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re: Texas AM - how is this possible?
Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:37 am to 3rddownonthe8
Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:37 am to 3rddownonthe8
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I’m sure he used 1940, because that’s when the AP came into being.. around that time.
It is likely because that was the last time we finished in the Top 4.
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Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:37 am to Windy City
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I will say the 1940 thing is kind of silly as A&M athletics and the school as a whole were radically different for most of the post-WW2 era.
Up until the late 60s, it was basically a small military academy with compulsory ROTC membership and a narrow academic mandate. UT-Arlington had far more students in the 60s than Texas A&M College. UT-Austin had 4x the enrollment back then.
It wasn't until the 1970s when it was decided on as the new flagship institution for the state that it started to grow academically and athletically. Anything prior to that, you might as well be talking about the Citadel.
So prior to 1970, The Aggie Yell Leaders were trying to run the University like West Point, The Naval Academy, etc, etc. Ok, got it
Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:39 am to XWing atAliciousness
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You could be an aggie fan and watch your program spend over $100 million on a coach and $30 million on high school recruits to pretend like they've ever "been there" only to be App State's bitch
I am sure if you tally up Mack, Charlie, and Tom's buyouts and then add in the Longhorns absolute explosion of NIL bidding and then look at multiple losses to Kansas and a recent highwater mark of losing in the Alamo Bowl, . . .. .
it doesn't look quite as bad.
This post was edited on 1/12/23 at 10:42 am
Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:40 am to RolltidePA
quote:Huh?
Title for the #19 ranked department?
quote:Thanks!
Congrats on that, I guess.
quote:Texas basketball is currently ranked in the top 10 and baseball has gone to the CWS 3 times in the last 5 full seasons
Shame it hasn't translated to anything but mediocrity with your major programs.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:40 am to JKChesterton
It was. Look we are more patriotic than your school, no need for the jealousy. You guys don’t care about that stuff just make fun of it.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:41 am to JKChesterton
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So prior to 1970, The Aggie Yell Leaders were trying to run the University like West Point, The Naval Academy, etc, etc. Ok, got it
No dips$%t . . . .but you knew that wasn't the point. Prior to the University expanding in the 60s there was only cadets. There were no women and no normal, everyday students.
Oh, and I think you will learn that middies and cadets don't actually run the academies either.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:44 am to Windy City
quote:HAHAHAHHAHAHA So paying buyouts of three coaches over 10 years (which wasn't even close to a $100 million total) is the same as paying ONE coach over $100 million in a fully-guaranteed contract?
I am sure if you tally up Mack, Charlie, and Tom's buyouts
I knew a&m academics were bad, but Jesus Christ
That is next level aggie education math lol quote:Hiding behind Kansas while your team is App State's bitch is also as aggie as it gets
add in the Longhorns absolute explosion of IL bidding and then look at multiple losses to Kansas and a recent highwater mark of losing in the Alamo Bowl
Btw, wouldn't the alamo bowl be like the second best bowl game a&m would've played in since Johnny was there? How many top 10 opponents have y'all even played in bowl games in the last 20 years?
quote:Nothing beats the delusion of a Texas reject convincing himself that a&m is on the same level of Texas
it doesn't look quite as bad.
2 top 4 finishes in over 80 years
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Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:58 am to XWing atAliciousness
I don't think anyone wants to trade places with Longhorn football fans. I will just leave it at that.
Sark is trending as yet another fail. He has already ruined Quinn Ewers, is completely bungling his transfer approach by banking on Bama rejects and cash-money dudes like Xavier Worthy that don't even want to be in Austin.
His bet on Arch Manning is going to be hilarious to watch. The kid that is ducking camps and posting mediocre results against 140 lb private school kids is likely going to be Sark's last stand.
You just lost your wife-beating maniac of a basketball coach and A&M broomed you out of the CWS with little effort last year.
But hey, there is always the swimming team.
I get why you are falling back to flimsy academic smack that no one takes seriously.
Sark is trending as yet another fail. He has already ruined Quinn Ewers, is completely bungling his transfer approach by banking on Bama rejects and cash-money dudes like Xavier Worthy that don't even want to be in Austin.
His bet on Arch Manning is going to be hilarious to watch. The kid that is ducking camps and posting mediocre results against 140 lb private school kids is likely going to be Sark's last stand.
You just lost your wife-beating maniac of a basketball coach and A&M broomed you out of the CWS with little effort last year.
But hey, there is always the swimming team.
I get why you are falling back to flimsy academic smack that no one takes seriously.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 10:59 am to Windy City
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No dips$%t . . . .but you knew that wasn't the point. Prior to the University expanding in the 60s there was only cadets. There were no women and no normal, everyday students.
Oh, and I think you will learn that middies and cadets don't actually run the academies either.
