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RE: TCU and Baylor to the ACC
(11-01-2022 04:30 PM)SouthernConfBoy Wrote: Very little is new, but lots of things have new names.
The social/cultural things you find deep in the origins of something have a tendency to carry forward. This is why old Methodist U's, Baptist U's, Catholic U's, Civic U's, Land Grant U's, Colonial U's, and State U's end up looking so similar decades and centuries later.
Methodists - Auburn/Syracuse/Emory/Duke/SMU/Vandy/NW - now Auburn went broke, then was broken by the Civil War, then had Bama on it's ass for a century - hence one of the reasons Auburn is a little different from it's Methodist kith and kin.
Catholics - Do I really know the difference between a Jesuit, a Priest, a Pope, and a Nun, - does it matter? I do know that ND, BC, Georgetown, St. Johns, and Villanova are Catholic. They seem to keep Universities smaller and more structured than your Animal House analogues.
Baptists - WF and Furman dropped the Southern Baptist Convention. Argument and controversy follow the Baptist Church because their governing structure is non-hierarchical encouraging splitting off. Baylor has been a poster child for controversy this last decade or so.
The Colonial Snobs took their ball and went home.
The Cow Colleges cluster next to each other like so many of the football fields look out over an old or a continuing cow pasture - Penn State, VT, NC State - others step forward and accept your cow bell.
The Civic crowd are your city colleges - Pitt, Miami, Cincy, etc., etc. Egalitarian, less snobish.
Then you have State U's whose feces never stink like UNC, Michigan, Cal, etc., etc - all so assured they are better than everyone else because they were born on 3rd base and thought they hit a triple.
If you have been offended you are probably a poor reader as this is meant to be funny but also satirical. It's very difficult to change who and what you are. Your past shapes you. The past shapes the individual P-5's. If the P-5 you pull for has not won a national title in the last 40 years - you aint winnin' one in your lifetime.
Auburn is one of the cow colleges. It may have started out Methodist, like you say, but after the War Between the States, Auburn became one of the cow colleges, IMO. No different than Clemson, Mississippi State, Oregon State, Virginia Tech, IMO.
IMO, Furman & Wake Forest belong to the Civic colleges now, as they haven't been Baptist in a very long time. Baylor can't decide what it wants to be. Samford, Liberty, and Campbell are Baptist colleges in the true sense of the word, IMO. Liberty, like Baylor, had controversy also, but resolved it, not unlike Samford had years ago, when they had to move from Marion, AL, to Birmingham.
VMI and the Citadel are in a special group of universities, and have more in common with Navy, Army, and Air Force than really any other group, IMHO. Texas A&M and Virginia Tech are a hybrid of this group & the cow colleges. Alabama used to be in this group also until the conclusion of the War Between the States. This is why 'Bama and Texas A&M get along so well, IMO.
Georgia Tech fits in with the civics, although more snobby.
UGA, UVa, & UNC are yet another special kind of hybrid university. UGA is a combo of a Colonial/Revolutionary War, State U, and a cow college. UNC is a hybrid of a Colonial/Revolutionary War and a State U. The result is a snobby state U , but at UGA the snobbish is gone due to the cow college component.
Teacher colleges, which you failed to mention, are like Troy, Middle Tennessee, and Appalachian State, although ECU used to be a member of this group, but is now in the civic group.
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