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

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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.....

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Eh big lengthy responses are my thing. Frankly I already had a post mostly written about how they constantly do the "are you chicken McFly?" thing with us and you just gave me a concrete example to work with.

Doing things the hard way for the sake of doing things the hard way and then wondering why we don't have more success is easily my biggest pet peeve of Aggie culture.

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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.

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Two thoughts on that:

1. They have mostly beaten us historically, and in the times when we could stay even or do better than them they always push for some change in the playing field that pulls the rug from under our success. They never play fair, and they won't ever probably. Most people realize that.

2. I don't think anyone is really scared of playing programs that are likely to beat us, or you would have more people pushing to go back to the Big 12. Instead I think people are sick of being measured by a yardstick that makes us look bad even if we go on a historic winning streak.


Frankly I think these Aggies have reasonable goals in mind for the program. The ones who want to play chicken with Texas are the ones I am scared of, because they have some delusion that if we played them and beat them we would get recognized as the premier team in the state when this fricking front-running sport doesn't work that way.

A great example of that is USC vs Clemson. Earlier in the decade USC ripped off this nice streak on Dabo and for a while lived the dream many Aggies want to live with Texas. But then Clemson won a national title and suddenly USC was living in a shadow and all those years of victories don't mean dick. Only national success does.

Before we play Texas again on a regular basis we need to prove our worth in the situation we are in (aka win a SEC or national title) and then go and play Texas as equals.

We will never get the respect we so desire simply by beating them, we have to earn it ourselves and playing them only makes that outcome less likely to happen.

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USC vs Clemson. Earlier in the decade USC ripped off this nice streak on Dabo and for a while lived the dream many Aggies want to live with Texas. But then Clemson won a national title and suddenly USC was living in a shadow and all those years of victories don't mean dick. Only national success does.

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Fantastic example.

Did you guys see Herman's interview at little12 media says? Skip over to the question at 13:07 to hear the crickets chirping.

chirp..chirp...chirp

Holy frick

Does anyone see the pic I posted? I can't see it so I don't know if it worked.

It's strange. I removed the "s" but I still don't see it in my post but I see it in yours. Oh well, I won't clutter the board with "how to" messages. Thanks

This one was funny too.

Source: TamuHighlights

That’s great.

poor sips