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2 hours ago, Orale said:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6500596/2025/07/21/college-football-program-valuations-rankings-2025/

1. Texas: $2.38 billion (projected price)

Three-year average football revenue: $183 million

The Longhorns routinely lead the country in revenue and were the only team to top $200 million in the most recent financial reports. No program came within $25 million of Texas in either of the past two years. The Longhorns haven’t won a national title since 2005 but made the College Football Playoff semifinals each of the past two seasons and are among this preseason’s top championship contenders. Add in the SEC brand, and Texas looks like the safest investment.

Our price tag makes the Longhorns comparable to the 2018 sale of the Carolina Panthers (almost $2.3 billion).

15. Texas A&M: $973 million
Average football revenue: $97.3 million

The Aggies have the rabid fan base and demographic upside to be higher. Money has also never been an issue at a program that paid Jimbo Fisher the biggest buyout in college football history (about $77 million). But we’re also considering wins and losses because of the money victories bring. Texas A&M is arguably the nation’s biggest underachiever with only four top-five finishes and one national title (1939) since the Associated Press poll began in 1936 and zero conference titles since 1998.

 

What's arguable about it?

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Poor Billy. A&M is rarely in the top 10 of anything, other than biggest cheaters in history and biggest buyout of a coach in history.
 

Aggie jokes exist for a reason. 

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Elko knows his audience and plays to it. He knows he's being dishonest and even ironic saying "fans" in Austin (he won't say our name like a true Aggie) were moved to hysteria by a nothing interview conducted by nobodies. He knows the TexAggies turned up the shrill. It's clear he reads that site. They will love him thus job security and a cushy life when he drops out of the anus of the sleeping giant.

He is their hero. This guy:

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I mean no offense to the intellectually disabled, but this guy looks like he won the shotput at the Special Olympics with a 28-foot lob of an 8-pounder. As a prize, he chose the option of being A&M's honorary football coach for a day. He loves the Aggies.

His loving mother remembers that her father was a heavy set guy. She's saved one of his suits, kind of a garish plaid. Mikey loved Pawpaw. It's a poor fit, but it's only for a day. Mikey is thrilled. He gets hysterical when she tightens the tie, so she has to leave it loose. Mikey picks the shirt himself.

It's the greatest day of his life. They even let him stand on the press podium with all the insignia behind him. They gave him a picture!

Mikey wonders what tu is. They talk about it all the time. It's funny when they yell whoop while standing on one leg and pointing at clouds.

They frightened him when he stepped on some grass, but all the Aggies say howdy and make him feel very special indeed.

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Posted
9 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Happy Antonio Banderas GIF

He did a one hour hit last season (I believe it was on Mondays) with Jacob Hester and EJ Manuel on SXM, I enjoyed it. He praised aggy for the most part but would throw some passive aggressive shots every now and again.  

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10 minutes ago, markstanco said:

He praised aggy for the most part but would throw some passive aggressive shots every now and again.  

If he says nice things, the idiots will likely give him another extension.

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Every time I listen to Elko I'm left with the impression that he's not very bright, but the guy has a degree from Penn. Very interesting Quaker indeed.

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5 minutes ago, sdm said:

Every time I listen to Elko I'm left with the impression that he's not very bright, but the guy has a degree from Penn. Very interesting Quaker indeed.

Every time I see him I cant believe he is only 47 years old. 

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9 minutes ago, markstanco said:

Every time I see him I cant believe he is only 47 years old. 

With that physique it's hard to believe he was a high school QB and a college safety and not an offensive lineman.

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"This is doubly sweet since it exposes the desperation that Texas fans have with all things A&M" -- My entire interest is in the sheer joy from watching their stupidity.. from their cultish turditions, to their ineptness at all athletic levels.. It's a daily train wreck ... as Randolf Duke once said "Texas deserves better" - sooner those waterheads embrace their place in the universe the better we all will be.. till then.. wash and repeat you shithead farmers.

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34 minutes ago, sdm said:

Every time I listen to Elko I'm left with the impression that he's not very bright, but the guy has a degree from Penn. Very interesting Quaker indeed.

Penn has many less than brilliant graduates.

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50 minutes ago, sdm said:

With that physique it's hard to believe he was a high school QB and a college safety and not an offensive lineman.

The irony is that bloated body and ruddy complexion absolutely scream drinking problem.

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does texags ever acknowledge or quote graham?  does billy have an embargo on urls for graham's stuff, or his name, like he used to do to prevent mention of the shag?

way to go graham

now elk is going to get grilled on this ad infinitum

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/college/article/texas-aggies-texas-longhorns-rivalry-18661302.php

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Texas A&M football: New coach Mike Elko sparks UT rivalry
Brent Zwerneman
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Sam Craft/Associated Press

COLLEGE STATION — Mike Elko pushed the right buttons in keeping five-star playmaker Terry Bussey of Timpson on board in Texas A&M’s class of 2024. Then Elko, the Aggies’ new coach who’s also new to the state’s grandest rivalry, pushed one more button for fun Wednesday.

“We’re the flagship program in this state, right?” Elko said during the traditional signing day.

In unexpectedly opining on an oh-so serious subject in Texas, the Ivy League graduate and history major used the most common word in English to fuel the hype of this state’s collegiate version of the Super Bowl.

