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  On 12/14/2023 at 5:21 AM, closetojumping said:

Okay, so, seriously, Melko came in and reset everything that had been sold due to limited budget. Hence the big time guys pushing back to Feb or decommitting. 

With a limited kitty, Melko wants to focus on quantity in the portal and if big time recruits want to get uppity, ATM was too tough for them in the first place. 

This keeps getting better and better. 

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Terry Bussey after his state title game.  

- waiting until Feb. 😂 

-  "I feel like there's a couple other guys (besides Aggies/LSU/USC/Ala) that will probably step in later on here and make a push."  😂  😂 

- on Elko and Ishmael Aristide: "Great football minded people."  😂  😂  😂 

 

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Posted
  On 12/14/2023 at 5:21 AM, closetojumping said:

Okay, so, seriously, Melko came in and reset everything that had been sold due to limited budget. Hence the big time guys pushing back to Feb or decommitting. 

With a limited kitty, Melko wants to focus on quantity in the portal and if big time recruits want to get uppity, ATM was too tough for them in the first place. 

This keeps getting better and better. 

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It was obvious that those fucktards couldn’t afford to fire Fisher, but they absolutely refuse to think through any decision. Elko and staff will cost them more than they had planned for and they’re going to have to pay up for a lot of their NIL kids. A perfect storm of suck, all brought to you by the university that hasn’t won shit in nearly 85 years. 

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Posted
  On 12/14/2023 at 3:28 AM, BurntOrange&White said:

Worst change in the history of name changes 

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Ooo this is my actual job, and I disagree. 

Southwest Texas State has great nostalgia and history for people who've heard of it before, but for students/staff who moved into Texas, families who hadn't looked at college before, or OOS students/staff it sounds like a community college in El Paso.

They needed a name to reflect that a) they're a serious 4-year institution and b) they're not actually in Southwest Texas. Anyone around the country knows "____ State" is probably one of the bigger colleges within that state. And it keeps most of the old name.

tl;dr if you'd already heard of SWT, the name change wasn't really for you.

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  On 12/14/2023 at 12:20 PM, texifornia said:

Ooo this is my actual job, and I disagree. 

Southwest Texas State has great nostalgia and history for people who've heard of it before, but for students/staff who moved into Texas, families who hadn't looked at college before, or OOS students/staff it sounds like a community college in El Paso.

They needed a name to reflect that a) they're a serious 4-year institution and b) they're not actually in Southwest Texas. Anyone around the country knows "____ State" is probably one of the bigger colleges within that state. And it keeps most of the old name.

tl;dr if you'd already heard of SWT, the name change wasn't really for you.

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After a night of sleep it's the second worst.

 

UT PanAm going to whatever the fuck it is now is a travesty.

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  On 12/14/2023 at 12:20 PM, texifornia said:

Ooo this is my actual job, and I disagree. 

Southwest Texas State has great nostalgia and history for people who've heard of it before, but for students/staff who moved into Texas, families who hadn't looked at college before, or OOS students/staff it sounds like a community college in El Paso.

They needed a name to reflect that a) they're a serious 4-year institution and b) they're not actually in Southwest Texas. Anyone around the country knows "____ State" is probably one of the bigger colleges within that state. And it keeps most of the old name.

tl;dr if you'd already heard of SWT, the name change wasn't really for you.

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All true and also exactly why TXST instead of TSU is dumb. 

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  On 12/14/2023 at 12:20 PM, texifornia said:

Ooo this is my actual job, and I disagree. 

Southwest Texas State has great nostalgia and history for people who've heard of it before, but for students/staff who moved into Texas, families who hadn't looked at college before, or OOS students/staff it sounds like a community college in El Paso.

They needed a name to reflect that a) they're a serious 4-year institution and b) they're not actually in Southwest Texas. Anyone around the country knows "____ State" is probably one of the bigger colleges within that state. And it keeps most of the old name.

tl;dr if you'd already heard of SWT, the name change wasn't really for you.

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Southwest Texas State Normal College.

