re: Post something about our program that you would never admit on tRant

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Post something about our program that you would never admit on tRant

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There are few things I won't admit on the Rant. Using humble self-depreciation to catch people off guard is my favorite technique. It is an easy way to lower the defenses, or even just lower the ankle biting intensity.

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A&m will never win a national championship in a sport that matters in my lifetime.

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By this I assume you mean football or basketball, as our women won a title recently already and baseball looks to be on an uptrend.

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I feel like most students go to the games to do yells instead of watching football

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That might not be optimal from a crowd noise standpoint, but I have always felt the effect of the crowd is overrated in football. Sure it has some effect, but its on the margins.

All those kids feeling socially obligated to go, or who go for the yells, build a love for close seats and the live event that will stick with them for life. As the whole sport looks at dropping attendance thanks to competition from TV, I don't feel worried at all that our recent expansion will be a "mistake" because our system breeds season ticket buying alumni unlike any in the country. To get there we kinda stuff the place like a spammer does to your email box, but spam exists because it works. Someone always clicks, and there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of Aggies who went to every game because of a social pressure who then care more about the program as a former student because of those forced memories.

Plus if you think about it, if we didn't have the social pressure and yells not as many students would come. If not as many student came their section would be shrunk. If their section would be shrunk that prime real estate would be filled by those same blue hairs on the west side that don't get off their asses on third downs to yell.

yell fanboy > sit the whole game bluehair