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  1. This is one of those very few days I wish I had more friends who are aggys.
  2. I recently took the time to pull up the Supreme Court case that deals with the "A&M was required by the Morrill Act to offer military instruction and A&M has always been a military school" fairy tale. Hamilton v Regents 293 U.S. 245 (1934) https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/293/245/#259 aggypedia has the background of aggy being founded as a reform school for boys and a military-style disciplinary structure was created to keep the brats in line. The 1934 Sup.Ct case pointed out: "We take judicial notice of the long established voluntary cooperation between federal and state authorities in respect of the military instruction given in the land grant colleges. [Footnote 4] The War Department has not been empowered to determine, or in any manner to prescribe, the military instruction in these institutions." further... "So long as its action is within retained powers and not inconsistent with any exertion of the authority of the national government and transgresses no right safeguarded to the citizen by the Federal Constitution, the state is the sole judge of the means to be employed and the amount of training to be exacted for the effective accomplishment of these ends." So the SupCt pointed out the federal government (War Dept) never had been given legal authority to prescribe what military training was or was not given at Land Grant colleges. And there you have it. The Morrill Act did not require A&M to offer military training. The federal government is not permitted to speak on the type of military training offered by the states (if any). The entire time aggy has offered any type of fake army costume club it has entirely been at the discretion of the aggy school administrators. Participation in the costume club was made optional by the aggy school administrators in the early 1960s and today the aggy corps is no more a part of the nation's defense than the Cub Scouts.
  3. None of the names you gave were listed. Mitchell didn't have enough for any of his heirs to be listed. Typical clueless aggy. "We gots tons of billionaires." Not one. This is so typical of the "aggy education." No effort whatsoever to ascertain any facts or to establish even the flimsiest basis for an opinion. Quite typical of a trade school education.
  4. "Our redneck brethren" over on Secrant started talking about the Forbes billionaire, pridefully pointing out "all the wealth" of the SEC footprint. Of course an aggy had to chime in: "Texas has at least 56 Billionaires though and Aggy got a ton of it, gotta love the oil business." https://www.secrant.com/rant/sec-football/not-only-is-the-sec-very-rich-but-each-sec-state-has-its-billionaires-too/98509338/ So I pulled up the list of Texas billionaires as listed by Forbes. Not only does aggy not "got a ton of it," in fact I can't find a single person on the list that even meets the low bar of being an aggy "former student." I couldn't even find one who had a kid who went to A&M. Does "not even one" count as "a ton"? https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2021/04/07/theres-a-new-richest-man-in-texas-and-hes-a-california-transplant/
  5. Be patient. I am sure CDC will iron out the details.
  6. Since there are no such things as honest errors made by college football officials, can someone explain how these incidents are obvious and irrefutable examples of a vast, inter-generational conspiracy where otherwise honest individuals accepted bribe money from UT Austin alumni in order to "keep the sleeping giant at bay" and inhibit A&M's clear path to the national championship game?
  7. The "dildo" protest on campus was about a decade ago and that has still fractured their psyche. Other than "all gas no breaks" (none of them know how to spell "brakes"), pretty much all they have is fart jokes. As I have said for a long time, The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.
  8. This is starting to turn into the kind of game that for the first time in a while makes me wish I had more friends who were ‘SC fans.
  9. The drop in acceptance rate was due to a surge in applications. Enrollment remained steady. Their overall goal of overtaking UCF as the school with the nation's highest enrollment remains unchanged.
  10. Yet again, the value of the aggy education on full display. From TOS: "As a state school, I would love for A&M to review the ROI of every major, and immediately reallocate away from the degrees which don't serve Texas / Texans. It likely means you gut the liberal arts department & reemphasize STEM - which would hurt us even more in some of these rankings but be the mission-oriented correct decision. If you can afford to get a worthless Arts degree - have at it at some private school, but public institutions should benefit the society which funds them. https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3226744/replies/60190190 How does someone like this get a college degree? He wants to "reform" higher education funding, not having a clue that exactly what he is asking for has been in existence for decades through the Higher Education Coordinating Board. And the reason he doesn't have a clue about how government uses economics to drive decisions, is because he went to a school where government and economics have already been so marginalized that the students graduate without a clue about even the basics of how government and economists function in the economy. How are those idiots still allowed to vote?
  11. It seems as if there certainly is room for the parties to work with should they want to alter the LHN contract.
  12. I happened across the LHN numbers for license fee, guaranteed minimum production costs, and guaranteed minimum over head costs. Remember, the license fee is only one aspect of what ESPN committed to spend on the LHN deal. Minimum expenses for production and overhead (with annual increases) are also guaranteed by LHN. All in all, if ESPN wanted out of LHN, and both UT and IMG agreed, ESPN would eliminate around $590 million in guaranteed expenses through the end of the LHN contract. The total minimum guaranteed expenses to ESPN for LHN for the year beginning July 2021 is just shy of $52 million.
