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  1. aggys panicking about Jimbo's recruiting. Is it time to start? This is from May 2018. They were beginning to panic in May 2018 because Jimbo's recruiting class wasn't starting to come together quickly enough. Just for historical reference.
  2. They will make him sit out the first half against either Sam or Appalachian St. Because elite "game changer" coaches such as Jimbo have a commitment to discipline. Turdition.
  3. This amuses me greatly. Today is July 19. And Billy Liucci, Texags' "football insider," has no thoughts yet on who the top recruiting prospects are for the 2023 class. That is "aggy professionalism" if I have ever seen it. I'm curious as to when he plans on giving the subject any thought.
  4. I’m not saying you are wrong on any of your comments, but I cant believe if A&M is willing to far outbid all other schools for a given recruit that the kid is going to factor in which school gave him his first OV over the huge bid for his services. That would be like a whore taking a lower price because the lower bidder asked first. When it’s about money, that’s not how things work, and at the highest levels of college athletics, it’s about the money. aggy proved that last year.
  5. Exactly. The world of recruiting has changed materially since NIL. There are no rules and enforcement is a running joke. No one in a position of oversight understands how things have changed. Even if the A&M recruiting director doesn’t understand Quiet Period rules, plenty of others (high school coaches, compliance staff, “uncles”) have their eyes on the recruiting calendar. Whats more interesting to me is whether NIL is creating incentives for top recruits to commit early, before allocated endorsement dollars are committed to others. If so, aggy’s lack of early momentum is more significant than recruits having to pay out of pocket to meet with Jimbo’s staff and defer official until after the season starts.
  6. In the era of NIL where 4* recruits can easily recoup recruiting costs, who pays $600 for an OOS athlete to get to a given university for a recruiting trip is meaningless. Colleges paying for an OV no longer is impactful. If a prospective employer wants to meet to discuss a highly lucrative job opportunity, few professionals are going to refuse the opportunity over a squabble regarding whether or not they are getting mileage reimbursement. Top college prospects are focused on the signing bonus, not recruiting expense reimbursement. Welcome to the world of NIL.
  7. Jimbo is an ass. In four years he hasn’t built a program that could put two consecutive years together with winning records in conference play. When do you seriously think will be Jimbo’s breakout year? Year six? Maybe year eight? If you seriously had to pick the year for Jimbo Fisher’s breakout year at Texas A&M, what would be that year? The answer is “next year.” Always next year. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.
  8. A quiet period allows in-person contacts on campus. As long as the pool party is on campus, what’s the issue?
  9. In all fairness to aggy, the dead period ends on July 24 and their pool party is the weekend of July 30, but I can see how not being able to contact recruits up until five days before the pool party does make scheduling and logistics an issue.
  10. aggys classify reading as one of the Liberal Arts and because aggy claims to be such a staunchly conservative school, people who know how to read are considered by aggys to be undercover sips and they are chased off the aggy campus. That is why no one involved with the aggy program read the NCAA rule book. Advantage aggy.
  11. https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/compliance/recruiting/calendar/2021-22/2021-22D1Rec_FBSMFBRecruitingCalendar.pdf
  12. And for the record, TAMU is still repaying the loan they have owed the academic side since 2006. The $1.6 million annual payment for 2023 is noted here as "FY23 Loan Repayment". I note this to point out while A&M boosters seem to have plenty of money for NIL, they seem to have less interest in ensuring academics have similar resources. Additionally, notice the entry for "FY23 Commercial paper." I haven't seen their full short end debt maturity schedule, but as you can see in the bottom chart, commercial paper rates have soared as of late, from about 0.11% late last year to around 2.37% today. I have no idea what rate they projected for their commercial paper debt, but considering the fact expectations of Fed actions to raise short rates have increased substantially just in the past few weeks, we can expect the deficit for aggy athletics to balloon materially from the most recent projection of $7.998 mil for the fiscal year. aggy budget source: https://www.tamus.edu/assets/files/budgets-acct/pdf/TAMUSFY23Budget.pdf
  13. I need to look more closely at recent numbers, but ags have historically donated minimally to support academics. They have relied almost exclusively on publicly-funded (PUF) endowment money. In total dollars, A&M struggles to match the publicly funded endowments of U of H, Tech and TCU. They are nowhere close to publicly-funded endowments of UT Austin or Rice. In per student dollars, A&M is far behind UT Austin, Rice, SMU, Baylor and TCU. Around 2014, A&M announced a $4B capital campaign. The dollars counted in this campaign included the Kyle Field funding and even monies given to operate the Bush presidential library. At the end of that campaign, their net financial position declined. They raised $4B and on a net basis, had less money after than before. That was because of under-recognized employee retirement liabilities.
