The Party in Texas Has Begun

[Dave_86]

Someone is cranking out some pretty cool & funny stuff.









Finally, here's a link to my favorite Texas State message board. Fans from all around the new PAC-12 have been stopping by to welcome the Bobcats.
Texas State University Bobcats Message Board

 

[Dave_86]

 

[mikalalas]

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Awesome, some funny vids, especially the coffin one.

Texas St is a sleeping giant that has woke up, or will wake up soon.

Texas St is a party school, has a enrollment over 40,OOO, comparable in college size, enrollment, alumni base, etc, to WSU, OSU, ASU, CAL, UTAH, and its about the 4th, 5th, 6th largest college in Texas, and is about the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th ranked, followed, watched, fans, etc, college in Texas, and its Alumni are both scattered all over Texas, and concentrated in Austin, San Antonio, Houston.

 

[Dave_86]

Texas State University System Board of Regents has voted unanimously to accept the invitation to joining the PAC 12. It's official, they're in. Unfortunately, this is the best link I can come up with:

They're in

 

[UberCougars]

There is a new leader in the PAC-12!

## Enrollment Comparison within the New Pac-12 Conference
Texas State University has been invited to join the Pac-12 Conference starting in the 2026–2027 academic year, becoming its eighth football-playing member and ninth overall member. The current Pac-12 members, along with those confirmed to join by 2026, and their most recently reported enrollment figures (based on available data for the 2023–2024 or 2024–2025 academic years) are as follows:

1. Texas State University: 40,678 students (2024)
2. San Diego State University: 38,369 students (2023)
3. Oregon State University: 37,121 students (2023)
4. Colorado State University: 34,110 students (2023)
5. Washington State University: 31,471 students (2023)
6. Utah State University: 28,900 students (2023)
7. Boise State University: 26,727 students (2023)
8. Fresno State University: 24,310 students (2023)
9. Gonzaga University: 7,295 students (2023)

 

[BiggsCoug]

Awesome, some funny vids, especially the coffin one.

Texas St is a sleeping giant that has woke up, or will wake up soon.

Texas St is a party school, has a enrollment over 40,OOO, comparable in college size, enrollment, alumni base, etc, to WSU, OSU, ASU, CAL, UTAH, and its about the 4th, 5th, 6th largest college in Texas, and is about the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th ranked, followed, watched, fans, etc, college in Texas, and its Alumni are both scattered all over Texas, and concentrated in Austin, San Antonio, Houston.

Tx State is not a sleeping giant.

 

[UberCougars]

Tx State is not a sleeping giant.

Just giant-er than WSU (when measured by total enrollment, population, household income and household wealth within 100 miles)

 

[BiggsCoug]

Just giant-er than WSU (when measured by total enrollment, population, household income and household wealth within 100 miles)

So what?

Tx State is still not a sleeping giant.

 

[UberCougars]

So what?

Tx State is still not a sleeping giant.

Outside of the new PAC-12?

OK, sure.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Outside of the new PAC-12?

OK, sure.

You are fcking stupid. Stop drinking paint.

 

[UberCougars]

oh, oh, lil biggy got trapped inside his limited intellect again and he can’t get out!

Can Someone! Anyone! Please come help rescue little @BiggsCoug? He needs your help again.

 

[Coug90]

Sleeping giant might be a bit overboard…but it’s hard to say where that program may find itself after getting a promotion and some exposure, and to that end, how much those variables can add value to the conference. There’s examples of schools who nobody knew existed, received a similar promotion (or multiple) and now are valuable members to their conferences.

Utah, South Florida, TCU, Virginia Tech, Cincinnati, Houston are a few that come to mind. We won’t know for a few years but I’m sure that’s the thought in bringing them in. Will they ever be Texas or A&M?…no. But no reason they can’t be in the Tech/Houston category.

 

[BiggsCoug]

oh, oh, lil biggy got trapped inside his limited intellect again and he can’t get out!

