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Texas A&M, always on the precipice. "The vaccine-manufacturing facility is part of the Texas A&M Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing, which is expected to bring more than $41 billion in expenditures to the state in the next 25 years and create 6,800 jobs, according to remarks from Perry at the announcement of the facility in March 2013." "Once in operation, the center would offer a speeded approach to vaccine development and delivery, capable of supplying as many as 50 million influenza vaccine doses within 4 months of work on any emerging flu strain. Initial doses of vaccine would be ready within 12 weeks." "“The work and dedication of Dr. Rathore has paid off,” Sharp said. “He and his team exemplify the values of the Texas A&M System, and because of them, more than half a billion people across the world may have access to a new form of protein, and our farmers will be able to earn a much better living.” "'It's a game-changer' | Moses West, A&M a step closer to funding Atmospheric Water Generation. The invention could bring fresh drinking water to anywhere in the world."

The odds-on picks to play for the NCAA basketball championship are the Washington Bulldogs and the North Carolina Blue Devils. Back in December, the same day as the annual Maryland v New York football clash I bet $100 on North Carolina to win it all. I figured Coach K’s last game as North Carolina head coach would provide added motivation. As it stands now, just to get through their conference tournament, North Carolina would have to defeat North Carolina, then North Carolina, Florida, and probably North Carolina.

Since Darren Woods took over Exxon in Jan 2017, the stock has lost 17% of its value, while the SP500 index is up over 90%. But wait until next year!

Southwest Airlines is launching its promo campaign for Gary Kelly's replacement. Looks like "the nation's cradle of CEO's" has placed yet another "former student" at the helm of a major corporation. Be forewarned.

Liucci referring to himself in the third person is always good for a laugh. So is Liucci referring to himself as a college football analyst.

I never knew being a roustabout required a four-year degree from trade school. Then again, I never knew being a chicken farmer required the same. One question about the statue - did anyone check to see if the sculptor included a cut-out in the guy's work glove so his aggy ring could be seen?

The mere thought that the U.S. military would ever consider idiots of this level for inclusion into the armed forces is terrifying. Not a clue what constitutes military service or what constitutes membership in a college fraternity. Unable to discern what is a fairy tale and what is a military threat. There is not a conceivable scenario where I would have ever taken order from a chode of this depth. Thank God these worthless idiots don't actually serve in the military. Let them stew in a white trash backwater while in college and then be sent to segregated tract home neighborhoods for the rest of their lives. It's best they be kept away from the general population. For our safety and theirs.

An interesting article on problems with aggy's jihad campus in Qatar. The contract was up for renewal and Qatar is laying down the law that A&M will be teaching only engineering and anything with a liberal arts or social bent will be handled by staff hired by Qataris and those staff members will not connected with, associated with, or accountable to anyone in College Station. But all the degrees will continue to say "Texas A&M College Station" So, A&M degrees will continue to be handed out, just without Texas A&M administrators being allowed any input or involvement with any curriculum outside of engineering classes. “TAMUQ students will not receive a recognizably Texas A&M education if its students are taking their foundational classes—including their basic courses in humanities, mathematics, natural sciences, and social science—from faculty with no academic connection to Texas A&M and in classes over which Texas A&M’s academic departments provide no quality control.” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/12/07/proposal-would-give-liberal-arts-faculty-second-class-status https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-universitys-stumbles-in-qatar-revive-questions-about-foreign-campuses

A true aggy classic.

