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Tired Horn

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  1. Hey, App St. was the best 6-6 team in the country. They had to be to beat the best 5-7 team in the country. And anyway, A&M didn't lose--they just ran out of time. Texas A&M--running out of time since 1939.
  2. I know Aggie is the king of doublethink, but I still find it weird how on the on hand they say they've transcended us via the immaculate hundred-year decision, but on the other hand they're so pathetically desperate to be acknowledged as our primary rival. I was on a business trip the other day and had dinner with a group that included an Aggy. Out of nowhere, he brings up Oklahoma and insists they could never match our rivalry with A&M. He just wouldn't quit, so I finally explained it to him. In my lifetime, Texas and OU have both been in the Top 25 when they played more than thirty times. They've both been in the Top 10 almost twenty. That makes for games that really feel important. A&m and Texas have both been in the Top 25 when the played less than ten times. They've both been in the Top Ten once, almost fifty years ago. That makes for games you play because they're on the schedule. Now admittedly some of that is a whim of scheduling. Texas and OU play early with less chance to have shit the bed on a season already, while Texas and A&M play at the end. But it is what it is. Oklahoma is a rivalry because you feel it in your bones, remember the great wins and the heartbreaking losses. A&M is a rivalry because you're told it is. The guy looked like he was going to cry. WTF?
  3. Maybe they should just go independent and sink into oblivion.
  4. Because A&M has measured up so well to Alabama, Georgia, and LSU. As I recall, while those programs have been winning national titles, A&M has been talking about all the national titles they will win when they're great, which they always have been, but they'll be even greater soon. Something, something Jimbo. Just you wait.
  5. That's right. The SEC has been quaking in terror of the greatness that is A&M. Every thought they have, every single thing they do, is aimed at keeping A&M from overwhelming their picayune conference (that they were stupid enough to allow it to join). Aggy is a God-like giant of a program. Just ask them. It's really a shame that all these conference conspiracies (SWC, Big 12, SEC) have kept the awesome A&M down for 83 years. Who knew conference conspiracies could be so effective.
  6. Juts be glad they didn't draft somebody recovering from a horrific injury.
  7. Of course the concept of a blue blood doesn't just go away. But who is considered a blue blood absolutely can and does change in all walks of life. The things that made Nebraska a blue blood aren't operative anymore, and they're well on their way off to being off the list no matter what happened decades ago. If the honor of Nebraska football is that important to you, I'm sorry to have offended it. But that's just how I see things, and I'm hardly alone in that.
  8. Things never get awkward for a cultist. The cult is always right.
  9. That's how life works. Nebraska entered a new world when they went to the Big 10 that has cut them off from both their history and their historical recruiting edge (which had already been somewhat degraded in the Big 12). They are simply not what they were and never will be again. The spell has been broken--they're just a middle of the pack destination in a lower-middle-of-the-pack state that lacks amenities. They might have a good season every now and then, but really, who cares? Texas has underperformed a lot since 1985, which I suppose can fairly be used to question our blue blood status. What keeps us in the conversation is the fact that we're rich, and we're the flagship university of a huge state that produces a lot of football players. We innately have the potential to be what we've been at times and always will have that potential.
  10. Who the fuck still thinks Nebraska is a blue blood program? Historically yes. Now, just so much corn row trash.
  11. Well, they did sort of make him into a demigod over their tribe ("Don't care, got Jimbo"). I can't wait him to snap and scrawl "exterminate the brutes" before pronouncing final judgment of College Station on his deathbed: "The horror! The horror!" Maybe they can add that one to yell practice.
  12. Yeah, but dealing shows initiative, right?
  13. Thanks. Hope you're right.
  14. As I recall, it appeared first as the "college bit" advertisement on football games. You know, the one at halftime where you get to present your school as more than a football factory and is usually full of fresh-faced young people changing the world. That sort of generic, good-natured thing. Leave it to Aggie to reduce the "college bit" to nothing but football, and then to compound the ridiculous hubris of it all by presenting the SEC as being intimidated by them and their stupid 12th man. That's what's important to them as a UNIVERSITY. The chef's kiss is closing out with that rancid hobbit Jimbo smiling knowingly into the night. That is what they think presents their school in a positive light. Fucking weirdos.
  15. They didn't lose. They just ran out of innings.
  16. Well, they kind of have to believe this stuff, right? The alternative is looking in the mirror and realizing they're just a bunch of fucking weirdos. By choice. I swear, somewhere hidden away in the A&M Academic Building there must be a painting of an Adonis Aggie surrounded by championship trophies -- The Portrait of Dorian Aggy. The hideous one is walking around in real life because they want to be the hideous one.
  17. We're in a lot better shape than anyone expected us to be after Beard lost his mind, and that's got to count for something. Hire him for goood.
  18. I'm all in with Maroon Goons. That should be the nickname for A&M in general.
  19. When you're stuck with a turd, you polish that turd.
  20. What's Bjork supposed to do? The game, it be over. The Aggy, it be sad.
  21. If "buzz's team are never great defending the 3," isn't that a problem? Last time I looked, "the 3" is kind of relevant to modern basketball.
  22. What else could they do, given that every single action in the college sporting world is taken with the intent of screwing A&M. Everyone knows the NCAA was giving them a 7th seed for the sole purpose of demoralizing them. The only honorable response was to preemptively demoralize themselves.
  23. They really though that when they joined the SEC, they'd found a cultural fit that would appreciate all their weirdness. When that didn't happen, they became determined to buy respect with Jimbo Baggins and his bags of power. It never occurs to them to just be normal and see what happens. Now all the "true Ags" are filled with fury that their love for the SEC, which was always just another version of their bizarre self-love, is unrequited. They're going to make everybody pay! (snarl, snarl) And then they'll be great. Aggie--they want so badly to be an abusive spouse, but they can't find anyone stupid enough to marry them.
  24. You just don't understand how awesome they are. Nobody understands how awesome they are, and they're going to whine and snivel about it, and do fucking Yell Practice wherever is most annoying in your home town, and kill as many of themselves with gigantic logs as it takes until all you Godless heathens acknowledge the sublime perfection that is Aggy. Cuz that's how life works, right?
  25. In the interest of further fairness, there are a number of Ags who attended it simply because it was a big university in the state and who are almost as appalled by its cult-like attributes as we are. The TRUE AG is becoming a smaller percentage with each generation.
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