As long as he's not clogging up the North end zone of Kyle Field on Saturdays getting his picture taken. That is/was so weird!

NattyOrBust said:

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We'll see what he can do. Say what you will about John Sharp, but we've never seen the growth in our university system footprint, research, overall system value, or university rankings and degree reputation that we have experienced during his 14 year run. Many people try to discredit him because of his political affiliation but the truth is that he was uniquely positioned in large part due to that affiliation to gather tremendous support from both sides of the aisle on both the state and federal level to allow him to elevate Texas A&M in all areas. His political acumen will be difficult to reproduce going forward. Hopefully, we can keep that momentum, but time will tell. It has truly been a golden age for our university system overall, including the flagship. And before you start, I am a Republican. I've had the opportunity to witness from inside over the last few years, and I quickly recognized that he is extremely gifted in this area. Flame away if you choose.

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I will always appreciate this about him: He didn't bow to the cheesecake-and-athletes crowd that wanted Sully removed.

And still no Natty!!

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Dude is the head of Texas' version of the Department of Revenue, and is more of a Romney/McCain Republican than a populist MAGA Republican.

This board will want him fired on day 1

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Yup.

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Glenn is not a Romney R. He is more of a Reagan R. He carried the Heartbeat bill in the Senate that Wendy Davis filibustered. Romney/McCain would never do that. Glenn is a conservative, no he is not a populist. He focusses on his job and doesn't get dragged into distracting BS type stuff. Iv'e known and worked with him of and on for 20 years. I believe he will be a steady hand and push the system to bigger and better things. He is very well respected in Austin and that is critical.

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Sounds like a good pick to me. Someone who does his job well and stays out of the political BS stuff is the best kind of person for this job, in my opinion.

Hegar the Horrible? Is it too early?

Hegar is entirely unqualified for this job and has the personality of the serpent in the Garden of Eden (I've met him personally). His ONLY positive trait is that he is not woke and he might keep our Tampon-Tim university president in check. A&M just keeps screwing the pooch on major hires, and this was as important as it gets. He's way too young, which means we're probably stuck with him for decades. He'll probably dig in like a tick just like Sharp did.

amercer said:

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Chancellor is one of those jobs where if his name is never in the press, then he's probably pretty successful.

Just make the academics good, keep the funding flowing, and don't insert yourself into athletics department decisions.

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Yep. One of my committee members was the chancellor at UNC when the cheating scandal broke. Of course, he had zero to do with it, but had to resign anyway. Now he's the chief editor of Science, so I guess it worked out

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Hegar is entirely unqualified for this job and has the personality of the serpent in the Garden of Eden (I've met him personally). His ONLY positive trait is that he is not woke and he might keep our Tampon-Tim university president in check. A&M just keeps screwing the pooch on major hires, and this was as important as it gets. He's way too young, which means we're probably stuck with him for decades. He'll probably dig in like a tick just like Sharp did.

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Y'all need to slow your hate on GH. Give the man a chance.

Who takes over as comptroller?

If hegar can be half the Chancelor John sharp has been it will be a success. What sharp has done overall for the status of the university is unprecedented. Every one on this board with a diploma is more valuable today than you were 13 years ago thanks to his efforts to raise the profile of Texas A&M. The engineering dept plan was something I was skeptical of when it was announced. Not only has it been achieved but the profile of that department has never been higher. You can not like his style. You can not like him. But the way the results are measured it is hard to argue he hasn't done an amazing job in his time as chancellor.

Sharp.

Buck Turgidson said:

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Hegar is entirely unqualified for this job and has the personality of the serpent in the Garden of Eden (I've met him personally). His ONLY positive trait is that he is not woke and he might keep our Tampon-Tim university president in check. A&M just keeps screwing the pooch on major hires, and this was as important as it gets. He's way too young, which means we're probably stuck with him for decades. He'll probably dig in like a tick just like Sharp did.

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50+ is way too young? I what world?

I heard all the same talks you did this week. Excellent summary. Thank you.

Glenn Hegar kicked Larry Fink in the teeth last year when he put BlackRock on the Boycott list. He's also been the driving force bringing the libs controlling Texas' pension proxy votes under heel. I'm pretty damn happy about the pick.

Is he one of the Hockley Hegars?

Buck Turgidson said:

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Hegar is entirely unqualified for this job and has the personality of the serpent in the Garden of Eden (I've met him personally). His ONLY positive trait is that he is not woke and he might keep our Tampon-Tim university president in check. A&M just keeps screwing the pooch on major hires, and this was as important as it gets. He's way too young, which means we're probably stuck with him for decades. He'll probably dig in like a tick just like Sharp did.

