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  1. Will wonders never cease. Someone over in aggyland actually published a reasonably well-written version of their 1922 "12th Man" game. "In actuality, the game’s events were far less idealistic. There is no doubt surrounding Gill’s presence at the Dixie Classic, nor does anyone argue that he was not called to the field by Bible to wear Weir’s jersey and act as a potential substitute. But the similarities end there. Within the framework of the Dixie Classic’s actual progression of events, Gill’s involvement was less critical than legend suggests. According to December 1921 articles of both The Dallas Morning News and the Houston Post, A&M had a full roster of 25 athletes present at the game. Based on all published play-by-play accounts of the game, only four Aggies had been pulled due to injury by the time Gill was summoned to the field. Barring one other player’s absence, who was hurt during the team’s pre-game practice, A&M would have had another nine healthy substitutes waiting on the bench to enter the game. Instead of being the final man standing on the sideline, Gill was likely, at best, the final option at running back, especially considering he was wearing Weir’s number." https://www.thebatt.com/life-arts/12th-man-rewritten/article_8b1b8a32-5928-11ec-bf3c-8b8c15dc9b22.html To show just how unimportant the aggy game was to the Centre team, attached is the write-up on the 1921 football season from the 1922 Centre College school yearbook. 100 years later the ags can't quit talking about the game. Five months after the actual event, the Centre College people barely thought the game worth mentioning. Centre College 1922 yearbook football.pdf
  2. The reaction to Bubbles walking down the stairs at the game in a mini-skirt allegedly lead Tex Schramm to dump the male cheerleaders on the sidelines during Cowboys games and go with all females, thus launching the DCC. The next year, USC started their Song Girls to counter their all-male "yell leaders." The entire nation was walking up to the sexual revolution. Well, the entire nation outside of College Station, Texas. More than a half-century later, the ags still don't understand how women can be allowed on the sidelines during football games.
  3. For those who haven't seen this picture, taken in 1967 at the Cowboys/Falcons game, this is former Dallas stripper Bubbles Cash. And in 1967, the response to this in College Station, Texas was "That's disgusting and totally unacceptable." This moment in Texas history is credited as the inspiration for the decision to end the Dallas Cowboys having male cheerleaders on the sidelines and the beginning of what we know today as the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Not a lot of aggys in the crowd at that game.
  4. Texas A&M AD Ross Bjork has informed Adidas of the school's intent to “extend the endorsement and sponsorship agreement” between the two sides, which will run out on June 30, 2022, according to Travis Brown of the Bryan-College Station EAGLE. Terms of the new contract are “still in negotiation.” Bjork said, “The clock was ticking this summer to say, OK, we tested the market. Is there any viability there? Obviously, we love our relationship with Adidas, and we both decided, hey, let’s extend it.” Over 15 years, Adidas “has paid A&M approximately $22.4 million in base compensation for the Aggies exclusive endorsement of their equipment, spanning over two contracts." https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2021/10/25/Marketing-and-Sponsorship/Texas-AM-Adidas.aspx (2015) The University of Texas System Board of Regents gave the go-ahead Friday to University of Texas-Austin to negotiate a $250 million, 15-year contract with Nike. The Statesman was first to report the agreement earlier this month. The contract is believed to be one of the largest, if not the largest, contract of its kind in the nation.
  5. John Adams is touted by aggys as a historian, but he is a complete clown. He knows Gill wasn't the only substitute available at the Dixie Classic game, but being the shill he is he openly lies to gullible aggys. It shows the lack of academic integrity that defines Texas A&M. I've got one question for Adams that he will never acknowledge, let alone answer - In her biography of her father, Sul Ross' daughter gave us his motivation for killing people of color. My question is, "How is someone who kills to establish the supremacy of the white man not a white supremacist?" The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M. They also deserve better than John Adams. sul ross biography.pdf
  6. Isn't their pick obvious? Here are a few clues for those who don't understand much about college football: 1) Definitely "elite." (this alone should make the choice obvious) 2) An unquestioned "game changer." (you have to have guessed it by now) 3) LOVES everything about College Station, Texas and won't ever leave because he know he can "win a natty" at A&M. 4) AMAZING track record of putting players into the NFL. 5) Sought after by every other team in college football but chose to come to A&M because he was in awe of the facilities and overwhelmed by "what makes A&M special." If those hints don't make it clear, then you just don't know anything about "big boy" college football.