I wrote to the Sec of Def asking the question. I also wrote to various ROTC commands asking for actual numbers of ROTC participants commissioned from both A&M and UT Austin for a ten year period. The main reason A&M isn't a true military school is because our federal system of government and the way our federal Constitution is written. Not that I ever expect an aggy to comprehend any of this because at A&M you can be granted a degree and be utterly clueless about how our government functions. Although the Morrill Act mandates the states teach military tactics at Land Grant institutions, since the day the Act was written Congress lacked the lawful authority to impose such a condition. What the states teach at state supported institutions is entirely a decision of the state legislatures. This has been spoken to by the Supreme Court and has been settled law for a long time. However, knowledge travels slowly in the Brazos Valley and those idiots never got the word. Every stupid bit of aggy fake army crap exists because the state legislature promotes it. The reason the aggy corps was created was because when the school was founded, it was essentially a high school for kids as young as 13 and those up to age 22 who were "intellectually stunted" and took longer to complete their studies. Usually incorrigible farm youth and mentally infirm boys were sent by their parents who were sick and tired of having to put up with them. Hence, the boot camp-style code of conduct, taught by unreconstructed former Confederate officers who were unquestionably racist to the corps (swidt?). If anyone wonders what A&M was like when Sul Ross was there, they need to look no further than the records of the on-campus memorial service they held for Jefferson Davis where the head of the English Dept spoke and railed at the "abomination of African citizenship." few aggys have ever actually read any of the words of their "heroes."

The audience for anything aggy is rather small. To my knowledge, only myself, aggypedia, and possibly Mike Bynum have ever taken the time to accurately chronicle that which is aggy. The sycophants and shills hired by A&M to write about aggy history and traditions deserve no respect whatsoever, save and except possibly the kid from the aggy school paper who has the balls to publish a relatively accurate version of the aggy 12th Man story, on the 100th anniversary of the 1922 Dixie Classic game. My favorite line from that story: "Unfortunately for A&M, nothing is ever truly as good as it seems." In their own school paper. https://www.thebatt.com/life-arts/12th-man-rewritten/article_8b1b8a32-5928-11ec-bf3c-8b8c15dc9b22.html I have done a bit of work fighting against A&M's fraudulent activities around their trademark. When Chuckie Sonntag up in Buffalo was shamefully being harassed by A&M over his petition to keep the Bills in Buffalo, I found him an attorney who was ready to unload on A&M before the school finally offered enough up in settlement to Sonntag that he took the money and walked away. I've talked with Bynum when he needed help sorting out various details for his litigation against A&M involving his copyright they stole. You have seen my work with aggypedia. Mostly, I've just tried to document the facts and make them available to refute the bullshit aggys are duped into believing as their history. It is amazing how poorly educated those people are about Texas history and where A&M fits into Texas history. The people of Texas truly deserve better.

When remembering the aggy self-congratulatory spasm after the Chileans saved the trapped miners a few years ago, don't forget the episode of that one aggy throwing a conniption fit in the media because he felt he personally wasn't getting enough credit. If you ever see this guy at a football game, remember to salute him and thank him for his service.

Civilians saluting. Indoors. Yet another aggy turdition. The kind of stuff you get from idiots running around in costumes playing army. At least the kids in the back few rows understood protocol.

Why do people continue to ask? According to Colonel Klink, they are known as "boot butterflies."

Well over half a century and not one of them raised a kid who could do better than trade school. Think of the stupidity this represents.

In typical aggy fashion, the ags couldn't just have yell leaders like every other school did at the time, they had to fabricate some bullshit story about how their "tradition" started. Not being very aware, the ags swear to the story they were told being the truth, but in reality it was just a dumb story someone fabricated and generations of "educated" aggys have been completely mislead. I find it hilarious that "educated" adults can't tell the difference between fact and fairytale. Texas A&M is the only institution of higher education I can think of that has built its entire culture around perpetuating ignorance.

For the record, I am still offering $1 million to the first person who can figure out which home game in 1907 the aggy yell leader tradition originated. That offer has been out there for a few years now, and no one has claimed it yet.

With the escalation of military conflict between the US and the Russian military I feel the Commander in Chief has as no option other than to elevate the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets to active military status. Laugh as you may at those brave warriors, but they now are our last line of defense as a free people.

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Wash, rinse, repeat.

one of the most foretelling incidents in aggy history occurred at halftime of their first football game ever, in October 1894 (just happened to be against UT Austin), when the aggys quit the contest, informing the game officials they had no willingness to come back on the field and finish the game. They were down 38-0 at the time. Their first victory ever was against the team from Galveston Ball High School a few weeks later. Technically, A&M has never lost a halftime and never lost to a high school team. Since 1894, the ags have bounced between getting their brains bashed in by UT and other top-tier teams and padding their W/L records by beating the likes of Galveston Ball High School. I'm not sure where Wake Forest fits in those two categories. Understandably, this event has been passed over by "aggy historians" and is strictly forbidden to be discussed by Texas A&M employees, administrators, students, or alumni.

