re: Here's tonight's Yell Practice

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Honest question, do yall think people look at that and think "Man that looks fun. I wish I could be part of something special like that."

Like, do yall think that is normal behavior? Honest questions. I really want to know how yall think people view it.

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I am going to do you the courtesy of assuming you’re actually making an honest inquiry.

I grew up a longhorn fan. Both of my parents attended t.u., and my dad played ball there.

I attended A&M for one reason only, money. I was a bright kid, and every school in Texas was throwing scholarships my direction. A&M threw the biggest ones.

I told myself that I would attend, take their money, and get a degree. I would not become a “damned Aggie.“

But then you arrive on campus. There is a sense of camaraderie that is very hard to describe. Everyone is friendly, and everyone really seems to want you to be there. I did campus visits in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Waco. You don’t get a similar feeling on any of those campuses.

Perhaps LSU is different than those schools. Perhaps there is some uniting element of being a “Tiger.“ But I have attended multiple games in Baton Rouge, and I just don’t see it. All I see is excessive drunkenness, TBH

Yell Practice and all the silly-seeming traditions just build on the camaraderie. They create a sense of “belonging“ that exceeds anything I have seen in any other academic institution, and I have degrees from several.

Perhaps that sort of thing has no meaning to you. For us, it does. It is who we are. It does not bother us that others do not understand it, but I do personally find it odd that so many people who lack that understanding choose to belittle it.

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So, it is a cult?

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This sort of childish post is exactly the type of thing that I’ve come to expect from you.

The other poster asked what I assume was an honest question, and I provided an honest answer.

In a civil tone.

If you want to get into the psychology of the thing, I think probably you have to look at geography. The simple fact is that the state of Texas built A&M out in the middle of the Prairie, with absolutely nothing else for 100 miles in any direction. I think it is fairly natural for a sense of camaraderie to develop in that environment.

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middle of the Prairie, with absolutely nothing else for 100 miles for in any direction. I think it is fairly natural for a sense of camaraderie to develop in that environment.

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Nothing screams aTm like a cult born in cow shite alley!

If you think about it for a moment, this makes sense.

Yell Leader is an elected, leadership position.

At the last Yell of the year, the senior Yell Leaders normally get the chance to essentially thank the student body for the opportunities they were given.

You are a fig in many respects. Mostly a pretend fricking know it all that frankly knows little. frick off cult follower

Jesus. 7 edits so far? Get your story together and stuck to it, kid.

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At the last Yell of the year, the senior Yell Leaders normally get the chance to essentially thank the student body for the opportunities they were given.

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Seems like a missed opportunity to razz your SEC-contrived rival, but it’s totally understandable that they’d use the time to express their gratitude. I’d do the same.

You guys better not beat us tonight - I’ll be pretty pissed.

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TAMU was ALL military until the 1960s. 62 years later you guys are still hanging on to the old guard of being a military school

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Texas A&M to this day, provides more officers to the United States military than any institution other than West Point, Annapolis, and Colorado Springs.

If belittling that makes you feel better about yourself, more power to you.

Weird mother frickers that’s for sure. I just don’t get how you can do something like this with a straight face. I’d be laughing the whole time