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2 hours ago, UTEX_ME said:

well aggy's 80 year top 4 drought in the final AP poll has come to an end.. Northwestern is the last remaining team with this honor.

That isn't the deal.  Coasting in on coattails to a Top4 finish in OPINION POLLING  is NOT making it to a Final 4.

Nevertheless, hoist the banner...

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4 hours ago, satyanash said:

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Teams that don’t win their conference have no business in a 4-team playoff. A&M got blown out in their opportunity to win the SEC. Plus, their “marquee” win was against a 4-loss team. 
 

They shouldn’t be in the top 4 because they didn’t make the playoff. Notre Dame would have beaten them anyway. 

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2 hours ago, Tex Pete said:

Teams that don’t win their conference have no business in a 4-team playoff. A&M got blown out in their opportunity to win the SEC. Plus, their “marquee” win was against a 4-loss team. 
 

They shouldn’t be in the top 4 because they didn’t make the playoff. Notre Dame would have beaten them anyway. 

Aside from our friendly aggy’s struggle with a word no college graduate should struggle with, no team that couldn’t win its division deserves a shot at competing for a national championship. 

Texas A&M “traditionally” struggles to be competitive. They have not managed consecutive seasons with a winning record in conference play since before the turn of the century. I understand those few years when they finish about .500 in conference play are “magical” to them, but in the big picture, a one-off season above .500 in conference play on its own isn’t that impressive to the rest of us. 

An 8-win season for a team that has gone 25 years fighting a 9 FBS win ceiling wins isn’t a compelling accomplishment.

It’s not just that A&M tried to bluster their way into the national championship without winning its division and not having a signature win, it’s that A&M hasn’t had a signature win since 2012 and hasn’t won its division ever.

A team that has never won it’s division and hasn’t won a conference championship in 25 years should never get the nod to play for a national championship. 

Just because A&M has massively dumbed down their definition of “greatness” doesn’t mean the rest of college athletics has to dumb down their definition of greatness. 

That being said, congratulations to the aggys for the greatest season that any living aggy has ever seen or any aggy player has ever participated in. In any major sport. It was magical for all of us. That “4th Place Champion” banner will look impressive in the aggy “Hall of Champions.” 

 

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John Sharp is starting to take revenge against those who challenge the aggy version of "history."

He's starting to fire professors who dared speak out against "The Gallant Texas Negro Killer," regardless of tenure.

I think the official charges were "unapproved truth speech."

https://theeagle.com/news/a_m/one-a-m-professor-fired-one-disciplined-after-investigations-into-conduct-and-commentary/article_13e2f49a-5489-11eb-bbe6-d77728f65119.html

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One A&M professor fired, one disciplined after investigations into conduct and commentary

One Texas A&M anthropology professor has been fired and another disciplined following investigations into their classroom conduct and sociopolitical commentary. 

The Office of Risk, Ethics and Compliance investigated complaints received about archaeology professor Filipe Castro, who was dismissed from the university Thursday pending a possible appeal, and anthropology professor Michael Alvard, who received a written reprimand. Documents obtained from A&M by The Eagle through a public records request do not provide information on how long Castro and Alvard were under investigation, but documents state that five years of department evaluations, known departmental complaints and anonymous student course evaluations were reviewed. 

 

Alvard has been an anthropology professor at A&M since 2000. Castro earned his doctorate at A&M in 2001 and has taught in the university’s anthropology department since then.

Both Castro and Alvard made headlines last summer due to their criticism of the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue on the Texas A&M campus and of some conservative politicians. A Texas A&M official said in a statement that the investigations set aside free speech questions and focused on classroom conduct. 

 

Castro was notified Thursday of the university’s intent to revoke tenure and dismiss him with cause for failing to meet his responsibilities to the institution and students. The notice also states that Castro created a negative learning environment for some students.

According to a Jan. 7 memorandum from interim provost Mark H. Weichold to Castro, a university investigation stemmed from “numerous” complaints from students regarding his classroom conduct. The investigation alleges Castro “[was] demeaning to students who did not agree with your stances on religious matters; made unprofessional comments about current politicians that had no relation to the subject of the class; and made inappropriate, unprofessional and disrespectful comments in the classroom about male and female genitalia.”  

