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re: Video: Gig'Em Aggie Style
Posted on 12/14/12 at 10:16 am to stho381
Posted on 12/14/12 at 10:16 am to stho381
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Definite little brother syndrome/inferiority complex with this one
The funny thing about this is it always gets brought up whenever Aggies respond when people make incorrect statements about the schools. There is a false perception by many that Texas is "big brother", yet A&M is older, larger, and more politically powerful than Texas. Both are Flagship Universities that are elite amongst large public schools in the US. Texas just ran up a ton of wins on us for a period after WWII when we were still primarily an all male military college slowly changing to what we are today and they had a better decade in the '00s than we had by quite a bit because we hired Fran. The head to head is even over the last 35 years between the schools. Texas has 9 conference titles since '75 and we have 8 but one of those "titles" for Texas is from '94 when we were undefeated and on probation while they lost 3 conference games and got destroyed by us at DKR.
So yes it annoys the hell out of Aggies when people falsely throw out that we are "little brother" when in reality we are at a minimum equals and could make a very valid claim as the "big" school. We certainly showed them who had more power in the re-alignment stuff when they did absolutely everything they could to stop us, including using their political connections and getting Baylor to help and we slapped them away like a fly.
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