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  1. Wash, rinse, repeat.
  2. one of the most foretelling incidents in aggy history occurred at halftime of their first football game ever, in October 1894 (just happened to be against UT Austin), when the aggys quit the contest, informing the game officials they had no willingness to come back on the field and finish the game. They were down 38-0 at the time. Their first victory ever was against the team from Galveston Ball High School a few weeks later. Technically, A&M has never lost a halftime and never lost to a high school team. Since 1894, the ags have bounced between getting their brains bashed in by UT and other top-tier teams and padding their W/L records by beating the likes of Galveston Ball High School. I'm not sure where Wake Forest fits in those two categories. Understandably, this event has been passed over by "aggy historians" and is strictly forbidden to be discussed by Texas A&M employees, administrators, students, or alumni.
  3. Not my analysis. Just posting to provide a reference for analysis. Original link to this post can be found here. https://www.extrapointsmb.com/your-guide-to-the-ncaa-convention/ When is the NCAA Convention? The NCAA convention begins on Tuesday, January 18, and technically runs through Saturday, January 22, with the bulk of the programming occurring between Tuesday and Thursday. Administrators from D-I, D-II and D-III will all be there, along with vendors, conference leaders and media members. What makes this particular NCAA Convention important? You might have heard about this, but NCAA membership plans to vote on an entirely new constitution on Thursday. This new constitution, broadly speaking, delegates substantial authority to divisions, who will each then create their own, divison-specific constitution, later this year. The hope is that this new constitution will allow for speedier and more relevant legislation. It is expected to pass without significant opposition (with any opposition, I'm told, coming from D-III, not D-I or D-II). Lach told me that this new constitutional reform represents a chance for member schools to "streamline this constitution, without compromising the principles by any means." It also gives membership a chance to "take some things out of there that shouldn't probably have been there in the first place, as it relates to just good governance." Lach reminded me that "it's not very often you get divisions one, two, and three in the same room," so the vote on Thursday afternoon is pretty historic, and not just because it sets the table for some potentially very significant conversations later this year. I know there are a gazillion schools in the NCAA, but it can't possibly take three days to vote on this thing, right? So what else is happening? The Constitution vote is currently scheduled for Thursday afternoon, but there's still plenty happening on the other days. Tuesday's schedule is full of subcommittee meetings, across multiple membership levels. The Football Oversight Committee will meet, other sport-specific committees (Lach, for example, serves on the Women's Basketball Oversight Committee), student-advisory committees, and division-specific groups. The sport-specific groups are expected to discuss issues like COVID policies, championship events, and other business and housekeeping type things, among others. Wednesday includes multiple athletic conference meetings, as well as professional development opportunities for Senior Women Administrators, Athletic Directors, Faculty Representatives, and other administrator types. Thursday morning includes the D-I Board of Directors Meeting (think university presidents), the Knight Commission meeting, presentations on Emerging Sports (like acrobatics and tumbling, or women’s wrestling), and then the association-wide vote. Professional development and trade show programming also continues on Thursday and Friday. And that's just the stuff happening inside the formal convention. This is also an opportunity for administrators to network, gossip, and just hang out in person, something many of them haven't had the chance to do in months, if ever. What do D-II institutions think about all of this? I asked three conference commissioners about what they thought of the proposed constitution, and what they expected to be areas of discussion for the D-II specific constitution. I hope to talk to other D-II leaders this week and share their thoughts after everybody has had a chance to sit in some hotel ballrooms for a minute and argue. What do you think the D-I schools are going to argue about? Lach reiterated that COVID, safety-protocols and athlete health are likely to occupy a significant amount of the discussion outside constitutional reform, and for good reason. Across all levels of college athletics, I'm told there is concern about how to best update protocols and keep athletes safe, while also providing competitive opportunities as close to anything resembling a routine as possible. Testing capacity, budgets and other resources are not uniform across the country, and what teams and conferences decided to do back in December may not be what they decide to do in say, April. As far as points of contention for the next D-I constitution? As of now, there's still a lot of uncertainty among the admins I've talked to, but nearly everyone, from ADs to coaches to conference leaders, has brought up championship access. If P5 schools clamor for "additional flexibility and autonomy", does that mean they'll try to muscle out mid or low majors from, say, the NCAA Men's basketball Tournament, or the College World Series? The folks I've talked to had more concerns about postseason access than they did about NIL or pure financial distributions. I do not think, as of right this second, that a formal P5-everybody else SPLIT is exactly on the table, but man, it's January. Things sure can change in a hurry.
  4. Why would anyone choose to listen to Brad Sham? He's turrible lol The radio feeds are almost always better than the television feeds.
  5. How do you manage the differential between the television feed and the radio feed? Listening to the radio feed is FAR more entertaining than the television feed for a number of reasons.
  6. Lol. Oh, ye of little faith.
  7. a future aggy's first away game.
  8. Maybe Liucci can explain how a man who killed people of color to "establish the supremacy of the white man" wasn't a white supremacist. I'm SHOCKED that not a single aggy has ever tried to explain this mystery of aggy history to us. It's as if some aggys never learned to read. sul ross biography.pdf
  9. Fewer College World Series wins than Baylor 0-2 Fewer Men's Final Four appearances than Baylor 0-1 Fewer Women's Final Four appearances than Baylor 0-4
  10. Billy Liucci should do commemorative Gator Bowl cups. You can fill the cups up with lots of excuses, but none of them hold water.
