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10 hours ago, Modessit said:

I hate to ask - but what's the reaction over there to this whole Shaggy/Surly fiasco?

The same as their reaction to most things - utter confusion.

One redneck quipped the demise of Shaggy was emblematic of the entire UT athletics program. In a classic case of aggy lack of self-awareness, they said that the day after Texas won its 14th NCAA Men's S/D championship (and fourth in a row). Texas now has more NCAA national championships in just one sport than aggy has in all sports (both genders) in the history of their school.

They mocked my wanting to "borrow my brother's Lincoln Continental to offer a futile and stupid gesture." They interpreted it to mean I didn't own a car and had to borrow my brother's just to run errands.

Finally, they mocked the stupidity of the Shaggy crew for our futile and stupid act of defiance of re-posting the "Rome Statute" denial of permission text. Evidently one of the super smart aggy redneck lawyer minds researched the subject and arrived at the opinion the denial of permission carried no legal weight (There is no getting anything by a super smart aggy redneck lawyer! Them folks is S!E!C! good!). Of course, the same brilliant minds who didn't get the joke behind the re-posting of the denial text also hated the movie Spartacus and thought Stanley Kubrick was a bad director because at the end of the film all the slaves went senile and thought they were actually Spartacus.

Oh, and they think I give a shit about the demise of Shaggy because of the loss of all my content in the aggy thread. Knowing me as incredibly well as they claim to, they were (as usual) as wrong as human beings could be. The content continues to be accessible. The crawler last grabbed the content on Feb 24, so even if they deleted any of my content before turning the site over, most of it will be accessible in perpetuity. And aggypedia was last grabbed on March 14, so all my stuff is available.

Pretty much they are confused, as one would expect from a culture defined by an eighth grade level education that included no liberal arts classes at all. We are all over here laughing about the demise of Shaggy and looking at it as just another story in the overall saga. They are looking at it as evidence of the superiority of aggy. Obviously, advantage aggy.

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11 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

I'm having a tough time finding many wins next year for A&M. 

Substantial underdog: Clemson, @ Alabama, @ Auburn

Likely losses: LSU, @ Miss State

Coin flips: @South Carolina

Slight favorite: Arkansas, Ole Miss, Kentucky 

Are you counting all of the cupcake games as wins?

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18 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

I'm having a tough time finding many wins next year for A&M. 

Substantial underdog: Clemson, @ Alabama, @ Auburn

Likely losses: LSU, @ Miss State

Coin flips: @South Carolina

Slight favorite: Arkansas, Ole Miss, Kentucky 

Dude, do you even Jimbo?  aggy is not losing football games anymore.  Ever.  They're going to win the next 10 nattys and go undefeated every year doing so.

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11 hours ago, tx ind said:

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It is interesting that this picture shows back up on the same day two senior executives of Schlitterbahn were arrested in connection with the death of the kid in Kansas City who died on the water ride. Both were charged with second-degree murder. Three others were charged with involuntary manslaughter. All five defendants are also charged with aggravated battery.

The indictment against one particular individual notes that although he possessed no "technical or engineering credentials" he controlled "many key decisions" in the design. The design "violated nearly all aspects of the longstanding industry safety standards," the indictment said, adding "in fact, the design and operation complied with few, if any, of the industry safety standards."

This is how matters of this sort are handled responsibly. People responsible for the needless deaths of others are held accountable. In Texas, the "good old boy" network kicks in if those responsible are politically connected. In Texas, they face no personal criminal or civil responsibility, the story of the event is rewritten to be a grand homeric where the deaths get whitewashed as "an unforeseeable act of God," and the idiots involved start immediately clamoring for the ability to start doing the exact same thing over again (with easily predictably results). All in sick and twisted glorification of "turdition."

For the record, from 1909, when the first bonfire was held as a way to stay warm during the pep rally held the evening before the UT Thanksgiving Day game, until 1942, the aggy bonfire was just a random pile of scrap wood. In 1942, when they were filming the "Never Been Licked" film, the director wanted a bigger fire, so they modified the design to a tee-pee shaped conical pile of wood. In 1943, they started the practice of trying to one-up the previous year's height. In 1953, theft of property was no longer used to provide fuel and the use of logs was initiated.

