re: Least Cool Tradition in the SEC

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what's corny is trying to get 25,000 students in step in the first place

you know whats more fun than synchronized cheering? Drinking and actually watching the football game

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Yea, screw getting involved in the game and creating an intimidating environment, lets have the students sit back and just watch the game.

Another outstanding reply from one of the most "passionate" fans in the country

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Texas A&M produced more officers than West Point and Annapolis combined in WWII--and continues to produce graduates who go on to serve in the armed forces at a ridiculous rate. No, not all TAMU cadets commission--neither do all Citadel or VMI cadets. It's the exact same thing, on a much bigger scale. Hardly pretend.

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blah, blah, blah.

we have a military tradition too LINK

you don't see us doing all that lame shite,

anything from Ole Piss or some of the ghey shite that auburn does

for the record, I actually respect more of aTm's traditions than some of the crap from schools in the SEC

Please, you don't have to tell me anything about Army--A&M had a series with them while I was a student and I have several friends that went to West Point. Not going to denigrate any of y'all's traditions, either.

But don't for a second intimate that every A&M cadet is pretending. Y'all are better than that, I know.

Aggie fans on here trying to explain/defend traditions are going to face a losing battle here. Fellow SEC fans are going to rip regardless.

That said, I went to A&M because of the traditions that make the University unique. A lot of the SEC schools are identical in a lot of ways, although they all have their own unique wrinkles.

However, no one does Tradition like Texas A&M anywhere. As multiple announcers have said we have the best student section, and one said a couple of weeks ago that College Station is the "Mecca of College Football."

If I had to pick the lamest tradition (that I know of so far) I'd have to say Tennessee playing the opposing team's fight song. I've seen this done in the Big 10 too, and I don't get. We're not on the football field to be buds, we're there to BTHO each other.

Edit: Oh, and spelling out the team name in the pregame. How many SEC teams do this? I've seen Georgia and Arkansas do it, and I think LSU too. Corps bands in general are incredibly lame.

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But don't for a second intimate that every A&M cadet is pretending.

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I won't

You're corp cadets do seem pretty "intimate" with each other, FWIW.

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i would say Mr. Two Bits!

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I thought he retired

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Yea, screw getting involved in the game and creating an intimidating environment, lets have the students sit back and just watch the game.

Another outstanding reply from one of the most "passionate" fans in the country

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You think Baton Rouge is intimidating because the fans have synchronized cheers?

No, its intimidating because drunks are screaming in your face and you feel like there is a large probability that they might literally beat you within an inch of your life if you look at them wrong... and you'd be right

and since you asked earlier, I went to Bama... and I realize you probably haven't been there before, but our students dont do much "sitting down". They yell, they scream, they throw bourbon drinks, its just not in unison, and its not some catchy cheer, in fact its usually things you'd wouldn't want to subject young children to

I'd say our stadium is much louder and much more intimidating than the A&M tackle box, and the only "semi-synchronized" chanting we do is the Rammer Jammer, which you'll get to hear first hand ever year after we wipe the floor with you