re: Would you touch the Aggies Tra La LA?

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Thank you for the explanation. Why do you only have male cheerleaders? Can this be changed?

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Yell Leaders are elected by the student body. Their purpose is to get the 12th Man pumped up and yelling during the game, and to lead our various synchronized yells. Girls have run for the position before, but have never been elected. It'd take a pretty unique chick to pull it off.

I'll put it this way ... if you were on defense and needed to make a goal line stand, would you want a chick yelling and screaming in the huddle to fire you up?

Yes, girls are fun to look at, but strategically cheerleaders don't heighten the intensity of the crowd or make the environment more hostile, so they don't really bring anything in that regard.

I'm honestly not opposed to there being something like the USC Song Girls on our sidelines, but the Yell Leaders bring too much to our atmosphere to get rid of them. That'd be a stupid arse mistake.