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  1. My only knock against Sumlin was how he (and the whole aggy program) damn near killed Ryan Swope. When Swope took his NFL rookie physical, the doctors were so horrified at the level of brain damage Swope had suffered from his playing days at A&M that he was forcibly medically retired and disqualified from ever playing in the NFL. That no one in the A&M organization ever detected what was going on right in front of them seems impossible. And, if no one ever even slightly suspected a problem that was so extreme that when Swope first met with a competent medical professional the doctor was horrified, the entire coaching staff and medical staff should have been fired. If Ryan Swope lives past the age of 45, I will be amazed. That's on Sumlin. As for Jimbo, he's just an asshole who found people with money who also are mostly assholes. He is the perfect he-ro for our trade school friends. But as a football coach, he's not much different than Kevin Sumlin. Jimbo just got lucky and was handed a top program (FSU) and told to just not fuck it up. And, of course, he fucked it up.
  2. aggy quote of the day: "I didn't realize there were still people that existed who thought that Sumlin was in any way comparable to Jimbo." https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3283177/replies/61854353
  3. One main tenet of aggy culture is complete idolatry of Sul Ross. There is no question Sul Ross dedicated his life to establishing, defending, and promoting the supremacy of the white man. He was unquestionably a committed and dedicated white supremacist. aggys know this. aggy culture was unquestionably established on a foundation of defending and promoting white supremacy. That even today they will acknowledge no wrongdoing in any of the despicable white supremacist acts of Sul Ross speaks volumes. If black athletes don't care about the idolatry of white supremacists by aggys and are ok with having a shrine to white supremacy at the center of the A&M campus, what makes anyone think those athletes will care about being presented with yet more evidence of the sickness that defines aggy culture? If a kid thinks playing Uncle Tom to the Rudder Association, John Sharp, Rick "Niggerhead" Perry, and their ilk is his ticket to a better life, there is nothing anyone can do to try to change their mind with meaningful facts. If they can tolerate being treated as second-class citizens, they at least have an opportunity to get a decent quality trade school education at A&M. But no student, regardless of race, creed, or other status should have to tolerate the bullshit, ignorance, and garbage that is aggy culture in order to better their lot in life.
  4. You mean "enlightened" posts like this classic?
  5. Texas A&M University Abruptly Shuttered a Climate Lab, Citing Security Risk By Francie Diep APRIL 8, 2022 A climate-science lab at Texas A&M University has been shut down after its ties to a Chinese university were deemed a security risk. The International Laboratory for High-Resolution Earth System Prediction, or iHESP, was formed in 2017 between Texas A&M, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Colorado, and the Qingdao Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, in China. The three institutions had agreed to share funding, experts, and computing power to develop fine-grained computer models predicting how climate change would affect the Earth. The first phase of the partnership was set to last through 2023. But in December 2021, the project was unexpectedly terminated, effective immediately. The closure was attributed in part to financial troubles with the Chinese partner. The Qingdao laboratory hadn’t delivered on a promised $2 million payment to fund iHESP, said Kelly S. Brown, a spokesperson for Texas A&M. Even had the lab not defaulted on the money, however, it would have faced another barrier: The Texas A&M University system had marked the iHESP contract for termination. The lab was on a list of foreign agreements that the system wanted the College Station campus to terminate because of national-security fears. The Texas A&M system did not respond to The Chronicle‘s questions about how the system determined iHESP was a security risk, and did not address questions about other contracts on its list for termination. The Texas A&M University system had evaluated Chinese and Russian agreements of all kinds, including “animal-use, study abroad, gifts agreements, book publishing agreements, nondisclosure agreements,” Brown said. It made individual decisions about which such partnerships posed risks that scientists might steal technological know-how, to the military or economic benefit of another country, she said. A spokesperson for the National Center for Atmospheric Research said the decision to end iHESP originated from Texas A&M. The center halted its work on the project on January 31, and “seven to eight” center staff members lost part of their funding as a result. Those staff members were moved to other projects, the spokesperson wrote in an email. Emails and calls to the Qingdao national lab, sent Friday night, local time, weren’t immediately returned. Collaborating With the FBI The lab closure came just in time to respond to some political pressure. In February 2022, Marco Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida, posted publicly that he had sent letters to 22 U.S. universities, urging them to end academic and research partnerships that could benefit the Chinese military. In