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re: College Station Gameday questions
Posted on 10/14/13 at 9:56 am to silenth69
Posted on 10/14/13 at 9:56 am to silenth69
There are certainly trees on campus but nothing like you have in the South. We get half the rain you do. Most of the trees are 40 feet or less compared to the giant trees you have at most SEC schools, there are also virtually no pine trees. There are also many open areas where we used to have Bonfire and on the multiple old drill fields.
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Posted on 10/14/13 at 9:57 am to parkjas2001
Posted on 10/14/13 at 10:09 am to EKG
ATM Campus is NOT covered in trees.
Ole MIss / Alabama / UGA are campuses that are covered in trees.
But that does not mean you cant find one. Spence park next to stadium is a good spot. But I hear that it is pretty hard to find a place in there, if your not ATM fans/alumni.
Ole MIss / Alabama / UGA are campuses that are covered in trees.
But that does not mean you cant find one. Spence park next to stadium is a good spot. But I hear that it is pretty hard to find a place in there, if your not ATM fans/alumni.
Posted on 10/14/13 at 10:13 am to parkjas2001
Don't have an open container in the bar area (Norhgate). That's the only area it's really enforced. On campus it's perfectly legal to have one and the neighborhoods east and south of campus no fricks are given as long as you don't act dumb
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:19 am to EKG
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Campus is covered in trees
Ags, let's be serious here.
Our trees simply do not compare to their trees.
While we ARE the biggest and best school in the SEC, but we don't have to claim being "the best" at absolutely everything.
To have BIG trees, you need OLD trees. Most SEC schools are at least fifty years older than TAMU. Georgia and Tennesee are nearly a CENTURY older than TAMU.
Hell, some of those schools have a dozen individual TREES older than our entire school.
TAMU was not built to be pretty. It would built in a desolate stretch of abandoned prairie, because there was a railroad and the land was cheap.
Our campus doesn't even have a CREEK, because a water source would have driven-up the price of the land. Consequence? The land had no trees.
You should see the pictures from when my grandfather was enrolled in the 1930s.
We are growing our trees, and the campus will be much "greener" in a generation, but we will NEVER have the trees found in the Deep South, simply because the climate and the micro-environment are both wrong.
So, let's stop arguing this point. Please? It just makes us look like a mob of egotistical chest-beaters. Thanks.
This post was edited on 10/14/13 at 11:20 am
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:23 am to AggieHank86
I didn't make any comparisons.
I was addressing the incorrect comment that we don't have trees.
We do.
I was addressing the incorrect comment that we don't have trees.
We do.
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:27 am to cjared036
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ATM Campus is NOT covered in trees.
Ole MIss / Alabama / UGA are campuses that are covered in trees.
But that does not mean you cant find one. Spence park next to stadium is a good spot. But I hear that it is pretty hard to find a place in there, if your not ATM fans/alumni.
Spence will be a really easy place to set up a tent. To find shade, not so much, but it is huge.
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:29 am to EKG
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I was addressing the incorrect comment that we don't have trees.
We do.
Don't let the Bama fans know this...
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:29 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:30 am to AggieHank86
We talmbout trees now? 
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:30 am to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:33 am to cjared036
No, Spence is pretty big, there's always space available there.
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:33 am to AggieHank86
Good post Hank
There are many things that are great about A&M and this area of Texas. Trees are not included in that list. It is the one thing I think we really make this place more beautiful. It does not quite have the Southwest, desert feel so it seems like there should be trees. I obsess over rain since I grew up as a farmer, and the rain here is simply not enough to support trees. The soils are not great either. It was it is. Be proud of what you have AGs (it's great) and quit acting like you have it all.
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I have been waiting a long time to talk about the tree situation round here.
There are many things that are great about A&M and this area of Texas. Trees are not included in that list. It is the one thing I think we really make this place more beautiful. It does not quite have the Southwest, desert feel so it seems like there should be trees. I obsess over rain since I grew up as a farmer, and the rain here is simply not enough to support trees. The soils are not great either. It was it is. Be proud of what you have AGs (it's great) and quit acting like you have it all.
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We talmbout trees now?
I have been waiting a long time to talk about the tree situation round here.
This post was edited on 10/14/13 at 11:35 am
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:35 am to Pigimus Prime
Yeah the other problem is that the areas we tailgate in (aside from Spence) have zero trees. West Campus has none. It makes it even more pronounced because that's where visiting fans typically are
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:37 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
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Yeah the other problem is that the areas we tailgate in (aside from Spence) have zero trees. West Campus has none. It makes it even more pronounced because that's where visiting fans typically are
Dammit man, you're an Ag school, grow some more damn trees...
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:38 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
We're more about milking and shite
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:38 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE
If you set up Auburn tents, say you set up 8 tents, expect them to be replaced with Ag tents.
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:40 am to BigD Ag
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If you set up Auburn tents, say you set up 8 tents, expect them to be replaced with Ag tents.
Our made up stories are better than that.
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:46 am to Pigimus Prime
Agree with all of this. I think a lot of Ags are just more used to comparing our campus to other SWC/Big 12 campuses. For instance A&M has a much prettier campus than Texas or Tech as they don't really have any more trees than we do or the land we have. The SEC is a whole different ballgame.
When I went to Gainesville and the UF campus last year that was probably the starkest difference. Lots in common between Gainseville/UF and A&M/CS in terms of size of schools and towns around them. The biggest difference is the HUGE trees everywhere. I remember being frustrated actually at UF that you can't really see anything from ground level because the trees are so big and all over the place. At A&M you can see everything pretty easily, especially with any elevation at all.
A&M has a nice campus but it simply isn't going to win the beauty contests with old SEC schools which are older, built on better soil for growing stuff, and get a LOT more rain. A&M also doesn't really have any hills or mountains, rivers or lakes, or certainly an ocean nearby.
Ags are a prideful and hyper competitive bunch, no denying that. Love to see the Old South camupes of the SEC though as they have just as much to be proud of.
When I went to Gainesville and the UF campus last year that was probably the starkest difference. Lots in common between Gainseville/UF and A&M/CS in terms of size of schools and towns around them. The biggest difference is the HUGE trees everywhere. I remember being frustrated actually at UF that you can't really see anything from ground level because the trees are so big and all over the place. At A&M you can see everything pretty easily, especially with any elevation at all.
A&M has a nice campus but it simply isn't going to win the beauty contests with old SEC schools which are older, built on better soil for growing stuff, and get a LOT more rain. A&M also doesn't really have any hills or mountains, rivers or lakes, or certainly an ocean nearby.
Ags are a prideful and hyper competitive bunch, no denying that. Love to see the Old South camupes of the SEC though as they have just as much to be proud of.
Posted on 10/14/13 at 11:49 am to aggressor
I still think the lazy river would set the joint off.
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