Tell Me About Texas a&m

[trueut2003 73]

What the hell else you gonna do in College Station on a Saturday?

[Leanderman 2,272]

Cruise Dixie chicken and look for sheep with loose morals.

[woohorn 1,131]

Are they really going to get 100K?

No.

[RDCanecutter 26,348]

37 minutes ago, trueut2003 said:

What the hell else you gonna do in College Station on a Saturday?

I generally left, and spent the day anywhere not named College Station.

[Modessit 5,597]

Are they really going to get 100K?  Sorry, not in TX, and I know they are delusional, but if they get 100K, the delusion is going to bring some serious lulz

Maybe for the first half. I think they give college credit to any students who show up so that they can fill in the empty areas.

[Sidney Sherman 66]

16 minutes ago, Modessit said:

12 hours ago, PhillyD said:

Are they really going to get 100K?  Sorry, not in TX, and I know they are delusional, but if they get 100K, the delusion is going to bring some serious lulz

Maybe for the first half. I think they give college credit to any students who show up so that they can fill in the empty areas.

SEC 101 : Pretending to be excited for another 8th place finish in conference 

[F250 28,737]

12 hours ago, PhillyD said:

Are they really going to get 100K?  Sorry, not in TX, and I know they are delusional, but if they get 100K, the delusion is going to bring some serious lulz

Oh, they will be there.

[Leanderman 2,272]

"Are they really going to get 100K?  Sorry, not in TX, and I know they are delusional, but if they get 100K, the delusion is going to bring some serious lulz "

So many joke posts about this, so little time.

[The Triple Lindy 56]

34 minutes ago, F250 said:

Oh, they will be there.

[Jersey Man10 3,523]

Guarantee they're going to claim 100k anyway.

[Enchubben 5,509]

The accounting firm I work for (big 4) heavily recruits all the major Texas universities, mainly Texas, Baylor, aggy and then we fill holes with some random Tech and some random UH kids where appropriate. We have noticed over the last 4-5 years that the quality of candidates from aggy has started to decline pretty rapidly, while the numbers of them has increased greatly. Aggy candidates have always been a little odd, and maybe one out of 5 ends up being a "high-performer", but it has gotten significantly worse. The quality of Texas students is hands down better than any of the others - but there is now a clear gap across the quality of students from the major Texas business schools, and it s something like this. UT>>>>>>>>>>>Baylor>>>>>>>Aggy>>Texas Tech>UH.   

The recruiters this year selected 8-10 students that met gpa requirements that were also otherwise worthy of an offer from UT, which is pretty typical, maybe a bit on the lowside. There is almost a dozen Baylor students.  However - the aggys in my company that recruit other aggy's have identified a pool of almost 30 students that had a gpa of 3.8 or higher.  Grade inflation at aggy is real; half of these kids can barely count to 10, and somehow there are that many almost perfect students? Because the people that make these decisions are idiots - they are intent on bringing in a record number of aggies.

The degree at A&M was never close to that of the flagship university wrt to the business school, but I would be pissed if I was a graduate 10-15 years ago and see the types of kids that are graduating from there now with their gpa's.  

[fattyflattie 4,637]

36 minutes ago, Jersey Man10 said:

Guarantee they're going to claim 100k anyway.

Without a doubt. 

[Walden Ponderer 12,639]

3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

I generally left, and spent the day anywhere not named College Station.

There's a really cool POW camp museum in Hearne, along with Penny's Diner (an old airstream style counter cafe). You can have plenty of fun an hour in any direction from College Station. Much more fun that you can have staying in College Station. But, gentle readers, you already knew that, didn't you?

[trueut2003 73]

Man, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel when you want to spend the day in Hearne.

[Player 4,575]

Well he lives in College Station, so yeah, desperate times call for desperate measures.

[Quasimofo 406]

Spent a year in Hearne one week. Ate at that diner quite a bit, because I was staying in the motel behind there. I think the railroad has some ownership of both, because those guys were everywhere. Loved it so much I haven't been back.

