every time.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 6:58 pm to BigBro
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The campus is landlocked (40 acres) and therefore it isn’t possible to grow much beyond that number.
The campus is only 40 acres? I guess not everything is bigger in Texas. Did y'all get a mule to go with all that land?
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:11 pm to SpotCheckBilly
By comparison, A&M is over 5,500 acres and accommodates about 10k more students. It really is city feel vs college town when Texas kids decide between the 2.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:18 pm to CasualFan12
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They could make Cincinnati their new rival!
Rival for what
UC is one of the largest universities in the nation. Back in the 80's they were like 45K and all on 1 very large block. My understanding they have added land and grown but still limited land but still a massive population university. Probably should have been in the B1G ages ago but BuckNuts was too scared to let that ever happen.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:21 pm to Cheese Grits
Isn’t the size of every college limited by whatever land was donated for them from the get go? I haven’t been to many SEC schools, but which actually has the potential to grow and is inventing on their main campus like they are their sports. I read Arkansas has had impressive growth lately
This post was edited on 2/27/23 at 7:22 pm
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:23 pm to BigBro
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It can go both ways.. Berkeley and UCLA both have their own identity and flourish in the same system.. but I could get behind your idea as well. The problem with your idea is the PUF.. and greed wins every time.
The problem with the Cali model in Texas is they have a clearly stratified hierarchy of state university systems.
UC system runs the tier one schools. Cal State system runs the tier 2 schools.
Texas has taken an alternate path to have lots of independent systems, and rely on the systems to each produce one tier one flagship campus. And only two systems are entitled to the PUF money. Administratively, it's an asinine setup, but a century of loyalties and sport fandom will prevent Texas from reorganizing higher education any other way.
Ideally, if I could wave a magic wand I would copy the Cali system. Put UT-Austin, A&M-CS, and UTD into a single system with full control over the PUF. And add a few other campuses that make sense based on school quality and geography to fill the system out statewide with a goal to bring their standards and reputatuon up to to level of the others ASAP.
Off the top of my head:
UT-Austin
A&M-CS
UT-D
A&M-Corpus Christi
UTEP
Would cover the state and its population centers pretty well. Would relieve a ton of pressure on UT and A&M, and give good options for top students all over the state, and solve all the inter-system bickering over the PUF having it all together. And set Texas up for really well for continued future growth.
Roll the leftover UT and A&M branch campuses into other systems based on geography, gove them to TTU, TSU, UH, UNT, etc. Let those sytems be the tier two options.
But we all know the chances of that ever happening in Texas are worse than 0%.
This post was edited on 2/27/23 at 8:06 pm
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:25 pm to JayAg
No, Oklahoma has a massive footprint and not all was the original land
Kentucky (University of) is one of the Top 5 largest landholders in the state and contains massive coal and timber holdings that everybody fights about all the time over leaving them as is or caring in.
Kentucky (University of) is one of the Top 5 largest landholders in the state and contains massive coal and timber holdings that everybody fights about all the time over leaving them as is or caring in.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:25 pm to AggieHank86
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I was surprised, however, to see that Oklahoma will be the second SMALLEST school, after Vandy. Basically a junior college.
The population of Oklahoma is comparable to MS. Why should it surprise you they have a small student body?
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:30 pm to JayAg
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Isn’t the size of every college limited by whatever land was donated for them from the get go?
We bought land across our main highway a couple years back to build a new rec center. There's still some land in that area the school may invest for dorms or whatnot down the road.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:37 pm to lsufball19
It’s just really small compared to what we are used to in Texas. There is probably like 8 schools in Texas over 35k, horn, A&M, Houston, Tech, North Texas, Texas State, we even have a handful of junior colleges over 30k like El Paso Community College.
Why do you guys hate on big schools? So you guys hate every school in Texas but horn? Very petty lol
Why do you guys hate on big schools? So you guys hate every school in Texas but horn? Very petty lol
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