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re: What are the easiest ways to get underneath each fanbase's skin?
Posted on 6/4/14 at 4:56 pm to Gradual_Stroke
Posted on 6/4/14 at 4:56 pm to Gradual_Stroke
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I'm not even going to ask why the Yell leader has a stripper pole going straight up his arse...
aggy being aggy
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Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:00 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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About 47% per the Commandant (your fish buddy, BG Ramirez '79).
However, once the drawdown really starts taking hold, you'll see less and less as the caps on contracts for A&M get constricted by USAAC and the other service-equivalent organizations.
Thanks for the info. Joe was indeed a fish buddy. I got to know him better when wearing the milkman suits. Good guy back then, though I've heard he's not Mr. Popularity now.
On the drawdown - the flipside to that is that ROTC programs across the country dry up and A&M maintains, right? If any decision is made based on performance (at, say, summer camps), then that's the only logical answer.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:01 pm to Open Dore Policy
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Acting like we don't ever care about anything is a good way to get under our skin.
I know y'all are a bunch of downright spiteful hating arse evil mofos willing to cut a bitch from stem to stern if they dare insult your team or even look at you the wrong way but your secret is so well kept it just doesn't feel right mentioning it.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:03 pm to mjw60532
Evidently, the biggest and easiest way known to man way is just to mention that....
Tim Brando is going to the SEC Network....
Tim Brando is going to the SEC Network....
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:05 pm to Prof
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Prof
What are the easiest ways to get underneath each fanbase's skin?
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Acting like we don't ever care about anything is a good way to get under our skin.
I know y'all are a bunch of downright spiteful hating arse evil mofos willing to cut a bitch from stem to stern if they dare insult your team or even look at you the wrong way but your secret is so well kept it just doesn't feel right mentioning it.
As Bill Murray's drunk flapjack friends said in 'Groundhog Day' - "that about sums it up."
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:07 pm to finestfirst79
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On the drawdown - the flipside to that is that ROTC programs across the country dry up and A&M maintains, right? If any decision is made based on performance (at, say, summer camps), then that's the only logical answer.
That's not the way USAAC (U.S. Army Accessions Command) works.
Each school is assigned a specific mission. The only way that schools like A&M are allowed to commission over their assigned mission is to compensate for other schools that don't (which happens quite frequently).
In addition, they're further segmented by IA (immediate active), AD (active duty), and AR/NG (Army Reserve/National Guard) commissions. You'll start seeing fewer active duty commissions from ROTC programs and more reserve/guard ones in the event overages are allowed, with active contracts at a PREMIUM.
All USMA contracts are active duty...even the really shitty cadets
When I commissioned, our breakdown was about 10% immediate active, 60% active duty, and 30% reserve. That was out of about 138 from our year group (August '99, December '00, May '00 graduates).
Your "packet" is determined by 3 things:
1/3 = your performance at Advanced Camp (Knox now)
1/3 = your grades and campus performance
1/3 = everything else including PMS comments, extracurriculars, if you're at a SMC, etc.
Remember too that the PMS for A&M doesn't report directly to the Commandant. He reports to the ROTC Brigade Commander at Ft. Sam Houston.
BG Ramirez posts on texags on the military board under the name "Commandant79".
This post was edited on 6/4/14 at 5:10 pm
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:07 pm to MetryTyger
For A&M, chanting "Pooooor Aggiessssss" at the end of a football game when your victory is secured.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:08 pm to Big12fan
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For A&M, chanting "Pooooor Aggiessssss" at the end of a football game when your victory is secured.
-Doing the horns down
-Calling texas university "t.u."
-Stealing your recruits from "Tan Fran" the day after we have players arrested
Your fanbase is the thinnest skinned in all of college sports.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:10 pm to MetryTyger
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As Bill Murray's drunk flapjack friends said in 'Groundhog Day' - "that about sums it up."
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:14 pm to Big12fan
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For A&M, chanting "Pooooor Aggiessssss" at the end of a football game when your victory is secured.
I genuinely believe that you believe that.
The only thing possibly more lame and uninspired is the riveting:
"Texas."
"Fight."
"Texas."
"Fight."
"Texas."
"Fight."
"Texas."
"Fight."
"Texas."
"Fight."
"Texas."
"Fight."
Not to be outdone, of course, by:
"Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner, Boomer Sooner
Boomer Sooner, OK U!"
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:15 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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Doing the horns down
-Calling texas university "t.u."
-Stealing your recruits from "Tan Fran" the day after we have players arrested
Your fanbase is the thinnest skinned in all of college sports.
Of course, as you just proved, the best way to get under an Aggie's skin is to have a Texas alum or fan say something negative about them or their school.
Pooooooooooooor Aggiessssssssssss
Pooooooooooooor Aggiessssssssssss
Pooooooooooooor Aggiessssssssssss
Pooooooooooooor Aggiessssssssssss
Pooooooooooooor Aggiessssssssssss
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:16 pm to EKG
Don't forget:
"I've been working on the raaaaaaaaailroooooad"
"I've been working on the raaaaaaaaailroooooad"
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:16 pm to Big12fan
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:17 pm to Big12fan
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For A&M, chanting "Pooooor Aggiessssss" at the end of a football game when your victory is secured.
Thanks for stopping by to show off your Agsession. Go back to the big 12 boards. This is an SEC board.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:17 pm to Big12fan
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Of course, as you just proved, the best way to get under an Aggie's skin is to have a Texas alum or fan say something negative about them or their school.
Yet here you are, on a thread that didn't mention you at all...on a non-rival's conference board.
Shouldn't you be on a Baylor site or OU site?
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:18 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
OU is their only real rival. They just obsess over A&M because we aren't their rivals.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:22 pm to Gradual_Stroke
I rest my case. Nothing new here. One Longhorn injects a comment about A&M and they bring out the canons and calvary.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:22 pm to Big12fan
Get out Texas fan.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:25 pm to Big12fan
I will also accept cavalry.
Run along, now.
Run along, now.
Posted on 6/4/14 at 5:25 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
Again, thanks for the info. Back in the Pleistocene I'm not sure what the breakdown was, and I have no idea what IA is vs. AD. When I was in school almost all of the RA (Regular Army, active duty) guys had a military scholarship, and getting one was fairly competitive. It was no more than 1/3, probably less. But there weren't any wars then. I'm not surprised that more guys are active duty now.
I would think the first two would favor A&M. Not sure what #3 means but it isn't really important that I know. We kicked arse at Riley, and I imagine they do the same at Knox. That's good intel, by the way. The day job takes me to a blowing-shite-up site at Knox every now and then. If I go again I'll watch for them and toss experimental grenades at every ND guy I see.
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1/3 = your performance at Advanced Camp (Knox now)
1/3 = your grades and campus performance
1/3 = everything else including PMS comments, extracurriculars, if you're at a SMC, etc.
I would think the first two would favor A&M. Not sure what #3 means but it isn't really important that I know. We kicked arse at Riley, and I imagine they do the same at Knox. That's good intel, by the way. The day job takes me to a blowing-shite-up site at Knox every now and then. If I go again I'll watch for them and toss experimental grenades at every ND guy I see.
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