Texas Legislature Controlling University Conference Alignment

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I absolutely agree with you. I actually wasn't even aware that the legislature could do anything about the conference. Being an aggie I am in favor of A&M moving to the SEC not only for the recruiting boost, but for better competition as well. It's without a doubt not the state legislature's place to control which conference a university is a part of. College sports is not a matter of government. And with the government continuously cutting public university's budgets, the schools have to do whatever they can to keep their program alive. In today's society college sports is an extension of the image of a university. The better a university is at sports, the more prominent and well known it is, and the more potential students that want to go there. So for the legislature to control a school's ability to market itself, they are ultimately damaging not only the school's athletic program, but the school altogether.