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DavidS41 said:
A&M was a good fit in the BigXII.

BigXII is centric to the State of Texas. (give or take choice of term)

A&M is still more Texas than South and would have "had fun" competing against fellow Texas high school players.

Plus the annual Thanksgiving Day game that comes with a biannual visit to the city, with a parade up to the Capital.

Frankly I say they gave up the real quality and essence of their campus, program and sports.

And will come to regret it. Sooner than later.

The SEC move was focused on football. All about football. They forget about basketball and baseball. And women's basketball. And both teams of Track & Field. And swimming and diving. Not to mention the total connection to generations of Texas families, towns and counties.

In total, the knee-jerk move is maybe the most classic 'aggie' thing ever done. The opposite of where they most fit if you take into consideration every aspect of the university; past, present and future.
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In reality, UT and aggy are headed on two different trajectories and the ags had to do something to end the constant comparing everything they did to the standard set by UT. They had to get out of the burnt orange shadow they were living in. 

Once the Dell med school opens for business, the operational budget of just UT Austin will be greater than that of the entire TAMU system. Once the latest capital campaign contributions are received, just the private endowment of UT Austin will be greater than the private and public endowments of the entire TAMU system. UT Austin spends over $40,000 per student in annual operating expenses (labs, salaries, etc). At TAMU College Station, that number is less than $25,000 per student. According to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 2014 Almanac, even UT Dallas had higher freshman SAT/ACT scored than did any TAMU System campus. The gap between UT and TAMU is as large now as it has been in decades and is about to start growing progressively larger.

The ags were left with few more attractive than to affiliate with the SEC in order to make a break with their past and try to start to be examined in comparison to schools that weren't UT Austin. To stay so closely tied to UT Austin would only increasingly show what they weren't as a school and they had to try to change the focus to what they were as a school. LSU, Alabama, Mississippi State, Auburn and Arkansas are all great peer institutions for TAMU College Station. In time, the ags will schedule regular non-conference games in minor sports against Texas and other Big 12 schools. The connections with Texas families, towns and counties will be unscathed and they will not have to be continuously seen as second best. The SEC move absolutely wasn't focused on football. It was focused on getting their school out of the ever-looming burnt orange shadow. 

 
From this outline by Randolf Duke, I see now that I was using an out-dated paradigm for my analysis.

Comes from my being at UT a long long time ago. Funny how that works. Hard to catch up to the magnitude of changes.

Good post. The changes at the university actually blows my mind.

Figure this... tuition my freshman year was $50. With fees, under $200.

I kept a record of my first year expenses, as daddy was against me going and mother had to back me.

Total for the first year was $1,165. My half of a rented room 5 blocks west of campus on 22nd street, was $19.

I paid $38 a month for 2 meals a day and one on Sat at a boarding house just off the old intramural field.

After that year I worked for meals at Kinsolving (breakfast).

By now I struggle to comprehend what new student faces in costs.

 
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DavidS41 said:
From this outline by Randolf Duke, I see now that I was using an out-dated paradigm for my analysis.

Comes from my being at UT a long long time ago. Funny how that works. Hard to catch up to the magnitude of changes.

Good post. The changes at the university actually blows my mind.

Figure this... tuition my freshman year was $50. With fees, under $200.

I kept a record of my first year expenses, as daddy was against me going and mother had to back me.

Total for the first year was $1,165. My half of a rented room 5 blocks west of campus on 22nd street, was $19.

I paid $38 a month for 2 meals a day and one on Sat at a boarding house just off the old intramural field.

After that year I worked for meals at Kinsolving (breakfast).

By now I struggle to comprehend what new student faces in costs.
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The changes occurring on campus are a level of magnitude different than when when most of us were on campus. The operating budget of UT Austin is roughly $2.4 billion/year for about 48,000 students. Aggy's operating budget is $1.3 billion for 56,000 students. The difference between the operating budgets of the two schools, $1.1 billion dwarfs the entire operating budget of OU. The annual operating budget for UT Austin is greater than that of TAMU College Station and OU combined. 

