re: Herman Calls for Texas and Texas A&M to Resume Their Football Series

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Eh, I don’t really mind either way. Would be fun to resume the rivalry, I do miss that game sometimes and the lead up to it. But on the other hand I do realize they have more to gain from it than us and we don’t want to lend them a helping hand in any way.

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This is pretty much how I feel about it.

On one hand, we have more to lose and less to gain while they have less to lose and more gain. But frick it, we're Texans, Aggies, and we usually don't back down from a challenge.

I'd be really torn every year if we resumed this game. On the one hand, I really want my minor league team to do well and getting a big game with an SEC team every year would really help them.

On the other, I just don't see how adding another non-conf game where the Aggies have the potential to lose a no-win situation (beat up on a lesser conf team, ho hum, lose in an upset, F*&$). I'd rather schedule a major non-conf game against a legit power conf opponent like UCLA or Michigan.

Lots of good points, BUT I circle back to if we want to close the gap in the series record we have to play. If we go on a 10 game streak, sure they still lead by 30 games but most of that was ancient history and the kids won't remember or care. Just like we remember whipping LSU but the college kids only know LSU beating A&M.

If we lose it helps them more, but it's not lose/lose for us. If we win, it only strengthens our argument that we are the present and the future.

IDGAF about the series record. That is purely message board stuff. When have you ever seen an all time series record brought up in a recruiting discussion

It’s so lopsided from our male only years it will decades for it to be remotely close again. Who cares

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BUT I circle back to if we want to close the gap in the series record we have to play

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who gives a shite? why should any one care about what happened in 1963 in the current modern college football landscape? USC has an insanely lopsided advantage over stanford, you think anyone cares about that series record given their current run of recent success?

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If we win, it only strengthens our argument that we are the present and the future.

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we already do this by literally hiring a national championship winning coach away from the school he won at while continuing to pump money into the program. we dont need to play texas or any other school in texas to prove we are the best place to play. we can do that based on the inherit qualities of our school and program

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However, of the majority that is for not playing them, a decent chunk are just plain scared. Scared that if we schedule it and start losing to them, we will lose all the ground we’ve gained in perception and status since 2012. And that’s just a b**** way to live.

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This is the perspective that drives me nuts. Doing something smart doesn't mean we are scared, it means we are using our heads when dealing with them for once. Aggies for years always want to take the hard road and then wonder why our program has historically underachieved. Here is the a big clue: other programs take every advantage they can get and don't worry about it being a "bullshite way to live" or that "we aren't doing it the right way." Sometimes the easy/smart way is the right way, there aren't any points handed out at the end of the year because you purposefully gave yourself a bigger challenge.

And frankly we know they will play dirty so why play? You want to say that we get some sort of benefit getting a win streak on them, but if anything that will just influence their boosters to try harder and influence the journalists that are secret sips to find whatever slip-up we might have to get the NCAA to nail us to the wall.

Right now Longhorns aren't pissed about their schedule or situation, they are apathetic. That is a better place for them to be than motivated to get back in the game because Aggy is kicking their arse every year.

If we can ever play them again without the emotions, without that sort of "Aggies need to be tough" bullshite clouding our judgement, then we should. Until then its just a liability, just Biff getting Marty McFly to do yet another stupid thing because he called Marty "chicken." To me letting others influence your decisions like that out of some outdated notion of pride/honor is the real "bullshite way to live."

Wow, well let me start by apologizing for not being as clear as I meant to be and you having to type up a multi-paragraph tirade in response to it.....

I’m not saying that just because someone doesn’t want to play tu, they are automatically “scared”. Far from it, I do think there are plenty of legitimate reasons to not want to play them again and I’m fine with that.

But there is a percentage (maybe it’s really small, I don’t know I can only go off of what I anecdotally notice) of people that are just plain scared of losing to them again. I know this because they’ll say it in person, you won’t find many online in the internet land of badasses, but several people have told me during casual football conversation that it’s the reason why they don’t want to play tu again. And I disagree with it.

I’m not saying that Every single person who rejects playing tu is scared. Sorry if that wasn’t clear from my first post.

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you having to type up a multi-paragraph tirade in response to it.....

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cardboard just likes to do that tbh

Man after my own heart.

I don't have any strong feelings either way on this question. If Woodward and Jimbo think it benefits us to play or not play them, I won't second guess them on it.

I don't think Herman is going to have much success there, if that matters. It doesn't seem like Texas gets players these days because they just really like and bond with Herman. He seems to repel more players than he attracts.