Ok, so prior to the 1960's only cadets. Fine, same as Army and Navy. But, they actually had better football teams than u Yell Leaders. Hell Roger Staubach won the Heisman Trophy at Navy in 1963.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:01 am to XWing atAliciousness
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Texas basketball is currently ranked in the top 10 and baseball has gone to the CWS 3 times in the last 5 full seasons
#16 on this list
Texas is pretty okay at a whole bunch of sports. Print the shirts!
This post was edited on 1/12/23 at 11:11 am
Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:02 am to 3rddownonthe8
Texas A&M has a losing culture. On paper they should be up there with texas and Oklahoma. They should be far above tech, baylor, and tcu…. As it is I think Houston has a better football future and that is fricking SAD.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:05 am to Windy City
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flimsy academic smack
I realize this is a sports board, but academics is the purpose of universities despite what t-shirt fans seem to believe. In that arena, Texas towers over A&M, and the rest of the SEC not named Vandy for that matter.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:14 am to CISO
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I realize this is a sports board, but academics is the purpose of universities despite what t-shirt fans seem to believe. In that arena, Texas towers over A&M, and the rest of the SEC not named Vandy for that matter.
I know Longhorn fans whisper this to themselves when leaving their far flung, mid-tier country, suburban Club Corp country club in their nine year old BMW and wondering what happened to all their hopes and dreams.
We all know the realities are far different from the sunk-chested, very average realities of most Longhorn alums.
My co-worker's son just popped over to "The University" from Austin Community College. He was a pretty unmotivated student in a fairly ok North Texas public high school but just had to be in the same frat as his dad.
So he did his three months of penance while already pledging and backfilled one of the thousands of slots that seem to open up as the "Top 7%" auto-admits drop out and head back to whatever desperate far West Texas or Rio Grande valley town they hail from.
You can try to stretch that into some sort of "towering academic presence" but Texas and A&M and most other universities are just public Universities and that has its realities that preclude them from becoming truly elite private universities.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:15 am to XWing atAliciousness
We’re definitely not on the same level of under performance compared to expectations. This year was the worst that we’ve seen.
But Texas has been doing that a lot more lately.
But Texas has been doing that a lot more lately.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:29 am to SneezyBeltranIsHere
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Aggies are constantly at war with themselves, logic and heterosexuality.
Funny coming from a Utx fan!
Same could be said for Utx supporters
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Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:33 am to Windy City
quote:"Although we lost to App State and finished with a losing record, at least we didn't improve by 3 games from our prior season and end up ranked in the top 25 like those big meanie bully longhorns!"
I don't think anyone wants to trade places with Longhorn football fans. I will just leave it at that.
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He has already ruined Quinn Ewers
I had no idea that his career was at the age of 19. That's good to know. We all knew that Joe Burrow, Mac Jones and other starting NFL quarterbacks were winning awards before they turned that age
quote:And our interim is 7-1 with 3 quad 1 wins. Does your fatso head coach even have that many quad 1 wins in 4 seasons?
You just lost your wife-beating maniac of a basketball coach
quote:Nah. It's just to further embarrass you by reminding you that not only is our athletic department No. 1 in the nation, but you guys are not even close, and most of your students wanted to be apart of that fandom but were too stupid to get in
I get why you are falling back to flimsy academic smack that no one takes seriously.
Please keep responding. Your posts are such pathetic reaches that this is gold
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Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:34 am to AGGIES
quote:by constantly being rewarded as the No. 1 athletic department in the country?
But Texas has been doing that a lot more lately.
You aggies are trying so hard this morning it's utterly adorable. Y'all wish you could be us so bad that it's honestly sad at this point
Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:36 am to 3rddownonthe8
Compliment taken. Being an A&M fan is to know mediocrity, but it could be worse. Being a Top 20 CFB program at a minimum, which is irrefutable, ain't all that bad.
I've learned that Aggies tend to get in their own way when it comes to sports, among other things, but atleast baseball is looking up now.
I've learned that Aggies tend to get in their own way when it comes to sports, among other things, but atleast baseball is looking up now.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:36 am to CISO
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I realize this is a sports board, but academics is the purpose of universities despite what t-shirt fans seem to believe. In that arena, Texas towers over A&M, and the rest of the SEC not named Vandy for that matter.
You are correct, this is a sports board, If you want to discuss academics, go hang out on the academic sites or go to your local University and listen to a lecture from a leading academician that is open to the public regarding your favorite subjects.
Posted on 1/12/23 at 11:36 am to RolltidePA
quote:Well on the list that actually rewards it, we've finished No. 1 two seasons in a row (including beating Stanford, which is NO. 1 on the random list you just tried to post).
#16 on this list
Texas has won 8 national titles since the beginning of the 2020-21 athletic season. That's good for *checks notes* most in the country in that time period
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