[BayouBill 835]

Hearne, TX Benz and Lexus

[Harrison Stafford 3,329]

The Dixie Cafe in Hearne is considered a road trip from CS

[RDCanecutter 26,348]

4 hours ago, Enchubben said:

The accounting firm I work for (big 4) heavily recruits all the major Texas universities, mainly Texas, Baylor, aggy and then we fill holes with some random Tech and some random UH kids where appropriate. We have noticed over the last 4-5 years that the quality of candidates from aggy has started to decline pretty rapidly, while the numbers of them has increased greatly. Aggy candidates have always been a little odd, and maybe one out of 5 ends up being a "high-performer", but it has gotten significantly worse. The quality of Texas students is hands down better than any of the others - but there is now a clear gap across the quality of students from the major Texas business schools, and it s something like this. UT>>>>>>>>>>>Baylor>>>>>>>Aggy>>Texas Tech>UH.   

The recruiters this year selected 8-10 students that met gpa requirements that were also otherwise worthy of an offer from UT, which is pretty typical, maybe a bit on the lowside. There is almost a dozen Baylor students.  However - the aggys in my company that recruit other aggy's have identified a pool of almost 30 students that had a gpa of 3.8 or higher.  Grade inflation at aggy is real; half of these kids can barely count to 10, and somehow there are that many almost perfect students? Because the people that make these decisions are idiots - they are intent on bringing in a record number of aggies.

The degree at A&M was never close to that of the flagship university wrt to the business school, but I would be pissed if I was a graduate 10-15 years ago and see the types of kids that are graduating from there now with their gpa's.  

So, when you hire an Aggy to count something, how much extra fantasy shit do they add to the totals, on average?

Edited April 9, 2018 by RDCanecutter

[RDCanecutter 26,348]

2 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

There's a really cool POW camp museum in Hearne, along with Penny's Diner (an old airstream style counter cafe). You can have plenty of fun an hour in any direction from College Station. Much more fun that you can have staying in College Station. But, gentle readers, you already knew that, didn't you?

Navasota, Yankee's Tavern in Carlos, of course Snook, Caldwell via Tunis, Hearne (creeped me out, and I've spent time in backwoods Mississippi), Old Dime Box, New Dime Box, even just going a couple of miles away to downtown Bryan, all these little jaunts were my afternoon sanity-restorers.

[George Clooney 378]

4 hours ago, Enchubben said:

The accounting firm I work for (big 4) heavily recruits all the major Texas universities, mainly Texas, Baylor, aggy and then we fill holes with some random Tech and some random UH kids where appropriate. We have noticed over the last 4-5 years that the quality of candidates from aggy has started to decline pretty rapidly, while the numbers of them has increased greatly. Aggy candidates have always been a little odd, and maybe one out of 5 ends up being a "high-performer", but it has gotten significantly worse. The quality of Texas students is hands down better than any of the others - but there is now a clear gap across the quality of students from the major Texas business schools, and it s something like this. UT>>>>>>>>>>>Baylor>>>>>>>Aggy>>Texas Tech>UH.   

The recruiters this year selected 8-10 students that met gpa requirements that were also otherwise worthy of an offer from UT, which is pretty typical, maybe a bit on the lowside. There is almost a dozen Baylor students.  However - the aggys in my company that recruit other aggy's have identified a pool of almost 30 students that had a gpa of 3.8 or higher.  Grade inflation at aggy is real; half of these kids can barely count to 10, and somehow there are that many almost perfect students? Because the people that make these decisions are idiots - they are intent on bringing in a record number of aggies.

The degree at A&M was never close to that of the flagship university wrt to the business school, but I would be pissed if I was a graduate 10-15 years ago and see the types of kids that are graduating from there now with their gpa's.  

