re: Aggy Board OT Discussion Thread

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Someone made a joke about his accuracy with the statement like his passing and he liked it. At least he has a sense of humor

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Yeah I like Mond. He's a chill dude.

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See, I can go to extremes too

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Trust us, we know.

I haven't gone anywhere near the texags politics board in nearly 10 years. I feel I will lose all hope for humanity if I do.

Should be zero tolerance

Dude better have one hell of a year. He’s gonna get his arse booed after every incompletion

I do not envy the type of calls BG Ramirez is receiving right now because of how stupid Mond is.

Current Cadets are REQUIRED to attend home games and former cadets make up the overwhelming majority of donors.

Not only that, but the Corps of Cadets Association is a private nonprofit that funds a lot of their activities and is not subject to University leadership.

#DefundtheCorps

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someone tweeted a thing saying that over 90% of racial incidents were due to the corps

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That may have been the case 30 years ago, but not when I went through (20 years ago) and I can't speak on behalf of TBird (10 years ago) or today's cadets.

My senior class only had one black cadet (my senior year roommate). His freshman year, he would only confide in black upperclassmen and we confronted him one day, asking him why he never hung around us. When he said, "you can't relate to me and how I grew up" our response was, "how can we if you never hang out with us or talk to us?" Over the next three years, as we got to know him, we clashed on some things. For example, the class after us had one black cadet, who my buddy attempted to "protect". Once we asked him "how is he going to get better if you hold him to a lower standard than you hold his classmates?" he went the other direction and we had to rein him in. When no one else wanted to be his roommate our senior year, I did so mainly because I wanted a corner room and thought I could live with anyone. It wasn't because he was black that they didn't want to live with him, it's because he was a bit weird (he is an Otaku, for those who know what that means and didn't like sports as well). His own parents thanked me for being his roommate even admitting how different he was than them (he didn't like football because the Lawrence Taylor/Joe Theismann hit traumatized him as a kid). He had a decent stint in the Air Force and makes a decent living with his family. We remain friends to this day and often I envy his indifference towards Aggie Athletics.

I'll contrast that with one of the cadets in the outfit in the same building as ours that was treated horribly by racist upperclassmen his freshman year and ended up being the Combined Band Commander and universally revered by upperclassmen, classmates and underclassmen by the time he was a junior. (His father was a Navy Captain)

You know as well as I do that fish year is all about us (fish class) vs. them (pissheads). The cadets that are "peered out" are the ones perceived as "holding us back". My zip year ol' lady wasn't one of those holding us back because he kept up with PT, didn't act like a spotlight ranger or a blue falcon, and kept his uniform and hole clean.

Of the 43 we started with, 20 marched 2nd Pass Final Review. One additional buddy physically couldn't because he was hit by a car and put into a coma our sophomore year so we carried him.