BYU-Texas, an exercise
 

It may be silly, but I was thinking the other day, if you were to create a BYU-Texas (which some on facebook have clamored for), where in Texas would you situate it?

A big city? In a college town? In a town sized like a college town, but without a college? In a very, very small town?

How would such a place be received in a non-big city? It would, after all, be a huge deal.

The Virginia experience is somewhat instructive. Initials fears have given way from what I understand.

Big City - San Antonio, Fort Worth, or Dallas
Medium Sized City - stumped. Suburb of Austin? Bryan?
Small City - how about Navasota? Under an hour from Houston airport. 30 min away from College Station.

I have a friend I grew up with who lives in Cedar Park. He loathes everything BYU. I would put it there just for his sake.

I would support a BYU-Seattle if it caused mental pain and anguish for SU.

I think BYU and Georgetown should form a working coop. I could support that.

El Dorado?

-- seems like a natural fit. and you could put all of the local FLDS to work in the construction (and then later, the cafeterias, groundskeeping and home economics departments).

seriously, though. do you think that, in the wake of the FLDS incident, a Mormon college in Texas should avoid too close an association with polygamy (like being called "BYU-Texas")?

as to location . . . why not Temple? You'd probably want to be inside the Houston-Dallas-SanAntonio triangle.

I had a flash of inspiration, which happens to me quite frequently of course.

Start a new school, BYU-Mexas. A church school in Texas that recruits from both the US and Latin America/Mexico. Get it? Mexico/Texas = Mexas.

An international church needs an international university. I think it would be very interesting as a social experiment.

The Church is too conservative now and doesn't engage in social experiments.

Sure they do.

One of their longstanding experiments is "let's make our chapels as architecturally boring and ugly as possible, like a McDonalds chain."

I suggest Lubbock. I'm told it's a "dry" county (or city?), but that's up for a vote in the near future. So it would give the church the opportunity to band together with all the Baptists who are there to rally the vote to keep it dry.

Of course, the recent change of policies in SLC suggest they might not favor dry after all.

Plus they could snag Leach from Tech as the founding AD.

I'm thinking Waco could be fun.