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re: My perception of aTm before they joined the SEC vs my perception now
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:52 pm to AgsNguyening
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:52 pm to AgsNguyening
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No reason not to be. A lot of fine service members came out of the corps of cadets. Proud of them and their service, just as I am proud of anyone who wears the uniform of our nation with honor. If you feel it necessary to ridicule that sacrifice, then I feel sorry for you.
There they go confusing their rather strange boy scouts with the military again.
There are milatary heros who were students at every SEC school. Only at A&M do students wear uniforms and pretent to be some strange form of Hitler Youth.
Don't even try to explain the yell leaders to the rest of us. Please.
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Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:55 pm to Rzrbackguy
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Everyone else finds it impossible to keep a "ahem" straight face when they start.
Kinda like when Arkansas fans call the hogs?
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:56 pm to GnashRebel
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Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:58 pm to JumpingTheShark
Full disclosure, I didn't create that image
This post was edited on 10/15/15 at 3:01 pm
Posted on 10/15/15 at 2:58 pm to OKtiger
Delusion
L S U
It's in there
L S U
It's in there
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:01 pm to Rzrbackguy
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There they go confusing their rather strange boy scouts with the military again. There are milatary heros who were students at every SEC school. Only at A&M do students wear uniforms and pretent to be some strange form of Hitler Youth.
Two of my friends from TAMU are now Brigadier Generals, along with about a half-dozen full colonels that I know personally. You are correct, no military ties whatsoever.
50 years ago, MOST universities had a uniformed ROTC program, albeit not as large as TAMU.
In the 1960s, most other schools decided that the military ties were an embarrassment and curtailed those programs. Unlike the majority, TAMU retained its pride in training future military leaders.
Sue us, you flower-power, hippie basterds.
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Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:02 pm to GumpDyke
all those words by you dot jay peg
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:05 pm to Rzrbackguy
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There they go confusing their rather strange boy scouts with the military again. There are milatary heros who were students at every SEC school. Only at A&M do students wear uniforms and pretent to be some strange form of Hitler Youth. Don't even try to explain the yell leaders to the rest of us. Please.
There is it...the most ignorant thing I have read on tRant this week. That is saying something.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:13 pm to cokebottleag
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That's actually a pretty accurate description.
Make no mistake, I have no regrets about the SEC taking in A&M. I like the LSU/Arkansas/A&M freak-fest thing we got going on. I wish the pigs would break through and hold up their end a little bit better against the aggies, though. I now that's got to be KILLING them.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:13 pm to AgsNguyening
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What's LSU's record against Alabama in that same timeframe again? I forget.
Aggies started playing big boy ball in 2012...
LSU vs Bama since then:
2012: 17-21 BAMA
2013: 17-38 BAMA
2014: 13-20 BAMA
For a combined 79-47 (LSU -32 points)
Faggies vs Bama since then:
2014: 0-59 BAMA
2013: 42-49 BAMA
2012: 29-24 A&M
For a combined 132-71 (A&M -61 points)
NOW ONE MORE COMPARISON:
LSU vs Faggies since then:
2014: 23-17 LSU
2013: 34-10 LSU
2012: 24-19 LSU
*JUST FOR FUN*
2011 Cotton Bowl: 41-24 LSU
For a combined 122-70 (LSU +52 points)
When daddy says hush, you hush. Don't make me call Daddy #2 (Bevo) to come bring those UT vs Faggie numbers.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:15 pm to GumpDyke
Thanks for your interest in all things Aggie.Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:15 pm to GumpDyke
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:16 pm to GumpDyke
Yup.
I had no issue with a&m before they joined the SEC. Would definitely root for them in their conference.
Ever since they joined the SEC they have been incredibly obnoxious. I really hate this even happened, because I could definitely pull for them in the other conferences. Their fans make it intolerable around here.
It's truly pathetic.
I had no issue with a&m before they joined the SEC. Would definitely root for them in their conference.
Ever since they joined the SEC they have been incredibly obnoxious. I really hate this even happened, because I could definitely pull for them in the other conferences. Their fans make it intolerable around here.
It's truly pathetic.
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Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:18 pm to Patton
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The dude just basically wrote an essay on how that win was meaningless and you thought you'd drop the sick burn by posting a picture from it. Well done. I'm sure OP is devastated.
I was thinking the same thing. Way to prove the OP's point Ag.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:22 pm to GumpDyke
Go A&M
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:29 pm to Pettifogger
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A&M gave us a couple good moments and that's all we could have hoped for.
They stepped up and delivered a H-trophy and they strengthened the SEC baseball league. I'll allow it.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:37 pm to GumpDyke
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Posted on 10/15/15 at 3:42 pm to GumpDyke
Weirdness vs Tradition is an interesting conversation.
