Randolph Duke

More aggy "facts." Carnegie "Tier 1" classification. There are nine post-secondary institutions in Texas classified as "Tier 1." Five of those institutions are components of the University of Texas System. "A&M and texas are the only 2 state tier 1 research schools" "I said tier 1 research avalibility is why a&m cant cap admissions or at least why they haven't been able to. Which is what I was responding to. UH and tech can't become tier 1 ( or is a LOT harder) without [PUF] access." https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3294285/replies/62237165 2021 Carnegie Classifications of Higher Education Institutions released January 06, 2022 By: Emily Chesser In January, the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education released an updated 2021 classification list for universities. In this update, nine more universities have achieved the “Doctoral/Very High Research Activity” or “R1” category, the highest possible rank among research universities. https://ssti.org/blog/2021-carnegie-classifications-higher-education-institutions-released Texas post-secondary institutions classified as “Doctoral/Very High Research Activity” or “R1”: Baylor University Texas A&M College Station University of Texas – Arlington University of Texas – Austin University of Texas – Dallas University of Texas - El Paso University of Texas – San Antonio University of Houston University of North Texas Source:https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/lookup/srp.php?clq={"basic2005_ids"%3A"15"}&limit=0,50&orderby=sortname&start_page=standard.php

Horace Carswell is not buried on the Texas A&M campus. Fabricating lies for self-aggrandizement about Medal of Honor recipients killed in combat is something most people would consider reprehensible. Not aggys. Truth means little to aggys. Here is a more complete biography of Carswell, along with the details of his MOH citation: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9812/horace-seaver-carswell It begins as follows: "World War II Medal of Honor Recipient. He received the award posthumously on February 4, 1946 for his actions as a B-24 Liberator aircraft pilot with the 308th Bombardment Group, US Army Air Corps on October 26, 1944 near the South China Sea. After high school, he graduated from Texas Christian University in 1939 with a bachelor's degree in physical education."

Yet another example of aggys fabricating "facts." They substitute these complete fabrications for "knowledge." This happens in institutions where cultural indoctrination is prioritized over education. Remember, the PUF exists as the exclusive endowment of The University of Texas. Any changes in the distribution of PUF assets (and, by extension, AUF assets) requires a constitutional amendment. A vote of the state legislature to redistribute PUF assets would have no legal effect. Texas A&M receives proceeds of PUF assets because it is constitutionally a branch of UT Austin (not an element of the UT System). Furthermore, UT Austin has never asserted it can't expand its physical plant. The current efforts to build the Dell medical college argues the contrary. Additionally, an inability to expand physical plant was never cited as justification for exempting UT Austin from the "10% Rule." Last I looked, guaranteed admission to UT Austin was only given to the top 6%, not the top "7-8%". Texas A&M is the only post-secondary educational institution I can think of whose culture is entirely dependent on the ignorance of its students, alumni and administrators. "The state won't allow it. Since it was voted down to allow PUF funds to tech and UH, A&M and texas are the only 2 state tier 1 research schools. And since Texas claims they can't expand in Austin ( why they get the top 7-8 % rule) A&M must expand" https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3294285/last

She should ask if Sul Ross' own daughter claimed his life's actions were driven by a fervent passion to "establish the supremacy of the white man," how is the statue of him at the center of the aggy campus anything other than a shrine to a white supremacist.

aggy culture is inflicted with deep seated sickness. That they cannot discern between the character and behavior of Earl Rudder and Kyle Rittenhouse says a lot. This could be a teaching moment. But sadly, Texas A&M isn’t about education, it is about cultural indoctrination. Regrettably, those such as The Rudder Foundation members who hide from public view and perpetuate the sickness that defines aggy culture won’t allow this to be a teaching moment. The list of reasons why Kyle Rittenhouse shouldn’t be held as a paragon of virtue and a role model is long. That aggys can’t see this shows just how far aggy values are from American values. The people of America deserve better than Texas A&M.

