Tell Me About Texas a&m

[Pancho 44996]

[NOMAAA 1696]

im not going to argue. 

 

proceeds to argue. 

very on brand.

[TrashMaster G 17601]

10 minutes ago, Pancho said:

That vid is at least a year or two old and she's still so stupidly wrong.

[Vertigo 20332]

The fact that she is just so certain that a&m has more money gives me a sensible chuckle. 

[TrashMaster G 17601]

3 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

The fact that she is just so certain that a&m has more money gives me a sensible chuckle. 

Yeah, how many years has that loan the aggy athletic dept took from the University been on the books???

[South Austin 52613]

"I live in Texas!"  That's nice, sweetheart, but I think the point they're making is that the overwhelming majority of outsiders looking at college programs in the State of Texas share the perception that Texas is head and shoulders above aggy.

[utee94 15863]

Joel Klatt's preseason Top 25-- AKA, I feel a boycott coming on...

1) Georgia
2) Michigan
3) Ohio State
4) Alabama
5) Penn State
6) Washington
7) LSU
😎 USC
9) Clemson
10) Florida State
11) Utah
12) Tennessee
13) Oregon
14) Texas
15) Oregon State
16) Oklahoma
17) Kansas State
18) Notre Dame
19) TCU
20) Ole Miss
21) North Carolina
22) Iowa
23) Wisconsin
24) Texas Tech
25) UCLA

[NoName 16407]

1 hour ago, utee94 said:

Joel Klatt's preseason Top 25-- AKA, I feel a boycott coming on...

1) Georgia
2) Michigan
3) Ohio State
4) Alabama
5) Penn State
6) Washington
7) LSU
😎 USC
9) Clemson
10) Florida State
11) Utah
12) Tennessee
13) Oregon
14) Texas
15) Oregon State
16) Oklahoma
17) Kansas State
18) Notre Dame
19) TCU
20) Ole Miss
21) North Carolina
22) Iowa
23) Wisconsin
24) Texas Tech
25) UCLA

Klatt loves kicking A&M. mostly because no one shoots themselves more in the foot than that program

[wood 11268]

1 hour ago, utee94 said:

Joel Klatt's preseason Top 25-- AKA, I feel a boycott coming on...

1) Georgia
2) Michigan
3) Ohio State
4) Alabama
5) Penn State
6) Washington
7) LSU
😎 USC
9) Clemson
10) Florida State
11) Utah
12) Tennessee
13) Oregon
14) Texas
15) Oregon State
16) Oklahoma
17) Kansas State
18) Notre Dame
19) TCU
20) Ole Miss
21) North Carolina
22) Iowa
23) Wisconsin
24) Texas Tech
25) UCLA

#14. This gruntles me. I hate when we enter the season ranked really high based on basically nothing. But yeah, LOL aggy. Fucking clowns.

[NOMAAA 1696]

no way klatt was putting them in his top 75.

[South Austin 52613]

35 minutes ago, wood said:

#14. This gruntles me. I hate when we enter the season ranked really high based on basically nothing. But yeah, LOL aggy. Fucking clowns.

Same.  I don't want to be ranked any higher in the polls.  The Horns are still an 8-5 team until they prove otherwise.

[wood 11268]

1 minute ago, South Austin said:

Same.  I don't want to be ranked any higher in the polls.  The Horns are still an 8-5 team until they prove otherwise.

Your mom's an 8-5 team until she proves otherwise. 

Yeah, I know it makes no sense, but that's all I got. My bad. :shame:

[South Austin 52613]

4 minutes ago, wood said:

Your mom's an 8-5 team until she proves otherwise.

[ousux 5602]

That 3 is generous, very generous

[utee94 15863]

3 minutes ago, ousux said:

19 minutes ago, South Austin said:

That 3 is generous, very generous

[wood 11268]

4 minutes ago, ousux said:

20 minutes ago, South Austin said:

That 3 is generous, very generous

Hell, I thought the 2 was way over the top!

[Dennis Taylor 18873]

3 hours ago, NOMAAA said:

im not going to argue. 

 

proceeds to argue. 

Loses. 

very on brand.

Fixed

[tbone_ 14164]

The Horns are still an 8-5 team until they prove otherwise.

Just for grins I looked up our record since the Alabama Rose Bowl.

The answer was .550

I dig your optimism.

[wood 11268]

Just now, tbone_ said:

the Alabama Rose Bowl.

 

[jimmyjazz 46138]

56 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Just for grins I looked up our record since the Alabama Rose Bowl.

The answer was .550

I dig your optimism.

 

Hey, there's not a lot of difference between 0.615 (8-5) and 0.550, so take your negative Nancy attitude elsewhere.  Nancy.

[tbone_ 14164]

Hey, there's not a lot of difference between 0.615 (8-5) and 0.550, so take your negative Nancy attitude elsewhere.  Nancy.

I said I dug his optimism.

