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re: 89% of aggy students vote to bring back TEXAS game
Posted on 2/23/19 at 3:42 pm to WhereOrWere
Posted on 2/23/19 at 3:42 pm to WhereOrWere
I don't think either side is afraid, it's just that the schedule is full and it would cost a pretty penny to drop contracted opponents to make it happen.
But you see, when aggy left TEXAS' conference schedule, they demanded that the Longhorns buy out a future contracted non-conference opponent to accommodate their shitfit.
When DeLoss pointed out the schedule was full, aggy went ape shite.
Now that aggy's schedule is full and there's no room for a TEXAS game for many years, the agg sheep are bleating the "full schedule" line without taking into account that they said TEXAS using the same reasoning was total B.S.
Aggy wanted the divorce and they got it. Their students who overwhelmingly want the game to continue have no one else to blame but their own aggy administrators who chose to break their relationship with TEXAS.
But you see, when aggy left TEXAS' conference schedule, they demanded that the Longhorns buy out a future contracted non-conference opponent to accommodate their shitfit.
When DeLoss pointed out the schedule was full, aggy went ape shite.
Now that aggy's schedule is full and there's no room for a TEXAS game for many years, the agg sheep are bleating the "full schedule" line without taking into account that they said TEXAS using the same reasoning was total B.S.
Aggy wanted the divorce and they got it. Their students who overwhelmingly want the game to continue have no one else to blame but their own aggy administrators who chose to break their relationship with TEXAS.
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Posted on 2/23/19 at 3:45 pm to calcotron
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So what?
Because the red-assed aggy contingent is pissed off cross-eyed over the student vote.
And it's really fricking funny to watch them melt.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 3:45 pm to calcotron
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a vote from students should not be held in high regard
Agreed—whether it be Ags or horns doing the voting.
The recent polls held on both campuses are toothless.
The game will eventually be resumed, but it’ll be when both teams can logistically make it work.
That’s not going to happen in the immediate future.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 3:59 pm to Smart Post
Aggy scared. Texas used to abuse them they have traumatizing memories of getting owned by Texas. A&M is just a bigger version of Texas tech when it comes to men's sports.
This post was edited on 2/23/19 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:00 pm to Cheese Grits
Once again you are behind
Difference between Texas and a lot of states is that Texas has been able to adjust and diversify their economy.
Even before the Civil War.
A city like Marshall had tremendous wealth. Reason why the Treasury of the CSA was moved there from Vicksburg.
Had nothing to do with cattle or oil.
They are just pieces to the puzzle.
Don't be upset that Texas is well off and Kentucky is not.
Kentucky allowed people to rob them from their natural resources unlike Texas.
Your jealousy of Texas and the University of Texas is hilarious.
Difference between Texas and a lot of states is that Texas has been able to adjust and diversify their economy.
Even before the Civil War.
A city like Marshall had tremendous wealth. Reason why the Treasury of the CSA was moved there from Vicksburg.
Had nothing to do with cattle or oil.
They are just pieces to the puzzle.
Don't be upset that Texas is well off and Kentucky is not.
Kentucky allowed people to rob them from their natural resources unlike Texas.
Your jealousy of Texas and the University of Texas is hilarious.
This post was edited on 2/23/19 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:02 pm to Montgomery Hill
He doesn't understand that Texas fans feed off of the hate the University of Texas gets. The hate fuels the arrogance.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:02 pm to Smart Post
This just further proves how pathetic Aggies are
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:08 pm to Cheese Grits
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Count your blessing of the PUF as neither Utx or TAMU would have the power and growth they enjoy today without it. With or without money one should stay humble than become an a-hole for all to see.
I'll forgive you for the ignorance and provide an education.
The PUF lands were deemed useless by the state and extended to the University in hopes they would manage and find use for grazing contracts.
University of Texas graduates and University of Texas resources combined to invest years of research and drilling to pursue oil and gas opportunities and finally decades later in 1923 the Santa Rita Oil Well started producing dividends.
In 1931 Texas A&M was brought into the equation and after various amendments, in 1956 Texas A&M was guaranteed a share of 1/3 to UT's 2/3's of the AUF. Despite the well being capped, the managed and reinvested proceeds have reached $20B in 2018.
To suggest the ongoing benefits developed and maintained from an original gift of "grazing land deemed worthless" is nothing more than a "gift of luck" is pure stupidity and disrespect.
For the matter I guess you feel our country is nothing more than a benefactor of stolen land and our forefathers nor veterans and citizens played a factor in being the world leader?
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:14 pm to Montgomery Hill
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You believe in collectivism.
No, but I do believe in freedom from bullies and hypocrisy.
Have friends in TX and quite fond of them. If not for a fatal car wreck that killed a women I was quite fond of I would probably be a Texan today. Had family apply to Utx and SMU recently but they will probably wind up at Georgetown or Princeton. In short here is the skinny.....