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He's 54 years old and has been Comptroller of Texas for the last 10 years and he also has a law degree. I mean I don't know what exactly you are looking for in terms of qualifications and age but that's pretty damn solid. My impression of him is he is more the DeSantis/Roy style Republican that is a true conservative and thus he didn't endorse Trump. I don't see anything in his background that indicates he is a Bush/Romney type. He is definitely the type of guy who understands finance, the law, and politics. He is also known to be a very strong advocate of the O&G industry and socially conservative.

He's also not running for Governor he's Chancellor. A politically connected attorney who understands large scale finance and is also Class of '93 is about as good as you can hope for. Will he suck? No clue, but resume wise I don't know how anyone is upset about this one. Seriously who else do you think is better qualified or are you just looking for stuff to complain about because you met him and didn't like him for whatever reason?

As for Sharp he did a lot of good things for sure. That said he sucked at the details. The Top 10% (soon to be 8%) system is insanity. The math doesn't work with well over 400,000 kids graduating from public high schools in Texas. At the same time we have the most socialist aid possible which causes us to lose volumes of the highest ranked kids in Texas and the next tier.

We should be offering merit like crazy with the money we have but everything goes to need based aid with a few exceptions. Thus it is cheaper to go OOS for most kids that can get into A&M and we did little to incentivize top students in Texas to choose us over UT. Instead we are making ourselves into a safety school for those kids while denying a ton of kids that can get into virtually every SEC school because they go to the best Suburban High Schools. Our Financial Aid and Admissions are horribly run with stupid policies like being the highest ranked school in the country that does Rolling Admissions.

Instead we come up with stuff like Blinn Team and System Admits. For hard core Ags that will do anything to go to A&M that's great but it's a hard sell for most. Why go to A&M through some pathway when other schools are throwing money and red carpets at you? At A&M we push kids to apply on August 1 and then often they have to wait until February only to find out they got Blinn or System admits, it's so stupid. No one else operates like this, other schools and kids who aren't familiar with A&M look at us like we are idiots.

We also have some weird obsession with National Merit Semifinalists/Finalists. It's basically the only way for most kids to get any merit aid. No other school in the Top 100 does that, most don't even value NM as even being that significant because it just means you did well on a test your Junior year. I mean it's nice but there are so many other things to look at but we make it a pre-req for everything. Thus we lose a ton of kids who are getting into higher ranked schools with lots of merit.

Overall A&M does less with more over and over again. Most Aggies look at how much we have grown and celebrate but they don't look outside of Texas at other comparable schools with a fraction of our resources and realize just how bloated we are and how many stupid things we do.

Sharp did a great job building up Galveston, the Law School, and some of the other System schools. Still College Station will always drive the ship.

Hegar deserves a chance, we could do a lot worse.

Yes

Glenn Hegar will be an excellent chancellor because he has extensive knowledge, education, and public sector experience. Hegar is a sixth generation Texan, who grew up farming land that has been in his family since the mid-1800s. His upbringing taught him the core values of character, honesty, integrity and hard work. Also, he is a Texas Aggie and attorney who served in the Texas House and Texas Senate before being elected Comptroller of Public Accounts in November 2014.

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Sounds like he is one of the few Texas politicians that didn't endorse Trump.

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Trump endorsed him though in 2018 and 2022.

NattyOrBust said:

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We'll see what he can do. Say what you will about John Sharp, but we've never seen the growth in our university system footprint, research, overall system value, or university rankings and degree reputation that we have experienced during his 14 year run. Many people try to discredit him because of his political affiliation but the truth is that he was uniquely positioned in large part due to that affiliation to gather tremendous support from both sides of the aisle on both the state and federal level to allow him to elevate Texas A&M in all areas. His political acumen will be difficult to reproduce going forward. Hopefully, we can keep that momentum, but time will tell. It has truly been a golden age for our university system overall, including the flagship. And before you start, I am a Republican. I've had the opportunity to witness from inside over the last few years, and I quickly recognized that he is extremely gifted in this area. Flame away if you choose.

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Look, John, you ****ed our university up pretty bad and it's going to take a long while to fix it.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Huh. Apparently our new Chancellor is my wife's cousin's nephew.

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Who takes over as comptroller?

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The Gov appoints someone to serve out Glenn's term. Christy Craddick (RRC) and Don Huffines (former state Senator who lost election and later challenged Abbott for Governor have both announced they are running for the slot.

And Glenn is very qualified for the position. Anyone who says otherwise is just a grumpy troll or does not understand the requirements of the position.

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cena05 said:

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Who takes over as comptroller?

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The Gov appoints someone to serve out Glenn's term. Christy Craddick (RRC) and Don Huffines (former state Senator who lost election and later challenged Abbott for Governor have both announced they are running for the slot.

And Glenn is very qualified for the position. Anyone who says otherwise is just a grumpy troll or does not understand the requirements of the position.

