Randolph Duke

In 2012, when the Auburn basketball player was indicted for point shaving, was there any discussion that Auburn might get kicked out of the conference?

Point shaving doesn't get a school kicked out of a conference.

I laugh at the ignorance of those who praise the administrators of educational institutions for not spending money on education or student services.

When analyzing revenue and expenses for SEC schools, did you adjust the LSU numbers to reflect the money they sent over to the academic side to help with the core mission of the institution? Nope.

Did you adjust the numbers to account for the subsidy the Texas A&M academic side gives the athletics department by allowing the athletics department to borrow well into eight figures from academics at zero interest and pay it back over decades at $1 mil/yr? Nope.

If your kid's high school shut off the heating and air conditioning to save money and generate a budget surplus, would you praise the decision while your kid was miserable while in the classroom? Nope.

Public universities are given public funds to educate students and prepare them for life. You aren't doing the kids any favors by not spending money that is available. If the athletics department has millions in excess revenue, what favors are you doing by not spending more on their education? Skimping on education spending leads to adults who don't understand the a lot of money available to a university, but not spent on education or student services, is a good thing.

Quit measuring success on how much is available but is not being spent to benefit the students. Government is not supposed to be generating huge sums of unspent money. Money not spent on students is a sign of failure, not success, unless your goal is to see how much the state can take from the people and give back as little as possible.

When aggy did their stadium project, they raised less in alumni donations than Okie Lite did when they redid their stadium. However rich aggy wants to claim to be, in cold hard cash (not the $350 million they borrowed for the project) aggy isn't even Okie Lite rich.

I don't post on any board under any name other than this one and never have. You should know that by now.

And I did not slur you in any way. I was merely trying to confirm your understanding of economics was a product of the education you received at the University of Arkansas. When I share what you posted earlier, I want to get the school correct.

Again, find a good junior college and take a few economics classes. Tax exempt since 1959.

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FYI - The NFL and the New York Stock Exchange were non-profit corporations for decades.

aggy cares about this big time. They live and die by the Burnt Orange Yardstick. Everything aggy has and everything they do has to be measured against UT Austin.

What aggy doesn't want to discuss is that their financials have been skewed as of late by the contributions for their new stadium. They borrowed roughly $350 million in taxable municipal debt and financed the rest through contributions that they are SOOOO proud of.

And while their stadium contributions are material, what aggy doesn't want to admit is their "wealthy alumni base" couldn't even match what the Oklahoma State alumni ponied up for their stadium project. So, while aggy claims to be rich, they aren't even Okie Lite rich. Or Oregon rich. Or UT rich. Or....

aggy's problem is that aren't a wealthy group. Kyle Field was originally built the same year as the Big House in Ann Arbor. Because Michigan has regular success, they have the revenues to do regular maintenance and expansions. The Big House is, and pretty much always has been, a mecca for college football and a damned nice stadium. aggy, on the other hand, only has success once every couple of decades (again, they have only finished above .500 in conference play twice in the past decade and they haven't even sniffed a conference championship in almost 20 years. Hell, aggy couldn't even win a BCS game, a feat even Kansas, Connecticut, Utah and West Virginia managed). The fact is aggy barely can pay their bills in many years and they have to let their stadium maintenance suffer. Their old stadium was horribly decrepit, non-ADA compliant, and deemed a safety hazard by the Fire Marshall (Seriously. Ask them why they couldn't even light the letters on the outside of the old stadium, It was because the electrical system was that dangerous).

aggy used the conference switch and the 2012 season to fuel a fund raising drive to catch up on stadium infrastructure issues. Sadly, they still haven't been able to pay back their academic side for the debt they have owed them since 2006 (aggy athletics couldn't pay their bills in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 or 2012 so they had to beg tens of millions from the academic side to payLINK debts).

Now that aggy has to begin to pay their immense athletics debt (over $400 million if you add bond debt and commercial paper debt) the fun begins.

Good luck aggy.

One quick fun fact - aggy hasn't been able to afford an outdoor track facility on their campus for years. They finally found the money to build one. It will seat 3,000 spectators. The Texas state high school track meet draws about 20,000 peak attendance, so the new aggy stadium won't be even close to being big enough to handle the state high school track meet. Where is the Texas state high school track meet meet held? At the track stadium on the UT Austin campus. Why is that? Because only UT Austin can afford the facilities. When a major university can't even afford to build facilities to host a high school track meet, something is very aggy. lol.

Remember, my SEC friends - No Givebacks!

Who is begging for attention? Someone insulted me and I responded to that post. Since then, I haven't begged for anything. I'm just answering questions. People are free to quit asking questions and I will quit responding.

Matter of fact, I have to leave in a few minutes. It's been fun.

If you want to know about the founding of aggy, here is a link to a thesis written by an aggy for a graduate degree at aggy that will explain whatever you want to know.

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aggypedia - the best place on the internet for getting the real facts about the agricultural branch college of The University of Texas. Whoop!

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The "registered sex offender" story is another aggy fairy tale they made up. So far, they have mis-idenfied me by name, they have fabricated I was a sex offender, presumably allowed to have internet access while in prison - think about that), they have identified some woman who they insist is my ex-wife (I have never been divorced), they have decided I live on someone's couch, and a bunch of other nonsense.

aggy makes up stories about a lot of things. It's what they do. They can't handle the factual world around them, so they grasp hold of fairy tales, fabrications, conspiracies and rewritten versions of history to help them cope. It's sad, but it's what they do.

"Total freak" is a bit harsh, isn't it? All Randolph Duke does is point out the idiocy, dishonesty and hypocrisy of the aggy culture and that supposedly qualifies as a being "freak"? If so, I take solace in knowing being considered a "freak" is not nearly as bad as being called "aggy." When grown adults believe in fairy tales like the aggy version 12th Man story that doesn't even fit with E. King Gill's explanation of the events; or when they believe the aggy fake military stories (did you know even the Univ of Washington has more alumni Medal of Honor recipients than aggy?); or when aggys celebrate fake national championships in football (do you know U of H has more overall NCAA national championships than aggy? As does Okie Lite. Hell West Virginia has more NCAA championships in one single sport than aggy has in all sports, both genders)...now THAT level of idiocy qualifies as freaks. As in freak show of a culture.

Those idiot rednecks have no clue who Randolph Duke is. They haven't even considered the possibility that "Randolph Duke" might be a collaborative effort and not just one single person.

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I've long said the only opinion that matters at this point is that of the Texas Attorney General.

The question still stands, "Why are the Aggies so reluctant to just be honest with people about the history and tradition of their school? Who do they constantly act honestly and with integrity as a last resort each and every time?"

And to be clear, the issue isn't they embellished their tradition. The issue is they knowingly filed a false trademark application and they have subsequently knowingly filed false pleadings in federal court to defend the trademark. It isn't about embellishing the facts to create a tradition. It is about fraudulently misrepresenting the facts under oath in various federal filings.