This is true of everything aggy, but they think way too highly of their business school. They think because they place well into the big 4 and send maybe 5 per class to Wall Street that it's on par with McCombs, which obviously isn't true. There's also a weird culture there (again expected of aggy). I had to go into their business building one time and nearly every student in there had shirts plastered with "Mays" (their b-school's name) on them. I can't recall ever seeing that at any other b-school building, and I've been to many.

[Cairn Horn88 8,245]

3 hours ago, trueut2003 said:

Man, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel when you want to spend the day in Hearne.

Hearne must be LIT, as well.

[Enchubben 5,509]

2 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

So, when you hire an Aggy to count something, how much extra fantasy shit do they add to the totals, on average?

12. It’s always 12 extra.  They also think very highly of the Securities Exchance Comission too. 

[Goofyboy 3,249]

My grandmothers dentist was in Hearne and I would go with her and my grandfather once a summer. That place sucked way back then and hasn’t improved.

[GTNY 283]

Hell the corp, football team (counts against the 100k at aggy) and dead dogs get you to 50k alone

Edited April 9, 2018 by GTNY

[Walden Ponderer 12,639]

46 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Hearne must be LIT, as well.

Quite the opposite, which is kinda the point. It's got a WW II museum. That makes it an improvement over the "lit" place. Any town with the world's 3rd largest ball of twine would also be an improvement over the "lit" place.

[Hook1997 5,335]

2 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Navasota, Yankee's Tavern in Carlos, of course Snook, Caldwell via Tunis, Hearne (creeped me out, and I've spent time in backwoods Mississippi), Old Dime Box, New Dime Box, even just going a couple of miles away to downtown Bryan, all these little jaunts were my afternoon sanity-restorers.

I just spent the night in Navasota last week.....  Good lord that’s a shitty town, no house newer then 25 years old, reminded me of Bloomington it’s that bad.

[RDCanecutter 26,348]

I liked it. It was real. After a little time in BCS, I was in dire need of the non-mythical, even if it was shabby.

[trueut2003 73]

I grew up in BCS. There are more shitty towns around there than probably anywhere in Texas.

[ShowmeyourTDs 1,140]

6 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

There's a really cool POW camp museum in Hearne, along with Penny's Diner (an old airstream style counter cafe). You can have plenty of fun an hour in any direction from College Station. Much more fun that you can have staying in College Station. But, gentle readers, you already knew that, didn't you?

The sad part is driving about an hour north of collie station is Waco, and you are still right it is better.

[Walden Ponderer 12,639]

22 minutes ago, trueut2003 said:

I grew up in BCS. There are more shitty towns around there than probably anywhere in Texas.

I dunno. Deep East Texas has some stinkers, too.  Of course, they're all aggy fans, so it kind of levels things out. Vidor for the... win?

[deft 6,808]

The sad part is driving about an hour north of collie station is Waco, and you are still right it is better.

I grew up in mexia. We drove to Waco for fun.

[Longboard Horn 40,199]

9 hours ago, Jersey Man10 said:

Guarantee they're going to claim 100k anyway.

aggy false claiming not going away

[Spawn of Cthulhu 2,241]

Places almost as shitty as the Station talk not going away.

[Cairn Horn88 8,245]

4 hours ago, Goofyboy said:

My grandmothers dentist was in Hearne and I would go with her and my grandfather once a summer. That place sucked way back then and hasn’t improved.

I understand.  The DQ on the highway there was always my last pit stop before getting into Austin.

[Henry Hill 3,156]

11 hours ago, Enchubben said:

The accounting firm I work for (big 4) heavily recruits all the major Texas universities, mainly Texas, Baylor, aggy and then we fill holes with some random Tech and some random UH kids where appropriate. We have noticed over the last 4-5 years that the quality of candidates from aggy has started to decline pretty rapidly, while the numbers of them has increased greatly. Aggy candidates have always been a little odd, and maybe one out of 5 ends up being a "high-performer", but it has gotten significantly worse. The quality of Texas students is hands down better than any of the others - but there is now a clear gap across the quality of students from the major Texas business schools, and it s something like this. UT>>>>>>>>>>>Baylor>>>>>>>Aggy>>Texas Tech>UH.   

