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re: I’m not joking anymore
Posted on 5/19/25 at 11:52 am to The Orange Bull
Posted on 5/19/25 at 11:52 am to The Orange Bull
There are things more important than sports. 
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Posted on 5/19/25 at 1:26 pm to FootballFrenzy
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I genuinely, honestly, truly, sincerely think God has some kind of beef with the Texas A&M University athletics department.
Nah. It’s just A&M fans have not been realistic about their true potential. I know it’s something the media has been saying for decades but the facts are A&M has no significant competitive advantages over the other 35-40 other big time big time athletic programs nationwide.
Enough resource to have some success eventually? Sure, but not enough to pretend is a birthright. It really may never happen and it wouldn’t be a fluke.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 1:30 pm to FootballFrenzy
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Can I have more context on the lil’ Abner thing? ??
One is Texas, the other A&M.
You decide which is which.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 1:35 pm to r2d2
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A&M has no significant competitive advantages over the other 35-40 other big time big time athletic programs nationwide
Ok. What’s different?
A generic platitude sounds fine when you look at the result, but what specifically do elite programs (in whatever sport) have that can’t be replicated somewhere else?
Not even talking about just A&M. What does North Carolina have in basketball that North Carolina State is fundamentally incapable of building for themself?
What fundamental attribute can Michigan State not muster that Michigan has?
Posted on 5/19/25 at 1:40 pm to FootballFrenzy
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I genuinely, honestly, truly, sincerely think God has some kind of beef with the Texas A&M University athletics department.
'God' helps those who help themselves.
The bedshitters running my alma mater's athletics department wouldn't know "excellence" if it hit them in their heads and smacked them on their asses.
Complete amateurs, but with access to huge budgets. The big moneyed Aggies who donate their millions are fools, obviously. Or are happy to dump good money after bad. I'm not a millionaire, granted, so I wouldn't know. But I know the "good old boy network" that's the Aggie bubble. It's not good.
Letting your winningest baseball coach walk-- that too to your ideologically hated in-state rival-- was not good, really bad, sort of thinking that gets you into the status quo.
The women's basketball team and program are moribund. That's after the previous guy (Gary Blair) won the program's first national championship, then was allowed to kind of plateau out (that happens to championship winning programs, i get it-- just look at Old Yella Teeth at Asstin), but then worse-- the program keys were handed to a coach who didn't show greatness at her previous stop and has shown nothing but dumpiness in her present stop, but nobody could be bothered. Instead, Vic Schaeffer was allowed to first to go Miss St (ok, granted) and then to Asstin, when it was abundantly clear that the Blair was going to be hanging up and needed proper administrative oversight to make it happen. Now, Shaeffer has Asstin winning more than losing, by a fair margin, the least that I can say.
The men's basketball coaching change is going to be "interesting" to see. Early returns on the recruiting trail don't seem promising, but I'm open minded and willing to be persuaded.
The softball shite, OTOH, happens. Ball bounces the wrong way. There's always a first for everything-- and this happened to be A&M's turn. So long as the program doesn't skid, fans should happily take their lumps. But win something, damn it.
This post was edited on 5/19/25 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 5/19/25 at 1:54 pm to FootballFrenzy
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There are things more important than sports
As y’all favorite singer put it… “shake it off”. NIL is wack anyway. Proper under-the-table payments mean nothing anymore.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 2:07 pm to Ag Zwin
quote:Well for one,“The University of …”
Ok. What’s different?
A generic platitude sounds fine when you look at the result, but what specifically do elite programs (in whatever sport) have that can’t be replicated somewhere else?
Not even talking about just A&M. What does North Carolina have in basketball that North Carolina State is fundamentally incapable of building for themself?
What fundamental attribute can Michigan State not muster that Michigan has?
There is only one state university. Some people want to play for their home state.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 2:54 pm to Ag Zwin
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Ok. What’s different? A generic platitude sounds fine when you look at the result, but what specifically do elite programs (in whatever sport) have that can’t be replicated somewhere else? Not even talking about just A&M. What does North Carolina have in basketball that North Carolina State is fundamentally incapable of building for themself? What fundamental attribute can Michigan State not muster that Michigan has?
