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re: ESPN Article On End Of A&M-Texas Game
Posted on 4/30/12 at 1:01 am to johnzorback
Posted on 4/30/12 at 1:01 am to johnzorback
Player development under Petrino is beyond reproach.
Trying to flame it is silly. He is truly brilliant and truly gone.
Trying to flame it is silly. He is truly brilliant and truly gone.
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Posted on 4/30/12 at 6:37 am to Sao
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But there's one flaw... While we "lost our pipeline", they didn't mysteriously move to Montana and we are still located in ... "Arkansas". I suppose AMU will suddenly learn how to recruit their honey hole located 3 hours from DFW/Houston/Austin/SA and most of East Texas? Because losing to Lil' Ol' Arky 3 straight is a mystery. How did we do that to those Big Bad Ags? Can we blame it all on Fran still?
Sao,being located in Arkansas is Hogs' problem!
Posted on 4/30/12 at 6:55 am to DWag215
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I think the more salient point is that you rarely get players who are highly sought after from Texas -- or anywhere for that matter. Notice I said rarely, so relax on countering with the obvious exceptions. It's just not all that likely that you can continue to develop players no one else really wants; at least not a rate high enough to win consistently. Of course, Bobby sort of proved that wrong. But how many Bobby's will there really be? And how the frick do you have 0 commits right now (or has changed in the last week or so)? Yeah I know Bobby was fired but hell, there were only two at that time.
Booby's player development at Arky was way overrated. He never won a big game at Arky. Took Mallet from first round pick to a third rounder.Had to go overtime to beat worst Ga team in years.Beat Tn after Kiffin left them decimated.Beat LSU after Raheim Aleim kicked a football after stopping Arky. That was JJ's first game.
Beating powerful KSU was his big win. Arky rode Bama and LSU's wave to 5th place poll finish even though they did not beat a strong team. WV,Oregon,USC and even OU looked to be better than the Hogs.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 7:19 am to texasaggie08
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The Arkansas-A&M leaving for the SEC comparison is so fricking stupid and inaccurate that only someone with an anti-A&M agenda would bring it up.
This.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 9:26 am to BT Ag
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As for the article, the worst part about the rivalry ending is now I actually have to spend Thanksgiving with my family.
I've said the same thing several times. We've got roughly five months to think of an alternative excuse.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 9:49 am to Monticello
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eventually the Texas fans will be tired of having only one game a year they care about. And if aTm starts doing well in the SEC, Texas is going to feel the pressure to play aTm or risk looking like pansies in the state they claim to dominate.
You hit the nail on the head there. Insult UT pride and they will spin the story as if they wanted all along to play aTm. Ut will probably beg in lawmakers in Austin to make that game law so they can "re-assert" dominance, then get tooled on by a SEC hardened Aggies.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:03 am to 10888bge
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You hit the nail on the head there. Insult UT pride and they will spin the story as if they wanted all along to play aTm. Ut will probably beg in lawmakers in Austin to make that game law so they can "re-assert" dominance, then get tooled on by a SEC hardened Aggies.
You mean like A&M lawmakers are already trying to do?
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For the first time in nearly a century, the Longhorns and Aggies will not square off on the football field. But Texas State Representative Lyle Larson, a Texas A&M alumnus, is trying to make sure it's not another 100 years before the in-state rivals face each other again. Larson wrote a letter to administrators from the University of Texas and Texas A&M University last week, urging both schools to consider options that would allow their football teams to schedule a game for 2013. Suggested neutral sites for the game include Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston. Both the Longhorns and Aggies are fully booked this upcoming season with Texas' non-conference schedule full through 2017. "My hope is that the leaders of both UT and Texas A&M can put their differences aside and make a sincere effort to add this game to the schedule in 2013 and into the future," Lyles wrote. "Folks throughout Texas have made it clear that they wish to maintain this historic Texas tradition and don't want to see this rivalry end." Among those whom Lyles address the letter to included University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp, UT president Bill Powers, Texas A&M R. Bowen Loftin, Longhorns men's athletic director DeLoss Dodds, and Aggies athletic director Bill Byrne. Following the creation of the Longhorn Network and Texas A&M's departure from the Big 12 for the SEC, the 27-25 Texas victory at Kyle Field in College Station last Thanksgiving stands as the last scheduled meeting between the Horns and Aggies.
