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From NY Times It’s no secret Texas A&M staunchly opposed allowing its hated nemesis to join the SEC, and now we see why. It took Texas one season to reach the conference championship game, where

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Good on him for making that clear.

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10 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Best news will be if aggy doesn't go portal shopping for a QB.

Reed has some athleticism but he's not a good QB. 

He played okay in context but I was surprised at how limited his arm seemed. You can coach reads, decision making, even ball placement to a degree but that part kind of is what it is. Maybe he was just hesitant to let it rip.

5 hours ago, Pancho said:

Lulz they are saying the crowd was louder for LSU

Well, they had something to cheer for then so I'd think so.

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It's not going to show up on highlight clips but there was a play at one point in the second half where aggy called a zone read; Simmons crashed with the RB so Reed kept the ball. Simmons changed direction on a dime and chased Reed down for a minimal gain. Just ridiculous. He is so goddamn fun to watch.

1 hour ago, Codaxx said:

Pretty ballsy call by Pk.. A&M had 3 TEs in the game there. Texas puts 9 on the LOS, completely sells out on the run. Pop pass and it’s probably an easy TD. 

He's played Collin Klein before. K State should have beat Texas last season if not for Klein calling an all-time brain dead game. He knew CK would be stubborn and unimaginative.

I think Elko's a good coach but Klein was an awful hire and I'm here for it.

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8 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

“I just watched Ohio State and Michigan get in a full-fledged brawl in my hotel room today and I just didn’t think it was right,” Sarkisian says. We shouldn’t be on their logo. Shouldn’t be planting any flags on their logo, and I’d like, whenever that day comes, to get the same respect in return.”

I love the optimism, but we all know they are incapable of controlling themselves. 

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6 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

So I am currently on a cruise ship that is roughly 3-1 aggy and it sure is quiet!! Lol. People were talking shit in passing when we got on. 

 

 

Hang in there. I’m sure things will turn around for you.

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4 hours ago, Jiggy-Z said:

Catching up this morning on the thread.

A few observations:

Surly punctuation goes to shit with combination of night game and victory/loss.

Mike Elko had some good responses in his post game presser and seems like an intelligent guy.  It will be interesting to watch his decline as the aggy entropy cycle wears him down in the next few years to where his responses become an unintelligible cross between Jimbo and Ed O.

Q.E. needs to get his head on straight.  That game felt like Texas was just slowly doing the boa constrictor to aggy untill it wasn't. He was also fortunate on a few plays in the first half as well.

Elko is a very good defensive coordinator, but as the head of a program like aggy, no fucking way he's successful. Some guys are just better coaches at smaller schools or as coordinators. He's one of those coaches.

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Oh and let's give tremendous credit to the OL last night for snap discipline. I believe the only false start in "the hardest place to play in the SEC" was on Goosby and he can in relief of Banks and still kicked a ton of ass. 

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17 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

He took the sign about Jake personally.

And that was an absolutely pitch perfect classy response.  I already knew he was a great player, but I couldn't be any prouder to have a guy like him representing our school.

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21 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

please tell me you plan to wear burnt orange the rest of the trip

Come on man. If you know one thing about me taking the time to troll aggy was always on the list. 

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I was stuck in the boonies watching on my phone so couldn't discuss it at the time, but on the Ewers fumble - it looked like he was just starting to slide down when the ball was punched out. If that is accurate, then isn't the rule that the QB is marked down where he starts the slide and not where he actually touches the ground? And if that is true, then wouldn't he be considered "down" before the ball got punched out? I know it was very close, but I couldn't hear if it was discussed during the review, or in the thread at that time.

He would be down where the feet first slide starts. Live, it looked like Quinn gave himself up and slid feet first before he was lassoed around the head and the ball came out. In slow mo, it tried to go head first and got grabbed by the shoulders.
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FROM NY TIMES. FAVE LINES HAVE BEEN BOLDED. ENJOY:

What I saw at Texas-Texas A&M: Scenes from an essential college football rivalry’s return
David Ubben
Dec 1, 2024

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — As Aggies silently filed out of Kyle Field, Texas fans in burnt orange filling the southeast corner of The House That Johnny Built rubbed salt in their wounds with three letters.

“S-E-C! S-E-C!’ they chanted.

Traditionally, the chant has been reserved for programs expressing their superiority to teams that don’t get to wear the patch on their jerseys. Both Texas and Texas A&M wear it now. And Texas capped its maiden voyage through an SEC schedule with a 17-7 win over A&M for the right to do something A&M has never done: Play for the SEC title.

“Let’s take this s— to Atlanta!” a member of Texas’ equipment staff yelled as they packed up gear on the sidelines in the game’s final minute.

Texas is here. And A&M is left dealing with the fallout of a nightmare resumption of one of college football’s most storied rivalries after a ludicrous 13-year absence fueled by the same pettiness that makes the rivalry so unique and special.