Never ones to pass up an opportunity to interject bizarre behavior into an otherwise normal situation, beginning in 1947, freshmen on campus involved in building the bonfire were required to wear lipstick and rouge and to skip to classes like little school girls. In 1953, the school administrators ordered an end to this idiotic behavior. One freshman wrote a letter to the editor of the school paper claiming a God-given right to skip and wear makeup, and thereby earn "the privilege of saying we are True Aggies." Seriously. They really acted this way.

In 1954 a student working on the project was first reported hospitalized; 1955 saw the first fatality; after 1959 cartoons depicting injuries became a regular fall feature in the student newspaper. In the 1970s, limits were placed on the height and diameter of the bonfire. As construction designs changed and the wedding cake design was implemented, the fact that no limits were placed on overall volume of wood meant the upper tiers became increasingly larger in diameter. This meant the stack was increasingly top heavy and increasingly unstable with each passing year. Since building the bonfire was a student run endeavor, no professional evaluation was ever performed on how changes in design affected the stability and integrity of the structure.

(more at http://aggypedia.com/wiki/Aggy_turditions#Bonfire)

 

 

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11 minutes ago, LoneStarBiker said:

What's going on here? Seen several of these pics of the aggy dudes kneeling and hugging.

With the other aggys standing around these two, seems like an intro to some gay porn video (NTTATWRT/no homo) 

Jizz jar spring practice.

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11 hours ago, TheFlagship said:

 

So the goat Jerrod Johnson got benched and replaced by Stephen McGee.

The goat Trevor Knight was an OUSux castoff after he was beat out by a walkon QB.

The goat JFF is currently hitting up pro days as his only way of getting in front of NFL scouts.

The goat Conner McQueen was a holder for place kickers for most of his career.

If Mike Evans and Christian Kirk are on the field together do the goats cancel out?

Is Myles Garret more goaty than Von Miller?

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2 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

Just as an aside, I learned this morning that one you paste the image location into a post, you can then resize it to whatever size you want (ahem-smaller) by clicking on the image and resizing it.

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that is really cool actually. I found this in the edit, but it said too much time has passed. Apparently you only get 1 minute to edit posts. 

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I'm puzzled by the rampant homosexual undertones in so many of these "turditions" (NTTIAWWT).  Is this the only means by which aggy feel free to express themselves in the culturally repressive environment in which they exist? 

The total irony of this is stunning.

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Sports Illustrated- He is the Sidd Finch of college football, a player so talented and productive it's almost impossible to believe he's real.

But Texas A&M junior quarterback Jerrod Johnson is very real. And despite carrying a team with less talent and more freshmen than all the hyped-up Heisman-watch names, Johnson is making a stronger early-season case for the stiff-arm statue than anyone.

His story -- how he's become one of the most mature and grounded athletes in big-time sports -- is equally inspiring.

You wouldn't know it, however, unless you took the time to drive to College Station to catch a glimpse of this kid who has run like Terrelle Pryor, led like Colt McCoy, thrown like Sam Bradford. Teammates and coaches respect his tough-mindedness and character as much as so many fans admire Tim Tebow's.
But television cameras have not followed Johnson's every move. In fact, they have not followed any of them. Not one of Johnson's monstrous games this season has been televised. The director in the truck has not demanded that cameras capture every facial expression and emotion of Johnson's mother, girlfriend or neighbors. Brent Musberger has not cooed over Johnson's greatness or made it seem that when he traipses effortlessly over football turf he could just as well be walking on water. Thom Brennaman has not gushed over spending five or 20 minutes with Johnson, saying your life would be better for it.

As one Austin columnist put it after watching Johnson run for three touchdowns and pass for three more in a 56-19 pasting of Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday, "Stick [Johnson] in Tim Tebow's uniform, and after the numbers he put up ... the Heisman race would be over."

Johnson's coming out party figures to come this Saturday, when the 3-0 Aggies take on Arkansas at Cowboys Stadium. And when America finally does say hello to Jerrod Johnson, a.k.a. Sidd, chances are it will want to pay attention to what college football truly is all about.

