Randolph Duke

Attached is from the 1884 A&M College Report to the Legislature. Remember, the main branch of the university finally opened in 1883. This is the first official example of the aggy administrators acknowledging that the ag college was absolutely a branch of The University of Texas and here the ags set out their reason for wanting the administration of the branch college to be separate from the university. This is the beginning of the attempt to legally separate the university and the branch ag college. This also establishes A&M's request for half the level of funding the main university receives from public funds and from the PUF as the aggys assert in the last paragraph of this page that A&M "furnishes its benefits at one-half the cost of maintenance of students at the other branches of the university." To this day, the A&M System receives half the funding from the PUF as the UT system, and Texas A&M College Station receives .50 cents on the dollar of combined federal and state funding that UT Austin receives. One can say Texas A&M being funded at half the level of UT Austin is "tradition." Today, the only obstacle to finally terminating A&M's Constitutional status as a branch of UT is the political opposition of the alumni of A&M. https://archive.org/details/annualreportofag1884agri

Notice how many aggys have left school en masse to go to Ukraine and fight for the freedom of Europe. The exact same number of aggys who "came to the aid of their school in a time of need when they didn't have enough healthy players on the football team to play a post-season exhibition game."

The ags will claim they already participate in the SASP competitions and that this competition is (by some imaginary redneck metric) "better" than NCAA competition. SASP includes grade school divisions as well as collegiate divisions. From looking at the results of this year's competition, the aggys may need to step down to the grade school level to be competitive. Of course, there still has never been an honest answer from the aggys (quelle surprise) as to why they don't compete in NCAA competition also. If one of them would ever take me up on my $1million aggy yell leader tradition challenge, that money would go a long way to establishing and funding such a program. lol

NCAA Rifle Competition

What's stunning is they have only won two CWS games in school history and they hold themselves out to be a powerhouse program in the sport.

Someone needs to remind Kyle that in the first ever meeting between UT and A&M, A&M quit at half time and didn't even come out to play the second half.

Cue the ags with the take that "St. Jimbo" got Wyrdermyer to perform far above his actual skillset because Jimbo is such an amazing football coach. All hail St. Jimbo. He can take any player and elevate their game to spectacular levels. Which, of course, is why so many recruits want to play for him. Pay no attention to the man with the bag of money hiding behind the curtain. And by "spectacular levels," I mean an 8-4 season. "I was thinking Jimbo got a lot out him for his skillset. Would like to see what Jimbo can get out of Cupp and Johnson." https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3279646/replies/61732782

Yet still not fast enough to make it to a bowl game last season.

Remember, Jimbo's contract is fully guaranteed through 2032 A&M pre-Jimbo Fisher: Tannehill - $209,000,000 - 2024 exp Miller - $149,000.000 - 2022 exp Garrett - $155,000,000 - 2026 exp Evans - $96,000,000 - 2023 exp Matthews - $88,000,000 - 2023 exp Jimbo Fisher's first A&M draft class: 40 times at Texas A&M’s Pro Day per the scouts: DeMarvin Leal - 5.04 Leon O'Neal - 4.70 Isaiah Spiller - 4.63 Kenyon Green - 5.25 Jalen Wydermyer - 5.03

aggy: "Come to A&M where we are going to win 'a natty' and Jimbo will develop you into a first-round draft pick." reality: "If you are dumb enough to believe what Jimbo Fisher is selling, you deserve what eventually comes your way. I hear Katy is wonderful this time of year. Good luck with that 'aggy network.'"

"a cultural bias, which impedes risk identification"

Herman failed because he lacked the maturity to realize he wasn't anywhere close to being the smartest person in the room and that he was going to have to both out work and out think opposing coaching staffs to have any level of success. Meyer failed because he is an asshole of a person. Anyone who was pushing to have Urban take over the UT football program needs to be eliminated from future involvement in picking coaches, administrators, and even graduate assistants.

Let's give aggy its due. If you are a lazy fuck, are ok with spending your entire life in a tract home in "Katy adjacent" (sipping tea while there are wars to be won in Europe), and never want to get out of your comfort zone or actually experience life, Texas A&M is the perfect trade school. Also, aggys "know" if they ever run into financial difficulty, they can always grab a quick $1 mil cash by simply explaining their "yell leader" tradition. The knowledge they gain in Fish Camp about at which game in 1907 their "yell leader" tradition originated gives every and any aggy the ability to become an instant millionaire. How many "tu" grads who are intellectually lazy can become an instant millionaire based on the "value" of their school's turditions? advantage aggy.

You forgot to include the influence of The Rudder Association. "Them is gonna outbreed us if we don't stop them." How does Texas A&M accept federal money to be a "Hispanic Serving Institution" when its most influential alumni are working in back rooms to prevent Hispanics from having a voice in determining the next 100 years of A&M culture? The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

Texas State was designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution in 2011. Walk me through how being named as a Hispanic Serving Institution transformed Texas State. Texas A&M is an institution where the most powerful and influential alumni are diligently working behind the scenes, through The Rudder Association, to teach its youngest students that "them is trying to outbreed us and if we let them, them is going to over take us." "Well done A&M"?!? Who do you think the "them" is the aggys are so fearful of? Just as A&M took the federal money, promising millions of doses of vaccine in the event of a national flu pandemic and delivered nothing, the ags are taking yet more federal program money and, at the same time, railing against "them" outbreeding "us." Well done? Are you kidding me?

