It's all publicly funded universities in Texas, not just the UT system.
In other words: you've just pissed off a lot of Aggies grouping them in with, ahem, tu.
In other words: you've just pissed off a lot of Aggies grouping them in with, ahem, tu.
A&M is the other very large public university system in Texas. So there is a small intra-state rivalry there.
They do that to imply that "varsity" is not the University _of_ Texas.
As with lots of things coming from College Station, you just sort of have to accept it.
There may be some disenfranchised barbarians out in the wilderness that do. But likely only due to their extremely tenuous grasp of the fundamentals of English. Primarily they communicate through grunts and hand signs.
Hell, it's on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_University
> There may be some disenfranchised barbarians out in the wilderness that do. But likely only due to their extremely tenuous grasp of the fundamentals of English. Primarily they communicate through grunts and hand signs.
;)