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Christy Craddick has been terrible at the RRC on all these leaking wells causing environmental and safety problems for landowners out in West Texas.

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The Goo said:

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Who takes over as comptroller?

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The Gov appoints someone to serve out Glenn's term. Christy Craddick (RRC) and Don Huffines (former state Senator who lost election and later challenged Abbott for Governor have both announced they are running for the slot.

And Glenn is very qualified for the position. Anyone who says otherwise is just a grumpy troll or does not understand the requirements of the position.

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Christy Craddick has been terrible at the RRC on all these leaking wells causing environmental and safety problems for landowners out in West Texas.

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If you have a concern with leaky wells you should show up Wednesday at the capitol. SB 1150 by Middleton is up in front of Senate Natural Resources Committee and you can offer public testimony. It pertains to plugging orphaned and non producing wells. Also, The RRC (Craddick is Chair) is requesting $200 million in supplemental funding for plugging of these leaky abandoned wells. If you live in Burnet you are represented by state Rep Ellen Troxclair and Senator Pete Flores. Call their offices in support of the funding request that Commissioner Craddick has made.

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Hegar is entirely unqualified for this job and has the personality of the serpent in the Garden of Eden (I've met him personally). His ONLY positive trait is that he is not woke and he might keep our Tampon-Tim university president in check. A&M just keeps screwing the pooch on major hires, and this was as important as it gets. He's way too young, which means we're probably stuck with him for decades. He'll probably dig in like a tick just like Sharp did.

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54 years old is too young? LMAO.

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Dude is the head of Texas' version of the Department of Revenue, and is more of a Romney/McCain Republican than a populist MAGA Republican.

This board will want him fired on day 1

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Yup.

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As it should be!!!

As a conservative, why should I be happy over the expansion of the TAMU system?

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As a conservative, why should I be happy over the expansion of the TAMU system?

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It's better than the tu system.

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The Collective said:

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As a conservative, why should I be happy over the expansion of the TAMU system?

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It's better than the tu system.

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San Francisco is better than Hell.

I don't want my TAMU to be just a little better than Hell.

The Collective said:

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As a conservative, why should I be happy over the expansion of the TAMU system?

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If you want A&M to keep 1/3rd of the PUF we have to be willing to expand.

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The Collective said:

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As a conservative, why should I be happy over the expansion of the TAMU system?

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If you want A&M to keep 1/3rd of the PUF we have to be willing to expand.

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Expanding the A&M system is not connected with keeping 1/3 of the PUF. The PUF is dedicated by the constitution. It takes 2/3 majority in each house plus a a majority vote via election. A&M and tu will block any attempt to change the PUF distribution. The votes simply are not there.

The A&M system is expanding for two primary reasons. First, the population of the state has grown so the there is more demand for higher education. Second, The legislature transferred the Texas Department of Emergency Management from DPS to the A&M System.

It is not the case of "growing government" for its own sake.

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aggie93 said:

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As a conservative, why should I be happy over the expansion of the TAMU system?

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If you want A&M to keep 1/3rd of the PUF we have to be willing to expand.

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Expanding the A&M system is not connected with keeping 1/3 of the PUF. The PUF is dedicated by the constitution. It takes 2/3 majority in each house plus a a majority vote via election. A&M and tu will block any attempt to change the PUF distribution. The votes simply are not there.

The A&M system is expanding for two primary reasons. First, the population of the state has grown so the there is more demand for higher education. Second, The legislature transferred the Texas Department of Emergency Management from DPS to the A&M System.

It is not the case of "growing government" for its own sake.

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I understand it would take a lot in order for the PUF to be changed but the key to preventing that from even coming out as an option is expansion of both the A&M and UT systems. A&M has actually been more savvy because most of our additions don't actually qualify for PUF funds whereas basically all of UT's do. UT has also been even more aggressive than we have, they just added Stephen F Austin for instance.

The big board political game though is to make sure that A&M and UT maintain that dominance in how higher education is conducted in the state. The expansion has assured that for the future. It makes it so there is no way to get enough political capital built up to stand against us even if all of the other schools (Tech, UNT, UH, etc) banded together. They would love to get some of that PUF money and always have. Expansion has taken that effectively off the table. Between A&M and UT our Systems have half a million students and the majority of all college grads in the state went to one of our System schools. That's how you assure yourselves of power. You also have the Med Schools (in UT's case) and all the agencies (in A&M's case) that add even more to that.

I don't see any of it as growing government, it's about growing power. It's also why I chuckle when people talk about the Top 10/5 percent rule or anything else and say that A&M and Texas simply have to do what the Leg says. A&M and Texas together have all the political clout in this state and can make the rules however we want them. We don't even have to really worry about anyone else because if A&M and UT stand together they have the votes and clout on just about any issue.

Maybe now College Station can annex City of Bryan and we can drop that silly name.