Texas as individuals are great people and fun to hang out with even tho some have a very KKK view about the native brown folks around them. It may be better now but 50 years ago there were some racist SOB's down there. Problem is when Texans start gathering in groups they morph into arrogant assholes who think they poop ice cream when they do not. The worst offender of this is Utx or BU students in groups. Maybe I am old and some of this is no longer true but then you get to the internet and Utx and BU folks are represented in cyber form by the ones I knew 50 years ago in real life.
Socialism may work in theory
Communism may work in theory
In the real world tho I believe they are crap because in a world of equality some always wind up more equal than others. While I believe in the free markets I believe game theory should not be silenced by a few in power corrupted by greed to such an extent they crap all over their fellow Americans for a bigger house or car. On the flip side I believe in survivors over victims and folks wanting to earn what they have by working for it over folks looking for a handout.
You can say I am old and senile but the Depression and the WPA may have done more for the USA than some fat cat on Wall Street or Tech monopolist on the West Coast. I believe we should bring back shame to limit some of the far left (at least they are open about it) and the far right (thieves disguised as the good guys) and let the moderates from both parties really make this country great in truth rather than fear. I believe greed kills and all this money rush in college sports is the canary in the coal mine that it is all about to crash and burn.
Coke was a nickel for 60 years and they grew without raising prices. College athletics budgets are growing at 6% - 18% a year while net wages are falling. Somewhere we have lost our way.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:15 pm to DaronTexas
Aggy seriously miscalculated by how they left for the SEC. They tried to have their cake and eat it, too.
Aggy thought TEXAS would bend over backwards and shell out several million dollars to buy out contracted non-conference opponents to keep them on the schedule.
When DeLoss called their bluff, that is when aggy state legislators started filing bills to force the game to continue. They panicked.
Miscalculation No. 2 is needing more state funding to keep up with UT Austin. Aggy thought they could say "frick y'all" when they fled with no repercussions. They defied a state legislative committee in the process.
Now they are mewling like pussy cats in Austin wanting more funding, and the UT, Baylor, Tech, SMU and U of H legislators are going to make those sorry bastards squirm.
Miscalculation No. 3 -- Aggy thought their future former students would be satisfied playing SEC teams with whom they have little in common socially and really don't get to sit around the water cooler and shoot the shite with.
Aggy is dead to UT, Baylor, et al.
Those students are getting pissed that they don't play TEXAS any longer and will start withholding donations in the future, because they will see what a colossal mistake aggy made by leaving the State of Texas.
Aggy thought TEXAS would bend over backwards and shell out several million dollars to buy out contracted non-conference opponents to keep them on the schedule.
When DeLoss called their bluff, that is when aggy state legislators started filing bills to force the game to continue. They panicked.
Miscalculation No. 2 is needing more state funding to keep up with UT Austin. Aggy thought they could say "frick y'all" when they fled with no repercussions. They defied a state legislative committee in the process.
Now they are mewling like pussy cats in Austin wanting more funding, and the UT, Baylor, Tech, SMU and U of H legislators are going to make those sorry bastards squirm.
Miscalculation No. 3 -- Aggy thought their future former students would be satisfied playing SEC teams with whom they have little in common socially and really don't get to sit around the water cooler and shoot the shite with.
Aggy is dead to UT, Baylor, et al.
Those students are getting pissed that they don't play TEXAS any longer and will start withholding donations in the future, because they will see what a colossal mistake aggy made by leaving the State of Texas.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:32 pm to Smart Post
You’re not going to believe me—and that’s fine.
Most of y’all have your talking points firmly in place and aren’t ever going to change your minds.
But we left the Big12, because we’d long wanted to join the SEC, and the stars finally aligned themselves, such that we were able to do so.
It had little to do with UTex; and had the horns made the conference jump along with us, we still would’ve bounced to the SEC from the anemic B12.
For so many reasons, it was simply a cant-miss opportunity.
These endless threads about how we were so afraid of UTex that we chose instead to play one of the nation’s hardest schedules each year are silly.
But I genuinely do understand why folks enjoy maintaining the status quo storyline.
It makes for good Internet fodder and entertainment—for all involved parties.
Most of y’all have your talking points firmly in place and aren’t ever going to change your minds.
But we left the Big12, because we’d long wanted to join the SEC, and the stars finally aligned themselves, such that we were able to do so.
It had little to do with UTex; and had the horns made the conference jump along with us, we still would’ve bounced to the SEC from the anemic B12.
For so many reasons, it was simply a cant-miss opportunity.
These endless threads about how we were so afraid of UTex that we chose instead to play one of the nation’s hardest schedules each year are silly.
But I genuinely do understand why folks enjoy maintaining the status quo storyline.
It makes for good Internet fodder and entertainment—for all involved parties.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:33 pm to Smart Post
This is a terrific post
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:34 pm to Smart Post
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What channel is the 24/7 Sooner Network backed by ESPN with a $300 million contract?