Johnson doesn't drink, and never has tried anything stronger than Advil when it comes to drugs. His name is often misspelled or mispronounced. It's Jerrod, as in ja-ROD. He is compared, foolishly, to Vince Young or JaMarcus Russell, mostly because he is a big quarterback and black. He is more polished as a passer, a smooth runner and often the smartest player on the field.

He made an early impression, literally, on the Aggies program over the summer as he entered his first full season as the starting quarterback. He woke up at 5 a.m. everyday for boot camp-type workouts. He telephoned incoming freshman and encouraged them to meet for 7-on-7 and 11-on-11 practices with veterans. He held meetings with every offensive player, meticulously using a laser pointer to go over individual assignments on every play in the Aggies playbook.

Johnson has put a once-great football program that finished 4-8 a year ago on his shoulders. He leads the nation's No. 1 offense in coach Mike Sherman's second year in Aggieland, and through leadership and on-field production, he is carrying the Aggies back to respectability.

Comparisons? He averages twice as many passing yards (320.3 to 160.7) as Tebow.
He has three times more rushing yards (196 to 61), more rushing touchdowns (4 to 1) and a higher passer rating (167.0 to 150.9) than McCoy.
He's thrown more touchdown passes (9), with a higher completion percentage (67.5), than Ryan Mallett, Jacory Harris and Terrelle Pryor.
He averages more total offense per game (385.6) than Taylor Potts, Jimmy Clausen and Todd Reesing. His passer rating is higher than Case Keenum's, Zac Robinson's and Max Hall's. He accounts for more points per game (26.0) than any other player in America. He ranks in the top 11 nationally in every passing category, as well as in total offense (third behind quarterbacks Greg Alexander of Hawaii and Case Keenum of Houston).

He stands 6-foot-6 and weighs 245 pounds. He is a powerful runner with a deceptive and long stride. He can throw the ball 70 yards, with ease. At the Peyton Manning camp over the summer, he beat McCoy, Bradford, Greg McElroy and a couple dozen other Division I quarterbacks in a passing skills competition. At the camp, the Manning family patriarch, Archie, told Johnson, "You have it all."

And in just three games in 2009, Johnson has thrown for 1,157 yards, rushed for those four touchdowns, passed for nine and thrown zero interceptions. Zero. He has started just 13 games in his collegiate career, but is on pace to obliterate long-standing Aggies records.

Already, he has posted four of the school's top nine single-game total offense performances. He has four of the top six all-time single-game passing marks (a career-high 419 against Kansas State last year). He already has established the single-season record for touchdowns (24) and is on pace to become the all-time completions percentage leader.
His is Sidd-like in every way.

Growing up in the Houston suburb of -- appropriately -- Humble, Texas, he was considered a pro prospect in baseball and basketball. As a sophomore in high school, Johnson clocked 90-mph on the radar gun with his fastball. As a junior in high school, Johnson earned a basketball scholarship to A&M. Current Marquette coach Buzz Williams, a former assistant at A&M, said of Johnson shortly after his commitment in 2005, "he could start for us right now."

But there's more to Jerrod than numbers and skills.
He is the son of a high school teacher and high school administrator. Pam and Larry Johnson's faith and compassion ran so deep they took in nearly two dozen foster children while Jerrod and his brother, Marquis, were growing up. When Jerrod was 3, the state took custody of the child of one of Pam's friend. Pam's heart broke at the thought of the child, a boy named Kendall, not having a home. Larry and Pam went through foster parent training and raised the child until the state found a permanent home.
From then on, the Johnsons gave foster children everything they could -- holiday parties, gifts, vacations, a church home, a family's love. They accepted kids of every age, so long as they were boys.

Some of the children were infants. Some were young teens. Some were children of crack and heroine addicts. Some suffered from severe developmental and health issues. Some simply were abandoned. Some were black, some were white, some were Hispanic. It never mattered.

"We didn't care if they were special kids, overweight, sick, and we didn't see color," Pam said. "We didn't talk about any of that in our family. We're all related. It doesn't matter what color."