To wit: Though minuscule via vocabulary, the difference between “the” and “a” in Elko’s sentiment is wider than Big Bend National Park. Take what then-A&M athletic director Ross Bjork said when he first adopted the stance that A&M did not want Texas and Oklahoma to join the Southeastern Conference from the Big 12.

“A&M is a flagship university, and with the size and scale of our place, we should have our own stand-alone identity in our own conference,” Bjork said in July 2021.

Bjork and much of the rest of the Aggie brass got in line with the rest of the SEC, however, when league commissioner Greg Sankey informed A&M it didn’t really have any say in the matter. UT and OU are now set to enter the SEC in July, and A&M and UT are finally scheduled to play football again for the first time since 2011.

The Aggies’ consolation prize in the whole deal is hosting the first game of the reunion on Nov. 30, despite also hosting the last one 13 years ago. Elko, who was A&M’s defensive coordinator from 2018-2021 under now deposed coach Jimbo Fisher, has never been a part of A&M vs. UT.

Neither has fourth-year UT coach Steve Sarkisian, although his personal rivalry with A&M runs much deeper than Elko’s with Texas. Sarkisian set the single-game passing yards record by an A&M opponent as BYU’s quarterback in 1996.

“I didn’t know that was still true,” Sarkisian said with a grin during an appearance last year at the Touchdown Club of Houston. “But thanks for the reminder.”

The “flagship” volley of Elko, hired from Duke to try to lead the Aggies to their first SEC title as the Longhorns and Sooners give the powerful league 16 programs, quickly received backing from his new employer.

“Texas A&M is the state’s oldest public institution of higher learning, the only land-, sea- and space-grant university in Texas, and educates more people every day than any other school in the Lone Star State,” A&M boasted via social media not long after Elko’s signing day press conference.

The responses to the A&M post were colorful from both sides, with one UT fan chiming in, “Awww that’s cool, now let’s talk championships.”

That is indeed the part where A&M has some serious catching up to do in coming years, particularly in football. The Aggies last won a national title in 1939 and haven’t played for a national championship since. Their highest finish since ’39 came under Fisher — No. 4 four years ago.

Fisher’s A&M program peaked at that point and was a combined 12-13 over the last two seasons, leading to his firing in November. UT won national titles in 1963, 1969 and 2005 and played for a championship in 2009.

The Longhorns also made the four-team College Football Playoff this past season for the first time, something the Aggies have not accomplished (although they were a debatable fifth following the 2020 regular season). The CFP is expanding from four to 12 teams this coming season.

In a prime example of an offseason topic as fans already are missing college football, there was some social media debate on Elko’s exact wording on the flagship front, but there is no mistaking his “the” instead of “a.” Elko was speaking at the time about the importance of building relationships with Texas high school coaches.

“If we’re one of those (flagship) programs, there’s a certain relationship we need to have with the high schools in this state, right?” Elko explained. “And a part of that — and I’ve said this to all these (coaches) — a part of it is recruiting, but a part of it is just being a resource for high school coaches in the state of Texas, right? It’s part of our obligation to pay it forward.”

Webster’s Dictionary defines “flagship” as “the best, largest or most important one of a group of things.”

Writers across the state for decades have described UT and A&M as Texas’s “two flagship universities” in sidestepping any unwanted missives from either side via snail mail, e-mail and, for the past 15 years or so, social media.

Elko chose a more singular route by ignoring the other “flagship” altogether, along the way helping add a little offseason spice to the overdue return of a rousing rivalry — one that includes the dissecting of two words totaling four letters.

Posted
8 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Uhhh . . .

I’m sure they’re denying our 1970 championship since it was a UPI championship (the coaches’ poll). But it was awarded at the time we won it. And the POTUS handed Coach Royal the trophy.

Unlike their fake championships “awarded” 7 decades after the fact. 

Posted
2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

Elko knows his audience and plays to it. He knows he's being dishonest and even ironic saying "fans" in Austin (he won't say our name like a true Aggie) were moved to hysteria by a nothing interview conducted by nobodies. He knows the TexAggies turned up the shrill. It's clear he reads that site. They will love him thus job security and a cushy life when he drops out of the anus of the sleeping giant.

He is their hero. This guy:

image.png.aed43ad7a9e7203741cfeb513e4e42c3.png

I mean no offense to the intellectually disabled, but this guy looks like he won the shotput at the Special Olympics with a 28-foot lob of an 8-pounder. As a prize, he chose the option of being A&M's honorary football coach for a day. He loves the Aggies.

His loving mother remembers that her father was a heavy set guy. She's saved one of his suits, kind of a garish plaid. Mikey loved Pawpaw. It's a poor fit, but it's only for a day. Mikey is thrilled. He gets hysterical when she tightens the tie, so she has to leave it loose. Mikey picks the shirt himself.

It's the greatest day of his life. They even let him stand on the press podium with all the insignia behind him. They gave him a picture!

Mikey wonders what tu is. They talk about it all the time. It's funny when they yell whoop while standing on one leg and pointing at clouds.

They frightened him when he stepped on some grass, but all the Aggies say howdy and make him feel very special indeed.

So what kind of Moron would go play for that Goober?? As they say, money may not buy love, but it can sure buy a lot of other stupid shit.

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