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Since 2008, 34 small colleges and universities in the U.S. have added football to their athletic programs, three in Texas: Houston Baptist University, Southwestern University and Wayland Baptist University. These universities have seen significant enhancement of student life and increased revenue as a result of the new programs.

Hmmm, I have always wondered why UTA didn't do the same thing rather than just dump football altogether. 

 

I wonder where they are going to play their games? Handley stadium? Farrington field?

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59 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

Glad to see they're spending the money from the sale of the law school so wisely.

I may be biased, but I think Wesleyan got hosed in that deal. Just the name change alone (practically the only change so far), they've become ranked for the first time, and increased their average LSAT by 4 points. Wesleyan would have probably made a lot more money holding onto it in the long-term but I think it was sold due to financial problems at the main university. Law schools are usually the only school within a university that turn a big profit. 

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6 hours ago, SilverEagle said:

Hmmm, I have always wondered why UTA didn't do the same thing rather than just dump football altogether. 

 

I wonder where they are going to play their games? Handley stadium? Farrington field?

The interesting thing is Jerry World is about 2 miles from the UTA campus. I can see them restarting in a couple of years and cutting a deal with Jones to use Jerry World as there home stadium. 

Bet it happens before UNT has baseball.

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6 hours ago, ChristopherRyanWilkes said:

I may be biased, but I think Wesleyan got hosed in that deal. Just the name change alone (practically the only change so far), they've become ranked for the first time, and increased their average LSAT by 4 points. Wesleyan would have probably made a lot more money holding onto it in the long-term but I think it was sold due to financial problems at the main university. Law schools are usually the only school within a university that turn a big profit. 

Wesleyan Law had gone as far as it possibly could with its budget and resources.  The A&M land-grant budget and national name was a huge player in pulling folks with better numbers (I'm not going to say "better qualified"), and they've added a lot of well-known names in IP law.  I expect them to move up the rankings relatively quickly, following the Alabama model.   I just wish they had kept the night program, but I understand why they don't want students like my classmates and I anymore.

Wesleyan/A&M '14

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2 hours ago, TripleGrad said:

Wesleyan Law had gone as far as it possibly could with its budget and resources.  The A&M land-grant budget and national name was a huge player in pulling folks with better numbers (I'm not going to say "better qualified"), and they've added a lot of well-known names in IP law.  I expect them to move up the rankings relatively quickly, following the Alabama model.   I just wish they had kept the night program, but I understand why they don't want students like my classmates and I anymore.

Wesleyan/A&M '14

I'm with you my friend. Started out in the evening program, sad to see it go. I know Judge Spurlock is especially sad to see it go, he helped found the school as a small evening law school for non-traditional students. They are saying it's an economic based decision. They made the evening program smaller when I started and the class was only 32 students down from 78 the year prior. 

By the way, always cool to meet North Texas and Wesleyan/A&M law grads. It seems like Denton is full of attorneys from the combination of the two. Seems like a natural fit being the DFW public university and now DFW public law school (sorry UNT law, not accredited).

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8 hours ago, TripleGrad said:

Wesleyan Law had gone as far as it possibly could with its budget and resources.  The A&M land-grant budget and national name was a huge player in pulling folks with better numbers (I'm not going to say "better qualified"), and they've added a lot of well-known names in IP law.  I expect them to move up the rankings relatively quickly, following the Alabama model.   I just wish they had kept the night program, but I understand why they don't want students like my classmates and I anymore.

Wesleyan/A&M '14

They dropped the night program? That's a shame. That produced a lot of good attorneys that actually had life experiences. 

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2 minutes ago, RBP79 said:

If I remember, UTA already has a FB stadium...Jerry want have to be in the picture. 

High Schools won't even play in that old POS. They can use that land to build a new stadium in its place one day, though. 

JerryWorld would be the obvious solution until that can be accomplished.

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1 hour ago, UNT90 said:

High Schools won't even play in that old POS. They can use that land to build a new stadium in its place one day, though. 

JerryWorld would be the obvious solution until that can be accomplished.

If they start in FCS, that old stadium is fine.  Better than playing to crowds of 5,000 in cavernouse JerryWorld.

As for Texas Wesleyan bringing NAIA football, how much will they pay us to play there?

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2 hours ago, ChristopherRyanWilkes said:

Yep, a lot of police officers,  nurses, etc. were my classmates. It's being "phased out"  after this current class. 

Wow, I didn't know that.  But, then again, I don't really feel like I am a part of that school any longer.  I graduated through the TexWes evening program in 2012.

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18 minutes ago, jredallas said:

Wow, I didn't know that.  But, then again, I don't really feel like I am a part of that school any longer.  I graduated through the TexWes evening program in 2012.

Cited as being "economic reasons" and that the classes were too small to sustain the costs or something like that. They were saying UNT-Dallas took a lot of evening program applicants but I don't think that was the case. They purposefully accepted a smaller class because evening students typically do not have as high of LSAT and GPA's. To me, this is a perception thing that A&M is implementing to change the "night school" image. My class is the second to last class. I switched to full-time because I knew something was up and wanted to graduate before classes started getting phased out. 

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