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re: Can Texas A&M ever change their image?
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:28 pm to North Dallas Tiger
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:28 pm to North Dallas Tiger
If only A&M could be just another generic school with no real traditions or uniqueness. That would be so awesome. 
A&M has always been different and unique. No other school has a history like we do in terms or our military connection (more Aggies served in WWII than all of the Academies combined and we were all male and all Corps until essentially the '60s, though the Corps was not compulsory starting in the 50s). We embrace our traditions like no one else, at A&M if something happens twice it becomes a tradition and that includes a lot of dumb and goofy crap.
Still the school is without question a powerhouse. $20 Billion Endowment. $1.1 Billion in annual Research budget. Pushing 80k students and virtually none are commuters. Has one of the highest annual salaries for alumni and companies recruit there that rival only the most elite schools. Ferociously loyal alumni that give generously. We spend insane amounts on athletics and facilities though we have underperformed for our investment. One of the most conservative public schools in the country with an incredibly robust number of student organizations in everything you can dream up.
A&M has no desire to be Michigan State or NC State and that is what a lot of folks would prefer. Nothing wrong with those schools but they are clearly in the shadow of the Flagship school and can't compete with them in any real way and they have little if any personality or uniqueness. frick that.
A&M has always been different and unique. No other school has a history like we do in terms or our military connection (more Aggies served in WWII than all of the Academies combined and we were all male and all Corps until essentially the '60s, though the Corps was not compulsory starting in the 50s). We embrace our traditions like no one else, at A&M if something happens twice it becomes a tradition and that includes a lot of dumb and goofy crap.
Still the school is without question a powerhouse. $20 Billion Endowment. $1.1 Billion in annual Research budget. Pushing 80k students and virtually none are commuters. Has one of the highest annual salaries for alumni and companies recruit there that rival only the most elite schools. Ferociously loyal alumni that give generously. We spend insane amounts on athletics and facilities though we have underperformed for our investment. One of the most conservative public schools in the country with an incredibly robust number of student organizations in everything you can dream up.
A&M has no desire to be Michigan State or NC State and that is what a lot of folks would prefer. Nothing wrong with those schools but they are clearly in the shadow of the Flagship school and can't compete with them in any real way and they have little if any personality or uniqueness. frick that.
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Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:32 pm to giveemhell
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They embrace their strangeness and wear it as a badge of honor. They were rejects in high school, but found a college full of other high school rejects that became their extended family. For that reason they'll never change.
Why did you join this site in Nov 2012? That seems like something a reject would do.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:34 pm to aggressor
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If only A&M could be just another generic school with no real traditions or uniqueness.
The problem is you're a generic state school with some awful traditions and off-putting uniqueness.
And as an aside, A&M isn't even in the same galaxy as Michigan State or NC State in terms of location/beautiful campus.
Your comparisons need to be Texas Tech or Oklahoma State.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:39 pm to North Dallas Tiger
It is too late to “change their image”. If you sucked 1 cock 10 years ago and then had sex 100 women, you are still g@y.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:41 pm to Jimmy Montrose
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A&M isn't even in the same galaxy as Michigan State or NC State in terms of location/beautiful campus
I don't live in College Station so I don't really give a shite. If you're picking a school for the scenery, you've already lost at life.
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Your comparisons need to be Texas Tech or Oklahoma State.
As a university, there is no comparison to those schools. What a joke.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:42 pm to SEC Doctor
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Isn’t U Texas in a city that prides itself on being weird?
UT has over 50,000 students. Just like not everyone in Georgia is liberal just because as a state they helped put Brandon in the White House, there are equal libs vs. conservative students.
Austin as a city is a liberal $hithole in the center with normal people in the belt surrounding the center. Again not unlike other major cities in the South.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:44 pm to HTX Horn
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Austin as a city is a liberal $hithole in the center with normal people in the belt surrounding the center.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:50 pm to AggieArchitect2004
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As a university, there is no comparison to those schools. What a joke.
Wow that's kinda arrogant.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:52 pm to Monsusta
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Dudes dressing like milkmen and doing queer af sign language is outright gay 100%.
This you? This seems overtly gay.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:54 pm to AggieArchitect2004
If you told AI to generate the prototypical University of Texas student , that is what you would get
This post was edited on 10/9/24 at 3:55 pm
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:55 pm to SEC Doctor
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Isn’t U Texas in a city that prides itself on being weird?
Very true...although that's a distant memory at this point. The Austin that existed when I went to Texas is long gone. Replaced by traffic, people, and corporations. It's depressing to go there now.
As for the Ags...they are ok. I have a few grads that are friends and a cousin who went there. It can seem cultish from the outside looking in but they are good people for the most part.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 3:58 pm to Lgrnwd
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If you told AI to generate the prototypical University of Texas student , that is what you would get
Perfect example of something easy to post on the internet but that I promise no one up here would say to my face.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 4:06 pm to HTX Horn
So that is you, what would you do hit someone with your giant dildo?
Posted on 10/9/24 at 4:52 pm to Longhorn Actual
Liar…UT really has zero military connection. They didn’t even have a ROTC program until AFTER WWII. While almost every other school did and provided officers. A&M has provided and continues to provide large numbers of serving officers. Check out the Commandant of the US Marine Corp for one example. Texas has always been draft dodging liberals.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 4:56 pm to Jster15
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Texas has always been draft dodging liberals.
Another typical aggy idiot.
William Harry McRaven is a retired four-star admiral in the United States Navy Seals and a former Texas Longhorn who served as the ninth commander of the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM).
This post was edited on 10/9/24 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 10/9/24 at 4:57 pm to Monsusta
atm has been cultish weird and gay forever
they won’t change
they won’t change
Posted on 10/9/24 at 5:01 pm to aggressor
If you live in Texas and want to be a Fortune 500 CEO or pass the Texas Bar exam on your first try what school should you go to?
Texas A&M. We are what the CEO and Bar exam scoreboard says we are.
Texas A&M. We are what the CEO and Bar exam scoreboard says we are.
This post was edited on 10/9/24 at 5:45 pm
Posted on 10/9/24 at 5:02 pm to charliethehun
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charliethehun
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cultish weird and gay forever
Hey, that’s your persona here on the Rant.
Posted on 10/9/24 at 5:04 pm to Monsusta
Your comeback was this one guy?
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