Emory78

He was cleared at Colorado State of any racism. His players and former players came out in strong support of him.

Colorado wanted to fire him and not pay that buyout. You can bet they were wanted to find racism so they could fire him for cause and avoid the buyout. Thus, the only reasonable explanation is he did not act with racist intent. Instead, he obviously poorly chose his words in that particular encounter. This is the type of innocent mistake that virtually everyone who ever lived has made at one point or the other.

SIAP but here is another key list. Based on a study done by the Daily Beast, they rank universities according to which students are the happiest. LINK

Glad to see the SEC landed four schools out of the top 20 on this all important list, including TAMU at #1 ! Shout out to the Gators, Dawgs and Tide for also ranking high in this area among the 1000+ universities in America,

Big enough deal that the AAU tossed Nebraska out a few years back.

True. John O'Quinn went to the University of Houston.

Know I'm a little late putting in my 2 cents but let me just say this. I grew up and went to school in the middle of SEC country in Atlanta but went to a non-football school, Emory. However, I now live in Texas. My son was a darn good student. Got accepted at a lot of places, including Texas and Texas A&M. I do not accept those USNWR rankings as gospel. For one thing, TAMU has more alumni who are CEOs of major corporations than any other public university in America. For another, TAMU grads earn on average more than Texas grads. Hell, they earn on average more than Northwestern grads. LINK

My take on USN&WR is that it skewed toward schools in the northeast, west coast and Chicago area. Why? Because its is a publication based in the northeast and run mostly by liberals. TAMU is conservative so that brings them down a peg. Conversely, UT Austin is liberal, so that brings UT up a notch in the eyes of the editors at USN&WR who do these rankings.

I could not be happier with the education my son is receiving at Texas A&M. In every way it is equal to or better than its cross state rival UT. In fact, if you look at the history, A&M actually started out as the University of Texas engineering school branch. It was built first which is how A&M ended up being the oldest public university in Texas. What happened is that the school decided to have its own identity so in the 1880's it was made completely independent of UT.

So let's see, the pay is higher for A&M grads, the undergraduate experience is better and the academics are every bit as demanding as UT. Plus there is a sense of comraderie at A&M that exists nowhere else in Texas. All these combined made A&M the easy choice for my kid. Way above the University of Texas IMO, and that opinion is an objective one because, as I said, my kid could have gone to either school (and I have no preexisting connection to either school, having attended Emory) and we chose A&M.


Addendum: Here is the link showing that A&M has more CEOs of major corporations than any other public university in America. In fact, A&M is ranked 34th in the entire world in this area: LINK