(07-19-2020 11:10 AM)edinburger Wrote:  

(07-18-2020 11:24 PM)Hilldog Wrote:  

(07-18-2020 06:04 PM)edinburger Wrote:  

(07-18-2020 02:54 PM)Itinerant Texan Wrote:  ...
That's right. Probably some activity still there by way of a "center", but the main campus is now in Edinburg.
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I work at UTRGV and calling Edinburg the "main campus" gets you called in to your supervisor's office. Officially we're all equal, because people in Brownsville get upset otherwise. Brownsville students, Brownsville faculty, Brownsville politicians, and most especially the Brownsville-based legislators that get to vote on our budget.

Of course off the record you're completely right. Edinburg has more students, more facilities, more faculty with base offices there, and more programs offered. Prior to the merger there was no doubt that UTPA was bigger, more stable, and better academically than UTB, although neither one was top tier if we're being honest about it.

So, there are still classes being held in Brownsville? How far apart are the two campuses?

In the LA/OC area, you have Cal Poly Pomona and Cal St. Fullerton that are 15-20 miles apart. Cal St. LA and CP Pomona are also about 20 miles from each other. But, none of those campuses are thinking about combining.

67 miles Edinburg to Brownsville. It was an idea driven by people from outside the valley (a) who didn't realize it's not really commuting distance, (b) were taken in by consultants who kept saying location doesn't matter because "Internet", (c ) didn't understand that people's loyalty to their local school can't be reassigned by writing an executive memo telling them to be loyal to something else, and (d) didn't really give a **** about us anyway.

Yes, we're still bitter, and you can still see Broncs T-shirts around here.

TAMUCC and TAMUK combining might make for interesting fantasy conference realignments, but it would be bad for the students and the community. Don't do it.

I was told the RGV had about 500K people!! That's a lot of people for just one school to serve! Did Brownsville have an athletics program? What happened to their coaches and players?

Northridge in the Big West is in the San Fernando Valley-which has about 2M people, but of course UCLA and USC are the schools that get the fans and news coverage.

How far is UTRGV to Tarleton?

I would be interesting to put all the LSC and WAC schools on a map and see the mileage chart.