re: Can the Aggies explain the fish thing with recruiting?

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No you gig a frog. Gig 'em comes from way back in the day when a yell leader was talking about beating TCU's arse at a yell practice.

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There's also a line out there that "Gig'em" was/is also used to indicate a demerit on an inspection in the Corps, ie, one guy was doing the inspecting and asking a note taker to record the infraction.

Could be that this usage came after the TCU thing, and the term was just a general "Get him" kind of thing.

Could be that this is completely made up. The origins of some of the traditions have gotten somewhat opaque over the years.