[Cairn Horn88 8283]

John Sharp has spoken:

A&M Chancellor: It’s time to put our house back in order 

For those of you who know me, you can understand how I was biting my tongue to keep from responding personally during the recent avalanche of negative media coverage. I chose to wait, however, for the conclusion of a thorough investigation into the attempted hiring of Dr. Kathleen McElroy and the controversy surrounding Dr. Joy Alonzo.

You can read the report (www.tamus.edu/internal-review) for yourself and view the evidence that supports the investigation’s narrative. It isn’t always pretty, but it helps explain what really happened. We surely learned of some bad decision-making to which almost no one was privy at the time.

Regarding the events in Dr. McElroy’s hiring process, it is difficult to recognize the alma mater I dearly love and to which I owe so much. Texas A&M is far better than this!

A few, however, forgot our Core Values.

It is time to come together, put our house back in order, and vow to never let this happen again. We all must rededicate ourselves to the Aggie values that define us and bind us.

To begin with, I want to apologize publicly to Dr. McElroy and fervently hope we can eventually heal with our mutual love for Texas A&M.

To Dr. Alonzo, I am sorry her name was bandied about in the news media four months after the university had cleared her of allegations she had criticized Lt. Governor Dan Patrick in a manner that at least one student found offensive.

The report also corrects the false narrative that I ordered an investigation into Dr. Alonzo and am not a champion of academic freedom because I took one brief, non-threatening phone call from the lieutenant governor.

The truth is, the university put her on paid leave while it investigated with no initiation or interference from me. Further, Dr. Joy Alonzo says she has no issue with how the university handled her case.

Bottom line, Texas A&M investigated when the University of Texas Medical Branch, where Dr. Alonzo was appearing as a guest lecturer, issued a public statement censuring Dr. Alonzo without providing any evidence, it turned out, and unfortunately still hasn’t retracted that censure.

What else would you have the university do but check it out?

As for academic freedom, faculty members across the state were terrified this spring that the Legislature would follow up on calls to eliminate tenure, the bedrock of academic freedom. Instead, today the tenure policy of Texas A&M is codified in state law because we persuaded state officials our policy works both for academic freedom and accountability.

Finally, it has been suggested to me in the media that I let calls from state officials go to voicemail. I assume that silly suggestion was meant as a clever turn of a phrase, but I always found when you stop taking people’s calls, then they cease answering yours.

And that would be bad for the alma mater I love so much – especially after the last legislative session was the best we ever had.

John Sharp is Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System.

https://tinyurl.com/25czwgk3

[Jersey Man10 3544]

They just ran out of core values?

[Magus Ossis 2855]

4 minutes ago, Jersey Man10 said:

They just ran out of core values?

No. Their BS stinks because they don’t have any oils or herbs to cover the smell. They ran out of thyme.

[DFW Horn 6212]

6 hours ago, Vertigo said:

The fact that she is just so certain that a&m has more money gives me a sensible chuckle. 

I don't know where misguided aggy get this foolish notion.

Dumbasses

[YGIFS 19452]

seriously, if you had a drink every time they said "core values", you'd not only be shitfaced...you'd be as closeted an aggie as MontereyTX

[wood 11268]

tl:dr: It's them dang SIPS' fault!!11!!!

[Deej 76926]

3 hours ago, wood said:

Your mom took an 8-5 team

fify

[Armybrat 40914]

Quote

John Sharp is Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, is he?

[Iowa Horn 55]

48 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

...during the recent avalanche of negative media coverage.

Jeez, there are avalanches at least biannually around there.  All self-inflicted, under Sharp's watch.

[Harrison Stafford 3336]

5 hours ago, Jersey Man10 said:

They just ran out of core values?

I think of it as ‘corps values’ since that’s where all the fucking looney crazy shit that is aggy emanated.

[Gaffords 757]

5 hours ago, wood said:

tl:dr: It's them dang SIPS' fault!!11!!!

I can't wait to hear how we killed the PAC just to keep aggy down. 

[markstanco 12612]

That makes more sense and is more stupider.

*stupidies

[Chopper 17247]

From a review of a new documentary of about https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/aug/08/johnny-manziel-netflix-documentary-texas-a-and-m-college-football-nfl

Quote

 

Sports documentaries try to look back on controversial times with subjects who are in a much different place. But in Untold: Johnny Football, it’s clear their bad boy hero, after failing in his attempts at a pro football comeback, remains stuck in a tough place by the looks of his crosscountry living situation – back home with dad in Texas one minute, partying with douche bros at a big house in Arizona the next.

“A lot of people wonder, you know, ‘Why isn’t he doing anything?’” his younger sister Meri says. “He’s not in a place mentally to go out and do something right now.”

Ultimately, the tragedy of Johnny Football isn’t that he never lived up to his enormous potential. It’s that he’s still living in the past.

 

 

Edited August 8, 2023 by Chopper

[markstanco 12612]

21 hours ago, Vertigo said:

The fact that she is just so certain that a&m has more money gives me a sensible chuckle. 