I can't seem to find it.
Come on, don't play dumb with me.
LHN was not about Utx, it was about putting a carrot out to stop the shift in spots.
You make a big deal about getting 15 million per year but IMG gets 4 and and you net 11. UNC got about 15 million per year for their sports and did not have to give as much to IMG / ISP (they merged).
ESPN wanted to go after high school football in TX and Utx was too dumb to share with the lesser children. Overnight the B12 lost its #2 spot and the lack of unity put Nebraska in the B1G and Colorado in the PAC. This is classic penny wise and pound foolish. While you may laugh at the SEC at least they know they are only as strong as their weakest members and operate accordingly.
Pre realignment B12 was #2, had a broad footprint, and academic respect. Not supporting each other allowed outsiders to pick you apart where the best you could get was TCU and WVU. In the meantime the ACC went from life support to survivor. Glad your short term deal did so much to protect your conference and your future.
Biggest thing is you gave up the B12 monopoly in TX for a TV deal. Long term that was a very dumb move.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:41 pm to Cheese Grits
Aggy was warned about the fact that leaving for the SEC would open up the state to outsiders, yet you blame TEXAS.
Then EKG says they would've left even without the perceived mistreatment from TEXAS.
And you still blame TEXAS.
Then EKG says they would've left even without the perceived mistreatment from TEXAS.
And you still blame TEXAS.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:41 pm to OldSchoolHorn
You view my comment as stupidity and disrespect, see how badly you miss the mark?
Worthless land is no longer worthless when you find oil on it, that means it is not worthless. My point is any state school blessed with such luck is blessed. I would say the same for South Dakota if the state school got worthless land that turned out to be loaded with gold and diamonds.
I appreciate the powers that be reinvested outside of oil for the day when the oil runs out.
What you missed as the point, in your arrogance, is that nobody else had the luck to start with.
Worthless land is no longer worthless when you find oil on it, that means it is not worthless. My point is any state school blessed with such luck is blessed. I would say the same for South Dakota if the state school got worthless land that turned out to be loaded with gold and diamonds.
I appreciate the powers that be reinvested outside of oil for the day when the oil runs out.
What you missed as the point, in your arrogance, is that nobody else had the luck to start with.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:42 pm to Smart Post
It’s been 8 years. Get over it. Stop crying. We left. Sorry the break up hurt you, but this is just pathetic.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:44 pm to Cheese Grits
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Biggest thing is you gave up the B12 monopoly in TX for a TV deal.
Aggy voted for single-school networks and had plans for years to launch their own Aggy Network.
Aggy passed up the chance to go in on a joint network.
Keep blaming TEXAS, though.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:45 pm to Smart Post
I didn’t say UTex wasn’t guilty of being obnoxious, miserable conference mates.
They were.
I said Texas A&M had long wanted to affiliate with the SEC.
But there were multiple other reasons we joined the SEC that had nothing to do with the horns.
They were.
I said Texas A&M had long wanted to affiliate with the SEC.
But there were multiple other reasons we joined the SEC that had nothing to do with the horns.
This post was edited on 2/23/19 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:48 pm to EKG
Y'all tried to leave in the early 90s when your board of regents chair flew to Baton Rouge to talk about joining the SEC.
He also used the university airplane to go see his son's graduation, and used that for cover on his talks to sneak off from the SWC. A felony.
He went to prison, I think. Named Ross Margraves.
He also used the university airplane to go see his son's graduation, and used that for cover on his talks to sneak off from the SWC. A felony.
He went to prison, I think. Named Ross Margraves.
Posted on 2/23/19 at 4:50 pm to Smart Post
What I blame Utx for is not seeing the cracks early with Colorado and Nebraska to allow the B1G and PAC to whisper in their ear in the first place.
B12 may have been the biggest winner in the 90's realignment but killed it in less than a generation by having it to bend to TX.
#1 when forming the B12, take fewer TX schools (specifically Baylor) and grow the footprint. Less supporting votes means a better conference for ALL member schools. Utx still has yet to understand this simple concept.
#2 Keep the B12 HQ where it was as that probably keeps the NCAA HQ in the B12 footprint instead of the B1G where it resides now
TAMU and MU left well after Colorado and Nebraska bolted so allowing the first two to leave allows the second two to leave. Focus on cause, not effect.
B12 may have been the biggest winner in the 90's realignment but killed it in less than a generation by having it to bend to TX.
#1 when forming the B12, take fewer TX schools (specifically Baylor) and grow the footprint. Less supporting votes means a better conference for ALL member schools. Utx still has yet to understand this simple concept.
#2 Keep the B12 HQ where it was as that probably keeps the NCAA HQ in the B12 footprint instead of the B1G where it resides now
TAMU and MU left well after Colorado and Nebraska bolted so allowing the first two to leave allows the second two to leave. Focus on cause, not effect.
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