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Anybody familiar with Sul Ross State?
Posted on 3/14/25 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 3/14/25 at 3:38 pm
It's in the mountainous part of Texas and has a rodeo team. I've always been low key fascinated by it.
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Posted on 3/14/25 at 3:39 pm to Jim Rockford
There used to be a poster here who lived in Alpine.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 3:41 pm to Jim Rockford
Went there once for geology field camp 1980. Stayed there while finishing field mapping and exercises. Damn that’s a long time ago. Oh and yeah they rodeo. Couple of guys from Salfur were on the team.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 3:44 pm to Jim Rockford
I only know the name from the movie "Dancer, Texas Pop. 81" (a pretty decent movie BTW).
Posted on 3/14/25 at 4:02 pm to Jim Rockford
I’m somewhat familiar with it. I live in Alpine.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 4:09 pm to Jim Rockford
Cowboy U
Posted on 3/14/25 at 4:14 pm to Jim Rockford
This post was edited on 3/14/25 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 3/14/25 at 4:25 pm to Jim Rockford
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It's in the mountainous part of Texas and has a rodeo team. I've always been low key fascinated by it.
Me as well. The previous photo looks to be overly embellished. It is a small, sterile dump of a campus with crap for facilities. Literally a cinder track. Hard to believe it’s a state school in the state of TX. The town of Alpine is nothing special. Went to a bar there and the people were fairly inbred. There is a fancy restaurant on the outskirts of town but it was packed.
Fort Davis was cool as was Terilingua and Big Bend but Marfa was douche central with soyboys on european motorcycles.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 4:26 pm to danilo
Impressive big bend museum there. If I’d it to do over again, would have been a fun place to get a land man degree. Area tend to run liberal. But older crowd liberal. Artsy fartsy.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 4:26 pm to Lefty Diego
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I’m somewhat familiar with it. I live in Alpine.
We thought about possibly moving there when we retired. Interesting place. I still have my Big Bend Brewing Tshirt from when they were still around. We went to Terlingua a couple times a year for a decade. Love that area and the weird folks that inhabit that area. Headed back to run the BB Ultra in January this coming year. Can't wait to go back.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 4:43 pm to rphtx
Anyone that hits the area with a pickup or high clearance suv should check out the Christmas mountains 4x4 trail. One of the best views in Texas at the ending.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 4:43 pm to Jim Rockford
Tiny school, but I somehow know three people that spent time there. Two were students, one was a faculty member for a couple of years.
They all spent two years or less there, but the experience left a big impression on them.
They all spent two years or less there, but the experience left a big impression on them.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 4:44 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
alpine is wonderful and nothing like marfa. I could definitely live in alpine. Not sure where you found “inbreds” but we spent almost a week there and everyone we met were great. Combine the very cool town with proximity to big bend and the rest of the RGV and it’s one of the most pleasant places we’ve ever been
Posted on 3/14/25 at 6:01 pm to Jim Rockford
My son got offered a rodeo scholarship there. Decided on Clarendon College in the panhandle instead. It’s in the same region (conference) and he dreads the drive to Alpine every year
Posted on 3/14/25 at 6:53 pm to Jim Rockford
The football team sucks. Also, Tuff Hedeman went there. Sul Ross was a general in the Confederate Army and later president at A&M. The Aggies shitty QB from a few years back wanted Sullivan's statue removed from campus like he had the power to do it. Frick him. That's all I've got.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 7:13 pm to Jim Rockford
Passed through Alpine, TX on my way to Big Bend NP in 1996. I thought it was so cool to see pronghorn lounging about and grazing on the football field.
I'd check it out if I was 18 again.
I'd check it out if I was 18 again.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 7:16 pm to PetermanFanClub
Named after a Texas Ranger, if I recall correctly.
Alpine is a beautiful town. Could absolutely live there.
Alpine is a beautiful town. Could absolutely live there.
Posted on 3/14/25 at 7:19 pm to Ghost of Colby
but the experience left a big impression on them.
—good or bad impression?
—good or bad impression?
Posted on 3/14/25 at 7:22 pm to BiggerBear
Fandango was better
Neither was as good as The Last Picture Show
Neither was as good as The Last Picture Show
This post was edited on 3/14/25 at 7:27 pm
Posted on 3/14/25 at 7:24 pm to Jim Rockford
Dan Blocker (Hoss Cartwright from Bonanza) went to school there.
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As a boy, Blocker attended Texas Military Institute. He enrolled in a San Antonio school in 1940. He went to Hardin-Simmons University and Sul Ross State University, where he earned a degree in speech and drama.[3]
In 1946, Blocker played football at Southern Baptist-affiliated Hardin–Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. In 1947, he transferred to Sul Ross State Teacher's College in Alpine, Texas, where he was a star football player, and graduated in 1950. After two years of military service, he earned a master's degree in the dramatic arts.
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