Started By
Message
re: Aggies - Texas residents: Question regarding fan bases in state
Posted on 7/14/15 at 9:57 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
Posted on 7/14/15 at 9:57 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
There will always be a couple of toothless retards following us around, telling us we are in denial of what we already admit, and declaring some sort of delusion and victory. We are so balls deep in their heads they can't hear our agreement.
Let that hate flow.
0
Posted on 7/14/15 at 9:57 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
quote:
There are like 6 or 7 responses from Aggies agreeing with what you said cockface
Agreed. To those Aggies, I apologize. You are a rare breed and a breath of fresh air. I'm not used to Aggies showing objectivity and self awareness.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 9:59 am
Posted on 7/14/15 at 9:59 am to RichardS
thanks for following us around and continuing to show interest in our program Posted on 7/14/15 at 9:59 am to RichardS
How many "rare" Aggies are on this thread alone?
Posted on 7/14/15 at 9:59 am to G2160
Thanks for the responses. Some of the stats are about what I expected. Others are somewhat surprising.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:02 am to RichardS
Yeah, but you are still a cockface.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:03 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
quote:
thanks for following us around and continuing to show interest in our program
Thread title "Aggies - Texas residents: Question regarding fan bases in state."
It's the only reason I opened the thread. I'm absent from the Little decommit threads and Big 12 threads that are all about you, but contributing to one specifically targeting me, a Texas resident, is following you around. OK.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:04 am to RichardS
quote:Most don't.
I'm not used to Aggies showing objectivity and self awareness.
quote:
1a A&M
1b tu
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:05 am to RichardS
Why do you post here?
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:05 am to oman
quote:
Yeah, they kind of will.
not as long as a&m keeps winning the majority of the head-to-heads for in-state talent.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:06 am to G2160
A&M is playing a lot on CBS, ESPN, and such, but the problem is they are losing pretty much all of these big games the past two seasons, t-shirt fans only come when you win.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:15 am to RichardS
quote:
From a New York Times article. LINK October of 2014, so pretty relevant.
This is one thread where I think that Facebook map works. Likes is an good way to judge a popularity contest, which is what we have here. Also that map shows the truth in my experience, which is Texas even dominates most of West Texas and a ton of New Mexico. They go basically where the Cowboys go, and you see a ton of Cowboys fans in New Mexico.
quote:
It drives Aggies absolutely crazy to see those dern tu tsip whorns with a better ranking in anything.
Not at all, actually I am glad Texas is there sometimes to take the pressure off. So many egos and ways Texans think their program should be represented and run, that is why that program has the huge on paper bottom lines (which then become political targets) and the publicly clashing mega boosters. I don't know of a single A&M booster that has spoken out against a new coach of ours like Red McComb did, and as long at their program exists it has to deal with his kind of billionaire dropout hissy fits. Let them be the fantasized representation of Texas that is a hodgepodge of ideas, we will be Aggies.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:21 am to accnodefense
quote:
A&M is playing a lot on CBS, ESPN, and such, but the problem is they are losing pretty much all of these big games the past two seasons, t-shirt fans only come when you win.
The Aggies are still a hot brand. Admittedly TCU and Baylor coming on strong in recent years has cut into that, especially since A&M doesn't get the chance to beat them now.
That having been said they will likely always be the second biggest fan base in Texas with the cult of the dreaded Raider Rash lurking nearby in 3rd.
The school in Austin will always be king though. The Whorns have gone through prolonged droughts before in football and never surrendered the top position and they never will.
Being the second most popular team in a state the size of Texas that loves college football is still damn impressive for the Aggies.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:21 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
quote:
Why do you post here?
This again? Sigh...
A different Aggie asked someone else this same question because he was one of those tu losers. I'll post my response to save time.
quote:
Some people post on this board because it is entertaining. I have no favorite SEC team, although I definitely have a least favorite, yet I still post here. I'm originally from Big 10 country, now live in Texas, appreciate good football and good banter. That is why I'm here and probably why fans of other non SEC schools are as well. I realize you think he's a good for nothing tshirt tu tsip whorn fig. Did I get them all? Him posting here may not have a damn thing to do with you.
I like good football. I like the SEC. There is a certain mystique about it that interests me. The passion and fanaticism is unique and intriguing. I mean, where else would someone from one school need my justification for participation on a message board dedicated to an entire conference? I'm not sure there is anywhere else.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:27 am to RichardS
quote:
I'm originally from Big 10 country, now live in Texas
You should legit move back
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:29 am to cardboardboxer
That's a nice post, and it would be a separate thread, but:
I think A&M represents the fantasy. Given that A&M is growing, it's going to increasingly be populated by a hodgepodge of ideas that will belie the unified idea of Aggie. I think its a contradiction that can be well marketed.
