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Randolph Duke last won the day on September 12 2018

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  1. Thanks. The postings on this place have been fantastic, by the way.
  2. I'm back. Just keeping a low profile. Here is the PBS series on the 1899 Sewanee Tigers team. https://www.pbs.org/video/unrivaled-sewanee-1899-1vp1hk/ ( and yes, the "twelfth player in every football game" is very much a regular aspect of the game. It meant nothing to the players or the fans of the game.)
  3. I don't post much these days, but here is one for you guys. aggy LOVES to bleat about their "12 Man" shit. We all know about the truth about their misguided E. King Gill. He wasn't anyone special then, he isn't anything special now and there is a reason no one in the history of sports have given a shit about what they claim to make their "history" anything worth noting. Here is a snippet about the 1899 Sewanee Tigers team who was traveling down to Texas to play the University of Texas. They added a bunch of teams to make the trip pay for itself. They took a team of 18 players down to play Texas. 18 players. Think about that for a minute. 18 players. Enjoy.
  4. Randolph Duke is doing fine. I'm just laughing my ass off at what aggy has become.
  5. Keep the bonfire away from the state owned property. If the aggys want to have a bonfire, let them do it, but under no circumstances - do not let the state fund the bonfire. No state funding, no state support. To you have that, aggys? The answer is "no."
  6. The truth facing aggy about their bonfire is telling: "The collapse was about physical failures driven by organizational failures, the origins of which span decades of administrations, faculty, and students." 12 students killed, 27 injured, and thousands of others over the years has left many of us sickened. When A&M wants to proceed with their bonfire each fall, the answer from the State should be "no." The State of Texas has final say through the state house and senate. Those elected officials need to tell the people of A&M to think about the years of mistakes, think about the people who have paid for their mistakes and to move on.
  7. The aggys need to re-read the reports on the bonfire collapse. I guarantee you no one read this report. "Though its individual components are complex, the central message is clear. The collapse was about physical failures driven by organizational failures, the origins of which span decades of administrations, faculty, and students. No single factor caused the collapse, just as no single change will ensure that a tragedy like this never happens again." https://csel.eng.ohio-state.edu/productions/pexis/readings/submod3/TAMUbonfire.pdf
  8. This morning I was listening to a local Dallas station do their bit on aggy wanting to bring back their bonfire and the news casters were talking that aggy is now 35,000 over where they were when they did their stunt in 1999. 35,000 over where they were. How does anyone figure that those kids care about the bonfire, the silly aggy band, or any number of 1990's aggy things. A&M received 43,422 applications and they took 27,203 freshman students. Astonishing. https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/how-to-get-into-texas-am UT Austin only admitted 38,250 in all undergraduate disciplines. Let the kids at A&M get a diploma, let them figure out who they want to become and quit insisting they go back to being aggys of the past. Those aggys are gone. None of them where alive when the bonfire was a big deal. Quit forcing them to be who you are and let them be who they want to be.
  9. Rick, can you choose just one college that the ROTC represents? https://www.txamfoundation.com/News/Texas-AM-The-Military-College-of-Texas.aspx "Texas A&M: The Military College of Texas Twenty years after being designated the Military College of Texas, Texas A&M continues to offer an exemplary military education." From Wikipedia: Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. Since 2021, Texas A&M has enrolled the largest student body in the United States,[14] and is the only university in Texas to hold simultaneous designations as a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and a member of the Association of American Universities. The university was the first public higher education institution in Texas; it opened for classes on October 4, 1876, as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (A.M.C.) under the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act. In the following decades, the college grew in size and scope, expanding to its largest enrollment during WWII before its first significant stagnation in enrollment post-war.[15] Enrollment grew again in the 1960s under the leadership of President James Earl Rudder, during whose tenure, the college desegregated, became coeducational, and ended the requirement for participation in the Corps of Cadets. In 1963, to reflect the institution's expanded roles and academic offerings, the Texas Legislature renamed the college Texas A&M University; the letters "A&M" were retained as a tribute to the university's former designation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University
  10. This shit is awesome. Just saying.
  11. Oh, this should be good.
  12. Lol.
  13. I’ve had a Range Rover for a couple of years. Haven’t had a Chevy for quite some time.
  14. What pickup are you talking about?
  15. Lol. Nope, I'm still around. Just taking it all in.
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