UT getting that way too especially with Red Mccombs.
UTx has been that way since at least the early 1940's when my mother was a UTx student and the school's president (Homer Rainey) duked it out (and lost his job, ultimately) with boosters and politicians.
Red McCombs is a piker in terms of institutional fiddlin', compared to the late Frank Irwin. McCombs and Irwin are just the ones that get/got the press.
I don't know what it is about these big state schools that seem to automatically attract such "attention". With UTx, big construction contracts and hints of corruption around them, particularly as the "System" build all its branch campuses and health-care campuses in the mid-20th century, seem to drive some of the meddlin'.
But I agree that the Aggies are just nuts, and some of their supporters are too vain to get out of the way.