I say go full on monkeys at the zoo.
My dad loved UT and would have come here to play football had my mother to be not been at SME. The Depression generation often refer to Texas as Texas University. That's fine. The aggies insisting only on calling t.u. with lowercase letters is the idiotic part.
A lot of people over the years have called us t-sips including Longhorns. Harmless nickname. Aggies originally used it to deride our elitist ways: we sipped tea on the porch while Aggies were doing manly manful work. The last few decades, as A&M has become even less of a military school than it was, Aggie students not even in the corps say the expression comes from us sipping tea while they were winning America's wars. These are guys who never served and never even played Army man in the corps.
As for "ran out of time" or saying "outscored" rather than beaten, no organization improves that does not face its shortcomings and defeats. It's the way of losers.
I always liked Tech when I was younger and don't dislike them now. They used to be a good sample of West Texas football and toughness. Never gave up. Most teams are losing that kind of character.