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Texas A&M, Missouri To Pay One-Third of Normal Exit Fees

Texas A&M, Missouri To Pay Less Than Half of Big 12 Exit Fees

February 29, 2012 12:04 pm | no comments

Texas A&M and Missouri will be leaving for the rough-and-tumble SEC pastures next year, but they won’t get off scot-free. Each school has agreed to pay the...

 
 
Texas Volleyball Wins Lone Star Showdown

No. 10 Texas Volleyball Blanks Texas A&M 3-0

October 6, 2011 8:39 am | 1 comment

Freshman Khat Bell records a match-best 12 kills to lead the Horns to a win in the first State Farm Lone Star Showdown of the year. The 10th-ranked Texas Volleyball...

 
 
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Don’t Count Out the Big 12

September 19, 2011 8:51 pm | 8 comments

Call me crazy, but all this breathless talk about the certain end of the Big 12 and the dawn of superconferences has got me thinking–maybe we should all just take...

 
 
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Texas A&M: A Case Study in Failure in Governance

September 19, 2011 4:26 pm | no comments

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the Houston Chronicle yesterday, and we are reprinting it because we believe our readers need to know about what...

 
 
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Aggies Issue Baylor an 11th Commandment

September 19, 2011 3:18 pm | 1 comment

Update: Yep, looks like this billboard is real, and it’s placed right outside Baylor’s football stadium. Remember that billboard we told you about,...

 
 
College Gameday Coming to State Fair for TX-OU

Texas A&M Declined UT’s Offer to Partner on Network

September 1, 2011 5:20 pm | 4 comments

Texas A&M could have partnered with the University of Texas at Austin in what ultimately became the Longhorn Network, Texas athletics director DeLoss Dodds confirmed...

 
 
Texas A&M SEC-ede

SEC Tells Aggies ‘Thanks, But No Thanks’

August 14, 2011 4:23 pm | 18 comments

UPDATED Texas A&M’s grand plan to bolt the Big 12 and head to the SEC has hit a slight snag—the SEC declined to invite them. At a meeting of the SEC...

 
 
Texas A&M SEC-ede

Will A&M Carry Through on SEC-eding?

August 11, 2011 5:20 pm | 3 comments

Texas A&M seems to be taking the motto “If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen” to heart. Citing the need for a more stable and secure conference,...

 
 
UT Second-Most Efficient Public University in the Country

At UT and A&M, The ‘Status Quo’ Is Striving for Excellence

August 4, 2011 8:27 am | no comments

The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University are premiere Tier One institutions. They did not get that national ranking or the acclaimed research,...

 
 
Would Separating Teaching From Research Make Universities More Productive?

Would Separating Teaching From Research Make Universities More Productive?

May 1, 2011 8:00 am | no comments

At the center of the debate in Texas over the future of higher education stands a premise, accepted for generations, that at top universities academic research and...

 
 
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