CanyonAg77 said:

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Matthew Gaines and Earl Rudder are more important in the history of keeping A&M alive
Matthew Gaines is almost meaningless to the history of Texas A&M.

A&M would have survived without Rudder's changes. It might be The Citadel, but it would have survived.
I remember hearing, I think it was the history of A&M video that the association put out about a decade or so ago, that Rudder was being leaned on pretty hard by the white house on female admission in regards to our land grant status or something. We might have survived it, but we'd be insignificant.