The children did everything with Jerrod and Marquis, a former Prairie View A&M end now coaching strength and conditioning at Eastern Michigan. The boys treated the kids like family, playing with them, kidding them, shooting hoops, teaching them dance moves or songs, helping with homework.

"Some people told me that by taking on all these kids, some with [behavioral] problems, that it would rub off on my kids and they would be problems," Pam said. "The opposite happened. It taught our boys to value family."

Some foster children stayed with the Johnsons for years. One such child, Joey, suffered from DiGeorge Syndrome, a degenerative neuromuscular organ and growth condition. Joey loved to dance and became very close with Jerrod, who has a deep love for music and dancing. Not long after Jerrod left for College Station as a freshman, Joey suffered heart failure as Pam was leaving for work and died in her arms.
Another boy, Joe, was part of the family for nine years, longer than any other, and was like a brother to Jerrod and Marquis. Joe was diagnosed with developmental issues, but Pam didn't buy it. She gradually reduced the amount of medication Joe took, while Marquis and Jerrod taught him how to play basketball. Joe made the varsity basketball team at Smiley High in Houston, where Pam taught, graduated high school and lives in a group home in the Houston area.

With deeds as much as words, Larry and Pam taught their sons to accept everything and everyone. And to take nothing for granted.

Larry took on extra jobs to help pay for all the expenses of raising his boys and foster kids. A former Texas A&M safety and wide receiver, Johnson became one of the Humble area's most beloved coaches and administrators.

When Jerrod played elite summer-league basketball from 2002 to 2005, helping a Houston hoops team reach the AAU Elite Eight three consecutive years and the Final Four once, Larry Johnson was a volunteer assistant coach. The travel team featured such future Division I players as Johnson, Arizona point guard Nic Wise, Nevada-Las Vegas forward Darris Santee, TCU guard Jason Ebie, Texas Tech forward Mike Singletary, Bucknell wing Stephen Tyree and Rice footballer Pierre Beasley. Yet while all that front-line talent scrimmaged during practices, Larry Johnson often took bench players to the other end of the gym to work on rebounding, shooting, footwork. Everyone mattered.

The lessons stuck with Jerrod. When he woke before dawn to work out and organize meetings and scrimmages in the summer, he made sure every player on the Aggies depth chart and walk-ons got calls. At his 21st birthday in July, Johnson and his friends organized a party at a College Station nightclub. College kids acted like college kids all night. And Jerrod sang, danced and partied, but he drank only sports drinks and juice. He has, however, promised Aggies teammates that if they make it to the Big 12 title game, he will, "take a sip" of some wine or champagne.

The college football world is about to become impressed with what Jerrod Johnson has become. The one person he most wishes could be at Cowboys Stadium to watch the next step in this marvelous season, however, will not be there.

In December 2007 while the Aggies were preparing for the Alamo Bowl and just months before starting his first game at quarterback, Jerrod received a call from his brother. He said he needed to come home because Larry was in the hospital. It was only after Jerrod arrived that he realized his father had suffered a massive stroke.

Even until his final few breaths, Larry Johnson was trying to help kids do things the right way. A former Humble High student called "Mr. Johnson" asking for advice on transferring to another college on that Saturday afternoon. Jerrod clicked in to talk with his father. Then, Pam's mother clicked in.
As Larry Johnson handed the phone to Pam, he mumbled something. He then collapsed to the floor. Two days later, Larry died with his sons and wife by his side.

At Larry's funeral, Jerrod spoke in detail of the lessons his father taught him. Marquis did an impeccable, humorous impersonation of how his boisterous, affable father would implore kids to always do the right thing. On the front row of the church sitting next to Pam was Joe, the Foster child who spent nine years with the family.

After the service, hundreds of former players and students greeted the family and shared stories of how "Mr. Johnson" affected their lives. A year later, the basketball court at Humble High was renamed Larry Johnson Court.

On a recent Saturday evening in College Station, Pam Johnson walked into Kyle Field with her mother and two young children -- a 3-year-old Hispanic boy named Anthony and a 2-year-old black child named Trey. Both of their mothers are drug addicts. The babies were in awe of the game-day surroundings and all the people. They never had seen anything like it.

