Stephen F. Austin & WTAMU??

[Great White Buffalo]

Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches could join West Texas A&M University in the Texas A&M University System.

The SFA Board of Regents is considering whether the nearly 12,000-student university in East Texas should join a larger university system, and at least three systems across the state are expressing interest about becoming a new home for the currently unaffiliated school.

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharpexas A&M University System

[LSC Fan]

I'd be kind of ticked if I'm Commerce and aggy Texarkana... A better fit as far as system foot prints would be Tech as they have absolutely no current operations east of I-35. I wouldn't mind if Kingsville for much of the same reason would join the Tech system so the aggy Mothership could do what they really want do is grow A&M CC and San Antonio and pump more money into the McAllen systems center as well as Laredo. Then you would have four of he five major university systems with campuses in South Texas (aggy=McAllen, Corpus. SA and Laredo) U of H aka, Cougar High (Victoria), UT- RGV and San Antonio and Tech would have Kingsville.

[ASUPops]

I'd be kind of ticked if I'm Commerce and aggy Texarkana... A better fit as far as system foot prints would be Tech as they have absolutely no current operations east of I-35. I wouldn't mind if Kingsville for much of the same reason would join the Tech system so the aggy Mothership could do what they really want do is grow A&M CC and San Antonio and pump more money into the McAllen systems center as well as Laredo. Then you would have four of he five major university systems with campuses in South Texas (aggy=McAllen, Corpus. SA and Laredo) U of H aka, Cougar High (Victoria), UT- RGV and San Antonio and Tech would have Kingsville.

Very interesting!

[laker]

Four systems! Minnesota has two- U of M which is Twin Cities, D2 Crookston, D2 Duluth & D3 Morris. The other is the Minnesota State system which is 37 schools- 7 four year schools that are in the NSIC and 30 two year schools.

It will be interesting to see which system that they pick.

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

I'd be kind of ticked if I'm Commerce and aggy Texarkana... A better fit as far as system foot prints would be Tech as they have absolutely no current operations east of I-35. I wouldn't mind if Kingsville for much of the same reason would join the Tech system so the aggy Mothership could do what they really want do is grow A&M CC and San Antonio and pump more money into the McAllen systems center as well as Laredo. Then you would have four of he five major university systems with campuses in South Texas (aggy=McAllen, Corpus. SA and Laredo) U of H aka, Cougar High (Victoria), UT- RGV and San Antonio and Tech would have Kingsville.

I read somewhere Kingsville wants to be Midwestern State's flagship school for football.

Midwestern State-Kingsville has a good ring to it with Maskill taking over operations? ;)

[IronOre]

If you have 8 flagships, do you really have 0 flagships?

[WT_TKW]

If you have 8 flagships, do you really have 0 flagships?

YES!

[Wildcat Khan]

If you have 8 flagships, do you really have 0 flagships?

I'd love to see WSU-Tri Cities get sports in the non-flagship program. Pretty much 0 college sports in a metro area of over 300k with only a Columbia Basin College which is a community college and the campus is right by the National Research labs. The ironic thing is the main WSU campus is in a town 1/10th the size of the Tri-Cities.

I have to ask though the Texas people, how would tethering a D2 school to another D2 school effect athletics? Could they lose funding and possibly a team?

[ASUPops]

Can't wait for FOOTBALL to start!!!!