re: Can aTm cast aside their envy and cheer for TCU in this championship game?

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A&M and horny frog go way back. My first A&M game I ever went to when I was a kid was between A&M and TCU.

We have about a 2 to 1 win streak advantage over TCU. We also have a 24 game winning streak against TCU. I never did have much hate towards TCU back then. They were just considered to be another automatic win most seasons. Most of our games while I attended A&M were blowouts. I felt bad for them when the SWC broke up and they got left behind. I figured they would never amount to much. Boy was I wrong.

Good luck to them

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We also missed their best stretch of football ever.

Most TCU grads I know are nice folks.

They definitely belie the image of the school as a repository of extremely wealthy, academically supbar children with notable fondness for controlled substances.

Aggys can’t wait to hang another banner when the SEC wins again

I'm hoping TCU wins the game but don't think they will.
They have been the best program in Texas the last 10 years.

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We don’t have much history with TCU. They joined the Big 12 after we left.

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[Laughs in SWC]

100% rooting for TCU. Know lots of fine young men and women that went there and have many friends in Ft Worth who support the school.

I have lived in Texas for over 20 years. All of the kids here grow up wanting to go to Texas or A&M. Those two schools, along with Rice are where all of the smart kids in the state end up attending. TCU is not a school that any Texas kid grows up hoping to attend. I'm not sure how to explain it, but TCU is kind of like an after thought. There isn't a strong and visible alumni base at TCU like other schools in Texas have. It probably doesn't help that their student population at TCU has quite a bit of out of state students. Lots of California kids for some reason. So, I could totally see an A&M or Texas fan not excitedly rooting for TCU. Not be cause they're jealous, but just because TCU is an afterthought like I mentioned earlier

Who gives a shite? Any “pulling” for any team means nothing unless you’re inside the stadium and actually could affect the game. Who GAF? Screaming at your TV and posting on tRant will not affect the game.

You obviously don't live in Texas. I've been here over 20 years. Texas is a huge state and A&M's enrollment has had to grow substantially to keep up with the increase in the state's population. But, it is far from a diploma mill. All of the smart Texas kids go to A&M, Rice, or University of Texas. You basically have to be in the top 10 percent of your high school class to gain admission. They do accept some kids who barely miss the top 10% and have extremely high SATs/ACTs from some of the highly competetive academic high schools like Plano West, etc. Some high schools in Texas are extremely difficult to be in top ten percent even with straight A's.

Make all of the snide jokes you want. A&M, Texas, and Rice are where all of the smart kids attend college in Texas. There is no arguing that. It is a fact. And just because a student is admitted to Texas or A&M, it doesn't mean they've been accepted into the major/Department they wish to be in. They basically have to go through another admission/review process to get into certain majors like engineering, business, computer science, etc. And in the engineering school, you aren't even guaranteed which specialty you want (chemical, civil, electrical, etc). After freshman year, you have to basically apply yet again to see which engineering specialty you get into.