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Been a long time, Brauny. I've missed your dreaminess.

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 That just may be an unprecedented level of bewilderment. Here's a fair edit to boil down 7 lines:

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Roll out the expertise, strong man. We know that you are far more than the dull-eyed brute you present as! Make monkies of your detractors!

 

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1. Accurate self-diagnosis on the bewilderment.

2. Brauny sets Dickens as the mark for what is to follow. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ... it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us... Admirable allusion to an apt quote. I had to look it up! How will our muscular scribe articulate this complex and simple occurrence?

3. That, my friends, is insight. He promises to boil it down to "the short version." I wish Yogi Berra was here to help us peel the onion.

 

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1 I believe those are the same thing, Braunster. just remember to push this to see light coming out of the computer box:

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2 Hard to fathom? You see, this is what it's like to feel like you understand something. I sometimes feel like I can reconcile the theories of relativity and quantum physics.

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More what? All you gave us here was basically that the Aggies got creamed.

Deep stuff.

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Posted
38 minutes ago, Getafix said:

 

Lulz ... 

" ...  meet on the field as two very, very highly ranked ... heh ... I know ... at least ONE very highly ranked baseball team ... "

You were right, Billy ... but which one was that?

 

 

 

"Let A&M do it's thing."

Losing? He's got you.

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14 hours ago, texifornia said:

He's Not Here is an excellent pregame bar in Chapel Hill, and that is the only fact that lends any believability to that dude's schtick.

UNC fans have waaaay more in common with UT than A&M.

I don't doubt the UNC ties, reddit has more than a third of posters have dual loyalties, even stuff like Michigan and tOSU fans with flairs, but at the end of the day the sus thing (going around for 20+ years now) are aggies pretending they were never aggies but then they visit Kyle and they become one for life.

It is a koolaide cult fanfiction recruiting, and it is the most bizarre thing they do online. (offline they take the cake for weirder things)

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On 5/11/2025 at 6:56 PM, texifornia said:

He's Not Here is an excellent pregame bar in Chapel Hill, and that is the only fact that lends any believability to that dude's schtick.

UNC fans have waaaay more in common with UT than A&M.

I spent a great deal of time on the NC State message boards for a few years in the late 1990s. I started there by researching Mack Brown, and ended up staying because they were hilarious.

But the way they viewed UNC struck me as very similar to how A&M views Texas. And the way they perceived UNC viewed them was exactly how I felt I perceived A&M. 

It's actually quite a common dynamic among flagship versus land grant schools. Michigan and Michigan State certainly have a lot of it. The difference is that A&M was an all male compulsory ROTC school for much of its history, and because of that its cultural foundations are very odd. 

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13 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

I spent a great deal of time on the NC State message boards for a few years in the late 1990s. I started there by researching Mack Brown, and ended up staying because they were hilarious.

But the way they viewed UNC struck me as very similar to how A&M views Texas. And the way they perceived UNC viewed them was exactly how I felt I perceived A&M. 

It's actually quite a common dynamic among flagship versus land grant schools. Michigan and Michigan State certainly have a lot of it. The difference is that A&M was an all male compulsory ROTC school for much of its history, and because of that its cultural foundations are very odd. 

Much of it's history?

The compulsory corps and ROTC ended 60 years ago and they've been a coed school for 56 years. That's damn near 40% of their history, and quickly approaching the majority.

Every aggy born since ~1950, went to a coed, non-compulsory ROTC school.

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32 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

I spent a great deal of time on the NC State message boards for a few years in the late 1990s. I started there by researching Mack Brown, and ended up staying because they were hilarious.

But the way they viewed UNC struck me as very similar to how A&M views Texas. And the way they perceived UNC viewed them was exactly how I felt I perceived A&M. 

It's actually quite a common dynamic among flagship versus land grant schools. Michigan and Michigan State certainly have a lot of it. The difference is that A&M was an all male compulsory ROTC school for much of its history, and because of that its cultural foundations are very odd. 

State is my local team, and they're generally great people and good football fans that throw an excellent tailgate, but the conspiracy theory vibes that creep in when UNC gets mentioned are pretty bad.

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17 minutes ago, HuttNuts said:

Much of it's history?

The compulsory corps and ROTC ended 60 years ago and they've been a coed school for 56 years. That's damn near 40% of their history, and quickly approaching the majority.

Every aggy born since ~1950, went to a coed, non-compulsory ROTC school.

He should have said “the formative years.”
 

Aggy is such a weird CULTure that those traditions created when they were isolated and bored are what the red-assed masses revere and continue to repeat. They were established when they were all male and all white, and many are traditions that they would never invent today.

Those traditions are the main things that set them apart. They’re also the main things that hold them back. Normal people struggle with being a part of that, and aggies can’t have a true image of self because they’re biased towards people who “get them.”

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1 hour ago, Redneck Mutha said:

Something I thought about the other day, how much two events that happened several years ago put aggy athletics in the position they are today:

  1. Playing out the Covid year in football. Their 9-1 smoke and mirrors record was the major influence in extending Jimbo to that ridiculous contract, an albatross they'll be fighting for years. That season also prompted the 2022 recruiting class spending spree that blew up the program spectacularly. 
  2. Big brother hiring del Conte. Aggy seemed to have gotten lucky with the Pierce to Texas, CDC to Texas, Schloss to ag timeline. Unfortunately for them, we pulled the plug on Pierce and inevitably hired Schloss before he could end aggy NC drought. But then they took it to another level and really stuck it to us, hiring our hitting coach right out from under us, the guy who was the brains behind the CWS run. Then money-whipping all those loyal, red-ass, good ags to come back, post  #1 Preseason Ranking (whoop!) and show Schloss what a big mistake he made leaving Good Ol' Texas and Mechanical College!

