New video on Texas A&M bonfire tragedy

My little brother was in the Corps of Cadets in the early nineties (he later became a Navy pilot). He helped build that damn stack of timber when he was there, like all the other guys in the Corps. After the incident our dad, a former pilot in the Army Air Corps during WWII, was furious with A&M for allowing such unsupervised stupidity (I don't think he realized the scale of this annual construction project at the time my brother was there). It was a terrible, senseless tragedy.

Screw this guy. Go there and experience the memorial but no need to make a big production. Take your phone camera, get whatever B roll you need for your followers, and narrate at home. It’s a memorial and should be considered a pastoral setting, not opportunity stream you walk around explaining loudly how everyone died.

And Christ…put on a real shirt. Has this guy ever left his house?

Poor form all the way around.

I'm not going to pretend that mistakes weren't made, but WTF is this arsehole?

It's only posted here so that sub-60 IQ troglodytes can mentally masurbate over the tragic death of some college students.

Congrats?

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theCAW

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Oh now you did it!

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a great tradition and it should be resurrected

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NO. Aggies need to find another way to bring students together. Not burning a huge stack of logs to the ground at night.
I know it's a sensitive subject and will leave it at this, find another way, please.

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It was supervised. I was there when bonfire was on campus. The problem was that it simply got too big (they would try to outdo previous bonfires each year) and they should have redesigned it to accommodate the changes. They honestly should have left it at its original height

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I actually remember when they would talk about how beating the previous height record was such a big deal.

It does seem strange that the risk of going higher and higher was never really questioned. Perhaps it was internally... but the tradition had become too important?

Obviously the loss of life is the most horrible thing about what happened. But it was also sad that one of the most incredible traditions in CFB had to be curtailed.

For younger people who did not get to see it every year on TV. It was quite amazing. I imagine even more so in person.

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I'm not going to pretend that mistakes weren't made, but WTF is this arsehole? It's only posted here so that sub-60 IQ troglodytes can mentally masurbate over the tragic death of some college students. Congrats?

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Some people don’t understand the importance of tradition in our rivalry. When I was going to Texas, I went to bonfire with my best friend, who was going to A&M at the time. I came away impressed with the experience and wished we had something like that. Hex rally just can’t compete.
What happened was tragic, but it shouldn’t take away from how important that it was to Aggies. It’s easy for everyone to be an armchair critic after the fact.
Hit pieces like this are just trying to stir the pot.

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You spend an awful lot of your time googling Aggie and posting about Aggie

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not really this is probably the 3rd thread Aggy related I’ve ever posted

I watch Lamont videos from time to time and they come up in my YouTube algorithm, with this one being his newest one it came up on YouTube yesterday

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When I was going to Texas, I went to bonfire with my best friend, who was going to A&M at the time. I came away impressed with the experience and wished we had something like that.

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Texas did have an annual bonfire event just like aggy. I went to several when I was growing up. The last one I can recall was at the IM fields at 51st and Guadalupe/Lamar intersection. Texas ended their bonfire in the early/mid 70s I believe.

It too was for the Texas vs. A&M football game.

2 threads…which is less than the number of threads coloradoelkheard and Colorado’s have made about Todd golden

And you spend an awful amount of time on that sub forum it seems