As anew Texan, may I ask one question:
WHY?”
That is just the way it is. Same as it is in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas, where I raised my kids. If you had a son and they didn’t play football, they were obviously butterfly collectors. Daughters were the cheerleaders or on the drill team. Keeps the boys as boys and the girls as girls.
A good argument for a big intramural program in which as many kids as possible get to put on the pads and play.
Not so good an argument for a $60 million stadium where maybe one in twenty of the male students will ever be on the field.
Full disclosure: I played baseball and wrestled in high school, never touched a football except for sandlot games.