Can’t agree with you more! No other state would allow one school to hurt its other schools like the way Texas politicians have allowed UT to hurt its other state schools, especially against UH!
I’ve always disagreed with this take I think a lot of states/legislatures would allow the namesake/flagship university systems do grave harm to other public systems if deemed necessary
Really the only thing stopping any of it is where you representation numbers lie.
They can’t. By state laws you can favor one school over an another. Again what is happening in Texas is the same way the casa nostra/mafia operates. The PUF is the prime example of this and the fact that the uthouston land has not been sold SPEAKS VOLUME of this mafia way of doing business.
True and why did it come to that?..The utau pimp wants to control everything. It was at first about education then when the utau pimp highjacked the PUF this was the end of its education purpose. This is a school that has $B’s in reserve and has the nerve to ask for federal aid during and after the pandemic? Do you now see my point?
But in UT’s case, is it necessary for UT to go to the length it did to keep UH down? After all, the state has already over-funded UT over UH in a 8 to 1 fashion! I simply don’t believe the state has to keep UH down in order to help UT. The job of the state is supposed to be helping all of its schools and its residents, not hurt some and help some! After all, what is good for UH is good for the state and its people. The state could give UT the help it need to maintain its flagship status and still help its other schools, such as UH. But just like in politics, partisanship hurts our college system.
I have always felt Baylor should be happy with the 25 years of Power5 status that it has been getting sucking on UT’s teats! After all, Baylor is way unqualified to be a Power5 member over UH! Just the fact that at the time Baylor had less than half of the student body population that UH had should have disqualified it already, but the fact that Baylor also sat on a town that had a population about a thousand times smaller than Houston should have definitely excluded Baylor being picked over UH to be a Big12 member as well. But as we all know, it pays to have the most powerful politicians in the state to manipulate things for Baylor.
Funny, last time I checked, Baylor and TCU were not state schools. They had no problem dropping UH, SMU and RIce to go to B12, and vote to keep us out with expansion. Can you say KARMA?
To be fair to TCU they wandered the wilderness with us they just did more with there time there and clawedd their way up. Unlike Baylor… Who got to start on third and told everyone they got a triple.
But TCU’s getting a bigger dose of land than they really deserve