his letter to John Sharp, chancellor of the Texas A&M University system, Rubio called on the College Station campus to terminate its partnership with Ocean University of China, which is based in the city of Qingdao and works with the Chinese navy. Rubio’s letter never names iHESP, but Ocean University is listed as a member institution of the Qingdao Pilot National Laboratory, iHESP’s Chinese partner. And a faculty page for Lixin Wu, director of the Qingdao lab, says he is also vice president of Ocean University. Sharp and M. Katherine Banks, the College Station campus’s president, wrote back to Rubio, in a public letter dated the next day: “With respect to your questions regarding Texas A&M University affiliations with Ocean University, those affiliations no longer exist or are being terminated as part of our rigorous, ongoing review and collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). No further university-sanctioned research will occur.” Brown said that over the last year, Texas A&M University has terminated three dozen foreign agreements in the course of regular, rolling reviews. Before that, the university also ended one professor’s position over fears of Chinese government influence: Zhengdong Cheng was arrested and charged with hiding ties to a Chinese university in 2020. His case is still pending. In late February, the Department of Justice announced an end to its controversial China Initiative, a Trump-era effort to keep China from stealing U.S. intellectual property via academic cooperation, which resulted in few successful prosecutions. Critics of the initiative said it had created an atmosphere of intolerance against researchers of Chinese descent. ‘There’s No Winner Here’ But even if an era of suspicion of Chinese academic collaborations is ending, the repercussions continue. The sudden termination of iHESP created hardships for some lab members, sources familiar with the lab told The Chronicle. Lab staff are reportedly funded through the end of May, and then must find other jobs. (Brown could not confirm the fate of iHESP employees.) For staff members still trying to establish their careers in science, losing the lab prematurely throws up obstacles to finishing their research and publishing papers, key to career advancement. It’s also a loss for science. iHESP had provided data cited in a major international climate report, among other publications. The world’s climate models are getting better all the time, but predicting how rising global temperatures will affect local weather is still difficult because it requires so much computing power, researchers at iHESP wrote in a paper published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems in November 2020. “Through international collaboration, we are able to address this challenge,” they wrote. “There is no winner here,” said Xuebin Zhang, a climate researcher with the Canadian government who is not involved in iHESP. He said he could not assess iHESP’s security risk, but noted that international cooperation is essential not only to mitigating the effects of climate change, but even to just studying it. The computing power required is such that “no single country can actually do it well,” he said. “We need to pull all the resources we have from the entire world.”
  6. aggy wisdom of the day: "I think societal paranoia and "othering" of unfavored groups goes a long ways to building the disconnect you describe. I also think that the idea of mass formation psychosis plays a role. Also when the gvt can coerce its people into supporting and perpetrating absolute falsehoods you get that disconnect for people to go along to get along." https://texags.com/forums/49/topics/3282482/replies/61827776 This, from a culture where people were derided for being "2%ers" and people were reminded "Hwy 6 runs both ways" when one dared to express unapproved independent thought. Let us not forget A&M is an arm of the state government whose propaganda ministers swore under penalty of perjury to the truthfulness of their 12th man fairy tale and continue to teach fraudulent versions of history that supposedly has A&M "providing more officers during WWII than West Point and Annapolis combined. And, of course, my $1 million "aggy yell leader tradition" challenge still hasn't found any aggy capable of claiming a single penny. Its amazing how aggys can identify "government coercion of its people into supporting and perpetrating absolute falsehoods" when such government manipulation is entirely what aggy culture and "military history" is built upon. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.
  7. In all fairness to aggy, the relationship with Sumlin had run its course and it was evident the best thing for both parties was to part ways. A&M is a place where coaches in every sport go to see their careers die. Sumlin wasn't going to be able to do anything more with what has has historically been. Jimbo signed on, knowing A&M was going to be his last stop as a coach. He demanded a deal that promised he could change the paradigm at A&M. The ags couldn't keep signing "hot" coaches, "on their way up." They had exhausted that approach. The ags had to do what they did, or their heavily debt laden program was going to wither. Note that even with Jimbo, aggy athletics isn't generating sufficient operating revenues to make ends meet. Sometimes its not what you want to do, its what you have to do. Jimbo needed out of Tallahassee, aggy needed a "game changer" fairy tale to energize the fanbase. It is what it is.
