Gig ’Em, Tom: Texas A&M-Fort Worth Wins Vandergriff Award

It wasn’t all that long ago — six decades, if you’re counting — that then-Mayor Tom Vandergriff led in ushering Texas A&M out of his beloved Arlington, believing the boys down there were neglecting its Johnson Station branch in the middle of DFW.

Too much College Station, not enough Arlington was the memo sent to the Ministry of Complaints in Austin.

T-sip Gov. John Connally, receptive to Vandergriff’s and Arlington’s howling, proposed Arlington State go to the transfer portal as part of a broader restructuring of Texas education…

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