re: How do Aggies make the claim that they are big brother to Texas?

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Texas has a dual Flagship System, they split the schools after the original State Constitution and they share the Permanent University Fund (PUF). Texas gets a larger share but also has to split it with all of their System schools and Hospital System while A&M only has to share with a few of ours as well as our State Agencies. The dollars per student for the PUF is basically the same. The other Texas Public Schools who are not part of either System (Texas Tech, North Texas, University of Houston, etc) don't get any of that money, they only get annual money from the state (as do A&M and Texas) as well as their own endowments.

The PUF is what makes the schools special. It was just dumb luck that the land grants for both schools happened to be what was at the time low value land mainly in West Texas they hoped to get some money from growing cotton or leasing to have cattle on. Of course it turned out that much of that land had massive O&G deposits under it as well as other rare minerals. That is why both schools have so much wealth. None of that can be used for athletics of course though.

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I am truly impressed with your ability to stay so civil despite the bullshite these guys spew.

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they don't actually believe it

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You're so cute the way you accuse others of doing just what yall are doing. You see a lot of that nowadays.

The key point the Aggies here are not disputing is that A&M guards their culture from non A&M grads. They don’t like t-shirt fans because they don’t understand all the traditions, yells, etc. But more importantly, have not gone through all of the Aggie traditions that only someone that attended school there would know.

Texas is a big tent school. Everyone is welcome to be a fan. There is no guarding.

Both schools of thought are ok. The A&M one is why their culture is unique and still exists today. But don’t pretend it’s not why UT is the school of the state and A&M has the more unique culture it has.

Gotcha. Good on you for being a good friend. I bet it meant the world to him to have you there.

Wrong: ant is the oldest public institution of higher learning in the state of Texas…1876

UTrans is 1883

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Their responses in this thread tell you exactly who little brother is

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The key point the Aggies here are not disputing is that A&M guards their culture from non A&M grads. They don’t like t-shirt fans because they don’t understand all the traditions, yells, etc. But more importantly, have not gone through all of the Aggie traditions that only someone that attended school there would know.

Texas is a big tent school. Everyone is welcome to be a fan. There is no guarding.

Both schools of thought are ok. The A&M one is why their culture is unique and still exists today. But don’t pretend it’s not why UT is the school of the state and A&M has the more unique culture it has.

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This is untrue. A&M is very proud of our traditions but we have sidewalk fans as well, just not nearly as many as Texas. We are accepting of sidewalk fans but most tend to have some connection to the school (usually a family member). BCS is just a smaller metro so that produces fewer and the larger System is smaller so you have fewer connections there as well. Texas has a lot of fans from being the NFL team of Austin and because many people that went to the "other UT" schools like UTD, UTSA, etc tend to also be Longhorn fans.

It always amazes me how sips just make up stuff in their heads and project it on to A&M. It's like listening to folks on MSNBC talk about what conservatives care about and think.

It's weird because if you were an ET who came to earth and only knew of Aggies based on the internet and Aggie posters, you'd think they were extremely homosexual and insecure and completely weird and you'd be horrified to have to share any common space with them.

But in reality they are pretty solid people and good neigbhors and take the jest in stride and with deprecating humor IRL.

I've been on record before and I'll say it again, all joking aside and in real life, A&M is a fine school with more or less quality grads who do a good job in their lines of work and are generally quality, law-abiding, God-fearing people.

I can only think of two reasons for this seeming paradox:

1) All these Aggie posters are fake A&M grads. They just are tribal weirdos who want to belong to a community. The Old Sarge's and his ilk are the 60 year old poor fat version of the red pilled 15 year old incel in the way that online A&Mism feeds his mental illness (and allows him to post all his trans and gay and dildo stuff without feeling gay).

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2) Being a Texan is ultimately the more fundamental marker for what makes a person a pretty great fella IRL.

Because the truth is, for how decent Sooners are online, they are the opposite IRL. Just trash and bottom of the barrel specimens of the human species. I shudder when I think of every real life interaction with a Sooner.

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Since the beginning, all of that aTm money is and always has been managed in Austin next to the University of Texas by UT people

Thats the only reason aTm has any money at all, UT manages lil bro funds

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You act like it is truly UT instead of a bunch of financial advisors and accountants. They split the money but it is one pot so it makes sense for the State of Texas to have it administered in one place. Originally UT and A&M were going to be under one system and then they split shortly after the Texas Constitution was passed for a variety of reasons. It's not like UT gets to make any decisions for A&M with A&M's money or that there is some accountability to UT.

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A&M is the oldest flagship university in Texas
In fact, A&M was educating students while Texas University was still open cow pasture

A&M is the largest flagship university in Texas

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So A&M is the older weird brother that the younger, bigger, more popular brother has to explain to people?