They ware the same Southwest Texas State for most of their existence. That probably played a big role.
One of my Grandsons attends Tx State and loves it there.
I have walked their campus with him. It is very unique. A series of hills. Lots of stairs.
Their Football Stadium is attractive. Smaller than other Division 1 Schools. Could be expanded.
Competition in Texas for recruits is tough. The Nation recruits Texas. It is tough for The Bobcats to go against so many Powerhouses.
They DID become a powerhouse football program, unless you think winning 1AA national championships in the 80s, which they did when Jim Wacker was coach there, somehow doesnt make them a powerhouse.
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Nobody is acting scared but taking Texas State would have been the dumbest decision. Your whole analogy that calling us Texas state would make us equivalent to Ohio state is laughable. When you have a flagship university in a state you donât need to pretend to be that, you carve a unique identity.
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The aggies are not dumb. They did the right thing.
Oh my goodness. Now weâre arguing about taking the name Texas State?
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Who knows what Texas State could have been if Randall âPinkâ Floyd hadnât been hanging out with those losers all night, and if he had just signed the paper.
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They were SWT for too long before changing their name. Anyone can change their name, but not everyone can change their history.
They donât get total buy in from students - they rather be in Austin for the weekend than their own campus - itâs readily talked about
What has saved them is their enrollment so they have play money to attempt and try to play big boy football but they donât get the true value from what their enrollment is
They do better investing heavily in baseball and nothing else
Sounds like UH.
They were NAIA, before they jumped to D2. They won the D2 championship almost immediately. The Lone Star Conference was a powerful NAIA league. Texas A&I, Sam, SWT, Abilene Christian, Angelo, Howard Payne, East Texas. Those members run the gamut, now, from D3, to D1, with lots of new names.
Arenât their studenta UT football fans?
Isnât the cool thing to do is go to a UT game?
I know many Sam Houston students that did the same thing with TAMU games
Because you can only play Tony Levine once a season.
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Football season cannot get here fast enough.
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Not really. The party is in San Marcos, not Austin.
I remember doing research on FSU for the Peach Bowl and they used to be an all female school until soldiers came back from WW2 and they had to go to coed.
School names changed a lot in the 1800s and through the mid 1900s.
FSU changed a lot over the years. They were the first state school in Florida, and over the years theyâve at times been a seminary, a military institute, and a womenâs college. They had the rights to the name University of Florida, but declined to use it and the Florida Agricultural College took the name. They were known as Florida State College for a time before they were a womenâs school and reverted back to that name after WW2.
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Surprising that FSU is an older school than Florida. and the Gators were an ag school.
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So was Houston at one point. Itâs irrelevant.
Point is, the idea that our name is a drawback is silly. Also, I feel like people on this board equate academic quality with sports. If that were true, LSU would be a top 20 public university; instead itâs ranked lower than Georgia State.
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That said, who cares about Texas State except it makes a good close roadie.
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