re: Concept Uniforms

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I always had the most trouble getting under the word count when I wrote for the Batt.

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You're a good writer. I realized this today. I almost asked you if you were a writer by profession. Are you?

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You should see all the shite I delete before I hit submit.

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I thank you for that.

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No, not more than producing training materials.

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Well, when you find your muse (and choose your chief aim and argument) you should sit down at the keyboard and stay until you've puked the troof. You never know what might become of it.

Up front and a theme that could be repeated over and over: Nobody is going to read all that.

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Look finest, I am Aggie circa 2014ish. I am not talking about results on the field, I am talking about recruiting.

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Corps block has been in effect since... I honestly don't know... how long? How does our 2015 and 2016 recruiting class look?

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It is different with younger generations. Millennials in particular are more jaded when their Gulf War didn't go as well as the last one.

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I attended A&M not long after Vietnam. The military was definitely NOT popular then, even among A&M students. I mentioned to old lady tonight that one of my fondest memories was running in formation past the north dorms and getting "there go the Nazi" looks from the longhairs. The attitude completely flipflopped in '79 for the Iran Hostage Crisis. Then all of a sudden we were respected. frick you guys. I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. But here's mine: This was all before the Wrecking Crew.

And I don't get what you're on about in most of the rest of your novel, until:

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What we need to do is stop saying A&M is too hard to explain because we refuse to water it down. We need to cherry pick the best parts of the experience, and maybe the prettiest girls in the seats, and put them where they are most visible to the general public. That naturally leads to a less corps-focused brand than the University has ever had. And we are almost there, as long as we keep marching forward on Cook's path and don't allow our internal mind police to lock away any concept as sacred.

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I have no argument with any of that. I think and always have that Corps block seating is a bad idea, but not because of public perception. I'd like for CTs to sit with civilians so both can come to understand how utterly stupid the civilian attitudes are, as I did. You guys are idiots.


I'm not sure that getting rid of the Corps block seating will satisfy your needs, though. I suspect the cameras will then focus on the band. (And I think that's mostly what they're already doing.) It seems to me that to achieve your goals you'll need to eliminate the Corps entirely.

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I detest the Corps block-seating deal, so we agree there. (T-Bird loves it, but I assume he's always drunk when he says that.)

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Block seating was awesome. Had a ton of fun attending games with my buddies. Always amuses me how up in arms folks get over it. For two reasons:

1.) The seats themselves really aren't that great

2.) The cameras are going to seek out the uniformed Corps members anyways

Damn good response. I may have to rethink my opinion of you.

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2.) The cameras are going to seek out the uniformed Corps members anyways

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That's what I think. If CTs were spread out through the student section, the cameras would focus on the band. Because face it, the uniforms are what make A&M unique. (Not in any this-is-who-we-are way, dipshit paranoid non-regs. Shut up. Unique among all other colleges.)

I don't like it because football games and a very few class projects were the only interaction I had with civilians. And though the sampling here is obviously substandard , I met some good guys during football games that I never would have otherwise. As a result I didn't think they were all total dipshits, as I would if I only sampled this board.