Tell Me About Texas a&m

[NeverMarryAStripper 22297]

So people in Dallas are ETBF Yankees?

[utee94 16086]

26 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

So people in Dallas are ETBF Yankees?

Dallas is just Baja Oklahoma, so they're actually ETBF yankee sooners.

[Jersey Man10 3800]

To me the hill county runs from Temple/Belton to Brownwood out west.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

13 minutes ago, Jersey Man10 said:

To me the hill county runs from Temple/Belton to Brownwood out west.

To me, east Texas starts at the western edge of the sewage spill on the aggy campus and goes east, with increasingly dense populations of white trash living in trailer homes, breeding within their own family, living off of welfare checks, and supporting S!E!C! football teams.

Once one reaches the edge of the great lake of aggy excrement better known as College Station, does it really matter how it is defined?

[maninblack 7975]

10 hours ago, Mossyhorn said:

Ed Simonini... 

I think anybody my age or older has heard of him. Great player. 

Was just inducted into the SEC hall of fame. Seriously

[hookem48 4855]

3 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

So, aggy is actually located in West-East Texas.

call it what you want but it ain't east Texas. 

 

[hookem48 4855]

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

The same 45 that terminates in Dallas?

I don't know of another one

[bmbmd 1040]

16 minutes ago, hookem48 said:

call it what you want but it ain't east Texas. 

 

Depends on your point of view.  If you live in Lubbock, Abilene is east Texas. 

[The University 852]

rick steves coined bcs as the little turd on the texas prairie.

"east, west, central. doesn't matter. shit is shit."

[Pato del Muerto 53499]

34 minutes ago, hookem48 said:

I don't know of another one

Then that definition is without merit. 

[maninblack 7975]

24 minutes ago, The University said:

rick steves coined bcs as the little turd on the texas prairie.

"east, west, central. doesn't matter. shit is shit."

Always loved Rick's honesty.

[THEHORN5561 2583]

 

[texasstrong12 4668]

 

[Hagbard Celine 11247]

17 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

 

jimbo is busy finding ways to reconcile confidence with performance.

[Carl Spackler 3615]

2 hours ago, bmbmd said:

Depends on your point of view.  If you live in Lubbock, Abilene is east Texas. 

If you live in Lubbock, you're screwed anyway.

[THEHORN5561 2583]

On 10/1/2019 at 3:59 PM, Walden Ponderer said:

For those who are wondering "Where's Bert?"

[Tex Long 4662]

1 hour ago, texasstrong12 said:

 

Lying cocksucker is lying. Arkysaw was second fiddle. Third fiddle rotated among SMU, Baylor,and TCU. Until the outright purchasing of recruits set in, agi was at best fighting pouting for fourth or lower fiddle. Druther have four basses than four fiddles, Spinal Tap notwithstanding.

[Lhorn 5094]

I like that they are cultivating the arky vs aggy rivalry.  A "has been" and a 'never was."  LSU is too consistently good for aggy. 

[Randolph Duke 4034]

10 hours ago, texasstrong12 said:

 

How does one refer to 16 losing seasons in 17 years as part of "a life above average"? They haven't put two consecutive seasons together above .500 in conference play since the Backstreet Boys were ruling the world of popular music.

aggy football is defined by struggles to achieve mediocrity, interrupted by rare seasons where they dream of again finishing as high as 5th in the polls.

I thing all schools should be required to use music from the year of their school's highest accomplishment as the song played when the team takes the field to start every game.

 

 

Edited October 3, 2019 by Randolph Duke

[KYHorn 17614]

[Leanderman 2367]

Subtract the years of cheating and their record gets a lot worse.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

3 minutes ago, Leanderman said:

Subtract the years of cheating and their record gets a lot worse.

Their problem is their school, and their athletic department, are run by aggys.

The ags love to claim they are the "nation's cradle of corporate CEOs," but aggys can't run a football program or a school, let alone a corporation. When aggy Darren Woods took over as CEO of Exxon (from Rex), Exxon stock was at $90/share. Today it is trading at $67/share. That is a loss of $97 billion in market cap since the aggy started running the company.

NEVER LET AN AGGY HAVE ANY LEADERSHIP ROLE IN ANY ORGANIZATION. THEY ARE DUMBFUCKS.

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3873]

12 minutes ago, Leanderman said:

Subtract the years of cheating and their record gets a lot worse.

This.  Using the modern standard of vacating wins that earn sanctions they are actually worse in their selected time period than the overall record.

[Armybrat 41404]

18 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

Their problem is their school, and their athletic department, are run by aggys.

The ags love to claim they are the "nation's cradle of corporate CEOs," but aggys can't run a football program or a school, let alone a corporation. When aggy Darren Woods took over as CEO of Exxon (from Rex), Exxon stock was at $90/share. Today it is trading at $67/share. That is a loss of $97 billion in market cap since the aggy started running the company.