The recruiters this year selected 8-10 students that met gpa requirements that were also otherwise worthy of an offer from UT, which is pretty typical, maybe a bit on the lowside. There is almost a dozen Baylor students.  However - the aggys in my company that recruit other aggy's have identified a pool of almost 30 students that had a gpa of 3.8 or higher.  Grade inflation at aggy is real; half of these kids can barely count to 10, and somehow there are that many almost perfect students? Because the people that make these decisions are idiots - they are intent on bringing in a record number of aggies.

The degree at A&M was never close to that of the flagship university wrt to the business school, but I would be pissed if I was a graduate 10-15 years ago and see the types of kids that are graduating from there now with their gpa's.  

I recall there being a racist aggy intern at a big 4 firm that got fired not all that long ago but his name just escapes me. darnell simontelli?

[trueut2003 73]

Hearne, the first place in America to have a Walmart close, because more merchandise was going out the back door than the front...then they converted it into the new high school.

[Longboard Horn 40,199]

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[Leanderman 2,272]

But the gomers can count. They count spring football games as a win in their season totals.

[Auto Driller 2,504]

In on 12

[Modessit 5,597]

Sounds like something an aggy would say.

[PencilPusher 454]

22 hours ago, Enchubben said:

The accounting firm I work for (big 4) heavily recruits all the major Texas universities, mainly Texas, Baylor, aggy and then we fill holes with some random Tech and some random UH kids where appropriate. We have noticed over the last 4-5 years that the quality of candidates from aggy has started to decline pretty rapidly, while the numbers of them has increased greatly. Aggy candidates have always been a little odd, and maybe one out of 5 ends up being a "high-performer", but it has gotten significantly worse. The quality of Texas students is hands down better than any of the others - but there is now a clear gap across the quality of students from the major Texas business schools, and it s something like this. UT>>>>>>>>>>>Baylor>>>>>>>Aggy>>Texas Tech>UH.   

The recruiters this year selected 8-10 students that met gpa requirements that were also otherwise worthy of an offer from UT, which is pretty typical, maybe a bit on the lowside. There is almost a dozen Baylor students.  However - the aggys in my company that recruit other aggy's have identified a pool of almost 30 students that had a gpa of 3.8 or higher.  Grade inflation at aggy is real; half of these kids can barely count to 10, and somehow there are that many almost perfect students? Because the people that make these decisions are idiots - they are intent on bringing in a record number of aggies.

The degree at A&M was never close to that of the flagship university wrt to the business school, but I would be pissed if I was a graduate 10-15 years ago and see the types of kids that are graduating from there now with their gpa's.  

Speaking of accounting programs......is this the part of the discussion where we remind everyone that the lead Arthur Andersen partner on the Enron debacle was a proud graduate of....you guessed it.....Texas A&M.

[Machinator 32,098]

Courtesy of @Longhornfrenzy

[ShowmeyourTDs 1,140]

10 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

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That’s a big bitch!

[Tex Pete 20,248]

58 minutes ago, Machinator said:

Courtesy of @Longhornfrenzy

Why would renewing the aggie game be the most watched game of the year in the country? Most people don't know anything about Texas A&M, and nobody outside of Texas watched it before. Plus, we have dominated the series. AND, the game wouldn't be at the end of the season if we were stupid enough to resume the series.

The aggies haven't won a conference championship in 20 years, and nobody on their last national championship team is even still alive, though I do think they recently discovered some fossils from that season along the banks of the Brazos.

[trueut2003 73]

Courtesy of [mention=564]Longhornfrenzy[/mention]

Uhhh...

[Walden Ponderer 12,639]

4 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

The aggies haven't won a conference championship in 20 years, and nobody on their last national championship team is even still alive, though I do think they recently discovered some fossils from that season along the banks of the Brazos.

No, those turned out to just be feral hog bones.