“You’re little bro!” yelled senior linebacker David Gbenda, who made three tackles for a defense that didn’t allow a point to Texas A&M’s offense in the win. Texas A&M’s only points came on a pick six off a Quinn Ewers pass that was tipped at the line of scrimmage.

Texas minister of culture Matthew McConaughey, who moonlights as an A-list Hollywood actor, didn’t need to say a word as defensive lineman Vernon Broughton pounced on a game-sealing fumble. He turned to the crowd and flashed a horns up.

Minutes earlier, a loud bang rang out from inside a suite as the Longhorns stuffed Amari Daniels for a 3-yard loss on fourth-and-1 on the goal line, keeping the Aggies’ deficit at 10 with 4:36 to play.

“Son of a bitch!” a voice echoed through the hall as elevator doors opened.

Thirteen years of waiting ended with Texas’ fight song echoing into the chilly Aggieland night.

“It sucks,” Texas A&M quarterback Marcel Reed said.

Ewers cradled the game ball and smiled as he walked up Texas’ tunnel, unwilling to let anyone else lay a hand on it.

“A win is a win,” he said afterward, downplaying the significance of a ball that might be sitting on his mantle a half century from now, marking the only time the senior will ever play his alma mater’s most hated rival.

Does Ewers keep the game ball from every win?

“I don’t,” he said. “But for some special ones I like to.”

All three decks of the east side of Kyle Field are almost full by the time Kanye West’s “Power” kicks in on the PA system, signaling the team’s entrance for yell practice.

A&M moved the tradition from midnight to 5:30 p.m. Friday to accommodate the football team’s schedule and allow it to attend. It brings plenty more fans out to the stadium, too.

Josiah Brantley, one of five Aggie Yell leaders and a senior at A&M, says Friday night is different from all the yell practices he’d attended before.

Texas A&M president Mark Welsh III tells the crowd that 58 suite holders asked for their suites to be open for yell practice, which concludes with a lengthy fireworks show.

“Tomorrow we get to beat the hell out of Texas,” he says. “I’m not sure life gets better than this.”

Yell leaders, per tradition, take their turns ribbing their rival ahead of Saturday’s game.

“Who trashes their own field?” Jake Carter, head yell leader, asks the crowd, referencing Texas’ loss to Georgia earlier this year when Longhorns fans threw garbage onto the field following a controversial call that was later reversed.

“Coach Schlossnagle never belonged here anyway,” says yell leader Kyler Fife, igniting the crowd with a shot at the baseball coach who left A&M for Texas this summer.


“Tomorrow is personal,” yell leader Grayson Poage says after referring to Texas’ mascot Bevo as a glorified hamburger. “It’s about who runs Texas.”

Sweet-smelling smoke wafts through the air from barrels welded into homemade smokers. If the state of Texas had an official smell, it would be beef being cooked low and slow.

The closer one gets to Kyle Field on Saturday, homemade smokers dwindle and food trucks take their place. Signs acknowledging every family member’s graduation date hang over many of the tents filling Aggie Park east of the stadium.

These two rivals first met in 1894. The old and new clash in a buzzy tailgate scene 130 years later.

A QR code hangs on a sign outside the stadium for fans to enroll in a rewards program. A 12th Man sign sponsored by Valero — oil money does make much of what success A&M and Texas enjoy possible — offers an enticing backdrop for Instagram photos.

A pop-up store sells Lucchese boots, complete with a singer crooning George Strait’s “Amarillo By Morning” through a small speaker. Another sells Mizzen+Main merchandise alongside a banner featuring Texas A&M quarterback Conner Weigman — who was benched last month — as a pitchman.

A field is blocked off with “no tailgating” signs. It serves as a fitting playing field for a fitting prologue for Saturday night’s game. There’s no need to pick teams. One side features kids in burnt orange Arch Manning and Quinn Ewers jerseys. The other: Kids wearing maroon 12th Man and No. 2 Johnny Manziel jerseys.

The silence of fans walking up the ramp leading to the northwest corner of the stadium is occasionally interrupted by an A&M fan drumming the familiar rhythm of “Hullabaloo, caneck, caneck!” — the opening words of the “Aggie War Hymn” — on a light post along the sidewalk.

Reflexively, any Aggie fan in earshot responds with a “Whoop!”

Oscar Torres Jr. graduated from Texas A&M in 1977. He went there because he liked the engineering program. He convinced his younger brother Jorge to attend A&M, too. Jorge graduated in 1990. Another brother graduated in 1986.

Ten more nephews from the family later graduated from A&M, all convinced by Oscar Jr. On Saturday, he drove five hours to Aggieland from Laredo and sat outside the west side of Kyle Field with a handful of family members drinking Miller Lites and embracing a game they waited more than a decade to see.

