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re: Sumlin & Strong Reunite for Resumption of Rivary
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:12 pm to cardboardboxer
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:12 pm to cardboardboxer
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Heres the thing TA:
We did EXACTLY what you said back in the 90s. We played them every year, and beat them like 9 out of 10 times, and what the frick does that do for our program today? Did it change your perception? frick no. Did it really help us any way more than our ego and recruiting in the moment? frick no.
The problem is we can't win forever. They are the richest fricks in the sports, even the LSUs and Auburns of the world would have a losing record if they have to play them every year. And as soon as we lose a few this magic streak you say will change our program is flushed down the shitter.
It is like if you gave me $10,000 and said "all you need to do to be a millionaire is to dump all that money onto the craps table until you win the million." You make it sound easy, when the reality is the odds are against you. The smart move is to take that money and invest it, maybe in your education, so that you take the safe path to a million more in lifetime earnings.
frick it, playing Texas is a rigged game. I will admit that. In the long run it is to their benefit, not ours. And the only people that really want to see us play know that, and they just can't wait for Aggie to crawl back under the rock Texas had us under for a decade. frick that.
This is a perfect example of the Aggie subset of the SEC Lil' Bro Syndrome: you're completely petrified of Big Bro.
The Auburn subset is more akin to an old lady at a country club who slanders and gossips and, sometimes, brings Big Bro Alabama down.
The Starkville subset is just plain hostile and DGAF what you think.
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Did it change your perception?
I was a child in the 1990s and didn't know much about A&M, Texas, or the rivalry, for the record.
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Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:12 pm to Tornado Alley
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:12 pm to cas4t
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LSU and Texas have discussed a home and home if this results in yall rooting for LSU I will laugh out loud
Then prepare to laugh
There were Longhorns dressed head to toe in OU gear when we played the cotton bowl in 2012. hate buddy pure hate
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:13 pm to cas4t
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LSU and Texas have discussed a home and home
if this results in yall rooting for LSU I will laugh out loud
Texas is the bigger recruiting rival
Texas is still trying to regain momentum and rebuild
LSU winning non-conference games helps A&M if we can beat LSU
There is literally no reason to root for Texas over LSU
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:14 pm to Tornado Alley
Petrified? We are better than 50% over the last 30 years.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:15 pm to Old Sarge
not trying to troll when I say this..
but I know some Texas fans and they seem to look at aTm in a similar light as LSU fans do with Arkansas and aTm. Meaning, yea, I don't like aTm o Arkansas, but it's still not a game I circle before Bama or Auburn.
but I know some Texas fans and they seem to look at aTm in a similar light as LSU fans do with Arkansas and aTm. Meaning, yea, I don't like aTm o Arkansas, but it's still not a game I circle before Bama or Auburn.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:15 pm to EKG
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When you factor in compulsory military service and an all-male student body, it makes for some epic discrepancies.
Frankly, I'm surprised the record isn't more lop-sided than it is.
Didn't A&M win its only national title under these conditions?
How can this situation be a negative, if you've achieved less since it was changed?
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:16 pm to Old Sarge
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Petrified
You're god damn right you're petrified. The way to solve your problems isn't to run from them, son.
One day, y'all will have an AD with stones large enough to challenge Big Bro. I pray your football team is competent at that date.
I don't wanna hear spin from Aggie. All I wanna hear is "let's go kick Longhorn arse wherever they feel like getting it kicked."
Y'all have a culture problem.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:17 pm to Spindicus Lofrus
GTFO you alter, troll bitch.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:18 pm to Tornado Alley
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Y'all are running from the issue.
If someone bought the biggest fricking gun in the pawn shop, and pointed it at you, wouldn't you run? Because that is what that huge Texas bottom line is, as coaching and facilities are the ammunition of recruiting.
Plus you have to consider that change doesn't happen so easily. I mean, USC beat the shite out of Clemson what was it- 4 years in a row? Did that bury Clemson so they can't compete, or elevate USC to be the clear best program in the state forever? No way. This isn't fricking fun and games, this is Wargames. The only way to win is not to play.
And what good is SEC "support?" Is Alabama going to loan us some defensive players for that game? frick no, the support you claim is worthless.
Just because we don't play them doesn't mean we don't compete against them. We compete for recruiting, money and fans. And on this competition the SEC really does support us by letting us use the brand and letting us use our population base to get TV money. That is a place where we actually have an advantage, but that advantage gets flushed down the shitter first time Texas beats us three years in a row.
Life is about risk and reward. Right now playing them is a huge risk, with little reward. Why do it?
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:19 pm to Tornado Alley
Taking the Lords name in vain....
