Do we really want to shed 1st gen, shed minorities, and shed veterans, no matter how quickly someone says we can do it?
The other dude is right… get them involved on campus… whatever that looks like for them
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A&M still has multi generational students who had grandparents attend the school.
Hard to compare to first generation students at UH.
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Why aren’t UH grads from generations past sending THEIR kids to UH?
Why ARE aTm grads from past generations doing exactly that?
I’d like for someone to please answer that for me.
UH graduates from the past only went to UH either based on cost, convenience, just get the degree, parental pressure to stay local etc.
Then when they leave and end up with kids going to college, they rather give them a more traditional college life.
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It’s the “college experience”
You went to UH and you want your kids to get a good college experience and UH’s isn’t as good as other school’s. ATM has one, and their alums want their kids to have the same experience they did.
That’s entirely the point of the comment I made above about getting everyone involved in organized social groups and putting more effort and thought into kids having fun and loving their time at UH.
But why can’t they recommend that THEIR kids go to UH…the same way that aTm grads practically brainwash their kids from birth to go there?
That’s why we really needed a “housing mandate.”
It would have FORCED a traditional on-campus experience on UH that wouldn’t otherwise develop on its own.
Whitmire really sucks for blocking that.
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UH graduates and fans are harder to brainwash than Aggies.
We know better than to throw millions of dollars at the problem hoping it goes away or gets better.
UH fans arent blind followers like A&M who will show up to support a 4-8 team.
There aren’t that many UH fans, and most UH fans annually show up to support 4-8 teams because that’s more often than not all we have to show up for.
People show up to support a crappy team if there is a social event surrounding the game. How many UH alums can come to a UH game and see people every time that they enjoy seeing and wouldn’t see very often otherwise?
That boils down to the college experience and not fostering a community. I go watch shitty football to see friends I really only see about 6 times a year or less
Did they? Last I checked, TAMU was still noticeably whiter and more male than other large schools in Texas, even if they do look like a bastion of diversity relative to most of the rest of the SEC.
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Different approaches but same results the past 10 years.
UH has 1 NY6 bowl win and so does A&M, except we didn’t spend millions and wasted money.
UH built a brand new football stadium while A&M renovated theirs in the hundreds of millions.
ATM has the donor base and ticket revenue to spend that money, because they have a strong community to support them.
When you don’t have that, it sounds like wasted money. But that “wasted capital expenditure” also drives more fans to the games which drives more revenue annually
I’m talking about a different type of brainwashing folks.
In my family, there are MANY aTm grads.
Ya know what the ones that have kids all have in common?
All of them start brainwashing their kids from birth to be Aggies…and by the time they’re in high school, they are all DREAMING about the day when they’ll follow in their parents’ footsteps and go off to Aggieland in their own right.
Sure wish UH grads would do the same!
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I mean if A&M didn’t learn from their failed #1 2022 recruiting class then it is what it is.
probably high school peer pressure, if your kid is easily affected by this, they’re gonna want to leave town like everyone else, especially at the wealthier high schools…for us regular Htown folks, going to UH is a big blessing lol
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Gang,
I want to dispel one myth.
The whole theory that Greek Life is some sort of impediment to academic success or graduation.
Please.
If that were true, then why do six of eight Ivy League schools, plus Stanford, MIT, Southern Cal, Tulane, Washington and Lee, Georgia Tech, Purdue, etc. have Greek Life?
Obviously, there’s no conflict.
Hell, Cornell has one of the nation’s largest Greek systems.
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It just depends on where you are raised.
I saw plenty of head coaches from other schools like Mack Brown, Sherman, Gundy, Stoops etc coming by to recruit some players of my football team but Briles came by at least once a week.
UH was heavily pushed at my high school but for the more affluent suburbs around Houston, UH was probably a fall back plan.
For those interested, here are the 10 largest college fraternities by membership:
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon: 304,000 members
- Sigma Chi: 300,000 members
- Sigma Phi Epsilon: 289,000 members
- Lambda Chi Alpha: 280,000 members
- Tau Kappa Epsilon: 265,000 members
- Pi Kappa Alpha: 240,000 members
- Sigma Nu: 225,000 members
- Beta Theta Pi: 183,769 members
- Alpha Tau Omega: 181,000 members
- Alpha Phi Alpha: 175,000 members
Here are the largest by number of chapters:
- Tau Kappa Epsilon: 290 chapters.
- Sigma Chi: 246 chapters.
- (tie) Sigma Alpha Epsilon: 246 chapters.
- Sigma Phi Epsilon: 234 chapters.
- Pi Kappa Alpha: 220 chapters.
- Lambda Chi Alpha: 218 chapters.
- Sigma Nu: 184 chapters.
- Alpha Epsilon Pi: 155 chapters.
Part of it is also that A&M is, as much as I’m loath to admit it, a really good school, especially when it comes to higher-paying Engineering fields. If I’m a student making cost-benefit decisions about loans that I’m gonna be paying off for the next decade, A&M absolutely beats the brakes off UH, and that’s doubly true if I’m living on-campus and the costs are similar. Even if student life were 100% at parity (and I’m personally the kind of person that prefers what UH’s experience has to offer anyway) if I’m an 18-year old picking colleges, it’d be irresponsible to live on-campus at UH when A&M is an option. That’s the gap we need to work on closing.
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Were you in a frat at either Auburn or UH?