Alvard received a written reprimand in his personnel file and will be able to remain in the classroom with oversight and without the possibility of merit raises or promotions for two years. The university found that Alvard “failed to deliver instruction and class materials in an unbiased and respectful manner.”

 

Both Castro and Alvard declined to comment to The Eagle, the former for personal reasons and the latter based on the advice of legal counsel. 

 

The investigations also included interviews with students and the professors. While detailed concerns that students raised were included in the reports, few details from the professors’ interviews were provided. The documents did not include reactions from interviews with Alvard or Castro regarding the complaints against them. 

In response to detailed questions about the disciplinary actions, Texas A&M Chief Risk, Ethics and Compliance Officer Kevin P. McGinnis provided The Eagle with an emailed statement.

 
 

“These were not typical cases. They were prompted by more than one hundred complaints against these professors, some involving misconduct in the classroom,” the statement from McGinnis reads. “The complaints involving protected First Amendment activities were set aside, and the Office of Risk, Ethics and Compliance was charged with reviewing the classroom misconduct allegations because it has the investigators needed to follow up on those complaints. The investigations confirmed significant misconduct and sanctions have been issued.” 

 

It was not clear when the investigations into the professors began, and the university did not reply to questions about the timeline of students’ complaints, the investigations or the process.

 

The Jan. 7 memo firing Castro, obtained by The Eagle, states that “Former President [Michael K.] Young and Interim President [John] Junkins believe that your conduct in the classroom, as evidenced by the report, is completely unacceptable at Texas A&M University.” The memo outlines specific rules that A&M officials said his classroom conduct violated.

Documents state that Castro was demeaning to students who did not agree with him about religious matters. Investigation reports say that students commented on graphic political opinions Castro expressed in class, including saying that he “would cut off [former U.S. Attorney General] Jeff Sessions’ head and play soccer with it,” and that he would “hang [President Donald] Trump by [President-elect Joe] Biden’s entrails.” 

 
 

Some students also reported explicit remarks that Castro made in class about gender and sex. 

 

In June, according to reporting from The Battalion, Castro expressed opposition to the Ross statue. The student newspaper also reported in August about since-deleted Facebook posts by Castro regarding Trump and other members of the Republican Party that drew the attention of conservative-leaning media outlets including The Blaze, Campus Reform and Breitbart.

The A&M Board of Regents released a statement on Aug. 21 condemning “the recent vulgar, disrespectful and divisive language of a few members of the faculty at the flagship university in Bryan-College Station.” The statement cites concerns about social media posts and actions of faculty members.

 

On Aug. 27, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) sent then-President Young a letter expressing concern that an investigation into Castro’s social media posts departs from the letter of the First Amendment. FIRE urged Young to end any investigations into Castro.

“While Castro’s expression may be shocking or offensive to many, it does not fall into a category of speech unprotected by the First Amendment, which bars Texas A&M from punishing him,” FIRE wrote to Young.

 

In a Sept. 7 response, Young wrote, “Texas A&M has a proud history of supporting free speech on its campus. ... Rest assured Texas A&M has no intention of investigating or sanctioning Dr. Castro for protected speech.”

 

In addition, Young wrote: “If, while fielding commentary about Dr. Castro’s protected speech, the university learns of potential workplace misconduct, the university has a duty to investigate the allegation to determine if Dr. Castro’s behavior has violated university rules.”

Castro had seven days from the Jan. 7 notification to exercise his right to mediation and 10 business days to appeal, after which the dismissal would be finalized.

Documents summarizing Alvard’s investigation delve into several complaints against the professor, including comments on Alvard’s personal social media that were determined to qualify as free speech. 

 

Officials conducting the investigation determined that much of the negativity students reported about Alvard centered on his comments about religion and politics. There were complaints on his comments related to Trump and the 2016 election, and references to George Floyd and the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue in 2020. Others expressed concern about Alvard saying that the science of evolution proves religious beliefs are false. 

