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A&M is sitting at 6-1.

The record of the the teams they have beat is 17-31.

Here is who A&M has beat:

Vandy 0-8

FLA 7-1

MissSt 3-5

Ark 3-5

SoCar 2-7

LSU 3-4

Their one loss was a four TD throttling.

Their best win, Florida, is 7-1.

The teams Florida has beat are a combined 22-35.

Here is who Florida has beat:

Ole Miss 4-4

SoCar 2-7

Mizzou 4-3

GA 6-2 (winning opponents are 24-33)

Ark 3-5

Vandy 0-8

Ky 3-6

 

Whether they make the Big10 Conference Championship game or not, if the aggies think they are getting into the Playoff over a 5-0 Ohio St, they are even more delusional than we already thought.

Those fans might want to switch gears to hoping they DON'T make the playoffs so that they can complain for many years that they got screwed over, because if they actually make the playoffs, the score in their first round game will resemble the four TD aswhipping they got from Bama earlier in the season.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Orange&White said:

A&M is sitting at 6-1.

The record of the the teams they have beat is 17-31.

Here is who A&M has beat:

Vandy 0-8

FLA 7-1

MissSt 3-5

Ark 3-5

SoCar 2-7

LSU 3-4

Their one loss was a four TD throttling.

Their best win, Florida, is 7-1.

The teams Florida has beat are a combined 22-35.

Here is who Florida has beat:

Ole Miss 4-4

SoCar 2-7

Mizzou 4-3

GA 6-2 (winning opponents are 24-33)

Ark 3-5

Vandy 0-8

Ky 3-6

 

Whether they make the Big10 Conference Championship game or not, if the aggies think they are getting into the Playoff over a 5-0 Ohio St, they are even more delusional than we already thought.

Those fans might want to switch gears to hoping they DON'T make the playoffs so that they can complain for many years that they got screwed over, because if they actually make the playoffs, the score in their first round game will resemble the four TD aswhipping they got from Bama earlier in the season.

#secsecsec is basically comparable to AP GPAs ... you get a 0.5 win for any loss in #secsecsec ... so .. Ole Miss is 6-4, SoCar is 3-7 ... Misery is 5-3, Gov. Abrams is 7-2, Pig is ... who cares, Vandy is 4-8 ... hillbilly is 6-6.

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Remember John Sharp gladly accepting roughly $300million for the now-infamous aggy "game changer" vaccine facility, which Sharp described as “one of the most significant developments ever in the state of Texas." (https://www.statesman.com/news/20130326/texas-am-will-be-home-to-91-million-vaccine-manufacturing-facility)

The people of Texas and of the U.S. built a vaccine production facility in College Station, Texas. When the shit ht the fan, the U.S. ended up having to import vaccine from a production facility in Belgium. The Belgian town's population is far smaller than the intellectual desert surrounding TAMU. Wages in Belgium are far higher than in the Brazos Valley. I have no doubt the facility in Belgium was built for far less money than the white elephant Sharp touted as “one of the most significant developments ever in the state of Texas."

Does anyone think for a second John Sharp will take a long, hard look at how - when the world was counting on TAMU - they got it so wrong and the Belgians got it right?

 

The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

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Small Belgian town becomes center of coronavirus vaccine world

PUURS, Belgium — The future of the world depends on a Belgian town so small that its parking lot is named Dorpshart, the "heart of the village."

It is in Puurs, a town of 17,000 in the Dutch-speaking region of Flanders, that America's Pfizer will manufacture a coronavirus vaccine created with Germany's BioNTech that is now hailed as one of the front-runners to liberate the world from lockdowns.

Don't feel too bad if you've never heard of Puurs. Within Belgium, it is mostly known for its skull-splittingly potent Duvel beer, which according to an urban legend owes its name to someone calling it "a true devil" thanks to its alcohol percentage of 8.5 percent. (The name means devil in Dutch.)

https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-town-puurs-spotlight-coronavirus-vaccine/

 

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46 minutes ago, ousux said:
1 hour ago, Horn80 said:
Won’t surprise me if Auburn plays their best game of the year against aggy.

Yet still manages to allow aggy another win and get them in the CFP over tOSU...where they will be murderized in the first round.

Good point since looking like tOSU is going to miss out in CFP.

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1 hour ago, Randolph Duke said:

Sometimes the aggy jokes write themselves. Here, an aggy writes one....

https://today.tamu.edu/2020/12/01/your-brains-built-in-biases-insulate-your-beliefs-from-contradictory-facts/

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Wow, that is either the most self aware thing I've ever seen an aggie write, or, he is so far gone that he doesn't realize he's one of them.

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On 12/6/2020 at 1:08 PM, Michael Knight said:

Remember when we laughed when they said 2020 was the year Jimbo would have them competing

The bare minimum that can be considered "consistently competitive" is finishing above .500 in conference play two years in a row.

Texas A&M hasn't accomplished this "monumental milestone" since before the turn of the last century. They can't achieve this "lofty ambition" this year.

Anyone who thinks this aggy program is somehow "special" qualifies personally as being "special."

 

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On 12/6/2020 at 1:08 PM, Michael Knight said:

Remember when we laughed when they said 2020 was the year Jimbo would have them competing

I don't remember that. I remember them saying "NEXT YEAR NEXT YEAR NEXT YEAR" every single year since I've been aware they existed, so congrats to them for finally pinning the tail on the donkey in a season completely fucked up by COVID and ending up in an NY6 bowl two years after Mighty Tom Herman did it

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Here is (yet another) example of why observing Texas A&M and its culture is so amusing to me.