  11. In the Vegas sports books, Texas has a higher probability of winning the NCAA basketball championship this year than aggy or OU has to win the CFP next season.
  12. aggy needs to first get their recruiting class on campus. Then they have to keep them out of trouble. While keeping them out of trouble, they have to keep them happy being in a backwater shithole where public demonstrations of fealty to a bronze likeness of The Gallant Texas Negro Killer serves as high entertainment. A&M hasn't struggled to compete IN EVERY NCAA SPORT THEY TRY since 1894 without good reason. They have shown no interest in ethics, they have at times even been willing to spend money. They have bled resources from academics to support athletics. They have tried to the best of their abilities to find at least one sport in which they could be consistently competitive for a length of time. But there are reasons why nothing the aggys have done SINCE THE 1890s has resulted in success. In any sport. Just be patient. aggy thinks their football program is elite, and they look no further than the likes of Leon O'Neal for proof their program is "on the precipice of greatness." Grab your popcorn and enjoy as all this unfolds. There is no chance in Hell this works out well for Texas A&M. For those who believe Vegas oddsmakers have an understanding of sports, Texas has a higher probability of winning the NCAA basketball championship this year than aggy has to win the CFP next season. https://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/odds/futures/
  13. Myles Garrett was the #1 pick in the NFL draft. Prior to Nolen, the highest rated aggy recruit EVAR! While in college, never played on a team with a winning record in conference play. Here is a picture of yet another 5* aggy DL recruit. While in College Station, he became a well-trained, elite athlete. (just kidding) In all fairness, he did last longer in the NFL than Johnny Manziel, but that's not saying much. You need to chill out and just let aggy be aggy. Trust me, this will be epic. The aggys will fuck this up on a level never imagined by most people.
  14. Nice to know aggy is laying down the law on NIL to the rest of the world of intercollegiate athletics. Just a quick question - How much to you think high school recruits currently negotiating NIL deals have collectively lost due to A&M demanding conference networks couldn't give high school athletes at least regional media exposure while a high school student athlete. "a cultural bias impeding risk identification" - one of the greatest descriptors of "aggy" ever written The people of Texas deserve better than A&M. Collegiate athletics deserves better than Texas A&M.
  15. This story has been out for almost a week, and I'm still waiting for the any of the ags to acknowledge it exists. Exactly what I explained in 2013 (that their turdition is a fraud) has finally found its way to the A&M school paper. I haven't seen a copy of John Adams' book on the subject, but I eagerly await Adams' comments on this article. Which I know he is aware of, but will probably ignore until the day he dies. Shills do things like that. The silence out of aggyland on the substance of the Batt article is comical. https://www.thebatt.com/life-arts/12th-man-rewritten/article_8b1b8a32-5928-11ec-bf3c-8b8c15dc9b22.html
  16. "a cultural bias impeding risk identification" aggy certainty is right up there with aggy engineering. Without even looking at the A&M 2022 schedule, I'm guessing they go 8-4.
  17. HEY, ASSHOLE. PROTIP...
  18. aggys think Mond should have acted more like Sammy, a good aggy who knows his place in aggyland. (yes, this is a legitimate picture of an aggy student. https://www.facebook.com/sammy.travis.33)
  19. He dared to speak ill of Sul Ross. You know, "the Gallant Texas Negro Killer." Terms of service of Texags requires all users to promote "the supremacy of the white man."
  20. In all fairness to Zimmer, "good" and "noble" have always also applied to the Minnesota Vikings.
  21. Players also anonymously told investigators that the coaching staff would show "videos of serial killers, drills entering eyeballs, and bloody scenes with animals eating animals" during team meals. "Mr. Durkin maintains that horror movies were sometimes shown at breakfast to motivate and entertain players," the report stated. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/bigten/2018/10/25/maryland-football-no-toxic-culture-under-dj-durkin-investigation/1765948002/
  22. They went from death threats against me for writing the truth, to having to publish in their own school paper the fact that their "12th Man turdition" was a fairytale. And now they shift to damage control. "With this, the flawless facade of the 12th Man was shattered. However, the decision to not focus on this discrepancy was seemingly unimportant, as the tradition enabled the university to grow in an otherwise-unattainable way." [An admission that if aggys were actually decent and honest people, A&M wouldn't be what it is today. Think about that.] "According to Cushing Library curator Anton Duplessis, Class of 2003, the misconstruing of the story was not intentional. Instead, a general miscommunication helped spread the modified story, he said." ["Not intentional", but done nonetheless. Including the filing of the fraudulent trademark application under penalty of perjury even after the truth was known. Which means it was intentional.] "Unfortunately for A&M, nothing is ever truly as good as it seems." [Something well known by those of us who understand "those who know A&M best, respect A&M the least"] "The history of the 12th Man is marred by controversy, including multiple lawsuits both from the university and against it. The disagreements of particular importance stemmed from the likely fact of Gill not being the only healthy player on the sideline during the 1922 Dixie Classic."" [The disagreements stemmed from the fact A&M administrators have long known they were perpetrating a fraud and they knew the overwhelming majority of aggys were too dimwitted to ever figure it out] "“The 12th Man is a concept that's made by people at Texas A&M, and that can be something that's different based on historical facts, so you might find that the idea of what it means to be the 12th Man changes as the university grows,” Rowe said." ["something that's different based on historical facts." Pure aggyspeak]
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