 

Alvard was arrested during a June 13 protest about the Ross statue and charged with criminal trespassing. Alvard has been an outspoken opponent of the statue remaining in its current place on the A&M campus.

A Dec. 1 memo notifying Alvard of disciplinary sanctions says that Alvard’s actions, comments and treatment of students “created a negative learning environment for some students that materially affected their ability to participate and learn” in his classes, and that Alvard “failed to deliver instruction and class materials in an unbiased and respectful manner.” 

 

The memo also outlines specific sections of university guidelines that officials say were violated by Alvard’s actions. It states that performance of a professional development plan for one year, followed by continuing oversight for an additional year, is required. This includes regular classroom observation, working with a mentor or coach and attending training workshops.

McGinnis, Texas A&M’s chief compliance officer, said in his statement that “Both faculty members may appeal, and their due process rights will be respected.” It was not clear Monday evening whether the professors would file appeals with the university.

 

 

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LOL I didn't hear the actual phone calls, but I am listening to the first team on ESPNU radio. They were just saying how Aggie callers were calling in to argue that they should be number two in the final rankings. They were arguing that they were better than Notre Dame and Ohio State. And also they were annoyed that all of the hype in Texas was around sarkisian coming to coach the burnt orange and not about what a great season the Aggies had. The host, I think McElroy, was saying that he has never heard of fanbase argue so hard after a national championship that they should be number two. I think he used the word delusional. Same old Aggies.

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9 minutes ago, UTEX_ME said:

Lmao some dumb aggy just got destroyed on SiriusXM

Don’t worry, they’ll get Looch on the air to clear things up.   Just need to wait until after the 4th Place victory parades, trophy presentations and Jimbo statue ceremony are completed. 

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58 minutes ago, Crapinon said:

It's ag's against the world. https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3175650 

 

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"It's nice work if you can get it"

Taking handouts from the federal government remain afloat while claiming it to be "nice work."

i’m still trying to figure out how they ran an online user-supplied content chat board so ineptly they needed a federal bailout during a quarantine to stay afloat. How do you run a message board so badly that when your users are under a stay-at-home quarantine your business essentially fails?

And then he boasts of it as “nice work.”

Only in aggyland, people. Only in aggyland. 

Liucci is the quintessential aggy.

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LOL I didn't hear the actual phone calls, but I am listening to the first team on ESPNU radio. They were just saying how Aggie callers were calling in to argue that they should be number two in the final rankings. They were arguing that they were better than Notre Dame and Ohio State. And also they were annoyed that all of the hype in Texas was around sarkisian coming to coach the burnt orange and not about what a great season the Aggies had. The host, I think McElroy, was saying that he has never heard of fanbase argue so hard after a national championship that they should be number two. I think he used the word delusional. Same old Aggies.


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It’s interesting that the national sports media even knows the persona of the aggy fan. They shouldn’t. No one should. Aggy hasn’t done enough that anyone should give a shit what their fans think. That the national media knows them to be bitchy, sandy-vag losers says a lot about how insufferable they are. Good for them I guess.

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4 hours ago, Lhorn said:

It’s interesting that the national sports media even knows the persona of the aggy fan. They shouldn’t. No one should. Aggy hasn’t done enough that anyone should give a shit what their fans think. That the national media knows them to be bitchy, sandy-vag losers says a lot about how insufferable they are. Good for them I guess.

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A&M's reaction to everything that's happened in CFB the past month or so just typifies their myopia. "We shoulda been number four! We shoulda been in the playoff instead of Ohio State/Notre Dame!" became "We shoulda been number two in the poll after the playoff!" Their focus was always on why Notre Dame shouldn't be in, why Ohio State shouldn't have been in, why Ohio State didn't deserve to be more popular in the post-season popularity poll. It's all about what other people think of them. "We should be thought of as better than anyone else except for Alabama!"

