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20 minutes ago, Longboard Horn said:

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Rick, can you choose just one college that the ROTC represents?

https://www.txamfoundation.com/News/Texas-AM-The-Military-College-of-Texas.aspx

"Texas A&M: The Military College of Texas

Twenty years after being designated the Military College of Texas, Texas A&M continues to offer an exemplary military education."

 

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Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. Since 2021, Texas A&M has enrolled the largest student body in the United States,[14] and is the only university in Texas to hold simultaneous designations as a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and a member of the Association of American Universities.

The university was the first public higher education institution in Texas; it opened for classes on October 4, 1876, as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (A.M.C.) under the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Act. In the following decades, the college grew in size and scope, expanding to its largest enrollment during WWII before its first significant stagnation in enrollment post-war.[15] Enrollment grew again in the 1960s under the leadership of President James Earl Rudder, during whose tenure, the college desegregated, became coeducational, and ended the requirement for participation in the Corps of Cadets. In 1963, to reflect the institution's expanded roles and academic offerings, the Texas Legislature renamed the college Texas A&M University; the letters "A&M" were retained as a tribute to the university's former designation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University

 

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It just pisses me off. I remember driving to work, early one morning, and hearing of the collapse. As the day wore on, more news came out about the death toll and injuries. 
 
Texas offered to cancel the game (the B12 south had already been clinched), but the Ags insisted on playing. (Some said, “that’s what the dead students would have wanted”. No, idiot, they would have wanted to live, but they couldn’t have that, could they?). 
 
Mack Brown heavily encouraged those outside the two-deep to give blood. There are two competing narratives of the game. From the Texas side, it was a shambles from the time UT checked into their College Station Hotel (phone calls to players’ rooms all night, breakfast canceled with a late morning kick off), through several bad officiating calls helping the Ags (Ag Brian Gamble drew a 15 years penalty for laying Simms out while yards out of bounds; Slocum convinced the ref to pick up the flag). 
 
The Ags remember the game as Aggie spirit saving the day after a disaster by helping the Ags defeat Texas. 
 
The full culpability of the Ag campus in the bonfire collapse wouldn’t be known until several weeks later. Incompetents put in charge, warnings ignored, just a screwed up mess all the way around. Of course they revere that weekend as one of their greatest moments. 

That game was rigged as hell. I should have put a lot of money on the ags to win.
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Texas A&M regent John Bellinger seems like a right proper piece of shit

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The committee member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in fear of retaliation, said the two regents that sat on the rivalry committee appeared to have “an agenda.”

Bellinger reached out to the families of all 12 people who died in the 1999 disaster. As of January, Bellinger had visited with six of the families, three of which gave him the OK to restart the tradition, according to committee meeting notes.

“He strongly implied, if not said, that the families who didn't agree with bringing back bonfire... they didn’t understand the spirit of the tradition and what it means to Aggies,” the committee member said. “It felt like it was just a box to check in saying that, ‘hey, we tried,’ before creating this tradition that he [Bellinger] wants to bring back.”

 

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4 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Are you surprised?

I'm not.  Not one bit.

No. I knew if we played them in CS in 2024, they’d make a big deal about the 25th anniversary. We should have pushed to play it in Austin, for the stadium’s 100th anniversary, but we just try too hard to be good sports. 
 
 

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Things that stick with me about the bonfire fiasco:

1) The immediate reaction from every aggy I knew was "No one is going to sue. They were all good ags doing what they loved"

2) Winning the game proves that God is with the aggys (heard this before and after the game)

3) LHB v. FTAB, halftime. They have a unique ability (echoed years later in the 27-25 herp derp halftime performance) to show their ass. Generally I don't care much about halftime shows, but these two encapsulate aggy for me.

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Bellinger (among others) doesn't seem to understand only a few hundred kids of redasses truly care about their precious bonfire, and they're correct in assuming the non-sanctioned ones will still happen since there's no way the aggy admin can allow multiple kegs to be onsite during the building. Not to mention a construction company would need to be heavily involved...so no students putting on overalls, taking a pull from their red cup and climbing up on the thing. Doesn't that kinda ruin the whole turdition?

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18 minutes ago, ousux said:

Bellinger (among others) doesn't seem to understand only a few hundred kids of redasses truly care about their precious bonfire, and they're correct in assuming the non-sanctioned ones will still happen since there's no way the aggy admin can allow multiple kegs to be onsite during the building. Not to mention a construction company would need to be heavily involved...so no students putting on overalls, taking a pull from their red cup and climbing up on the thing. Doesn't that kinda ruin the whole turdition?

Don't sell their idiocy short. They've been roundly mocked for their stupidity for over 145 years. There is a reason for that.

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23 minutes ago, ousux said:

Bellinger (among others) doesn't seem to understand only a few hundred kids of redasses truly care about their precious bonfire, and they're correct in assuming the non-sanctioned ones will still happen since there's no way the aggy admin can allow multiple kegs to be onsite during the building. Not to mention a construction company would need to be heavily involved...so no students putting on overalls, taking a pull from their red cup and climbing up on the thing. Doesn't that kinda ruin the whole turdition?

They'll force the construction firm to hire students and have all their people wear overalls and put those stupid "pots" on their heads.

And the jizz jars will show up in the first week of the entire endeavor. 

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58 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

The construction firms they've used in the past have only killed three or four people in collapses.

What's more dangerous, a building project at A&M College Station or a building project at A&M Qatar, both using foreign labor?  

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Wild that all this latest wave of crazy A&M shit is coming out on the 159th anniversary of the proper fall of the Confederacy, which must hurt a lotta Aggie hearts.  Only second though, to the fall of a 159 foot stack of burning logs filled with drunk college students totally sanctioned, yet unsupervised, by a moronic 'higher' education administration.  Proving once again, we are living in a computer simulation.  In which you can also get multiple degrees from Texas A&M...where mediocrity isn't average...it's bestest

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1 hour ago, Lat22 said:

The construction firms they've used in the past have only killed three or four people in collapses.

The one guy only drove a Bobcat off the upper deck of Pyle Field. That wasn't really a collapse.

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On local WFAA news last night, they had a story about this. No mention of the school’s culpability in that outrageously operated enterprise, just comments about how it means too much to let it go. 
 
Those assholes are going to bring it back. For 25 years, my stance has been “Do what you want, if you just leave the University of Texas out of it”. But, they can’t, because it is all about the University of Texas. 

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On 4/9/2024 at 7:53 AM, statsman said:

this is a damning quote

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Bellinger reached out to the families of all 12 people who died in the 1999 disaster. As of January, Bellinger had visited with six of the families, three of which gave him the OK to restart the tradition, according to committee meeting notes.

“He strongly implied, if not said, that the families who didn't agree with bringing back bonfire... they didn’t understand the spirit of the tradition and what it means to Aggies,” the committee member said. “It felt like it was just a box to check in saying that, ‘hey, we tried,’ before creating this tradition that he [Bellinger] wants to bring back.”

 

 

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10 minutes ago, Longboard Horn said:

It's going to fail but do what you want aggy... 

But hey, if they kill a few more students and inspire the team (and the refs) before the Longhorns' return trip to Kyle Field, it'll be all worth it to them.

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22 minutes ago, Longboard Horn said:

No athlete or current student enrolled at aggy was alive to see the last bonfire. No reason to bring it back. It's going to fail but do what you want aggy... 

Not true...
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The olds can go to school, too...

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