jaxson11

Looks good! :cheers:

A&M isn't dodging the longhorns. The exact opposite according to the Cotton Bowl execs and UT sources. They are down and don't want to face us right now. It would interfere with their tactic of toggling between quoting their winning record that includes when A&M was an all-military school and they did not have scholarship limits to beating us the last season. They ignore the fact that we are basically dead even over the last few decades since A&M expanded enrollment.

Amazing how even some SEC fans here buy into that stupid shite. I find that normally SEC fans are a thousand times more educated than Big 12 fans about these things.

Not surprised at all to see a Baylor fan over here trolling. :rotflmao:

Gosh, I guess not being a massive ignorant prick means I'm on the LSU dick.

You seem to have lost all sense of reality in an attempt to be an Internet warrior. We got beat by LSU this season. Do I think we would lose now? No, but it is too late.

I guess we'll all head to fricking Dallas again for the millionth time. At least it is against a good opponent who didn't bitch out to avoid playing us.

IrvingAg, what is your point? LSU won on the field. Stop making excuses no matter how reasoned they are. Very Big 12 of you.

Not me. Bama rolls!

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Agree on all points. Good post.

:cheers:

The myth that Tx has and forever will get their choice of recruits is such a joke. When we were up, we got our pick. We then got behind in the facilities race and they got a few guys that were difference makers and helped them take that position in the state. Even now we get guys over them, but honestly we go up against OU more than Tx.

Nama is the most complete team in the nation. Hope you guys can get back in the race. Biggest win for us in the modern era. :cheers:

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And no we do still have legacy admissions (they are just not automatic anymore), along with Blinn Team, and easy enrollment if you are willing to join the corps.

A&M is a great school but we are not that hard to get into... our acceptance rate is around 65%. Thats good but not great.

tu, baylol, and smu are below 40%... Rice is at 30%.

We need to get down to that rate.

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I'm not sure if you are trolling or not, because your data is completely wrong. I have worked with college admissions and ratings for the State of Texas for 20 years and A&M is not easy to get into at all.

I've noticed that a lot of fans on this site have a very outdated image of A&M based on what the case was back in the 70's. The only thing more remarkable than A&M's cultural change over the last 30 years is the way academics has been transformed. A&M was never a crap school academically even then, but if you applied and met some basic requirements, you could get in. It was basically an Ag and Engineering school. Now, A&M has very strong liberal arts, education, business, etc.

A&M does not use legacy admissions at all. Not at all. You are just assuming that it does because it seems like it should. You obviously haven't been the one to listen to people complain because they are a multigeneration Aggie family whose great grandfather played three sports and a kid with an A-average didn't get in.

A&M is incredibly competitive to get into. In fact, other than Vanderbilt, it would be much more difficult to get into A&M than any other SEC school for undergraduate studies. There is no other public school in Texas that is more difficult to get into than A&M and UT. As for private schools, only Rice is more difficult. Baylor/SMU/TCU have incredibly lax academic standards. Not to say that they do not have some very good programs within those schools, but their admissions are much easier than A&M/UT. Rice is far above A&M/UT.

UT does have a higher use of the Top 10% rule to get in (they just moved it to Top 8%) but you have to keep in mind that UT has an international focus that puts pressure on their admissions for other students. In fact, their boasting of their "diversity" numbers is actually largely due to their international enrollment and they even capped their international admissions at one point. Visit campus sometime and talk to some people, and you'll realize that their focus is more international in nature.

Note: All those "hot" girls you see in their longhorn gear are usually from Texas State. In fact, I worked with a girl who was a pom squad member at UT and she was a full-time Texas State student.

The Blinn program is the equivalent to ACC to UT. Those programs are meant to help diversify the schools not fill spots that are open.

As for the idea that it is "easy" to get in if you are willing to join the Corps, that is not accurate. If you are a borderline applicant, it definitely helps over someone who is not going into the Corps when Corps numbers are lower than normal, but when they get up to a healthy level even that doesn't help. They have to meet the same minimum requirements as everyone else.

Your admission numbers on Baylor and SMU are comical. I'm assuming you are quoting numbers that were later blown apart as being falsified to drive up ratings in the college rating systems. There have been whole reports on that issue and Baylor is literally the poster child for doing that. SMU...come on. If you can pay, you get admitted.

I apologize for the long post, but I have tolerated ignorance about A&M's academic standards from SEC fans on this site, but I can't stand a supposed A&M fan spouting off this much inaccuracy.

This team is nothing like our past teams. If we came in with most of the same players we had last year the comparison might be legit, but we are running a completely different defense and offense with new players at key positions.