Agreed. I can think of bunch of schools that have moved up that were once regulars on the Javelinas schedule. Or teams they would see in the playoffs. One of them is Texas State which was SWT back at my time taking undergrad classes at A&I. That game was the first game of the season and would sell out both stadiums and then some. Ironically my daughter will be starting classes at Texas State tomorrow and we moved her in last weekend to the campus dorms. The staging area was the football stadium parking lot and the stadium today is a far cry from the stadium it was back when I went up to watch my first A&I/SWT game. That’s just one school of many that have moved up the greener pastures. Tarleton is another one where had you told me 10 years ago, they would get a premier slot on ESPN 2 on pre opening week in front of national TV audience, I’d say you were nuts.
The worse thing to happen to that school was to become an aggy system school. It’s sad some levers can’t be pulled to get them out an into a new system. Considering UT already has two system schools in South Texas and A&M has three in addition to Kingsville with Corpus, Laredo and San Antonio and the UofH has a Victoria campus, Tech would be a logical choice.