I'm still very confused on what exactly ATM brings to the table. I understand that their academics are good relative to the Big XII (but average for most other conferences). They've seen a resurgence in hoops thanks to Billy Clyde and Turgeon. But what have they done in football?? We all love to give them the benefit of the doubt because of history (which isnt that great either). But seriously, ATM won ONE Big XII Championship, and that was in the early days. They don't compete with UT. Over the past 10 years, there are many less qualified football schools that have been better than them (Oregon St, South Carolina, Purdue, Mizzou, Cal).
To top it off, they are conservative / quasi-military nuts... which doesn't exactly jive with most other American college campuses.