Aggieland in Cowtown.

[Fosterpark Squatter]

Who allowed this to happen

 

[FroginBedford68]

Who allowed this to happen

Antifa, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houtis, Putin, the ghosts of Mao Tse-Tong, Karl Marx, and Joseph Stalin, Nikita "We will bury you" Khrushchev....

 

[Mean Purple]

Has anybody checked to ensure there is adequate protection in place for the animals at the zoo?

 

[hometown frog]

Partly TCU is to blame. City leadership had been interested in a Tier I research institution within the city for a while. (Beleive FTW was the largest metro in the US without a T1 institution.). So our previous admin was actively against seeking T1 status, so other universities found the opportunity too valuable to pass up.

I’ve had the chance to attend a couple of their innovation zone strategy sessions as part of my work and I think it will be a great move for the city.

 

[FroggleRock]

Yep. TCU really dropped the ball with that back then. That’s why they are in full panic made to get to T1 now.

 

[frogs9497]

Aggy’s ability to choose design and architecture should forever be limited to College Station.

 

[fff91]

What was the thinking of not pursuing Tier 1 back then?

 

[Big Frog II]

TCU has never been known as a graduate research university. Our primary focus has always been undergraduate degrees. Now that we have added the medical school, our focus is changing.

 

[froginmn]

Antifa, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houtis, Putin, the ghosts of Mao Tse-Tong, Karl Marx, and Joseph Stalin, Nikita "We will bury you" Khrushchev....

Amateurs compared to Aggies.

Inspiration for that:

Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?

Morons.

 

[tetonfrog]

What was the thinking of not pursuing Tier 1 back then?

This is a guess, but I imagine the cost of the purchase was the issue.

 

[hometown frog]

This is a guess, but I imagine the cost of the purchase was the issue.

The official reason was committing to tier 1 would take the focus away from the students and put it just on the research. In reality I think it was nearsided and was simply about not wanting to spend the capital and staff/professor salaries that it would take to get there.

 

[Mean Purple]

Partly TCU is to blame. City leadership had been interested in a Tier I research institution within the city for a while. (Beleive FTW was the largest metro in the US without a T1 institution.). So our previous admin was actively against seeking T1 status, so other universities found the opportunity too valuable to pass up.

I’ve had the chance to attend a couple of their innovation zone strategy sessions as part of my work and I think it will be a great move for the city.

meh, focus on improving sports and having a great undergrad biz school, nursing/premed, and communication/broacast departments.

It's worked well so far.

 

[bmoney214]

Has anybody checked to ensure there is adequate protection in place for the animals at the zoo?

No need to worry unless there's a farm animal exhibit.

 

[PurplFrawg]

Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?

Morons.

 

[Froggy Style]

No need to worry unless there's a farm animal exhibit.

Obligatory:

 

[ShadowFrog]

Antifa, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houtis, Putin, the ghosts of Mao Tse-Tong, Karl Marx, and Joseph Stalin, Nikita "We will bury you" Khrushchev....

You left out Balok

 

[TCUdirtbag]

What was the thinking of not pursuing Tier 1 back then?

The thinking was “We’re really good at being a moderately competitive liberal arts school with good athletics. Our students and alums are really happy, we’re raising a ton of money, our reputation is improving, athletics are strong, and our strengths are really unique in the market.” Go back to where TCU was when Boschini came in c. 2003, and the thinking makes sense.

Boschini’s only real miss in an incredible tenure was not reading the tea leaves on STEM and research. The med school is great, but it came late and the earlier choices abandoning science and engineering efforts and declining to build real research infrastructure set us back in ways it will take a couple decades to make up for. Even when SMU and Baylor publicly pursued those efforts (successfully), Boschini stubbornly sat TCU on the sideline.

As to the thread title, A&M (or another major public) likely would’ve come in either way. Fort Worth is just growing so fast.

And before someone blames it on this: The Wesleyan Law deal was never a good deal for TCU. Another private law school in the metroplex would’ve just been grossly overshadowed by SMU, and TCU doesn’t have the blank check A&M did to buy out mid faculty, build a brand new campus, dramatically shrink the enrollment, and scholarship entering classes so heavy to pull students from every school other than UT to up their rankings metrics. A TCU law would be way, way behind UT and likely behind the Baylor/SMU/UH jumble. Likely competing primarily with Tech at St. Mary’s (who’s been absolutely murdered by A&M). And that wouldn’t help TCU’s perception in a good way. Plus, it would’ve taken away resources from the capital and business school efforts.

We’ll see if Pullin and Co can sustain what we’ve got and really build a research infrastructure. It’s a big and important task. And has to be done without diminishing the existing strong culture.

The new aviation programs are really interesting. As are the research around AI and human performance. Curious to see research facilities and new science/engineering programs come online.

 

[AustinFrog]

I thought that smell was coming from the feedlot area of the stockyards. This clears that right up.

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

Just wait until you see what UTA is going to do to Walsh Ranch.

 

[ShadowFrog]

A cogent reply, thanks—2 questions please:

abandoning science and engineering efforts—please expand.
Also, aviation efforts, is there still a satellite campus at Alliance airport?