Not "CFB needs to expand the playoff, because good teams are getting squeezed out like a Cadet's misshapen testicle". The Aggies didn't care when TCU and Baylor got left out in 2014, or when UCF didn't get a shot, or when Ohio State went when they didn't win their conference and didn't go when they did. Regardless of program, most fans you talk to think the CFP should be expanded and it's just a question of "how many" and "when". Not A&M! When it comes to the playoffs, Aggies have three major points they want you to hear:

1) OUR 2020 TEAM DESERVED TO GO IN THE DANG PLAYOFF AND COULDA WON THE WHOLE THING 

2) HOW COME MORE SEC TEAMS WUDN'T IN THE DANG PLAYOFF (any other year)

3) OUR 2012 TEAM WOULDA WON THE WHOLE THING IF THEY'DA HAD A DANG PLAYOFF

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11 minutes ago, Quagmire said:

Funny how they are lobbying to be #2, nobody gives a shit unless your #1

Part of being an aggy is to obsess over goals that are utterly meaningless to other cultures. When I was making calls to debunk aggy's comical claim "they supplied more officers to the military during WWII than West Point and Annapolis combined," I asked a LtCol in the history department how many officers came from West Point, he replied "Who Cares?" When I mentioned it was to determine if the claims of Texas A&M were true, his was response was "That sounds like something those people would tell themselves."

It's all part of the syndrome where aggys need to convince themselves it is ok to be an aggy. Regardless of how cringeworthy their antics seem to others.

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9 hours ago, markstanco said:

Super lol.

https://texags.com/forums/6/topics/3175555

This is totally made up.  If not he would post links.  

 

Yep... saw on a premium thread where their fans were posting about how many of their players could start for Bama in Sark's scheme.
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This is totally made up.  If not he would post links.  

 

Yep... saw on a premium thread where their fans were posting about how many of their players could start for Bama in Sark's scheme.

I am constantly amazed at how aggys don't get it that they think differently than other cultures. The ags think everyone thinks like they do. They can't grasp people don't always think the same as everyone else in their culture. To put it simply, aggys can't comprehend the concept of diversity.They also have a cultural defect of dishonesty. aggys are extremely likely to make a claim with no basis whatsoever for what they are claiming. ("I have it on good authority," "word is," "scuttlebutt is," etc, etc. All completely fabricated.)

Remember when they insisted Texas' recruiting was entirely driven by the insatiable desire of every Black, male, urban high school athlete to drive a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck? How many 3/4-ton Ford farm trucks has anyone seen driving around campus? Most ags dream of a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck, therefore they believe everyone must want to someday own a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck, right? After all, what vehicle is better suited to drive and park in Austin that a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck? Whoop!

Same with "you deliver pizzas for a living," "an aggy fucked his wife," etc, etc. All things aggys know well or consider their worst fears in life. All aggy transference.

This idiot (Tom is proud of his aggyness, the poor bastard) thinks all UT fans are acting as he claims because he wishes aggy had players who could start for Bama. He wishes this, so in the mind of an aggy, every UT fan must think the same. Whoop!

What he doesn't understand is that a lot of UT fans understand Big 12 football differs from SEC football in distinct ways. I haven't met a bunch of knowledgeable UT fans who think the best course to win the 2021 Big 12 title is to build a clone of Bama's 2020 system. aggys are clueless that Saban's 2020 team differs greatly from his past teams.

SEC football (as well as the NFL in general) has moved toward a Big 12 style of open offense over the past few years. aggys don't understand the evolution of football. Doing anything to clone 2020 Bama for the 2021 campaign will lead to futility. aggys don't understand this. What is more important to Sark is to build a team that can compete for the 2021 Big 12 conference title. Sark's approach to 2021 Big 12 football will be different than his 2020 SEC scheme. No one I have spoken to cares about how UT players would fit into Sark's 2020 scheme. No one. Then again, I don't speak with many aggys.

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It’s interesting that the national sports media even knows the persona of the aggy fan. They shouldn’t. No one should. Aggy hasn’t done enough that anyone should give a shit what their fans think. That the national media knows them to be bitchy, sandy-vag losers says a lot about how insufferable they are. Good for them I guess.
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