The aggy private endowment is held by the TAMU Foundation. As of June 30, 2014, the TAMU Foundation held slightly under $1.5 billion in assets. Just the latest round of capital contributions to UT Austin was in excess of $3.1 billion. The UT Long Term Fund, where the private endowments are held was at $7.2 billion as of last summer. Not all of the LTF assets are dedicated to UT Austin, but the overwhelming majority are. Once the latest capital contributions are received, the UT Austin private endowments will be in excess of $10 billion, while the entire TAMU System private endowments will be roughly $1.5 billion. Add in $5.6 billion, which is the TAMU System's imputed 1/3 of the financial assets in the PUF and add in another 1/3 of the current $8 billion valuation on the 2.1 million acres of land in the PUF and the highest valuation of the entire TAMU system public and private endowments is $9.75 billion.

Most people know the UT System gets 2/3 of the income from he PUF and aggy gets 1/3. What most people don't know is that Regents Rule 80303 (Sec 3.3a) states: "No project will be recommendation for approval if in any of the forecasted years the required appropriations from the AUF or PUF bond proceeds would cause the forecasted AUF expenditures for program enrichment at UT Austin to fall below 45%." In other words, while 33% of the annual AUF proceeds goes to the TAMU system, 45% of the remaining 2/3 (or roughly 30% of the total AUF) goes exclusively to UT Austin, so whatever amount goes to the TAMU system is essentially matched by an equal amount going individually to UT Austin (with the remainder being divided among the other UT system campuses). 

What all this means is that public endowment spending on the UT Austin campus will always dwarf that of the TAMU College Station campus. The private endowment spending at UT Austin will be roughly 10 to 1 greater than the private endowment spending at TAMU College Station. Federal revenue per student at UT Austin is almost four times the level at TAMU College Station. State revenue allocated to UT Austin is 25% higher per student than that allocated to TAMU College Station. As for athletics, not only does the revenue at UT Austin dwarf the revenue at TAMU College Station, one of the next projects for UT is raising another $500 million dollars to endow the university's athletics scholarships.

How anyone could look at TAMU and think they were going to compete as a university with UT Austin is something that escapes me. The two institutions extremely different and the powers that be at TAMU simply decided they had had enough of the burnt orange shadow. The ags were very smart in moving to the SEC if, for no other reason, to no longer be compared to UT Austin. 

 
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DavidS41 said:
A&M was a good fit in the BigXII.

BigXII is centric to the State of Texas. (give or take choice of term)

A&M is still more Texas than South and would have "had fun" competing against fellow Texas high school players.

Plus the annual Thanksgiving Day game that comes with a biannual visit to the city, with a parade up to the Capital.

Frankly I say they gave up the real quality and essence of their campus, program and sports.

And will come to regret it. Sooner than later.

The SEC move was focused on football. All about football. They forget about basketball and baseball. And women's basketball. And both teams of Track & Field. And swimming and diving. Not to mention the total connection to generations of Texas families, towns and counties.

In total, the knee-jerk move is maybe the most classic 'aggie' thing ever done. The opposite of where they most fit if you take into consideration every aspect of the university; past, present and future.
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Well said.  The problem at CS is the aggy perception that TAMU was and is on a level basis with UT.  That has never been the case nor will it ever be.  At least as long as the campus resides in the state of Texas.

It is not arrogant to say the University of Texas is THE university of the state of Texas.  It is simply a fact.  TAMU is a fine university but it is not THE university of Texas.  It is just A Texas university and where they locate their sports programs does not alleviate this salient fact.

That is what they and sometimes we fail to understand.

It doesn't matter where they play their football games or in what part of the country - they will always be a Texas college looking up to the States university of origin.  They have literally deluded themselves again and it is, frankly, tragic.

Throughout the history of their school, they have been rife with ignorant and bad decisions - almost universally based on their paranoia and constant internal brain washing and propaganda. 

But this time they made a lulu of an incredibly bad decision.

 
doc, a pattern of bad decisions is generally the result of poor decision-making skills, which I believe results from poor analytical skills. Analysis is one of the higher order thinking skills which we strive for in education. Unfortunately, many of today's students simply don't have the intellect, determination, or self-discipline to analyze.

I would venture a guess that most of those who possess those qualities end up at places other than Aggieland, and that number will grow as the quality of the education continues to diminish.

Hook 'em!

 
*smh* Don't ever change, aggie

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