Really worth it?
Really worth it?
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:20 pm to Tornado Alley
The Aggies will play Texas when the time is right. It is too big a game to leave sitting on the table for long. A win over the other team gives a nice big nudge to the playoffs. More so for Texas at the moment.
Charlie Strong wants to build Texas into a national championship team... the road to that goal runs through Texas A&M.
Charlie Strong wants to build Texas into a national championship team... the road to that goal runs through Texas A&M.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:21 pm to cardboardboxer
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If someone bought the biggest fricking gun in the pawn shop, and pointed it at you, wouldn't you run?
Are you that deep into the lil' bro complex that you have forgotten that YOU HAVE A GOD DAMN GUN TOO!
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Texas bottom line is, as coaching and facilities are the ammunition of recruiting.
Excuse.
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The only way to win is not to play
Excuse.
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Right now playing them is a huge risk, with little reward.
The reward is a championship football program and controlling your state, the most powerful state, all things considered, in American football. If that isn't huge to you, then GTFO and go watch cricket or something.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:22 pm to auburnphan23
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Not sure why you find my comments amusing. Auburn's biggest deficit against any opponent is like 7 or 8 games. The cult trails their big bro in the head to head series by around 40 games
Yeah, just completely ignore the fact that Alabama completely crushes y'all in hardware.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:23 pm to Old Sarge
Poor aggies. Still hanging on to a 10-game series winning streak against Texas almost 30 years ago that constitutes a quarter of the consummate cow college's total victories against the Longhorns as some sort of equalizer with the history of The University of Texas' football program.
It's sad, really, when you figure out that win streak led to two separate major NCAA penalties and jack-squat on the national scene.
Aggies in SWC = mediocre
Aggies in Big 12 = mediocre
Aggies in SEC = mediocre
Piss on the aggies, and let them lose football games while being starry-eyed over the SEC.
It's sad, really, when you figure out that win streak led to two separate major NCAA penalties and jack-squat on the national scene.
Aggies in SWC = mediocre
Aggies in Big 12 = mediocre
Aggies in SEC = mediocre
Piss on the aggies, and let them lose football games while being starry-eyed over the SEC.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:24 pm to Tornado Alley
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I think the best thing for A&M to do is not act as if you don't need Texas, or that you don't want them, it's to schedule them at all fricking costs and then beat the ever living frick out of them for three or four consecutive years.
This won't be a popular opinion among many Aggies here, but I agree. NOT because of who wins the upper hand. I don't give a damn about that. A&M is in a vastly superior conference, recruits get that, hell - the war was won in 2012 in my opinion. Many here seem to have forgotten that it's FOOTBALL. In Texas. These two teams simply have to play each other. Football fans in Texas deserve this game. So do I, dammit.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:24 pm to Arksulli
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Charlie Strong wants to build Texas into a national championship team... the road to that goal runs through Texas A&M.
Hmmm, so, a&m hasn't won a national title since before WWII, they haven't won a conference title in almost 2 decades, but the road to a championship runs through a&m?!?
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:24 pm to Tornado Alley
Well, we are currently controlling the state....12-4 in head to head recruits that Strong desperately needed and wanted.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:25 pm to Old Sarge
Shut the frick up, Old Sarge.
Posted on 4/14/15 at 4:25 pm to Tornado Alley
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This is a perfect example of the Aggie subset of the SEC Lil' Bro Syndrome: you're completely petrified of Big Bro.
I am actually more scared of OU to be honest. They have hurt us way worse than Texas ever has. The focus on Texas is misplaced.
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The Auburn subset is more akin to an old lady at a country club who slanders and gossips and, sometimes, brings Big Bro Alabama down.
Big Bro Alabama is the greatest team in college football. Auburn will never be better period. In that situation I would say frick it too.
Meanwhile Texas is the most overrated major program in the sport- one national title in 30 years. If we can ever have FSU-type success we will "beat" them in perception without beating them on the field. The bar is lower for us, but only if we don't blow it on our ego (aka playing them).
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I was a child in the 1990s and didn't know much about A&M, Texas, or the rivalry, for the record.
True, but you know the result- A&M is not king of Texas despite that streak. As soon as they started winning it flipped back.
Any gain playing them directly is temporary. A mirage. It will go away one day.
Any gain focusing on the SEC and ourselves is forever. Already in a little time out from the shadow we have put ourselves in a place where OU can't compete with us on exposure and facilities. Give us a decade and maybe we have the respect you say we can have playing them, but its permanent.
Not sticking your hand in a snake pit isn't scared. Its fricking smart.
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