I don't think UT really cares at this point and are now refusing just to irate A&M, for their oven amusement. You don't see any mention of any UT alumnus trying to push stuff like this, even though they outnumber A&M in Texas politics.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:04 am to 10888bge
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Ut will probably beg in lawmakers in Austin to make that game law so they can "re-assert" dominance, then get tooled on by a SEC hardened Aggies.
I think this is key, and any teasip is very reluctant to admit this, but they are too stupid to write it off. The SEC dominance has been sustained for too long of a period or them to convince themselves otherwise. If USC snuck one in there in the middle of the last 6? Different story. Yet anyone that follows recruiting, which is the lifeblood of your program, is that every single recruit in the state of Texas has been asked the SEC question. These current recruits were in the 4th grade the last time the SEC didn't win the BCS. It is an elephant in the room when the Aggie topic gets brought up to them.
And only time will tell. Everyone is still playing 12 games a season, and tu fans might get tired of their boring schedule, but if they start winning again, they probably won't. What I think is exciting is my team. I really don't care about tu. I had more reason to root against them when they were in my conference, hoping or the upset, but that made me watch more OU games than tu games, as OU has been the top dog the last decade. I'm excited for the SEC, and I have every reason to be. Yes, we will have shitty seasons, but we are no Arkansas. We will win the conference eventually. At that point, my first thought isn't going to be to call up my teasip buddies and gloat, it is going to be to call up my fellow Aggies and celebrate.
Don't get me wrong, I want to play tu again. They are the other program in the greatest state in the union, and I want to assert our dominance over them, but if I had to choose which came first, the Lone Star Showdown, or an SEC Title? I choose being champions of the league of champions.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:11 am to laxtonto
Don't get school pride mixed up with Austin greed. Lawmakers care about one think and one thing only. Re-election, and if lobbying for the rivalry to continue is the way then they will do it. This rivalry issue is only going to get bigger and nastier as time goes on.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:12 am to Latarian
Latarian... you pathetic loser.. HOW do you read ANYTHING LSU related, into that article ? You sir, are a post whoring idiot !
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:15 am to TeLeFaWx
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greatest state in the union,
Mardi Gras > texas= Louisiana most awesome state in the union.
P.S. I don't get drunk I get awesome.
Just a friendly jab
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:24 am to laxtonto
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I don't think UT really cares at this point and are now refusing just to irate A&M, for their oven amusement. You don't see any mention of any UT alumnus trying to push stuff like this, even though they outnumber A&M in Texas politics.
Except for one of their wealthiest donars and the guy the business school is named after, Red McCombs....you know, the guy that used to own the Saints?
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:27 am to 10888bge
Mardi Gras is great. And it is why God/Jesus put Louisiana right next door to Texas. We can enjoy your magical party with ease, but we don't have to live in a swamp.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:28 am to 10888bge
You need to come to the Houston Rodeo Cookoff, its basically a high baller Mardi Gras. And yes LA (NOLA) is just about the best place to party.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:30 am to GalvoAg
or St Pattys day at Greenville Ave in Dallas
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:32 am to texasaggie08
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or St Pattys day at Greenville Ave in Dallas
That is great, and the talent of the women in Dallas is much better than New Orleans, but St. Patty's in NOLA > Big D.
Posted on 4/30/12 at 10:49 am to texasaggie08
Didn't A&M go 6-6 last year?
Posted on 4/30/12 at 11:22 am to Stonehog
7-6 if you count the bowl 
Posted on 4/30/12 at 11:41 am to Stonehog
How many of your current players were alive the last time you won a conference title? Is the footage archived somewhere in Arkansas' elementary schools next to the VHSs of the Berlin Wall being torn down? Or had that thing not been torn down yet?
Posted on 4/30/12 at 11:42 am to TeLeFaWx
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Is the footage archived somewhere in Arkansas' elementary schools next to the VHSs of the moon landing ?
FIFY
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