Oscar Torres III was 19 the last time the two rivals played and remembered sadly walking out of the stadium as Texas fans celebrated. He’s 32 now and graduated in 2014.

“This game just permeates everything,” he says. “My neighborhood has a group chat and nobody ever talks sports. But when this game comes around, it’s all everybody is talking about.”

Mike Speller, a banker, graduated from Texas in 1991 and flew down from Connecticut in part to see family for Thanksgiving, but also to go to the game with his son, a ninth-grader whose dream school is Texas.

They paid $3,600 for a pair of tickets.

“We waited to see if tickets were going to get any more reasonable,” he says. “They only got more unreasonable.”

Mark Rhodes, a psychologist and 1991 graduate of Texas A&M, brought his wife Trish to the game on Friday from Amarillo. They paid $1,600 for their pair on the secondary market. As soon as Texas’ SEC arrival signaled the rivalry was coming back, they decided they were going to be at the renewal.

“We would have paid pretty much anything to come to this game,” Trish Rhodes says. “It didn’t matter.”

They aren’t alone in their desperation. Texas A&M police say they arrested one fan who ran past security at an entrance. Two more came to the game dressed as construction workers with fake credentials, hard hats and reflective vests. They are arrested for criminal trespassing. Another is removed from the stadium after gaining access with a fake ticket.

Outside the east side of Kyle Field around 90 minutes before the game, a group of Stormtroopers fresh off a tour of Tatooine walks by waving an A&M flag. An A&M fan in a maroon shirt looks at them and smiles. His shirt featured scripture: Psalm 75:10.

“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off,” it reads.

Before the game, Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte chats with McConaughey, who paces across the field and pauses to talk briefly with ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, who brought his dog Peter to witness history, too.

“When I first took the job, my thought was we have to bring this rivalry back,” says Del Conte, who left TCU to become Texas’ AD in 2017. “Everyone loves the game. It’s part of history.”

“The SEC was natural for lots of reasons but one of those was rekindling this rivalry,” Texas president Jay Hartzell says. “We started this journey back in 2020. The Longhorns wanted to get this rivalry resumed. To see it finally coming to fruition is fantastic.”

Texas dominates the first half 17-0, then holds off the Aggies’ comeback bid in the second. After singing “The Eyes of Texas” with the band after the win, some Texas players sprint to midfield and prepare to celebrate on the A&M midfield logo. Security and coach Steve Sarkisian quickly shoo them away.

Another Texas cheerleader, seeking space, runs toward midfield with a giant Texas flag. Security stops him.

“We’re not planting that!” a Texas support staffer yells.

“I’m just waving it. I know better than that. I wave it after every game,” the cheerleader says, before doing so.

“I just watched Ohio State and Michigan get in a full-fledged brawl in my hotel room today and I just didn’t think it was right,” Sarkisian says. We shouldn’t be on their logo. Shouldn’t be planting any flags on their logo, and I’d like, whenever that day comes, to get the same respect in return.”

The fight songs of both schools take a moment to insult the other. A&M’s ball boys wear white “Saw ’em off” hats on the sidelines. The band’s name tags all read “BTHO t.u.”

The prevailing tone, however, radiates far less hate and much more excitement. Aside from a few A&M and Texas staffers needing to be separated in pregame warmups, Saturday’s game lacks the fisticuffs and ugly scenes that color much of Rivalry Week elsewhere in the sport.

Most of the 109,028 fans who arrive as part of the third-largest crowd in Kyle Field history eventually leave disappointed. One of the wildest weekends in A&M history — in a game with stakes as high as almost any ever played on that field — ends in sadness at the hands of its most hated rival.

But so much of this rivalry’s existence necessitates this game actually being played. Finally, after 13 long years, it was.

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7 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Not sure about bowl match-ups, but would love to see Tech vs aggy in the Texas Bowl. Tahj Brooks would gut their shitty run defense.

Losing to Tech would send them over the edge. 

Stop, I can only get so erect.

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49 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

Wasnt Carnival so i assumed i was safe. Guess they have to get the staff from somewhere. 

If it leaves out of the south, it’s gonna have the same people aboard.  If it leaves out of Galveston, those people will be aggy. 

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5 minutes ago, Zeus said:

wheres the fucking post game press conference?

 

youtube search is so broken man google sucks shit

The LHN app continues to be stupidly inconsistent. No post game press conference last night. I guess it's too difficult to do that on the road? It's there now. 

https://watch.longhornnetwork.com/video/726841

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5 minutes ago, mdmost said:

The LHN app continues to be stupidly inconsistent. No post game press conference last night. I guess it's too difficult to do that on the road? It's there now. 

https://watch.longhornnetwork.com/video/726841

I've seen bits and pieces but it doesn't exist on the official LH youtube channel or anywhere else that I could find. 

 

thanks!

 

Here's a aggy post crying about Texas players going on the logo and getting shoed away by cops and Sark

 

 

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