If you read my post I never say it’s impossible for A&M to have success, just not something inevitable like some “in the know” say.
Logic is simple. Every program with resources (like A&M) competes directly with each other and indirectly with less resourceful programs, but still with aspirations, who will try yo get assistant coaches or non starter players to come their way for more prominent roles and payments. Of all the money disposed into college athletics A&M maybe accounts for 1.5% of the grand total (likely less).
You think a company that accounts for that % of total sales in a given industry is in position to just bully everyone else and just buy success? Of course not, yet that’s been A&M fans’ attitude.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 6:08 pm to PHLaggie
I almost feel bad for you.... almost ;-)
Posted on 5/19/25 at 6:08 pm to FootballFrenzy
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I genuinely, honestly, truly, sincerely think God has some kind of beef with the Texas A&M University athletics department.
Shouldn't be so gay.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 6:42 pm to FootballFrenzy
You were given the chance 1985-1995. Yall didnt handle it well. So the curse lives on.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 8:20 pm to FootballFrenzy
God favors prostitutes over gays?
Posted on 5/19/25 at 9:28 pm to Ptins944
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One is Texas, the other A&M. You decide which is which.
I thought he was asking bc one of them got his gig em in gear.
Posted on 5/19/25 at 9:32 pm to FootballFrenzy
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I genuinely, honestly, truly, sincerely think God has some kind of beef with the Texas A&M University athletics department.
What did I miss?
Posted on 5/19/25 at 9:44 pm to BigTx
Our softball team (the top overall seed in the tournament) was eliminated by Liberty before the Super Regionals
Posted on 5/19/25 at 11:33 pm to FootballFrenzy
quote:FIFY
Our softball team (the top overall seed in the tournament) was eliminated (at home) by unranked Liberty before the Super Regionals
Posted on 5/20/25 at 1:04 am to FootballFrenzy
You idiots have a culture problem. We have been trying to tell you ever since you joined the SEC. Too much to change. Y’all are doomed forever!
Posted on 5/20/25 at 1:29 am to supersaints9
This is what happens when we let the Texas League in our conference. We let Arkansas in back in the early 90s because we wanted 2 teams to have a conference championship game. Arkansas was stuck in the Texas league full of easy oil money and cheating. And they wanted out. But then we slowly let these two jackoff schools with their money and it’s polluted what was a great thing. May Sankey rack himself on his bedpost for these garbage dildo schools we now have to endure.
Posted on 5/20/25 at 6:35 am to r2d2
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If you read my post I never say it’s impossible for A&M to have success, just not something inevitable like some “in the know” say.
Fair enough on your implication, but I reject two of the premises.
First, I don’t think anybody is making the case that A&M is “entitled” to anything, and certainly not that it’s a birthright. That’s an exaggeration of expectations that come from a poor return for massive investment.
Second, I disagree that the resources are not exceptional. The money A&M has and has invested are not “middle of the road”. Despite on-field success, the revenue and endowments are consistently top 10, if not outright first. (Depends on the methodology being used.) Non-financially, the fan support is accepted by most as being exceptional, if not fanatical (or delusional). They also have facilities and a recruiting pool that even accomplished blue bloods would trade for in a heartbeat.
To a somewhat lesser degree, Texas could have the same gripe. For sure, they have gotten more results, but still not commensurate with the resources available.
These two schools are probably unique in all of college sports with respect to the intersection of alumni base size and fervor, overall finances, and just the sheer desire to compete in sports. Texas has done well enough in most other sports, but not in football or men’s basketball. A&M’s results are just pathetic.
Posted on 5/20/25 at 7:05 am to FootballFrenzy
It's mainly the dipshit culture holding A&M back.
Culture eats strategy for breakfast - Peter Drucker
Culture eats strategy for breakfast - Peter Drucker
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