Can Someone! Anyone! Please come help rescue little @BiggsCoug? He needs your help again.

Call your sponsor. You are drunk on paint again.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Sleeping giant might be a bit overboard…but it’s hard to say where that program may find itself after getting a promotion and some exposure, and to that end, how much those variables can add value to the conference. There’s examples of schools who nobody knew existed, received a similar promotion (or multiple) and now are valuable members to their conferences.

Utah, South Florida, TCU, Virginia Tech, Cincinnati, Houston are a few that come to mind. We won’t know for a few years but I’m sure that’s the thought in bringing them in. Will they ever be Texas or A&M?…no. But no reason they can’t be in the Tech/Houston category.

Texas
Texas A&M
TCU
SMU
Baylor
TT
Houston

all bigger than Tx State. How the **** does Tx State jump any of those programs? Tech and Houston are light years ahead of Tx State. Have you been drinkinh painy too?

It isnt a sleeping giant.

 

[UberCougars]

Call your sponsor. You are drunk on paint again.

Poor lil biggy.

Trapped.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Poor lil biggy.

Trapped.

You are trapped by addiction and mental illness. Im sad for you.

 

[UberCougars]

lol, sure!

By the way, how is that equity raise turning out? (LOL🤣)

 

[Coug90]

Texas
Texas A&M
TCU
SMU
Baylor
TT
Houston

all bigger than Tx State. How the **** does Tx State jump any of those programs? Tech and Houston are light years ahead of Tx State. Have you been drinkinh painy too?

It isnt a sleeping giant.

Bigger…how? TCU is much smaller as far as enrollment. And they were pretty irrelevant before joining the Big 12 if memory serves me right. They had LT, which was the equivalent of San Diego State having Marshall Faulk.

No, I quit Painy a while back. Best decision of my life outside of choosing not to be a Trumptard.

 

[UberCougars]

Most folks realize TCU, SMU and Baylor are private.

 

[Coug90]

Most folks realize TCU, SMU and Baylor are private.

So is USC and Notre Dame. What’s your point.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Bigger…how? TCU is much smaller as far as enrollment. And they were pretty irrelevant before joining the Big 12 if memory serves me right. They had LT, which was the equivalent of San Diego State having Marshall Faulk.

No, I quit Painy a while back. Best decision of my life outside of choosing not to be a Trumptard.

Bigger programs. Bigger influence. Bigger impact. Bugger rev. Better history. Better recruits. Bigger and better.

 

[Coug90]

Bigger programs. Bigger influence. Bigger impact. Bugger rev. Better history. Better recruits. Bigger and better.

Fair. At one point in time they weren’t though. Ebbs and flows. Harvard was a football powerhouse 100 years ago and the Ivy League was the SEC. Programs can gain steam and become relevant. Who knew a damn thing about Gonzaga before Mark Few showed up?

I don’t think TSU is a “sleeping giant”. I don’t think it’s absurd to think they can add value to the conference as an up and comer considering their size, geography, and what they are investing in their university and athletic programs.

 

[425cougfan]

Using a phrase like "sleeping giant" that doesn't apply here, and then going to the mat arguing that it's correct, is weird. It's not a sleeping giant. It's a relatively new FBS program you might call a sleeping viable solid G of 5ish conference member, which is what we're really talking about. Not a giant. Just maybe a reasonable addition. That's OK.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Fair. At one point in time they weren’t though. Ebbs and flows. Harvard was a football powerhouse 100 years ago and the Ivy League was the SEC. Programs can gain steam and become relevant. Who knew a damn thing about Gonzaga before Mark Few showed up?

I don’t think TSU is a “sleeping giant”. I don’t think it’s absurd to think they can add value to the conference as an up and comer considering their size, geography, and what they are investing in their university and athletic programs.

The only ebbs and flows I see now would be from schools that have piles of $$$ and can buy the players to get in. I see a very small handful of those schools out there.