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What happened to TCU football in the sixties?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hoosierfrog" data-source="post: 2625679" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>I think the best answer to this is post WWII baby boomers and the following never before seen need for college degrees ever since. For instance in 1946 Texas’ enrollment was just over 15000, by the mid 60s UT had in the vicinity of 27000 an</p><p>now somewhere just over 50k. The corresponding grads, donors and state spending on such things as athletics also increase. State schools flourished at a rate small private schools couldn’t compete with. If graphed, I imagine the TCU line rose at a much flatter rate than almost any state school. While UT was spending on Memorial Stadium and other construction TCU’s big project in the late 60s early 70s was a new science building. In 1970 I recall a drab campus with little landscaping and grass so dry we set it on fire throwing paper airplanes with matches lit in them from the Wog floor of the Milton Hilton. Our baseball field itself was nice, but had no actual stadium and fewer splintered stands than many 4A high schools.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hoosierfrog, post: 2625679, member: 59"] I think the best answer to this is post WWII baby boomers and the following never before seen need for college degrees ever since. For instance in 1946 Texas’ enrollment was just over 15000, by the mid 60s UT had in the vicinity of 27000 an now somewhere just over 50k. The corresponding grads, donors and state spending on such things as athletics also increase. State schools flourished at a rate small private schools couldn’t compete with. If graphed, I imagine the TCU line rose at a much flatter rate than almost any state school. While UT was spending on Memorial Stadium and other construction TCU’s big project in the late 60s early 70s was a new science building. In 1970 I recall a drab campus with little landscaping and grass so dry we set it on fire throwing paper airplanes with matches lit in them from the Wog floor of the Milton Hilton. Our baseball field itself was nice, but had no actual stadium and fewer splintered stands than many 4A high schools. [/QUOTE]
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