Going to the SEC is part of that. Heading into the "idea" of the old South while the state of Texas demographically gets more mongrelized politically and socially. I think A&M can have it both ways. Being in the old school conference and yet admitting an increasingly diverse student body.
That may be a small part of the t-shirt thing. UTexas trying to hang with California and A&M trying to retain traditions. At least those are the myths that might appeal to some of the fans.
quote:
Let them be the fantasized representation of Texas that is a hodgepodge of ideas, we will be Aggies.
I think A&M represents the fantasy. Given that A&M is growing, it's going to increasingly be populated by a hodgepodge of ideas that will belie the unified idea of Aggie. I think its a contradiction that can be well marketed.
Going to the SEC is part of that. Heading into the "idea" of the old South while the state of Texas demographically gets more mongrelized politically and socially. I think A&M can have it both ways. Being in the old school conference and yet admitting an increasingly diverse student body.
That may be a small part of the t-shirt thing. UTexas trying to hang with California and A&M trying to retain traditions. At least those are the myths that might appeal to some of the fans.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:36 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
quote:
You should legit move back
That hurts man. I've been here for 10 years this October and, although I'm only helping out the sip fhegs in Austin, I strive to make my community a better place. I'm a God fearing, Republican voting conservative. I figured that would make us "friends."
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:45 am to RichardS
quote:
RichardS
and here is yet another post you made on the subject:
quote:
False. I have nothing to do with any school in Texas. I live here now and the vast majority of Aggies I work and interact with are morons. Sure there are a few normal Aggies I enjoy being around, but they are scarce. We just hired an Aggie and a Longhorn fresh out of school and I can't wait to see them prove their stereotypes. It's inevitable. I've made sure their desks will be next to one another.
I knew nothing of "your kind" when moving here, but it didn't take long to learn that I don't like you. I don't like your false bravado and attempts to seem superior based on things that matter only in an Aggies mind. You all try so hard to be accepted by people outside of the group think in College Station, but fall short because, well, you're outside of the group think in College Station.
Much like here on the rant, although the number of tolerable Ags is higher because the 99%ers, or whatever they're called, don't venture far from your group think boards.
Most Aggies are awkward dorks with low self esteem who root for a team that never wins anything while acting like they have. You and many others here may not be. Congratulations on being unique. Longhorns are pompous know-it-alls and can be turds, but at least they're normal and not insufferable boobs.
all of your talking points are recycled from the internet. you're not from here and knew nothing about a&m, but know so much about the group-think in college station.
either that or your peers at work are admittedly "morons", "awkward dorks", or "insufferable boobs" that "fall short of being accepted", except by your company, apparently.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:50 am to oman
quote:
I think A&M represents the fantasy. Given that A&M is growing, it's going to increasingly be populated by a hodgepodge of ideas that will belie the unified idea of Aggie. I think its a contradiction that can be well marketed.
Aggie isn't a race, or an ethnicity, or even an attitude. Aggie is a perspective, it the prism through which the greater world is viewed. There is no contradiction because year after year we take that diverse student raw material and after a Fish Camp and a few Yell Practices we turn them into an Aggie. At the end of the day everyone ends up pretty agreeing on the big ideas as we all accepted the same programing to get in the door.
It is Texas that is the contradiction. Sell to the young kids and and recruits that you are the "California of Texas" and the hip 6th street. Yet you go to a game and it's a ton of country music and cow imagery, aka the kind of rural Robert Duvall-ism that COMPLETELY clash with the hip vibe. Why? Because the whole show is funded by old white Texans with huge belt buckles who put stars on everything and overpay for rustic wood furniture to put in their too large houses. In the middle of this massive generational/cultural divide is an AD who is always looking for a buck so they cater to both audiences in a contradictory manner while squeezing in as many Taco Bell or Mighty Fine ads as either audience can stand.
At A&M we don't have that contradictory clash of cultures. We play our songs. We do our yells. There is no space to worry about if we properly represent the diversity that is the state of Texas, we are too busy being Aggies.
I for one appreciate that, but I drank the koolaid obviously.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 10:51 am to RichardS
That fan map fails because it's based on Facebook likes.
Page 3 of 4
Back to top
Follow SECRant for SEC Football News