We have been told ad nauseum by the ags that the SEC is a conclave of equals "steeped in tradition." The ags place great emphasis on tradition. I believe we should respect tradition and let A&M continue its storied tradition of an intra-conference rivalry with South Carolina. I am sure the Bonham Trophy means as much to each of those schools as the golden hat means to Texas and OU. That doesn't mean Texas won't continue to play A&M on a regular basis. What it means is we respect their traditions, we alleviate UT fans from the loathsome thought of having to travel to be in the middle of their cultural freak show of a campus, and keeps those ignorant racist redneck smoothbore white trash fucks out of Austin as much as reasonably possible. We haven't let the Sooners on our campus for almost 100 years. As A&M is, under Texas law, a branch institution of UT Austin, we would be affording them a privilege denied to our out-of-state rival while respecting our tradition of keeping human garbage off our campus as much as reasonably possible.

Fuck no. Keep OU as our rivalry game and play A&M every few years in a rotation with the rest of those fucking farm schools.

The degree isn't actually from TAMU-CS (the diploma just says it is). Which is more comical, that Texas A&M Qatar isn't even the best university in the city of Doha, or that based on the acceptance rate TAMUQ is more selective than TAMU-CS? "With the Rellis campus, and various tie in's there (including TAMU Kingsville and various campuses) for assorted degrees, kids don't really have to even be in the "Blinn Team" to be in a degree plan, take a year or two of courses there, and then transfer. They have the option to just do a 4 year degree via that program also (without going ever to the satellite campuses like Corpus/Kingsville etc). It's cheaper, to be sure, than going to the main CS campus, though of course the degree isn't actually from TAMU-CS." https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3293163/replies/62229489

I find it ironic that aggys shit on the concept of teaching liberal arts while claiming to be "almost as prestigious" as West Point, the Naval Academy, USAFA, or the Merchant Marine Academy, all of which are classified as Liberal Arts institutions.

Being the anniversary of the D-Day landings in 1944, attached is a 65 page detailed analysis produced by the Historical Division of the War Department in 1946. It goes into extensive detail of the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Pointe du Hoc on June 6, 1944. A very interesting read which (shockingly) differs in many material ways from what is taught at aggy fish camp. Additionally, here is a snippet of Frank Denius' story over at The Veteran's Project that refers to how D-Day went for him. Denius landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day with the 29th ID. For those who don't know, the 29th ID landed on the west end of Omaha Beach, right next to Pointe du Hoc and was the unit that broke through to rescue Rudder and the 2nd Rangers on top of Pointe du Hoc. We were in reserve for the landing on Omaha Beach. The 29th and 1st Infantry Divisions were the lead divisions that assaulted Omaha. The 29th ID’s artillery was lost in the channel and my battalion was rushed in late on the 6th and early morning of the 7th of June to replace and help the 29th division’s 115th Regiment. For the first six days, my unit supported the 29th Division. By that time all of the 30th Infantry Division had landed at Normandy. From there, we fiercely fought our way inland from Omaha Beach area through the hedgerows. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen hedgerows but they’re about 75 to 100 yards square and bound on each side with a row of hedges that were anywhere from 8, to 10, to 12 feet tall. The reason for that is that there were apple orchards there and Normandy is a big dairy farming area as well. From there, we fought our way maybe two or three hedgerows a day and then we finally came to the battle of St. Jean de Daye and that’s where my commanding officer I was supporting was killed in action. The battles in the hedgerows were vicious. I was able to take my commanding officer's place and was able to bring down artillery fire that wiped out the Germans in that area so we could advance. That’s when I was awarded my first Silver Star. Then from there, we were making very slow progress in the hedgerow country. Eisenhower and General Bradley were trying to think about how they could breakout from Normandy and so they devised the plan for St. Lô carpet bombing. 3500 planes would fly over and essentially just drag the area with bombing runs. At St. Lô we pulled back about half a mile depending on the terrain and the 24th of July the bombers came over and dropped some of their bombs short and killed 800 and wounded about 800 of my 30th ID brothers. I was supporting that regiment with artillery fire at the time. I was actually in the field with General Leslie McNair (Commanding Army General of ground forces in Europe) who was killed there. I was about fifty yards away from him when he was killed in his foxhole. https://www.thevetsproject.com/the-blog/2017/6/29/ssg-frank-denius-army-wwii-veteran D-day ranger doc.pdf

I was going for comedy. Its a 12 commercial story building that the aggys insist is 110' tall.