Yell leaders, aka milkmen, are a tradition that started before we were all born, when A&M was an all male military school. Coordinated yells are not foreign to the SEC, A&M just has a lot of them. Other than be eye candy and chant defense on the sideline what else do cheerleaders do? If you need eye candy, there's the Aggies dance team who are on the field when the team runs out and dance at basketball games. The milkmen aren't there to be eye candy, they are there to lead yells through coordinated hand signals. They are elected by the student body, and girls are not forbidden from running, they just never have gotten elected. Don't really see the beef with that tradition.
The Corps of Cadets can be an odd bunch with weird Corps only traditions that only apply to them (1/30th the student body). Much like the actual military, they do and say stuff a lot of us don't get because we aren't a part of it. The fact that nearly half sign military contracts and are officers in the U.S. Armed forces is admirable. Some are nerdy. Some are big doofuses. Some are hard working kids getting school paid for by the military and being trained more for their future in the armed forces than non corps students are. Some are already veterans. Again it's a historical group that has its basis from when the Aggies were an all military bunch. Can see making fun of them as nerds in some instances but don't get the blind hate.
Relationship to Texas is also something hit on in this thread. Though the success Texas has had has been much greater compiling a nearly 2 to 1 win loss ratio, since the majority of us have been alive that record is much much closer to .500. Stacking up a bunch of wins against an all military school from the late 1880s to the 1950s makes the skew a bit lopsided. Both schools routinely are placed in the upper echelon of public business and engineering schools. Both schools mention each other in their fight songs. Both schools have near the same enrollment with A&M being slightly larger. A&M is slightly older. When the two flagship state schools have a rivalry of course there will be animosity, even more so when A&M left for greener pastures and more exposure. Getting out from big brothers thumb? Maybe a point to that, but why fault a school for trying to better themselves.
Standing the whole game, and the 12th man, where is weirdness in that?
Strong school loyalty and togetherness as a student body, pretty damn cool.
Guess some traditions seem odd to people that don't put as much stock in having them, but that uniqueness makes for an experience like any other.
Yell leaders, aka milkmen, are a tradition that started before we were all born, when A&M was an all male military school. Coordinated yells are not foreign to the SEC, A&M just has a lot of them. Other than be eye candy and chant defense on the sideline what else do cheerleaders do? If you need eye candy, there's the Aggies dance team who are on the field when the team runs out and dance at basketball games. The milkmen aren't there to be eye candy, they are there to lead yells through coordinated hand signals. They are elected by the student body, and girls are not forbidden from running, they just never have gotten elected. Don't really see the beef with that tradition.
The Corps of Cadets can be an odd bunch with weird Corps only traditions that only apply to them (1/30th the student body). Much like the actual military, they do and say stuff a lot of us don't get because we aren't a part of it. The fact that nearly half sign military contracts and are officers in the U.S. Armed forces is admirable. Some are nerdy. Some are big doofuses. Some are hard working kids getting school paid for by the military and being trained more for their future in the armed forces than non corps students are. Some are already veterans. Again it's a historical group that has its basis from when the Aggies were an all military bunch. Can see making fun of them as nerds in some instances but don't get the blind hate.
Relationship to Texas is also something hit on in this thread. Though the success Texas has had has been much greater compiling a nearly 2 to 1 win loss ratio, since the majority of us have been alive that record is much much closer to .500. Stacking up a bunch of wins against an all military school from the late 1880s to the 1950s makes the skew a bit lopsided. Both schools routinely are placed in the upper echelon of public business and engineering schools. Both schools mention each other in their fight songs. Both schools have near the same enrollment with A&M being slightly larger. A&M is slightly older. When the two flagship state schools have a rivalry of course there will be animosity, even more so when A&M left for greener pastures and more exposure. Getting out from big brothers thumb? Maybe a point to that, but why fault a school for trying to better themselves.
Standing the whole game, and the 12th man, where is weirdness in that?
Strong school loyalty and togetherness as a student body, pretty damn cool.
Guess some traditions seem odd to people that don't put as much stock in having them, but that uniqueness makes for an experience like any other.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 4:04 pm to GumpDyke
You hate them after a few years. We've had to deal with these retards for over a hundred years. Glad to see SEC fans all hate them too. One day Texas will come knocking and Aggy will be out on their arse.
Posted on 10/15/15 at 4:24 pm to Lemony Snicket
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One day Texas will come knocking and Aggy will be out on their arse.
That's not how it works. Stop obsessing over us whorn. We've moved on. You aren't ever getting in the SEC. That's just the way it is.
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