  13. Nope. You have to follow the aggy story and figure out which game in 1907 the turdition originated. aggys are "super-duper smart" and A&M is such a "vaunted research university," I am sure one of those geniuses can explain which game in 1907. Five options, six guesses. And still not a one of them can figure it out. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.
  14. When UT had to come to a funding accommodation with its agricultural branch college, 1/3 of the university's endowment was dedicated to the branch college. That accommodation is currently worth around $13B. When A&M had to come to a financial accommodation with Prairie View, A&M's branch college, "the ghost of Sul Ross" rose up and declared PV would get not a fucking dime. Obviously, in the world of Texas A&M, it literally doesn't pay to be Black. "it’s good that they give PV a million bucks a year or whatever" Yea, it's so good of John Sharp to throw a $1 mil a year, or whatever, to PV. Are you serious?
  15. Arky is going to force Calzada to beat them with his arm. 4.8 years per attempt is too much of a weakness not to exploit. An incompletion will kill a drive. As will a penalty, sack, or tfl. They can't play from behind. Shutting down Achane is easy. The risk is Calzada lights them up in the air. Would you accept that risk? Yes.
  16. For those of you needing a quick $1 million dollars, the total amount claimed so far by participants in the “The $1,000,000 Texas A&M Yell Leader Tradition Contest” is exactly $0.00.
  17. On "aggy fact Thursday," I'd like to congratulate Kyle Umlang on his elevation into the Texags Hall of Fame. By the use of a concept known as "honesty" (which is not part of the aggy "corps values") Kyle has so shattered the self-image of aggys he has been gifted his very own texags thread. Turdition demands he now be cyberstalked by that bunch of smoothbores. They will inevitably get his actual name wrong, he will be assigned a farcical personal history, assigned a non-existent ex-wife (that, of course, some redneck aggy from Katy has been confirmed to be "plowing") and all the other accoutrements associated with the trade school-level petulance that is such a part of aggy culture. Here's to you, Kyle! Keep up the good work. As is enshrined on the Duke family crest - "Veritas et probitas super omnia."
  18. Randolph Duke

    Hook 'em

    No one attends UT Austin to achieve mediocrity. The athletes deserve better than to walk out onto a national stage and be completely embarrassed. The Arky debacle is on the coaching staff. They don't get any more mulligans.
  19. “Eric Bieniemy has been one of the top NFL head coaching candidates over the last three years, so there are likely multiple reasons why he doesn’t have a head coaching gig just yet. Some of the issues from his past have no doubt contributed. But what exactly are those red flags? And should they matter? Let’s go through the confirmed and alleged incidents one-by-one and then determine if a team like the Philadelphia Eagles will/should consider them.” https://thebirdsblitz.com/will-red-flags-in-eric-bieniemys-past-cross-him-off-eagles-list-should-they/
  20. One thing that holds back aggys and will never change until A&M is mercifully reformed from the top down is that aggys never pay attention to details. Cutting corners is de rigueur for aggys. Half-assing is every bit as acceptable to them as being meticulous. I do not believe for an instant this guy was the first or the last to be granted a degree by Texas A&M and not have fulfilled the requirements for the degree.
  21. 4.8 yards per passing attempt for Calzada. 4.0 yards per rushing attempt for the team Brutal.
  22. The current AD at LSU is the person who gave Jimbo his original A&M contract. I think Woodward’s philosophy on coaching contracts is pretty clear. He’s not afraid to overpay. Jimbo’s issue is he has to win something. It’s been a while since aggy dropped a game to a team they had no business losing to. That has been the key to their last 10 year run. At some point, either aggy mean reverts and drops a couple of head scratchers, or Jimbo actually win something. Smart money would bet that they mean revert. If Jimbo wins something, LSU would pay him what he wants. Coming up, the ags have arky, Miss St and Bama in three successive weeks. The best of those games will be Miss St. Mike Leach is going to be in rare form the week before that game. Based on what we saw yesterday, aggy looks to have depth problems. My guess is Leach frustrates the living Hell out of Jimbo this year, we transition back to “wait until next year” and Jimbo starts getting heat for never being able to deliver.
  23. Jimbo is enuf of a dumbfuck West Virginia redneck to think he can sniff the jock of the other West Virginia redneck head coach in the S!E!C! Jimbo wants to win at least one more championship and by now he realizes why that will never happen at Texas A&M. He’s playing with house money after his A&M gig. Now it’s for bragging rights. And Texas A&M is a joke, not something you brag about. He would jump in an instant.
  24. If they didn't have the broadcast rights, the school wouldn't allow the broadcast equipment truck to be on campus, let alone allow them to set up the broadcast equipment.
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