Didnt they do some kind of aggy accounting to be the "richer" school for one year around 2019?  Seems like I remember they made a debt an asset or similar.

[Deej 76926]

1 minute ago, markstanco said:

Didnt they do some kind of aggy accounting to be the "richer" school for one year around 2019?  Seems like I remember they made a debt an asset or similar.

Is that when they failed to report the Qatar money?

[Scholz 11959]

1 minute ago, markstanco said:

Didnt they do some kind of aggy accounting to be the "richer" school for one year around 2019?  Seems like I remember they made a debt an asset or similar.

Yeah they labeled a shit ton of one-time donations as recurring revenue if I remember correctly.  Completely dishonestly of course.  Because they're lying bags of shit.

[markstanco 12612]

17 minutes ago, Chopper said:

From a review of a new documentary of about https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/aug/08/johnny-manziel-netflix-documentary-texas-a-and-m-college-football-nfl

 

Discussed in the Johnny football thread a little.  I for one will watch it.  

[Guest]

Say what you want about Manziel, but holy shit he was fun to watch. So was Mike Evans on that team.

[Fud 9556]

 

[JesusSweatDuck 17810]

44 minutes ago, Scholz said:

Yeah they labeled a shit ton of one-time donations as recurring revenue if I remember correctly.  Completely dishonestly of course.  Because they're lying bags of shit.

Correct, when they raised the funds for remodeling Kroger field

[Gaffords 757]

11 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Say what you want about Manziel, but holy shit he was fun to watch. So was Mike Evans on that team.

It would've been funnier if the greasy fuck wasn't so slippery.  He was like watching a greased pig.  But in this case, i wasn't rooting for the pig. 

[Parliament 14311]

1 hour ago, markstanco said:

Discussed in the Johnny football thread a little.  I for one will watch it.  

Looks like he's gained some weight laid off the drugs.  Good for him. 

[ABSR 5324]

1 hour ago, Scholz said:

Yeah they labeled a shit ton of one-time donations as recurring revenue if I remember correctly.  Completely dishonestly of course.  Because they're lying bags of shit.

That was for their Athletic Department.  They took on the loans/debt, plus some donations for their stadium build and counted that as "Revenue" in order to claim to be the richest Athletic Department.

They also like to claim 100% of the PUF as part of their University assets and then claim to be the wealthiest university.  Which is ironic since if the PUF is excluded from endowments they have a fairly poor endowment where Texas has a fairly large one.   AND if Texas gets 2 of every 3 PUF dollars wouldn't they really be saying "We rich, but Texas WAY Richer!"

Of course both of these lies have been stated and repeated ad nauseam to the aggy faithful so of course that means it is fact per aggy logic and reason.  Facts, critical thinking, be damned!

[utee94 15863]

4 minutes ago, ABSR said:

That was for their Athletic Department.  They took on the loans/debt, plus some donations for their stadium build and counted that as "Revenue" in order to claim to be the richest Athletic Department.

They also like to claim 100% of the PUF as part of their University assets and then claim to be the wealthiest university.  Which is ironic since if the PUF is excluded from endowments they have a fairly poor endowment where Texas has a fairly large one.   AND if Texas gets 2 of every 3 PUF dollars wouldn't they really be saying "We rich, but Texas WAY Richer!"

Of course both of these lies have been stated and repeated ad nauseam to the aggy faithful so of course that means it is fact per aggy logic and reason.  Facts, critical thinking, be damned!

Yup all of this.  Misclaiming 100% of the PUF as their endowment, and counting capital fundraising as "revenue" when it's not actually something that comes from normal business operations, are just two of the ways they lie to themselves and everyone else, to pretend they are the richest university of all time.

 

 

[Dennis Taylor 18873]

3 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Yup all of this.  Misclaiming 100% of the PUF as their endowment, and counting capital fundraising as "revenue" when it's not actually something that comes from normal business operations, are just two of the ways they lie to themselves and everyone else, to pretend they are the richest university of all time.

 

 

"The hell you say! Of course we're the richest, rootinest tootinest athletic department in these here United States! Tell 'em daddy!"

 

[ousux 5602]

John Sharp is Chancellor of the Texas A&M University System.

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, is he?

Hey now, Johnny did a stellar job distributing hurricane Harvey relief funds where they could do the most good! (Pure coincidence that happened to be white aggy owned construction companies who just happen to also donate a lot back to aggy)

So take back your slander this instant!

[Cairn Horn88 8283]

aggy new secsec uniforms:

 

[deft 6880]

Needs moar b1g logo

[TheBryMan81 2515]

On 8/7/2023 at 10:47 PM, DFW Horn said:

I don't know where misguided aggy get this foolish notion.

Dumbasses

It comes from one report in one year a few years ago that they were the #1 revenue generating athletic department in the country (specifically for that year). This was in a year when donations went way up for their stadium renovation, they got a loan for the stadium, and they questionably counted a bunch of that as revenue, which pushed them to #1.

Ever since then, they "have more money than the sips" 🙄