  7. Their best and brightest thinkers have identified their core problem to date is their chief rival has been gifting 3/4-ton farm trucks to young, urban athletes and for over a century their rivals have been paying game day officials to wait till the final moments of games to make errant game-deciding calls. When you have that caliber of intellectual firepower driving your organization, how could anything go wrong?
  8. An excellent aggy story: ”When I was admitted to A&M, I had no idea how I was going to pay for things. I went to the Pavillion(1992), because that is where they handled scholarships at the time. I spoke to the lady there and told him that I needed to find a way to pay for everything. She had two large binders of scholarships that people offered for students that were going to A&M and that I just needed to give them a good reason to help me pay for my education. I wrote something like 25 essays about why I was deserving. I was awarded money for more than half of them and I didn't require a student loan to make ends meet. Well, I did work two jobs and the scholarship money coupled with the scholarships kept me out of student loan debt.” https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3261875/last#last
  9. TCU started their “Howdy Week” in the late 1940s. I would not be surprised in the least if this predates and aggy tradition of annoying the fuck out of people minding their business and walking across campus.
  10. “This is a tremendous responsibility,” said W. Jay Treat, PhD, Texas A&M’s chief manufacturing officer for the CIADM. “It’s gratifying for us to make a positive contribution in fighting the pandemic.” https://vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu/texas-am-system-subcontractor-begins-production-of-two-covid-19-vaccine-candidates/
  11. Just for fun, let’s evaluate how well the aggys are doing eight years into the development of this facility.... ”COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry and top officials from Texas A&M University dedicated a new 100,000-square-foot manufacturing plant Thursday that's intended to have the capacity to produce bulk flu vaccine that can be delivered to as many as 50 million people within four months of a declared pandemic. The Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Facility is a cornerstone of the College Station school's growing center to battle contagious diseases and bioterrorism. Officials say the center — dubbed the Texas A&M Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing — could generate $41 billion in expenditures in Texas over the next 25 years and represents the largest federal investment in Texas since NASA in the 1960s.” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/perry-a-m-dedicate-key-element-of-vaccine-center
  12. Gabe and Liucci already deleted the thread celebrating the death of Desmond Tutu which expounded at length on how black South Africans have been oppressed by the end of apartheid and how much better off black South Africans were “in the good old days.” The people of South Africa deserve better than Texas A&M. People who believe in freedom deserve better than Texas A&M.
  13. Redneck math: ”We is just keepin’ up wit da popalation growth.” With a population of 29,527,941 in 2021, Texas had the largest annual and cumulative numeric gain, increasing by 310,288 (1.1%) and 382,436 (1.3%), respectively. While gaining population through net international migration (27,185), the growth in Texas in the last year was primarily due to gains from net domestic migration (170,307) and natural increase (113,845). https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/2021-population-estimates.html
  14. Texas A&M continues upward enrollment trend while Blinn sees decline https://theeagle.com/news/a_m/texas-a-m-continues-upward-enrollment-trend-while-blinn-sees-decline/article_73afcd52-62d5-11ec-acda-db8ed0e94413.html#tracking-source=article-related-bottom “Texas A&M reported 73,283 total students across the university’s campuses in College Station, Galveston, Qatar and the Health Science Center. In College Station specifically, there were 67,133 students with undergraduates accounting for 53,876 of that total.” ”This is an increase of 10.2% and 6.4%, respectively, over fall 2020’s freshman class enrollment.” ““We’re not trying to grow enrollment dramatically or anything like that,” Joseph Pettibon, vice president for enrollment and academic services told The Eagle in September. “But the intent is targeted and planned growth in some areas.””
  15. Not being a literary institution, TAMU doesn’t teach history as part of its trade school level curriculum. Thus, it is left to us to be the caretakers of Texas history. On Christmas Eve, my friends, let us not forget Texian egg nog. “In 1843 -- two years before Texas became a U.S. state -- General Thomas Green of the Army of the Texas Republic and 160 of his soldiers "were being held prisoner by the Mexican general Santa Ana of Alamo fame after a failed border raid. To celebrate San Jacinto Day, Green related, the captives bribed their guard to smuggle in 30 dozen eggs, a large loaf of sugar, and seven gallons each of "ass's milk" and mezcal, which the guards "brought in in animal-gut tubes curled up under their shakos." From those unlikely provisions, the Texans whipped up "such an egg-nog as never before was seen or drank under the 19th degree of northlatitude," Green bragged.” Texian Egg Nogg 25 oz Mezcal 4 c Milk (whole, raw if available) 10 Whole egg 1 c Sugar Instructions Separate eggs. Beat sugar and yolks. Stir in mezcal. Whip the egg whites and fold in. Stir in the milk slowly. 2-3 hrs in fridge before serving. Notes You can add one cake of mexican chocolate. Grate it into 1 cup of milk and stir over low heat until dissolved, then allow the mixture to cool before adding. Can substitute reposado tequila for the mezcal.