  14. aggys may laugh at others, but the fact still remains that U of H (much like other schools such as UT Austin, Okie Lite, and WVa) has more NCAA championships in just one sport (Men's golf) than Texas A&M has in school history, all sports, both genders. U of H also has more CWS wins, more Final Four appearances and, since becoming a state university, has as many top 5 final finishes in football as A&M. Additionally, the privately funded endowment of U of H exceeds that of Texas A&M.
  15. If the ags were truly remorseful about what happened they would have accepted what federal investigators identified as the proximate causes of the debacle and made a commitment to make the changes necessary to ensure a similar situation never happened again. Did they do that? No. Instead, being aggys, they wholly ignored the words of federal investigators, declared the collapse to be a completely unforeseeable act of God, and started using the incident as a sanctimonious marketing ploy, starting with their dead aggy monument. Not once have I heard of any aggy accepting culpability and trying to start a discussion regarding their cultural bias that was declared a proximate cause of the collapse. The aggys haven't even attempted to embrace what "a cultural bias, which impedes risk identification" means. Not once have I heard any discussions from the aggys regarding the cultural deficiencies that lead to the deaths of those students, or how aggy culture needs to change. As a result, the same cultural bias that contributed to the deaths of those students still exists. If I am wrong on this, please enlighten me. How can any aggy be truly remorseful when consciously allowing any of the conditions which lead to the entirely preventable deaths continue to exist and continue to potentially put even more innocent individuals in the exact same peril? Collectively and individually, the ags had an absolute responsibility to make every change necessary to ensure every condition that lead to the deaths of the students was responsibly addressed. It has been almost a quarter of a century and they still have absolutely refused to acknowledge that responsibility. In no small part, aggy culture killed those students. When cultural change was needed, the aggys continued to insist their culture is inherently superior to all others and will never change. That is not remorse. Until and unless the aggys themselves show remorse for what happened, they deserve ridicule. You don't get to commit negligent homicide, hide behind sovereign immunity to avoid monetary damages, hold no one in any position of oversight accountable, and then use the deaths of those students as a podium to bleat to others about what great people you are. Sometimes it's more than a college rivalry. When it comes to negligent homicide, it's a lot more than a college rivalry. It's a matter of what we as a society hold as right and wrong. The way the aggys handled the matter was wrong. And that wrong will probably never be redressed, because doing so would cause aggys to admit their responsibility for those deaths. Asking aggys to do the right thing and accept personal accountability is more than they will ever agree to. So they continue to be scorned and ridiculed, and rightfully so. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.
  16. Even if Texas and Bama are paying recruits not to consider A&M, A&M should just use some of their "unlimited redneck riches" to pay the recruits more to ignore Texas and Alabama. It's getting close to the time we start asking aggys "why A&M was such an irresistible place to commit to last year and not so much this year?" They insist their recruiting success last year was entirely because of Jimbo and his recruiting prowess, and even if they were buying recruits, they are so incredibly wealthy there is no limit to the amount of money they can spend on recruits and the rest of college sports can deal with that fact. Get ready for some of the most aggy-esque excuse making we have ever witnessed.