NEVER LET AN AGGY HAVE ANY LEADERSHIP ROLE IN ANY ORGANIZATION. THEY ARE DUMBFUCKS.

From what I understand, a recently hired Director of Facilities (if there is such a position) at UT is an aggy grad.

 

[Randolph Duke 4034]

5 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

From what I understand, a recently hired Director of Facilities (if there is such a position) at UT is an aggy grad.

 

UT hired Steve Patterson and Charlie Strong, so it isn’t as if UT hasn’t fucked up massively on who they hire.

If it is true, don’t drink the water on campus, and don’t stand near the SEZ project. 

Edited October 3, 2019 by Randolph Duke

[Armybrat 41404]

36 minutes ago, Leanderman said:

Subtract the years of cheating and their record gets a lot worse.

Someone can Google up “List of Southwest Conference Football Standings” at Wikipedia and they can add up all their wins & losses while they were a member of the SWC, plus their ranking in the conference for every season.

Edited October 3, 2019 by Armybrat

[Horn Draoi 258]

Y’all evidently don’t understand Texas geography: East Texas damned sure starts at I-35. Anybody ever been to Bastrop?

[Randolph Duke 4034]

4 minutes ago, Horn Draoi said:

Y’all evidently don’t understand Texas geography: East Texas damned sure starts at I-35. Anybody ever been to Bastrop?

Outside of “the lost forest” on 71, pine trees don’t grow in quantity in Central Texas. The climate dictates the vegetation as well as the geographic boundaries of the regions of Texas. 

[South Austin 53223]

30 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

From what I understand, a recently hired Director of Facilities (if there is such a position) at UT is an aggy grad.

Director of Facilities is a fancy term for janitor.

[GreenspointTexas 9969]

1 hour ago, Horn Draoi said:

Y’all evidently don’t understand Texas geography: East Texas damned sure starts at I-35. Anybody ever been to Bastrop?

I always knew Manor was East Texas!

[Randolph Duke 4034]

I'm looking at post-season bowl projections.

After losing to the South Carolina Tigers, the Alabama Tigers, probably a loss to the Louisiana Tigers, the Georgia Bulldogs and the Mississippi Bulldogs, the Texas Aggies look to be heading toward a match-up with the Pennsylvania Lions at the Outback Bowl (according to CBS Sports).

ESPN has the Texas Aggies either playing the Kansas Wildcats or the Texas Horned Frogs at the "whatever the name is currently" Bowl in Houston.

[Pato del Muerto 53499]

So now there’s listeria in Exxon gas and oil, and also in the UT tap water?

[South Austin 53223]

15 hours ago, The University said:

rick steves coined bcs as the little turd on the texas prairie.

"east, west, central. doesn't matter. shit is shit."

He offers a nice walking tour of College Station:

"Walk a straight line out of that fucking place and don't turn back."

[dingleberryswitzer 2724]

1 hour ago, Randolph Duke said:

I'm looking at post-season bowl projections.

After losing to the South Carolina Tigers, the Alabama Tigers, probably a loss to the Louisiana Tigers, the Georgia Bulldogs and the Mississippi Bulldogs, the Texas Aggies look to be heading toward a match-up with the Pennsylvania Lions at the Outback Bowl (according to CBS Sports).

ESPN has the Texas Aggies either playing the Kansas Wildcats or the Texas Horned Frogs at the "whatever the name is currently" Bowl in Houston.

Odds are again high they get sent to Nashville or Memphis or whatever 

[honolulu horn 6227]

4 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

Odds are again high they get sent to Nashville or Memphis or whatever 

Memphis in December is breathtaking

[C-Man 27779]

Caught a little of the College Football 150 episode last night -- had no idea this was a series -- and they were talking about football's transition from "one platoon" to "two platoon" and what-not. It occurred to me the last (and only) time aggy won the MNC, it wasn't even really football that was being played.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

2 hours ago, Armybrat said:

From what I understand, a recently hired Director of Facilities (if there is such a position) at UT is an aggy grad.

 

We should never hire Aggies for anything that involves supervision and I mean that literally and explicitly. You can bring in Aggie individual contributors if you must, but they can't be in charge of anything involving strategy, contingency, or hiring. 

[Randolph Duke 4034]

10 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Caught a little of the College Football 150 episode last night -- had no idea this was a series -- and they were talking about football's transition from "one platoon" to "two platoon" and what-not. It occurred to me the last (and only) time aggy won the MNC, it wasn't even really football that was being played.

That has been one of my points for quite a while. The modern era of college football began with the GIs returning from WWII on the GI Bill. Prior to 1922, there was no functional governance over the sport. Between 1922 and WWII, the conferences were sorting out rules and the game was beginning to become standardized.

