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> So no sports, no stadiums

As much as I hate it, in Texas, college Football is a profit center and the only way to get serious research funding from the state.

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I also strongly dislike the focus on college football but Texas has close to 100 universities as well as many additional research institutions (that can confer a phD) and many of those have serious research funding without a sports team. University of Texas systems has 14 universities alone, and only 1 football team.

Personally, I think High School Football and funding is a much larger problem in Texas.

There are three. Austin, El Paso, and San Antonio all have football teams.

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