Mountain, the people who run the academic side of UT think like the people who run UVa, and UNC. It's a southern culture based on social class. To Texas, TAMU is just a cow college. It would not matter if TAMU made a break through on fusion, or cured cancer. Most people from the Big 10 area and the Northeast do not understand the cultural distinctions in the South or how various universities in the South are often expressions of various political views of the late 19th and early 20th century.

It's not much different from UVa and VT, right down to the Corps of Cadets.