Larry Johnson never got to see his son start a college football game. But whenever Pam does, and every time someone else does, what they see is exactly what Larry Johnson wanted: a kid who treats everyone around him the same, no matter where they're from, what they look like or what's happened in the past.

It's how he became one of the best college football stories you never knew.



http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/john_lopez/09/30/jerrod-johnson/index.html 

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29 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I never noticed that they were managing to insult Native Americans in that picture. Whole new dimension.

You must be reading something into the picture that isn't there. aggys are always respectful toward minorities. Just ask Daniel Figurelli.

Again, from the April 2000 TM aggy bonfire article:

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Turdition.

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3 hours ago, texasstrong12 said:

I'm having a tough time finding many wins next year for A&M. 

Substantial underdog: Clemson, @ Alabama, @ Auburn

Likely losses: LSU, @ Miss State

Coin flips: @South Carolina

Slight favorite: Arkansas, Ole Miss, Kentucky 

Arky Chad and Chief will want to beat aggy more than anybody on the schedule and they get aggy the week after they play Bama'.  Look for an Arky Chad victory here.  That will then lead to panic on the aggy boards and some tough questions for Jimbo at press conferences when he will start to get mad.  A week later Kentucky will squeak out a close victory to get the fan base even more in an uproar (  Kentucky returns 10 starters on defense and 8-9 on offense which should be good enough to beat aggy ).  Finally, a trip to South Carolina will be the knockout blow to the season when Muschamp gets the win.  After that Auburn, Miss State, and LSU will just do whatever they want.

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5 hours ago, texasstrong12 said:

I'm having a tough time finding many wins next year for A&M. 

Substantial underdog: Clemson, @ Alabama, @ Auburn

Likely losses: LSU, @ Miss State

Coin flips: @South Carolina

Slight favorite: Arkansas, Ole Miss, Kentucky 

need to add their spring game to the slight favorite list

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Conference cash: Pac-12 lags the SEC, Big Ten and even the Big 12 in distributions to the campuses:

 

The Big 12 became the second conference to report revenue-and-expense data for the 2017 fiscal year, following the SEC, and it did quite well for itself. 

Reports of the conference’s demise are completely false, at least from the financial standpoint. With FY17 figures now available for 40 percent of the Power Five, let’s take a quick look at the updated cash ledger.  The following distributions from each conference are on a per-school basis and do not include exceptions like Notre Dame (ACC for basketball, Independent for football) or Baylor (less than full share from Big 12because of penalties).  Additionally, the conferences report on different timelines, so you’ll note a mix of actual and projected figures.

 

Fiscal year 2017

 

SEC: $41 million (actual)

Big Ten: $38.5 million (reported)

Big 12: $34.3 (actual)

Pac-12: $30.5 million (projected)

ACC: $26 million (projected)

 

 Fiscal Year 2018

 

Big Ten: $50+ million (projected)

SEC: $43 million (projected)

Big 12: $36.5 million (projected)

Pac-12: $32 million (projected)

ACC: $28 million (projected)

 

Notes:

 

* Payments for FY17 include a one-time distribution from the NCAA of approximately $850,000 per school.

* The Big Ten jump in FY18 projections is the result of its new Tier One TV deal.

* Big 12 figures do not include local media rights, which are owned by the schools (i.e., The Longhorn Network).

And recall that the figures cited above are per school, meaning the Pac-12 is $96 million behind the Big Ten in FY17 in total conference distributions (12 schools x $8 million per school).

 

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/28/conference-cash-pac-12-lags-the-sec-big-ten-and-even-the-big-12-in-distributions-to-the-campuses/

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5 hours ago, LoneStarBiker said:

What's going on here? Seen several of these pics of the aggy dudes kneeling and hugging.

With the other aggys standing around these two, seems like an intro to some gay porn video (NTTATWRT/no homo) 

They like to reenact old timey poses for traditional purposes however that is not what's occurring in the above photo.

That picture is from a "death by Bunga Bunga ceremony" commemorating the time a group of aggy butt fucked each other to death on an island in the Pacific during WWII.

 

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