Having a "military education" leads aggys to contemplate the more serious aspects of life. Who can explain why there are so few underground bomb shelters in and around Houston? You know, in case Russia were to launch a land invasion and subject the population to indiscriminate bombing raids. "Kind of random, and definitely in the highly unlikely scenario, but what would we do in most of the US if something like this happened? As far as I know, here, in Houston, none of our buildings have bomb shelters or cellars that could act as one to house the public...." https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3274372/replies/61695513

Texas A&M is the only institution of higher education I have ever known of whose culture is entirely dependent on the ignorance of the alumni, students, administrators and supporters. Perpetuating aggy culture isn't a matter of "outbreeding them who wants to take us over" as The Rudder Association seeks to promote. Perpetuating aggy culture is a matter of identifying those high school students who excel in memorizing formulas and lists and, from that group, identifying those who are most gullible and naive. The entire reason I can offer $1 million to any individual who can identify which 1907 football game saw the genesis of the aggy "yell leader" tradition is because no aggy over the past 115 years has been intelligent enough to figure out which game. All aggys know is that they were told something by someone who was held up as an authority figure and because that someone told them, it has to be true. Because aggy exists primarily to promote "a certain culture" and not to promote knowledge, aggy will always be about gullible individuals who believe everything they are told by their accepted authority figures. With very few exceptions aggys go through their lives not understanding their perceived authority figures were uneducated themselves. Let's face it, Risk Perry and John Sharp are not fit to be associated with any institution of higher education. But aggys worship their every word, attributing anything that conflicts with the fabricated fairy tales they were "taught" at Fish Camp to a vast conspiracy. it's sad people have to go through life like that, but those who either can't or won't put in the mental effort to obtain a quality education are doomed to spend their lives as dumb as an aggy.

But the model decided upon by Perry, et al, was to push the first two years of aggy undergrad education to the state's junior colleges and community colleges, with the College Station campus being a "finishing school" for STEM majors. Under that approach, it was believed the state could theoretically produce upward of 40,000 STEM graduates from A&M each year, thus meeting the projected demands of the Texas economy for STEM graduates. That was the "quantity over quality" approach. So far, not many of us are impressed with the "quality" of the resultant product. Personally, I don't give a shit because we never even interview Texas A&M grads. Here is one of my favorite examples of how aggy wanting to be "just like tu" holds them back. One of the favorite aggy dreams is "equal PUF funding." That will never happen. First of all, it would take a Constitutional amendment. Secondly, the UT system has far more students than the A&M system, and A&M administrators have already shown they have no interest in developing a legitimate university system. Any additional PUF funding given to the A&M system would be squandered on the College Station campus. "Equal" PUF funding would take money from various UT system schools who have shown far more promise than any A&M system school (apologies to TAMU-CC that made it into the NCAA MBB tourney, lol). The PUF financial assets are at $31.B. Current funding gives A&M 1/3 of the 0.0525 distribution, which works out to be around $525 million/yr. "Equal" funding with the UT system would give A&M approximately $787.5 million (annually), a difference of roughly $260 mil. But what the ags don't understand is that UT Austin is FAR more heavily funded by the state legislature and Congress than A&M. UT receives about $6k per FTSE more than A&M from the state, and about $8k per FTSE from Congress. A difference of about $14k per student. Multiply that by A&M's 55.6k enrollment, and it is a difference of well over $750 million, about three times what A&M would potentially receive if "equal" PUF funding was effected. So the ags bleat about wanting to split the PUF "equally" instead of pressing their elected representatives for equal legislative funding. So much for the value of a Mays Business School education. The problem for A&M is that a rote education model is far cheaper to effect than a meaningful education model. Elected representatives know this. They aren't going to waste taxpayer money on equalizing A&M and UT Austin legislative funding. In short, if a UT-level education could be delivered on an A&M budget, UT Austin and TAMU would have equal funding. But what the state's economy needs is a whole bunch of STEM grads produced from a rote learning model and a smaller number of well-educated individuals produced from a meaningful learning model. And, while every aggy would immediately begin to argue with me about this, the fact is the Texas economy has been running quite smoothly using this approach for the past few decades. Meanwhile, aggy is still struggling to define their educational model and to employ it effectively and efficiently. "Quantity over quality" is only effective in trade school applications. The "aggy network" exists because any aggy is pretty much replaceable by any other random aggy. Not many of them have specific skills, not many of them have specific value. They are essentially all generic and replaceable by another College Station cog. That is because they all had the same rote learning education.

The University of Texas and Texas A&M operate on two different instructional models. UT focuses on "meaningful learning." A&M employs "rote learning." "Meaningful learning refers to the concept that the learned knowledge (lets say a fact) is fully understood by the individual and that the individual knows how that specific fact relates to other stored facts (stored in your brain that is)." "Rote learning is where you memorize something without full understanding and you don't know how the new information relates to your other stored knowledge." https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rallrich/learn/mean.html The difference in the two instructional models is immense. Quick example - every aggy loves him his Bible and, because he was taught so, he knows every word in the Bible is exactly what God himself wrote down with his #2 pencil "back then." A UT grad would be taught the accepted meanings of words change over time and that any modern interpretation would need to be considered with respect to various biases of those who translated the texts from different its original languages and how the meaning of various words have changed over time. A quicker example - an aggy looks at a grocery store bar code and "knows" the reader reads the black lines. A UT grad looks at the same thing and realizes the reader reads the white lines.

aggy's view of things: "Finally, I know the committee and the media are dominated by liberal arts majors who probably haven't had a math course since middle school, but still, even a tiny functioning knowledge of math would seem to still be lurking. Yet, not one person - anywhere - seems to understand the concept of a denominator. They talk about the strength this year of the SEC, but 6/14 (43%) isn't that great compared to the Big 12 (6/10, 60%) or the Big 10 (9/14, 64%)." https://texags.com/forums/7/topics/3278026/replies/61676727 The outside world's view of aggy: "a cultural bias that impedes risk identification" https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/tr-133.pdf