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re: Can Texas A&M ever change their image?
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:58 pm to Aggie in TN
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:58 pm to Aggie in TN
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I grew up in Texas also, and the Longhorns were a bunch of draft dodgers and gay-liberal figs who do not represent the state of Texas.
Damn, there hasn't been a draft to dodge since January of 1973.
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Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:58 pm to Wellborn
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Texas A&M is tied in with Purdue and the University of Michigan for the most Fortune 500 CEOs.
I actually admire the way many of you were able to reinvent yourselves in college. But the fact remains, most of you were rejects in high school, lol
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:35 pm to AllDayEveryDay
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But I'd agree, some things need to go, and likely will over time, again, to some degree but not totally.
Not a single thing needs to “go.”
Threads like this one are strange … and tired.
I never think about what other schools choose to do.
What a hollow feeling it must be to expend energy doing so.
Here is the reality: We aren’t interested in being like anyone else.
And those things some others may mock about Texas A&M University are deeply rooted in meaning and significance to generations of Aggies—they aren’t expendable, frivolous experiments.
So it’s irrelevant whether or not non-Ags understand or approve.
Our ways aren't going away because others think they ought to.
My university won’t ever change; it’s one of the few certainties in life that brings me genuine peace.
Gig’em.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:43 pm to SEC Doctor
quote:Yes, but that's not really a thing these days. In any case, the University was never part of the weirdness.
Isn’t U Texas in a city that prides itself on being weird?
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:47 pm to 49 to nada
I’ve never seen anything like A&M. They are the strangest group of weirdos I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe the SEC let them into the conference. You would have thought someone in the SEC office would have researched them and their vulgar traditions.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 11:56 pm to SaturdayNAthens
quote:It was an attempt to lure the real prize into the conference.
I’ve never seen anything like A&M. They are the strangest group of weirdos I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe the SEC let them into the conference. You would have thought someone in the SEC office would have researched them and their vulgar traditions.
The SEC knew we weren't really down with the Big12 and shopping around. aggy convinced the SEC office there was "no waaaay dude!" we'd give up the rivalry (forgetting about the RRS I guess) and that we'd dump LHN and the $30mil per year from ESPN to run to the SEC with them.
Welp, only took 12 years and the LHN contract nearing it's end, but it eventually happened.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 12:07 am to EKG
quote:Well put. I can certainly appreciate and respect this perspective.
So it’s irrelevant whether or not non-Ags understand or approve.
Our ways aren't going away because others think they ought to.
My university won’t ever change; it’s one of the few certainties in life that brings me genuine peace.
This post was edited on 10/9/24 at 12:09 am
Posted on 10/9/24 at 12:39 am to Dr RC
Don’t ever change, aggy, no matter how much they tell you that you should
Posted on 10/9/24 at 12:41 am to 49 to nada
Are you saying that Texas was the real prize? You people are delusional if you are. Yeah the SEC fans really wanted a bunch of entitled nobodies who couldn’t even win in the Big 12 and think they can buy anything and anyone. Heck we already had A&M for that. Why would we want Texas?
Posted on 10/9/24 at 12:47 am to North Dallas Tiger
Pretty difficult to unsuck a dick.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 12:50 am to Rebel
I was really looking for insight from their fans/alumni on whether they want change and to what degree. A few were candid enough to agree.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 5:25 am to giveemhell
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I actually admire the way many of you were able to reinvent yourselves in college. But the fact remains, most of you were rejects in high school, lol
I know quite a few popular people in high school that I could buy 100 times over. One of them cleans my house every week and one cleans my pool. Another works at my golf club and ensures I have my tee times aligned every week.
Nerds usually grow up to be STEM majors and we own the rest of you.
Congrats on your high school domination. We will keep our millions in the bank.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 5:49 am to North Dallas Tiger
They don’t want to and they don’t view it the same way the rest of us do.
honestly I think it’s over the top and I like the poke fun at it but it’s a military college and they got a lot of tradition behind it.
honestly I think it’s over the top and I like the poke fun at it but it’s a military college and they got a lot of tradition behind it.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 5:49 am to AllDayEveryDay
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At this point, reversing course would do more damage than staying on it
This seems to be the consensus amongst aggies.
It is also 100% incorrect.
So, the violently homoerotic and unsettling traditions are here to stay.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 6:03 am to North Dallas Tiger
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This post was edited on 10/9/24 at 6:29 am
Posted on 10/9/24 at 6:14 am to AllDayEveryDay
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But I'd agree, some things need to go, and likely will over time, again, to some degree but not totally. Hell, during the mizzou game students were chanting "over-rated!". That wouldn't have flown 10 years ago.
TBH, we did that in the 80s.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 6:47 am to North Dallas Tiger
Who wants to copy what everyone else is doing all the time?
This was discussed last week, and the week before that, and the week before that, and so on since A&M joined the conference.
A&M believes in tradition, apparently more so than anywhere else. You can get girls holding signs that say “cheer” and pom-poms anywhere else.
I would like to see some women yell leaders, and I think that will eventually happen.
This was discussed last week, and the week before that, and the week before that, and so on since A&M joined the conference.
A&M believes in tradition, apparently more so than anywhere else. You can get girls holding signs that say “cheer” and pom-poms anywhere else.
I would like to see some women yell leaders, and I think that will eventually happen.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 6:56 am to North Dallas Tiger
Hey man, it’s football season and there’s actually football games to discuss, can we at least save this junk for the offseason?
Posted on 10/9/24 at 7:03 am to ChapelHillSooner
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I have always thought that their image has held them back. Not many HS athletes are persuaded by that and more are turned off by it.
4 & 5 star high school recruits care about (in order):
1) NIL/how much $$$ they will get
2) who will develop them the best for the NFL
3) program history/success/championships
4) program facilities & stadium
5) probably academics
6) miscellaneous & traditions/culture
Despite this board’s obsession with it and insisting it’s that big of a deal, I highly doubt the modern recruit cares that much about “how weird yell leaders are”. Y’all are way over complicating it.
A&M has recruited very well at times and just decently well at others, mainly tied to the cycle of how well the program is doing at the time. Sure there might be a recruit or two over many years that passed on A&M because of “the culture”, but we aren’t losing out on 5+ of them a year because of it.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 7:10 am to Wellborn
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Kimberly A. Dang ’92, Mays Business School, Kinder Morgan
I looked her up. Not what I expected, lol.
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