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re: Would you support the Aggie Dance Team on the sidelines at football games
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:54 am to Masterag
Posted on 7/14/15 at 11:54 am to Masterag
Sure throw the dance team on the sidelines. I don't know what they would do though. Its not like they're on the field doing dances to music during timeouts like in bball. But sure lets have some eye candy.
I ask this seriously. Would the corps show up in such big numbers without the block? I don't know. If it hurts attendance, then keep it. If it has little to no effect than ditch it.
I ask this seriously. Would the corps show up in such big numbers without the block? I don't know. If it hurts attendance, then keep it. If it has little to no effect than ditch it.
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Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:00 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Yes to the Dance Team, provided they remain just a Dance Team. Or maybe just hang out by all the TV cameras.
Yes to breaking up Corps Block. If the Corps are truly the Keepers of the Spirit, then wouldn't the 12th Man be better served if they were re-integrated w/ the rest of the students?
If we have to keep the Corps block, then have the Dance Team camp directly in front of them, so at least any TV shot of the block also has some hotties shakin' it.
Yes to breaking up Corps Block. If the Corps are truly the Keepers of the Spirit, then wouldn't the 12th Man be better served if they were re-integrated w/ the rest of the students?
If we have to keep the Corps block, then have the Dance Team camp directly in front of them, so at least any TV shot of the block also has some hotties shakin' it.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:01 pm to Farmer1906
Corps attendance would probably dip, but only negligibly. Those who wanted to get out of going to games would cut out, but there are ways to do that even with Corps Block.
The "reasons" for dispersing corps block that I see trotted out are silly, though. Just another contrived argument we Ags are good at perpetuating.
The "reasons" for dispersing corps block that I see trotted out are silly, though. Just another contrived argument we Ags are good at perpetuating.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:17 pm to Farmer1906
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I ask this seriously. Would the corps show up in such big numbers without the block?
The original reasoning for Corps Block is two-fold.
1. To keep accountability of the units.
2. To stop cadets from leaving the march-in, changing into civilian clothes, and attending the game out of uniform.
Pre-Big 12, the intent was that students of all kinds would pull with their class. The concept was that, if cadets went to the game in uniform and stood with their civilian classmates that they could "spread the spirit of Aggieland" across the entire student body".
When "Maroon Out" first started (1998 Nebraska game), there were folks who were trying to convince the commandant to allow the cadets to be in "half Bs" with a Maroon out t-shirt (B's and T's variation). Obviously, Hopgood shot that down quickly.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:20 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
If the students need uniformed cadets sprinkled in the crowd in order to feel the "spirit of Aggieland," then the spirit is dead.
They don't, and it's not.
They don't, and it's not.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:25 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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I enjoyed going to games with my buddies/outfit.
frick you, your buddies and your outfit.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:25 pm to TbirdSpur2010
can you come up with legit reasons to have it at all?
serious question
serious question
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:27 pm to betweenthebara
He was in the Wing...cut him SOME slack.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:33 pm to Dr RC
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can you come up with legit reasons to have it at all?
It's fun.
Gimme legit reasons to disperse it. Not this nebulous "oh think of the spirit that needs to be spread!" malarkey
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:35 pm to betweenthebara
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frick you, your buddies and your outfit.
Are we about to have our first plank walkin' of tOffseason?
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:39 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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It's fun.
not legit
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Gimme legit reasons to disperse it
gives outsiders a better idea of what the actual student body represents instead of having lazy camera men focus on the Corps 95% of the time they do crowd shots.
w/actual students will help break down divide between regular kids and Corps. Again, like it or not, there is needless acrimony between the two and splitting them up at football games adds to it.
Please come up with a legit reason to have it at all.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:40 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Yo Ho! Ya bastard. 
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:41 pm to Dr RC
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not legit
I had fun. Totes legit
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gives outsiders a better idea of what the actual student body represents instead of having lazy camera men focus on the Corps 95% of the time they do crowd shots.
Not legit. Camera men will always seek out the corps no matter where they happen to sit. The student section is giant as frick. Any stadium shot will have a frickton of students in it.
Cadets are unique. Unique is what cameras look for.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:42 pm to betweenthebara
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:43 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Not legit. Camera men will always seek out the corps no matter where they happen to sit. The student section is giant as frick. Any stadium shot will have a frickton of students in it.
Very legit. They wouldn't focus on the Corps the way they do if it wasn't a giant arse block right up front where the cameras roll by. No way no how. I've worked camera live events and the easier you make it to be lazy with crowd shots the more likely its going to happen.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:46 pm to Dr RC
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They wouldn't focus on the Corps the way they do if it wasn't a giant arse block right up front where the cameras roll by.
Yeah, they'd just pick cadets out of the crowd for close ups. Same difference.
Try again
DGAF how easy or difficult the cameraman's job is or isn't. They're gonna seek out and focus on cadets at Aggie games. You don't see that in most student sections.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:46 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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If the students need uniformed cadets in order to feel the "spirit of Aggieland," then the spirit is dead.
They don't, and it's not.
I never said they NEEDED it. I think it would help. On average, CTs are the more motivated and engaged than Non-Regs. Can anyone say that the impact the 12th man has on the game is what it used to be? I don't think so. A big part of that probably has to do w/ the decade-plus of bad football, but there's a reason you don't concentrate all your leaders into one subset of the group.
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:47 pm to Dr RC
It's also a moot point because the band would sit together even if there was no corps block.
Camera would focus on the band and pick out individual cadets (or the OD's) for close ups. Again, same difference.
Camera would focus on the band and pick out individual cadets (or the OD's) for close ups. Again, same difference.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 12:52 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:50 pm to Mirthomatic
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Can anyone say that the impact the 12th man has on the game is what it used to be? I don't think so.
You blame this on corps block and not the on-field product?
Good teams breed good crowds. Period. Trying to relate that to fan participation is silly and self-important.
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 7/14/15 at 12:52 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Camera would focus on the band
yes
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and pick out individual cadets for close ups. Again, same difference.
Very much doubt this
More likely they'll pick out whoever is good looking that is sitting in the first few rows. Why? B/c its easier than hunting for a cadet somewhere in there.
I see that you still cant come up with anything other than it was fun for you and a few buddies.
What, you and your boys couldn't pull/sit together anyway? You cant have fun sitting with the regular kids? Why do you hate the non corps kids?
This post was edited on 7/14/15 at 12:54 pm
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