When Guy Bailey was named the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Texas–Rio Grande Valley in April, he no doubt anticipated a few of the challenges involved in overseeing the launch of the new institution. He would be engaged in the complicated task of creating the UTRGV medical school. He would need to position the university to take advantage of the research opportunities created by the construction of the SpaceX launch center, in Brownsville. And he would have to ensure that the consolidation of the two universities that would make up UTRGV—UT–Pan American, in Edinburg, and UT-Brownsville, 65 miles southeast—went off smoothly.One thing Bailey probably didn’t anticipate, though, is that his biggest headache would involve a six-foot-tall fuzzy horse who walks on…The post Get Bucky appeared first on Texas Monthly.