News update - In stark contrast to aggy's "intentional design," the 12-story Rudder Tower on the campus of Texas A&M's is not the same height as the cliffs of Pointe Du Hoc in Normandy. The height of Point du Hoc is still 94 feet. https://en-us.topographic-map.com/maps/d3qn/Pointe-du-Hoc/ The height of Rudder Tower is still 144 feet. aggys are still bad at math.

The Deloss model was that if from schools in Texas playing a sport there can be recruited enough talented athletes to build a nationally competitive program, that sport would be considered. Stuff like lacrosse, wrestling, etc might be played in Texas but if homegrown talent can’t reasonably be competitive for a national title in a fairly consistent basis, it wouldn’t be considered. The goal of this model was to protect the financial health of the athletics department by not funding minor sports that weren’t significant to the mission of the school which is to promote excellence. Any discussion of whether to add sports would reasonably need to start with whether the school should abandon its current operating model.

When Deloss assumed his AD responsibilities the athletics budget at UT was roughly $1 mil. His model was to only participate in sports that Texas could be nationally competitive with primarily in-state students. That is how Texas came to choose its current roster of sports. Texas is still running the Deloss Dodds business model today.

That Buccee's location will immediately be one of the 30 largest employers in the B/CS metropolitan area. Source:https://brazosvalleyedc.org/major-employers.csv?industry=*&city=* Quite literally, a significant economic boost to their local economy. Paying less than $20/hr.

Yet another great example of the true quality of the aggy education and why hiring an aggy for almost any position is usually the wrong move. One of the ags ran across an article stating that of the 5% of U.S. wage earners that make $250k and over, one in three is living "paycheck to paycheck." Quick math - 330mil citizens, labor participation is about 60%; 5%; one in three. Three quick calculations. The kind of simple shit most people in the business world run through on a very regular basis. The ability to perform rough calculations on the fly is a skill usually tested for in college entrance exams. His math (mind you, this is the "logic" of someone holding an undergraduate degree from a primarily STEM-focused institution): "330,000,000 US Citizens (making over $250K) x 0.36 = 118,800,000 living paycheck to paycheck (likely most along the east and west coasts) 330,000,000 US Citizens x 0.613 (all consumers) = 202,290,000 living paycheck to paycheck There are a bunch of people lurking on this thread that fall into these categories." https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3293071/replies/62188267 No clue whatsoever that logically, approx 1.6% of the labor force should less than 118 million. Or 202 million. That he tried the same calculation twice and got hugely different numbers would have tipped off most third graders something was amiss. This is what one gets from the "aggy network." Which is why so many of them are only employed by other aggys, why "aggyland" is so bereft of intellectual capital, and why the economy of the Brazos Valley is such a shithole. This is also how you get geniuses "whose sources tell them" and who "have it on good information" that the mighty aggys solved the mystery of alchemy and perfected cold fusion. And built "a vaccine facility that would produce 50 million influenza vaccine doses within 4 months of work on any emerging flu strain." And.... The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

It's nice to know the ags have been introspective and made the commitment to change in meaningful ways. This sea change helps delineate the end of the era of aggy athletic futility and the beginning of the era of aggy athletics dominance. Because only by maintaining focus on the big issues and learning to not be constantly drawn into meaningless minor squabbles and distractions can any organization succeed in highly competitive endeavors.

Texas has more NCAA championships in just one sport (men's swimming) than A&M has in school history. So does Oklahoma St (wrestling) and West Virginia (rifle).

I wrote a bunch of the text for aggypedia, but it's not my account. I only post under this name and have never maintained multiple accounts under different names. One of our other friends owns and controls the aggypedia site and handles all the posts using the name. He is a former NASA rocket scientist, which explains his interest in the shuttle simulator.

God bless St Jimbo for his deep concern for FCS programs. Jimbo is a national treasure and he sets an example of concern for the welfare of others most coaches can only aspire to.

Tradition. aggy dumbfuckery with firearms.