One of the ags posed the question whether A&M has become a "diploma mill." (The answer is yes - when you admit juco transfers with a sub-2.5gpa, you have essentially taken academic rigor out of the equation). One of the rednecks (who claims to "be in the know") responded with an "aggy history lesson."

Of course, being aggys, the blame for enrollment at Texas A&M is so bloated is entirely placed upon....wait for it....The University of Texas at Austin.

And why do the aggys believe UT Austin isn't also a diploma mill? Because UT Austin is "landlocked." Those rednecks believe both that UT Austin only has 40 acres of real estate to work with (it actually has over 400 acres), and they believe buildings can't be built with elevators, thus allowing many individuals to share the same piece of real estate.

And the "cherry on top on the sundae?" This aggy believes affluent, white parents send their kids to lower performing, inner-city schools (acting against the best interests of their kids) just to get them into the top 10% of their graduating class, thus enabling their kids to be admitted to Texas A&M.

As if A&M's 70% admissions rate wasn't a factor in the bloated admissions at Texas A&M. No mention of Rick Perry "reforms." No mention of 2.5 gpas.

Blame it all on "the great burnt orange Satan."

Oh, and if every graduating high school senior decided to attend Stephen F or San Angelo, the school would be overwhelmed with students.

These people live in a world all their own.

The people of Texas deserve better than Texas A&M.

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I have to say "No," based on the generally accepted definition of "diploma mill." Size doesn't matter.

If you want a history lesson keep reading:

In the interest of (mostly) full disclosure, I'm in the "higher ed business." I am not currently faculty, but have taught before.

We have our liberal arts brethren/friends in Austin to thank for the size A&M is today. Last century they had a law school applicant-turned plaintiff named Cheryl Hopwood who filed suit against the university claiming reverse discrimination. https://ballotpedia.org/Hopwood_v._Texas

She lost, but appealed to the 5th Circuit which overturned the lower court's decision thereby disallowing race, even in conjunction with other criteria, for admission decisions. In response to the 5th Circuit's ruling and as a way to skirt "race based" factors, the state established the Top 10% Rule. In a nutshell, any student that graduates in the Top 10% of their class from any accredited high school in Texas is guaranteed admission to any public institution of higher education regardless of their GPA, extracurricular activities, etc. The intent was to encourage, by removing admission barriers, enrollment into the flagships (A&M et al) by students from any background that might not otherwise meet SAT/ACT and/or GPA admission criteria.

It worked. Too well, in fact. I saw this coming and predicted that it wouldn't last as it was written for the simple fact that in order to defeat this statute the "only" thing that needed to happen was for too many (at the time I said "all") of a particular graduating class to arbitrarily decide to attend one school. My example was some place like Stephen F. Austin or Angelo State. By law, ALL applicants MUST be let in, but what would a school like that do with all of them?

Fast forward to more recent times... The 40 acres in Austin is landlocked. It took a while, but eventually they had to let in more freshman than they could accommodate. That's why they got it changed to Top 8%, then Top 7% and lately the Top 6% Rule for themselves only. The t-shirt parents all over the state finally broke them. A&M, on the other hand, still has room to grow and so it does.

That's not to say A&M is anyone's second choice. It simply that the campus and, to a slightly lesser degree, Lubbock was able to handle the growth.

Here's an fun fact to file under the Law of Unintended Consequences- About 5 years after Top 10% went into effect a "reverse white-flight" took place whereby parents that lived in the suburbs would get transfers for their Top 15-20% kids to "less competitive" high schools for their senior year so they could get that guaranteed acceptance upon graduation. Make a rule and someone immediately starts looking for a loophole or work-around.
 

 

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If you don't think that some parents don't put their kids into less competitive schools for the sole purpose of getting them into the top 10% (It's actually closer to 7-8%) now) then you should really not be opining on the subject. They don't have to send them to "inner city" schools, but there are options.

There are a lot of Westwood HS parents that send their kids to McNeil for this exact reason every single year.

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11 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

If you don't think that some parents don't put their kids into less competitive schools for the sole purpose of getting them into the top 10% (It's actually closer to 7-8%) now) then you should really not be opining on the subject. They don't have to send them to "inner city" schools, but there are options.

There are a lot of Westwood HS parents that send their kids to McNeil for this exact reason every single year.

While there are exceptions, I doubt it is all that common for parents to intentionally deprive their kids of the best education possible in order to get their kid admitted into a school with a 70% acceptance rate. Especially when shipping them to Blinn to get a 2.5 gpa is an option.

300,000 kids graduate Texas high schools each year. 150,000 of them go on to some sort of higher education. 30,000 of them attend some sort of UT System school. 13,000 attend Texas A&M. Roughly 1/3 of all Texas high school graduates seeking a post-secondary education attend either a UT System school or aggy. Factor in the percentage of top students attending nationally competitive schools. Getting into either UT or A&M isn't really all that tough, if the kid has the intellect.

If parents are intentionally sending their kids to "less competitive" schools to get them into A&M or a UT System school, they're not doing it right.

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On 12/10/2020 at 10:03 AM, Orange&White said:

If you don't think that some parents don't put their kids into less competitive schools for the sole purpose of getting them into the top 10% (It's actually closer to 7-8%) now) then you should really not be opining on the subject. They don't have to send them to "inner city" schools, but there are options.

There are a lot of Westwood HS parents that send their kids to McNeil for this exact reason every single year.

Friend of mine did this to get into UT. Circa ‘01.  It worked, and he did well once he got into UT. But he wasn’t close to top 10% in our school. 

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