our EE, ME, aerospace et al programs were shipping so many graduates to Houston (and the space program) that the NASA logo rip-off kinda worked. Still to this day, I think that Houston has the largest MSU alumni group outside the state of Mississippi.
If you have ever been on a Southwest flight from Houston to Jackson on a Friday night before a State home game (esp back in the Sherrill and winning days) then you would think that every engineer in Houston was on the plane ....drinking and screaming "Dogs up in here."