I have to pull for TCU to knock the ags out. Gotta respect tradition.

It has been thirty one years since aggy has won a CWS game. Micromanagement of preparation for post-season college baseball isn't their strong suit. One would have thought even aggys would have figured that out by now. As I said a couple of weeks ago, 2021 marked the year the most recent UT pitcher to win a CWS game became old enough to legally drink alcohol. It also marked the year the most recent Texas A&M pitcher to win a CWS game became old enough to apply for membership in AARP. Yes, this is true. Feel free to fact check it. They just don't understand how to succeed in life. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

The story of how Texas A&M "claims" Horace Carswell is both especially galling and demonstrative of who aggys are as people. I'm not even sure Carswell lasted a full year at A&M. He left A&M and enrolled at TCU graduating four years later. he served as a bomber pilot on the South Pacific and before his last flight, he penned a letter to be opened in case he didn't return. That letter was passed on to his wife and an excerpt of it was printed in the Ft. Worth Start Telegram with the announcement of his death. In that letter, he didn't refer in any way to Texas A&M, but he sure did mention his beloved alma mater, TCU. His son, Horace Ede Carswell was still alive and living in Florida last I knew. For decades different aggy writers have reached out to him to get his blessing for and cooperation with various marketing schemes that would tie Carswell in with Texas A&M. To my knowledge, not a single time did the son ever acknowledge any request or offer any indication of any willingness to take any action that would have lead one to believe the family had any desire to see Horace S. Carswell tied in with Texas A&M in any capacity. For decades letters were returned to the aggys marked "Refused by addressee. Return to sender." To explain this, the last story I heard was the aggys claimed his son was mentally ill which was the only reason he didn't respond. What a way to honor the father. For the record, the university with the most alumni as Medal of Honor recipients is Harvard. The public university with the most alumni as Medal of Honor recipients is Univ. of Washington. I have yet to meet anyone from Univ. of Washing prancing around in a silly costume demanding I thank them for their service. Nor have I ever heard of the family of any Univ. of Washington alumnus refusing to have their loved one associated with the university.

Oh, and as this Memorial Day weekend, here's a story for you. "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty, while participating on a bombing mission over enemy-occupied continental Europe, 28 July 1943. Prior to reaching the German coast on the way to the target, the B-17 airplane in which 2d Lt. Morgan was serving as copilot was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters, during which the oxygen system to the tail, waist, and radio gun positions was knocked out. A frontal attack placed a cannon shell through the windshield, totally shattering it, and the pilot's skull was split open by a .303-caliber shell, leaving him in a crazed condition. The pilot fell over the steering wheel, tightly clamping his arms around it. Second Lt. Morgan at once grasped the controls from his side and, by sheer strength, pulled the airplane back into formation despite the frantic struggles of the semiconscious pilot. The interphone had been destroyed, rendering it impossible to call for help. At this time the top turret gunner fell to the floor and down through the hatch with his arms shot off at the shoulder and a gaping wound in his side. The waist, tail, and radio gunners had lost consciousness from lack of oxygen and, hearing no fire from their guns, the copilot believed they had bailed out. The wounded pilot still offered desperate resistance in his crazed attempts to fly the airplane. There remained the prospect of flying to and over the target and back to a friendly base wholly unassisted. In the face of this desperate situation, 2d Lt. Morgan made his decision to continue the flight and protect any members of the crew who might still be in the ship and for two hours he flew in formation with one hand at the controls and the other holding off the struggling pilot before the navigator entered the steering compartment and relieved the situation. The miraculous and heroic performance of 2d Lt. Morgan on this occasion resulted in the successful completion of a vital bombing mission and the safe return of his airplane and crew." https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/john-c-morgan If you have ever seen the movie "12 O'Clock High" this is the story that is recounted in the opening scene at the airbase. The paragraph above is from the Medal of Honor citation of UT Austin alumnus John Morgan. When aggys insist UT alumni never fought for their country and "sipped tea" while only aggys fought in the nation's wars, it is the service of men such as John Morgan they mockingly denigrate. And Frank Denius. And Russell Steindam. And many, many others. The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.