  8. "Manziel's first start was so bad, it was comical." Say what you want about Billy Liucci, but when Manziel needed a true friend to help him attend his rehab sessions while in college and to handle his problems, Liucci went out boozing with him. Remember, Manziel never had a 10-win season over FBS competition and only had a winning record in conference play once while in college. Which, of course, is better than what Myles Garrett accomplished in college. Garrett never had a 10-win season over FBS competition and never played on a team in college with a winning record in conference play.
  9. These are people who think College Station is beautiful country. We're talking white trash rednecks.
  10. Nope. The Figurelli conversation is about the shit that goes on around football recruiting and the depths sick individuals go to in order to influence high school kids. Figurelli is a sick individual. There is no way I'm going to let what this racist piece of shit did just slide into obscurity.
  11. A better question is whether New Mexico State and Utah State are also branches of The University of Texas, or just Texas A&M. There is nothing wrong with A&M showing pride at being a branch of UT.
  12. Even at the least intellectually rigorous university, one who has been admitted to pursue a post-secondary degree should be able to explain how an individual who murders people of color to "establish the supremacy of the white man" is not a white supremacist. Or be intellectually honest enough to acknowledge the individual is in fact a white supremacist. I hate the fact that white supremacists still have so much influence in the state of Texas that they have their own university and that that university places cultural indoctrination above education. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M. sul ross biography.pdf
  13. Do you really think the aggy athletic programs benefit from high oil prices? Work me through exactly which aggy donors generate excess free cash flow from crude prices at this level. Texas A&M has been projected to operate at a deficit over the next four years. aggy athletics has operated under debt since 2006 they haven’t been able to pay back. Walk me through how aggy athletics is going to benefit from current oil prices.
  14. Brace yourselves for the smoothbores to lose their shit over the new UT NIL site. Click on each athlete to see their current approximate NIL market value. https://app.opendorse.com/shop/texas-longhorns
  15. At A&M, they have no one else who can do any better than Liucci, et al. A&M has never been able to do well in the marketing arena. Mostly, because their culture is so off-putting and bizarre, it offers little for any marketing professional to work with. Add that to their historic lack of achievement, and it becomes evident why the A&M athletics department essentially outsourced its social media marketing to Texags. They had no better option.
  16. EF7C20C3-A10D-42E3-8C01-CB7E332EAB55.mp4
  17. I've got $1 million to donate to the aggy ring fund if one of those idiots would simply explain their "yell leader" tradition to me. They have identified the year with classic aggy precision. If they know the year, how difficult can it be to identify the actual game?
  18. Ever heard of the Texas Department of Emergency Preparedness? Fun aggy fact - The money to pay the tuition for aggy students from Ukraine that they announced yesterday - it was money A&M was gifted by taxpayers to mitigate damage caused by Hurricane Harvey. Five years later and they are still looking for boondoggles to throw money at to get rid of all the bloat they managed to get their grubby little hands on.
  19. My favorite aggy "bitching about the referees" story is the one when every damned one of them was upset because "they knew" and "people have told me" that the referees were constantly celebrating every touchdown scored against them. The fist pump by the referee on the end line. 'See there it is again!" And the reality was none of them had a fucking clue about how the game of football is actually played. https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/texas-am-aggies/2016/11/05/mystery-solved-why-was-this-referee-pumping-his-fist-after-a-mississippi-state-touchdown/
  20. Has anyone seen the official numbers on how many aggy Corps members dropped out of college to go to the Ukraine and fight? I keep looking for soldiers in the fight over there wearing riding boots and spurs and can't seem to find any pictures of them. “I know” the entire senior class from A&M has left to go into combat. “Word is” the university may have to shut down because of all the students have left to fight. (God bless them) “My sources say” more aggys (by ”aggy” mostly aggy dropouts) are in the Ukraine combat zone than West Point and Annapolis grads combined. Let me know when the combat pictures of soldiers wearing riding boots on the battlefront start showing up. I want to use the pictures for a t-shirt I am designing. Examples of boot butterflies being worn by actual soldiers would also be helpful. And swords. I'm having trouble finding pictures of combat officers on either side carrying swords. “I’m being told” the aggys will be pictured carrying their swords. Turdition.
  21. The truly sad thing is how they lie to themselves.
  22. I went to college to further my education, not to get introduced to the concept of community service. I already had an understanding of community service by the time I graduated from high school. The A&M experience seems to spend far too much time on remedial education for those who lack educational basics.
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