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I'm in Lubbock now and was listening to AM790 (local version of KTRH 740) and this afternoon, the on air announcer was discussing this topic, indicating that TAMU had "beaten Tech to the punch" and then admitted that Tech's effort to build the vet school was well intentioned, but "...underestimated the strength and pull that TAMU has in Texas."

This is a local guy mind you, talking on tt's sports flagship station.

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monarch said:

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I'm in Lubbock now and was listening to AM790 (local version of KTRH 740) and this afternoon, the on air announcer was discussing this topic, indicating that TAMU had "beaten Tech to the punch" and then admitted that Tech's effort to build the vet school was well intentioned, but "...underestimated the strength and pull that TAMU has in Texas."

This is a local guy mind you, talking on tt's sports flagship station.

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mulch said:

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I graduated in 2002 and have split my working years between Semiconductors and industrial oil and gas sales. Lived in Austin and Houston and sell all over the state. Not once have I ever crossed paths with a TBAT grad in a working environment or seen their Xerox degree in a frame. I'm being 100% honest when I ask what the hell do they all do for work?

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Fogburn95 said:

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Not an official Tech thread until we get Kyle's take on this.

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Rocco S said:

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monarch said:

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I'm in Lubbock now and was listening to AM790 (local version of KTRH 740) and this afternoon, the on air announcer was discussing this topic, indicating that TAMU had "beaten Tech to the punch" and then admitted that Tech's effort to build the vet school was well intentioned, but "...underestimated the strength and pull that TAMU has in Texas."

This is a local guy mind you, talking on tt's sports flagship station.

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Dock?
Andy?

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Aggie1 said:

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http://politics.blog.mystatesman.com/2017/03/03/in-battle-over-veterinary-school-texas-am-routs-texas-tech/

lengthy discussion in the Statesman...

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A&M is insanely jealous of Tech. Tech has long had two medical schools for people (Lubbock and El Paso) and a top rated law school. Tech was the first university in the USA to offer a combined MD-MBA. The Ivy League has followed suit. A&M has been trying to play catch-up for decades. They started a medical school ten years after Tech. A&M bought a law school in Ft. Worth (Texas Weslayan) in 2013, Tech founded its own law school about 1970. Only in veterinary medicine does the Agrucultural & Mechanical College of Texas have an edge on Tech. A&M will not even play a Texas football team next season...A&M is a bunch of foreigners no longer much of a part of Texas.

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AggieTFA06 said:

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Texas Tech should also be working on getting off of probation with the academic accreditation agency.

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Andy Farmer said:

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Wrong. They went on probation in 2007 and were cleared in 2008.

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ok, I stand corrected. You were once on probation but got out. However, in higher ed. circles, Texas Tech is considered a cautionary tale of how to end up on probation.

Please don't give me an STD.

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The Texas House on Friday approved a state budget that included millions in state funding for a new Texas Tech school of veterinary medicine in Amarillo, but the school's future still remains unclear.

The spending plan provides $5.75 million over the next two years. The number is short of the $16.75 million that the Texas Tech University System requested to build the school, which it has estimated to cost $80 to $90 million.

The university system announced the vet school project in December 2015, and has said it would use an innovative approach to solve a shortage of large-animal, rural veterinarians in the state. But a tough budget year for lawmakers in Austin stalled those efforts.

While providing a glimmer of hope that the project will get back on track, the funds still have to survive a reconciliation process with the Senate, which has passed a budget that doesn't include any money for the vet school.

Tech's plans have displeased Texas A&M University System, which has the only school of veterinary medicine in Texas.

The A&M System has told lawmakers there is no need for a second school because Texas A&M University is developing a "pipeline" to bring students from regional schools, like WT, to College Station where a massive new veterinary teaching complex has opened.

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CanyonAg77 said:

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Why are they giving them nearly six million dollars to poop off? It's not enough to do anything toward their vet school pipe dream, beyond hire more lobbyists.

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CJHajda said:

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http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=HB2242

A&M Kingsville may get congressional approval to put together a vet school.

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When will people learned that a filed bill is no indication that the legislation is going to be enacted?

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twk said:

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CJHajda said:

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http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=85R&Bill=HB2242

A&M Kingsville may get congressional approval to put together a vet school.

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When will people learned that a filed bill is no indication that the legislation is going to be enacted?

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BiochemAg97 said:

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Hard to see why someone would even submit the bill. Well, other than political pandering to the local voters.

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Tech has long had two medical schools for people (Lubbock and El Paso)

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