FWIW

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Posted
  On 12/14/2023 at 3:55 AM, Getafix said:

 

Well, as the Bard - who was a football fan - once said, "Uneasy lies the head that wears the thrown."

 

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Thrown? WTF? I've seen a lot of people confuse a lot of different words, but thrown for throne is a new one for me.

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  On 12/14/2023 at 12:20 PM, texifornia said:

Ooo this is my actual job, and I disagree. 

Southwest Texas State has great nostalgia and history for people who've heard of it before, but for students/staff who moved into Texas, families who hadn't looked at college before, or OOS students/staff it sounds like a community college in El Paso.

They needed a name to reflect that a) they're a serious 4-year institution and b) they're not actually in Southwest Texas. Anyone around the country knows "____ State" is probably one of the bigger colleges within that state. And it keeps most of the old name.

tl;dr if you'd already heard of SWT, the name change wasn't really for you.

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Plus to outsiders it makes them sound like our little brother, similar to Michigan St, Miss St, Oregon St, Washington St, Mobliehome St, etc.

And…demotes A&M to the podunk ag school of Texas, the reality they have been desperately trying to change for years.  

I mean, they claim the A&M no longer stands for what it stands for, despite the constant bragging about the engineering dept, the hall of champions being full of meat judging trophies, plus multiple courses in chicken farming & other forms of animal husbandry.   You know, agricultural and mechanical focused studies.  

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  On 12/14/2023 at 3:01 PM, Treefidy said:


Plus to outsiders it makes them sound like our little brother, similar to Michigan St, Miss St, Oregon St, Washington St, Mobliehome St, etc.

And…demotes A&M to the podunk ag school of Texas, the reality they have been desperately trying to change for years.  

I mean, they claim the A&M no longer stands for what it stands for, despite the constant bragging about the engineering dept, the hall of champions being full of meat judging trophies, plus multiple courses in chicken farming & other forms of animal husbandry.   You know, agricultural and mechanical focused studies.  

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They really should be embracing it rather than running from it. It’s all about STEM these days, and they’re decent at it as long as no critical thinking is required (bonfire).  They have a disdain for the liberal arts anyway. 

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  On 12/14/2023 at 3:07 PM, nnm said:

They really should be embracing it rather than running from it. It’s all about STEM these days, and they’re decent at it as long as no critical thinking is required (bonfire).  They have a disdain for the liberal arts anyway. 

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Agricultural and not so Mechanical.

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  On 12/14/2023 at 4:07 PM, Lonestar88 said:

TSU= Texas Southern for a lot of people in Texas.

I’m sure they could’ve bullied their way to being the dominant TSU over the HBCU, but not sure it was a battle worth fighting.

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That's the point, that's not even a battle. If you're Texas State because you are going for more national recognition you are instantly the only TSU anyone who is part of the target demographic that @texifornia was talking about will even realize exists.

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Posted (edited)
  On 12/14/2023 at 4:40 PM, Huckleberry said:

That's the point, that's not even a battle. If you're Texas State because you are going for more national recognition you are instantly the only TSU anyone who is part of the target demographic that @texifornia was talking about will even realize exists.

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A&M should have become Texas State decades ago, but they couldn't let go of their milkmen. That would have actually been a positive move to get out of our shadow. 

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Posted
  On 12/14/2023 at 4:52 PM, Ricky Butler said:

How could you guys not know how bad the situation is that I’ve been willfully misleading you about for 3 years?

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Yep, all those paying subscribers should have pointed out that they might have an idea of the mess Elko was handed if the people they pay to inform them about that kind of thing hadn't been covering Fisher's ass by feeding them BS for the last few years.

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Posted
  On 12/14/2023 at 3:07 PM, nnm said:

They really should be embracing it rather than running from it. It’s all about STEM these days, and they’re decent at it as long as no critical thinking is required (bonfire).  They have a disdain for the liberal arts anyway. 

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A&M Tech has a certain derivative sound to it 

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Weak leadership and poor culture makes it easier for influential figures within the organization to become pseudo-leaders.

Elko isn't a needle-mover in any way right now. 

 

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