  17. From the "I have shit for brains and am intellectually a white trash child" files: "Texas A&M tried to shell the city of Waco with an M1902 Field Artillery Gun. The incident happened in the mid 1920s after a brawl broke out in Waco at halftime, where an cadet was killed when hit over the head with a chair." (Not true. The kid killed was Charles Sessums and he was killed with a 2x4 to the back of the head. Also, assuming no one noticed a bunch of drunk, white trash rednecks had broken into a federal armory to steal federal property weighing 2,500lbs, where did the ammunition come from??? There is no claim they also stole the caisson, which weighed an additional 2,500 lbs. Why was live ammunition supposedly stored on a college campus that had no firing range? This equipment was ordinarily pulled by a team of six horses. How did the ags supposedly get it to the train station, lift it onto a flatbed rail car, switch trains (there was no direct rail service from College Station to Waco in 1926)? No one associated with the rail line said a thing? The students having committed a federal crime in a conspiracy to commit murder weren't punished at all!? Using artillery to murder unarmed civilians is considered by decent people to be an atrocity. aggys consider it a joke. That just shows you how "aggy values" have nothing to do with American values. Covered on aggypedia) "aggy’s original inception began and, up until 1963, as a part of the University of Texas system." (Partially true. Yes, A&M was constitutionally declared a branch of UT, but no amendment has ever been passed to alter that. Therefore, A&M remains a branch of UT.) "Most Aggies know that the diamond in the Aggie Ring was given to those who made their first million, but during WW2 the tradition was also granted to those who served in war." (Not true. A complete fabrication.) "During the 1940s, 2 tsips fly a Taylor-craft plane and took 5 passes at about 50 feet trying to ignite the Aggie bonfire early. They used 2 firebombs that were gallons of gas strapped with road flares. Both missed by about 20 feet. The plane crashed east of Austin due to gas. Ags got ahold of some pieces of the wrecked plane and promptly thru them into the bonfire stack." (Partially true. While the UT students did attempt to light the bonfire early, the plane did not crash "east of Austin" and the aggys did not "promptly throw pieces on the stack." They claim plane supposedly crashed in Austin (which it did not), and they claim aggys supposedly usurped the authority of federal aviation investigators, looted the crash site, and then "promptly" returned 90 miles to destroy evidence in a federal transportation investigation. How dumb to you have to be not to see through the flaws in this story?) "After WWII, the federal govt gave out replicas of the liberty bell to every state as a show of unity. Most states display it in their capitol building, but Allan Shivers, the governor at the time (a graduate of tu) gave the bell to Texas A&M where it hangs in the Academic bldg." (Covered on aggypedia. The liberty bell replicas were advertising for a savings bond drive, not a "show of unity." The replica given to Texas was not wanted by any other organization in Texas due to the fact that Texas independence carried MUCH more prestige in Texas than U.S. independence.) aggys are some of the dumbest people you will ever meet. The shit they fall for and believe to be true is cringeworthy.
  18. The only response necessary is "aggypedia.com"
  19. The rank and file aggy has no thought whatsoever that NIL deals will make last-minute flipping of elite committed recruits much less likely moving forward. It ain't about promising a recruit they will get instant playing time, like it used to be.
  20. aggys will often threaten violence against anyone who uses intelligence or education against them. The true honor, however, is when they simply refuse to acknowledge the existence of irrefutable evidence showing what they claim to be is not true. To my knowledge, no aggy has even tried to refute the fact we know Sul Ross was in fact a white supremacist because his own daughter unequivocally stated so. Yes, the single most important person in aggy culture and school history was a white supremacist and yes, they maintain a shrine to a known white supremacist on their campus. Any argument made otherwise is made out of ignorance. Texas A&M remains the only institution of higher education I can think of whose culture is entirely dependent on the ignorance of its students and alumni.
  21. One of the side effects of completely lacking self awareness is an inability to ignore comments from others. They have no ability to recognize when they are being baited and they react every single time. Every. Single. Time.
  22. You must not know much about Richard Justice. Mentally, aggys are children. They have an insatiable need for validation and affirmation. They need to be constantly told "the Aggies appear to be on the verge of winning or contending for national championships in every major sport." Just like King Gill wasn't the only substitute on the sideline, the fact that A&M is actually a branch of UT, the scaling of the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc was no amazing feat in itself, the Corps of Cadets is a costume clad civilian fraternity with no association whatsoever with the U.S. military, Sul Ross was in fact a virulent white supremacist, and no there weren't cars on the A&M campus in 1862, truth eludes aggys. Journalism jobs are tough to come by these days. Writers such as Justice hold their nose, pat the aggys on the head, tell them they are "on the precipice" and collect their paychecks twice a month. It's how things work in Texas.
  23. Pure comedy gold. "because of great coaching hires like Jimbo Fisher and Buzz Williams, the Aggies appear to be on the verge of winning or contending for national championships in every major sport." https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/ncaa-conference-realignment-blame-texas/
  24. " I swear everyone in Normandy recognizes A&M imagery. I wore an A&M shirt to Pointe du Hoc and every tour guide stopped to talk to me about Earl Rudder and A&M." https://texags.com/forums/63/topics/3286773/replies/62459779
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