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Go Aggies!

Let's hear it for future LSU vs. aTm games on Thanksgiving/ Thanksgiving weekends!

I'm not an Aggie but an Aggie fan. A T-shirt Aggie. That's why I am certainly not up to speed on the formalities of getting bowl tickets. Heck, if USAFA went to a bowl game (which we never did while I was there) everyone went as it was a mandatory formation. There would be no issue of getting tickets. Just to say I am not trying to troll or get in under the radar.

I am on the other forum but haven't been run off AFAIIK.

And I am sure glad to be in the SEC.

Ever heard of the Aggie List Eater? True story.

Student have had a tradition of signing up for bowl tickets after it is announced that the Aggies are playing in a bowl game. This list constitutes the order in which you get to pull your student tickets for the bowl game. The 2005 Cotton Bowl (vs Tennessee) had a such a list, but one of the students decided to ignore protocol and pushed to the head of the line. When the students showed her the list and told her to go to the back of the line, she ate the list. Thus began the Legend of the List Eater. The offending student stayed at second place in the line, got her tickets and left. No violence took place as far as police were concerned. Perhaps some other Aggies here could give more information. It did make the news.

Here is a story from Fox Sports.
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Hope that link will work.

Here is a video, too.

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aTm has some unique traditions, but this was too good not to share for the weekend.

Edited to correct links.

My two cents is that aTm officially separated from the University of Texas right after WWII although aTm had never been officially controlled by tu. In 1876, the State of Texas had established a Public University Fund (PUF) where the university system received some part (one-sixteenth, I think) of all oil extracted from public lands. ("Public lands" were considerable as the Nation of Texas had taken all the land from Mexico in the 1834 revolution.) In 1931, the legislature officially divided these funds as one-third to aTm and two-thirds to tu. This was confirmed in a settlement between the two schools in 1956 under Earl Rudder then president of aTm. These funds are held in trust and only the interest on that money is available today. This ensures that the money will never be depleted. Also, the PUF funds are only available for construction or expansion and not operating costs.

I don't know if the endowments that we refer to in this thread are part of the PUF funds. I am surprised that aTm is higher than other SEC schools.

Edit #1: You can see in the OP link that the 2010 to 2011 increase in endowments to both tu and aTm is exactly 22 percent. That makes me think that the endowments do include the PUF funds.

According to Rivals.com, Colin Blake has decided to skip the SEC next year. All Bevo10 schools but one. I followed him as he is from San Antonio and he was always soft on aTm.