  16. The game isn’t until New Year’s Eve and the school’s expenses are being paid by the Bowl committee. Only aggys would consider a week and a half of vacation in Honolulu over the Holidays a burden. Those white trash, backwater rednecks have no concept of what exists outside the corridor College Station and Katy.
  17. Don’t forget this is the 100th anniversary of their fabled “12th Man” game. I can’t think of a more aggy way to commemorate the event.
  18. "About halfway through, the girl from the 6666 said she went to vet school at A&M." The ags crowing about a television character being a hired hand on the 6666 is comical. It shows how little ags know about Texas history. Anne Burnett had significant ties to UT Austin, Tech, and TCU. Wendi and David Grimes are both Longhorns. I don't think there is an aggy in the entire family that owned the 6666 before it was recently sold off to an investor group.
  19. Time to pull out that pimp stick again. While Anne Burnett was alive, she attended UT Austin, served on the Board of Regents at Tech, and donated munificently to TCU. Windi and David are both....wait for it..... But the ags were mentioned in the script of an episode of a show on a streaming service. Um...I'll take real life, thank you.
  20. Personally, I don't even recognize the concept of "t-shirt fan" as being meaningful. The aggys and their fucked up virtue signalling over who is a "better American" is cringeworthy. I'm both a Longhorn and a UT grad. Anyone who wants to call themselves a Longhorn is free to do so and I encourage them to do so. The University has always been "of, by, and for the people of Texas." As long as you aren't acting like an asshole (sorry, aggys, that eliminates most of you), wear whatever shirt you want to. Cheer for whoever you want to. Just as long as you aren't cheering for OU. Because OU sucks.
  21. A great quote from an article I am reading: "There are also a lot of people with whom you can share all the empirical evidence, all the primary source documents, all the historical fact and it won't matter. Because the reason they believe what they believe is not because they don't have information, it is because that information threatens the position that they have taken on for themselves within their family and within society. It is a truly existential threat to how someone understands who they are in the world. That is the thing that’s difficult for a lot of people to accept, and so they push back against it. We see a 21st-century iteration of that today. We saw it after the Civil War. People attempt to distort history, distort information, distort fact, because it allows them to continue to tell a story about themselves and their community that they're deeply invested in."
  22. There are outliers. Which is why I said "usually." However, at the end of the day, is your former roommate a graduate, or not? I know of at least one instance where a civilian was awarded the Medal of Honor. I know of one instance where the President of the United States was appointed and not elected by the people. I know one instance where a member of the aggy corps actually served in the U.S. military. Strange things happen.
  23. There is a reason the aggys don't have an "alumni association." They used to have both an alumni association and an association of former students. Notice the difference. Because A&M was established essentially as a reform school for miscreant farm children whose parents wanted to be done with them, from 19876 through WWI, the aggy graduation rate was about 7%. A historical 93% drop-out rate over their first half-century of existence. Yay education! Their alumni association lacked sufficient eligible individuals, so they disbanded the alumni association and their association of former students survives to this day. Newsflash, rednecks - either one is or is not a graduate of and has received a degree from a given institution. Most academic institutions don't usually recognize those who never graduated from the institution. Being more of a cultural indoctrination institution than an academic institution, Texas A&M desperately clings to every drop-out. Failure defines Texas A&M, both on the sports fields and in the classrooms. Never expect an aggy to be intellectually honest regarding what does and does not constitute an aggy. Or even a t-shirt fan. They aren't even intellectually honest about what constitutes a civilian fraternity member and what constitutes a member of the U.S. military.
  24. Lone Star College is producing even more alumni than Texas A&M (for the time being). Are you worried about Lone Star College alumni? If sheer numbers of population were the determinate of anything meaningful, Bangladesh would today be an intellectual and economic powerhouse. Instead, Bangladesh is the Brazos Valley of South Asia. aggys may be many in number, but they have collectively never contributed any meaningful amount of intellectual capital to society. That will not change due to the adoption of a philosophy of "quantity over quality."
  25. Ahem. Everyone wanted Urban? That’s not quite accurate.
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