Claiming a "national championship" before the game was a national sport is a rather hollow claim, but I guess if you don't understand the history of college football and have a deep-seated insecurity, beating your chest over retroactive "national championships" from before the modern era is what you do.

[fattyflattie 4640]

24 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

Claiming a "national championship" before the game was a national sport is a rather hollow claim, but I guess if you don't understand the history of college football and have a deep-seated insecurity, beating your chest over retroactive "national championships" from before the modern era is what you do.

Then imagine a group that would claim 3, 2 of them being recent claims. 
 

But most will forget that and in 10 years they’ll be referenced on CBS as 3 time national champion aggys. 

Edited October 3, 2019 by fattyflattie

[C-Man 27779]

34 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

That has been one of my points for quite a while. The modern era of college football began with the GIs returning from WWII on the GI Bill. Prior to 1922, there was no functional governance over the sport. Between 1922 and WWII, the conferences were sorting out rules and the game was beginning to become standardized.

Claiming a "national championship" before the game was a national sport is a rather hollow claim, but I guess if you don't understand the history of college football and have a deep-seated insecurity, beating your chest over retroactive "national championships" from before the modern era is what you do.

 

10 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Then imagine a group that would claim 3, 2 of them being recent claims. 
 

But most will forget that and in 10 years they’ll be referenced on CBS as 3 time national champion aggys. 

Yeah, any hardware claimed pre-1950 (maybe later) is pretty much white noise.

[Randolph Duke 4034]

9 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Then imagine a group that would claim 3, 2 of them being recent claims. 
 

But most will forget that and in 10 years they’ll be referenced on CBS as 3 time national champion aggys. 

Just as in the near future CBS will reference Jack Pardee, John Kimbrough, and Lester Hayes as members of the SEC Conference Hall of Fame. 

[Dennis Taylor 19351]

16 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Then imagine a group that would claim 3, 2 of them being recent claims. 
 

But most will forget that and in 10 years they’ll be referenced on CBS as 3 time national champion aggys. 

the timing of adding the 'championships' when joining the SEC is classic aggy...

Aggy administration: We need to make new visitors think we are a bigger deal than we really are...

Aggy maintenance department: Say no more fam

 

Edited October 3, 2019 by Dennis Taylor

[SA-KC_Horn 1298]

Lame af.

What metric did aggy use to conjure up two additional national championships?

[Armybrat 41404]

2 minutes ago, SA-KC_Horn said:

Lame af.

What metric did aggy use to conjure up two additional national championships?

Shit for brains.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

1 hour ago, Randolph Duke said:

The modern era of college football began with the GIs returning from WWII on the GI Bill.

Did it? That was a long fucking time ago to be considered "modern". You're talking about an era that's pre-two platoon, pre-integration, pre-NCAA disciplinary enforcement. 

I couldn't put a stake in the ground as to when precisely I consider it to have become "modern", but off the top of my head I think of the point at which major (P5) programs could no longer contend for national titles running the wishbone. Not the option, but the wishbone itself. I have nothing against the wishbone, I fucking love it the same way I love a powerfully blocked I-formation toss sweep, but the end of its transition from cutting edge weapon to widespread adoption to service-academy last-resort serves as a useful line of demarcation.

It's hard to be specific, though. I just know when I see 80s CFB games and the QB is play-faking on every single pass regardless of down or distance-- not modern. Three receivers is an exotic or desperation look? Not modern. "Shotgun" refers to a two-back set, the snap taken ten yards behind the line of scrimmage? Not modern. 

[Machinator 32103]

[NeverMarryAStripper 22297]

So that guy wants the 7 year old boy to stand around while the basketball team runs a train on his daughter

[Dennis Taylor 19351]

and you'll have to overlook the height difference, but the kid should be able to pull it off this year. by the time he's about 10 or 11 it would no longer be believable 

 

[DaysOff 8209]

Part of me says there's no way that story actually happened. But then, of course it did.

[Johnny Sack 8397]

40 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

Did it? That was a long fucking time ago to be considered "modern". You're talking about an era that's pre-two platoon, pre-integration, pre-NCAA disciplinary enforcement. 

I couldn't put a stake in the ground as to when precisely I consider it to have become "modern", but off the top of my head I think of the point at which major (P5) programs could no longer contend for national titles running the wishbone. Not the option, but the wishbone itself. I have nothing against the wishbone, I fucking love it the same way I love a powerfully blocked I-formation toss sweep, but the end of its transition from cutting edge weapon to widespread adoption to service-academy last-resort serves as a useful line of demarcation.

It's hard to be specific, though. I just know when I see 80s CFB games and the QB is play-faking on every single pass regardless of down or distance-- not modern. Three receivers is an exotic or desperation look? Not modern. "Shotgun" refers to a two-back set, the snap taken ten yards behind the line of scrimmage? Not modern. 

Football was integrated.  Certain southern teams were not. But it was integrated everywhere else.