Not my analysis. Just posting to provide a reference for analysis. Original link to this post can be found here. https://www.extrapointsmb.com/your-guide-to-the-ncaa-convention/ When is the NCAA Convention? The NCAA convention begins on Tuesday, January 18, and technically runs through Saturday, January 22, with the bulk of the programming occurring between Tuesday and Thursday. Administrators from D-I, D-II and D-III will all be there, along with vendors, conference leaders and media members. What makes this particular NCAA Convention important? You might have heard about this, but NCAA membership plans to vote on an entirely new constitution on Thursday. This new constitution, broadly speaking, delegates substantial authority to divisions, who will each then create their own, divison-specific constitution, later this year. The hope is that this new constitution will allow for speedier and more relevant legislation. It is expected to pass without significant opposition (with any opposition, I'm told, coming from D-III, not D-I or D-II). Lach told me that this new constitutional reform represents a chance for member schools to "streamline this constitution, without compromising the principles by any means." It also gives membership a chance to "take some things out of there that shouldn't probably have been there in the first place, as it relates to just good governance." Lach reminded me that "it's not very often you get divisions one, two, and three in the same room," so the vote on Thursday afternoon is pretty historic, and not just because it sets the table for some potentially very significant conversations later this year. I know there are a gazillion schools in the NCAA, but it can't possibly take three days to vote on this thing, right? So what else is happening? The Constitution vote is currently scheduled for Thursday afternoon, but there's still plenty happening on the other days. Tuesday's schedule is full of subcommittee meetings, across multiple membership levels. The Football Oversight Committee will meet, other sport-specific committees (Lach, for example, serves on the Women's Basketball Oversight Committee), student-advisory committees, and division-specific groups. The sport-specific groups are expected to discuss issues like COVID policies, championship events, and other business and housekeeping type things, among others. Wednesday includes multiple athletic conference meetings, as well as professional development opportunities for Senior Women Administrators, Athletic Directors, Faculty Representatives, and other administrator types. Thursday morning includes the D-I Board of Directors Meeting (think university presidents), the Knight Commission meeting, presentations on Emerging Sports (like acrobatics and tumbling, or women’s wrestling), and then the association-wide vote. Professional development and trade show programming also continues on Thursday and Friday. And that's just the stuff happening inside the formal convention. This is also an opportunity for administrators to network, gossip, and just hang out in person, something many of them haven't had the chance to do in months, if ever. What do D-II institutions think about all of this? I asked three conference commissioners about what they thought of the proposed constitution, and what they expected to be areas of discussion for the D-II specific constitution. I hope to talk to other D-II leaders this week and share their thoughts after everybody has had a chance to sit in some hotel ballrooms for a minute and argue. What do you think the D-I schools are going to argue about? Lach reiterated that COVID, safety-protocols and athlete health are likely to occupy a significant amount of the discussion outside constitutional reform, and for good reason. Across all levels of college athletics, I'm told there is concern about how to best update protocols and keep athletes safe, while also providing competitive opportunities as close to anything resembling a routine as possible. Testing capacity, budgets and other resources are not uniform across the country, and what teams and conferences decided to do back in December may not be what they decide to do in say, April. As far as points of contention for the next D-I constitution? As of now, there's still a lot of uncertainty among the admins I've talked to, but nearly everyone, from ADs to coaches to conference leaders, has brought up championship access. If P5 schools clamor for "additional flexibility and autonomy", does that mean they'll try to muscle out mid or low majors from, say, the NCAA Men's basketball Tournament, or the College World Series? The folks I've talked to had more concerns about postseason access than they did about NIL or pure financial distributions. I do not think, as of right this second, that a formal P5-everybody else SPLIT is exactly on the table, but man, it's January. Things sure can change in a hurry.

Why would anyone choose to listen to Brad Sham? He's turrible lol The radio feeds are almost always better than the television feeds.