Assuming roughly the same percentages carry over to the matriculating class, that would mean around an even one hundred Texans will be arriving in Hyde Park next fall and not merely virtually (we hope). That is hard for this erstwhile Texan to comprehend, being one of only three from the Lone Star State in my own class of ‘67. Will the sweet fumes of mesquite smokers waft through the quads? Will Shiner Bock be on tap at Jimmy’s?
As recently as the class of 2022 the number was around fifty, a figure that blew my mind when I heard it then. Now two years later the number has doubled, notwithstanding a few naysayers in that recent @BronxBorn thread. Some pretty powerful outreach must be going on down there and, as Bronx foretold, had a big effect. Once again his dope on the Texas angle at the U of C is proving out.