This doesn't explain 1940–2019

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I heard the glory holes in College Station are becoming a thing of the past. They can only find people to work the receiving ends. 

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1 hour ago, HuttNuts said:

Much of it's history?

The compulsory corps and ROTC ended 60 years ago and they've been a coed school for 56 years. That's damn near 40% of their history, and quickly approaching the majority.

Every aggy born since ~1950, went to a coed, non-compulsory ROTC school.

Yeah, I mean, if we're throwing out pedantry over here, I think MUCH is pretty accurate. 60% seems like Much. Maybe a stretch to call it Most. But I think we can all agree it's a preponderance. 

 

I don't think anyone's arguing they haven't had enough time to create a less petty, underachieving, self important, glory-by-association, didn't-lose-just-ran-out-of-time, little brother culture. It's just that their considerable history as ROTC weirdos still informs their present co-ed, less-military-focused brand of kookiness.

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Posted (edited)

 

(Edit:  Just remembered there's a general SEC thread as well ... guess this is meant to be Aggy-only ... oh, well)

 

Holy smokes  ...  Jackson Cantwell committed to Miami.

After weeks - months - of seemingly being locked into Georgia.

 

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Ah, yes ... public record.

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36 minutes ago, CDC4Heisman said:

Yeah, I mean, if we're throwing out pedantry over here, I think MUCH is pretty accurate. 60% seems like Much. Maybe a stretch to call it Most. But I think we can all agree it's a preponderance. 

 

I don't think anyone's arguing they haven't had enough time to create a less petty, underachieving, self important, glory-by-association, didn't-lose-just-ran-out-of-time, little brother culture. It's just that their considerable history as ROTC weirdos still informs their present co-ed, less-military-focused brand of kookiness.

conor-mc-gregor-who-the-fook-is-that-guy
 

 

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40 minutes ago, Getafix said:

 

(Edit:  Just remembered there's a general SEC thread as well ... guess this is meant to be Aggy-only ... oh, well)

 

Holy smokes  ...  Jackson Cantwell committed to Miami.

After weeks - months - of seemingly being locked into Georgia.

 

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Ah, yes ... public record.

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Sydney covered it but holy shit, that team was Mercenary U for years, and even if they lose an occasional commit UGA should still be one of the NIL elite going forward.

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3 hours ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

What year did aggy become the glory hole capital of the world?

I believe they have re-established themselves as that every year from their founding. 

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4 hours ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

What year did aggy become the glory hole capital of the world?

Since they came into existence and every time you check your watch, and all points in between.

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4 hours ago, Deej said:

I heard the glory holes in College Station are becoming a thing of the past. They can only find people to work the receiving ends. 

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I don't actually think much of their success will revolve around Reed.  He's not great but he could be a superstar and it still wouldn't matter because of that o-line.  

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1 minute ago, utee94 said:

I don't actually think much of their success will revolve around Reed.  He's not great but he could be a superstar and it still wouldn't matter because of that o-line.  

I’m sorry but you must have missed that the o line is experienced. 

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They are going to be calling for Reed's head about 6 weeks into the season, as is tradition. Their problem is they have zero behind him, as is tradition. 

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9 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

They are going to be calling for Reed's head about 6 weeks into the season, as is tradition. Their problem is they have zero behind him, as is tradition. 

 

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Are you referring to QBU?

They stack five stars.

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45 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

They are going to be calling for Reed's head about 6 weeks into the season, as is tradition. Their problem is they have zero behind him, as is tradition. 

Just perusing the aggie 247 site any old time, one can find them calling for the heads of key positions for numerous sports.

Many of their posters want Earley gone right now. Many of them also can’t even spell his name correctly, but hey. I get that the guy is probably a predictable bust, but firing him after one season is insane even for aggies. That will cost $3M and what coach is going to go there immediately following that debacle? 

A healthy amount of them want The Elk fired if he doesn’t go to the playoffs this season. I think he has like a $30+M buyout. The guy might not be a 10+ win a year guy, but who would be there? 

Many of them seem to think the new basketball coach is in a one year trial and want him gone if he doesn’t take the program to heights it has never reached in year 1. 

Your point about Marcel Reed is also dead on. 

Part of why they’ll never win anything is because they’re fueled by the insecurities of what those around them are accomplishing at any given point in time, chief of whom is Texas. They’re like a drove of lemmings, just looking for the next target to take over the cliff with them all. 

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I'll presume to add to that another related observation. When you read their boards you see a recurring notion about what brings success: emotion.

Their baseball team is pressing too hard and tight if you still love them while they lose. They just don't give a shit is the reasoning of the disappointed who begin to despise all but a few of the players (the real Ags!). Earley should be loosening them up or inspiring them to care enough to achieve easily attained victory. 

The don't give a shit appraisal is true of all major sports where the teams fail. The dullards' main technical concern in football is "adjustments." Seems they're not being made at halftime. Nobody elaborates beyond the lack of adjustments. Why get involved in the details of strategy or tactics when all that really matters is squeezing your gonads in the ultimate display of emotional support? 

When they loved Jimbo, his problem was stubborness. When they turned on him, they decided he didn't give a shit.

All of this, in my opinion, is tied to their whole culture of redass expressions of gung-ho-ness no matter how inane or fatal. If they yell loud enough, the good ol' Texas Aggies will have the strength to vanquish their opponents and assert the power of Aggie emotion.

They're basically addicted to hysteria. Hysterical love for all things Aggie. Hysterical hatred of all things not Aggie (virtue) in the form of t.u. (ebil).

We get to be hysterical in the sense of extreme amusement.

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