https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/09/texas-am-bonfire-tradition/

Regents are going to discuss

Agthatbuilds said:

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We will get a stack of trash about the same time we get a mutt for reveille

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Fair enough. Maybe it will be something more like this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Late_50s_Aggie_Bonfire.jpg

The Bonfire needs to be back on campus. No matter what form it takes.

If we have to suffer the horns again, we need that event to bring all Aggies home before the game.

hunter2012 said:

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txag11 said:

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Contractor built bonfire. No thanks.

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I thought the important thing was the building of it so that you have a collaborative effort of the student body? If you just have a contractor do it then what's the point? Might as well hire the Texans to play our football games for us as well.

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I get your point but perhaps we could sign up a much better NFL team than the Texans if we go that route.

ironmanag said:

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The Bonfire needs to be back on campus. No matter what form it takes.

If we have to suffer the horns again, we need that event to bring all Aggies home before the game.

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That's what this is all about. The nostalgia crowd wants the t.u. game on Thursday, but realizes that CS is a ghost town the week of Thanksgiving. Thus, they want to bring bonfire back to campus (even if it is entirely built by a construction company) thinking that will get students to stick around rather than go home for Thanksgiving. They don't realize that times have changed, and after the first renewal of the rivalry, it will get harder and harder to keep students on campus for a Thursday game, even with a store bought bonfire.

If it came back on campus it would hit news cycles then the environmentalists would go nuts about us emitting carbon for 'no reason' and Greta Thunberg would show up and get arrested and it would be a whole thing…let's keep it off campus and low profile…no brainer

one safe place said:

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hunter2012 said:

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txag11 said:

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Contractor built bonfire. No thanks.

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I thought the important thing was the building of it so that you have a collaborative effort of the student body? If you just have a contractor do it then what's the point? Might as well hire the Texans to play our football games for us as well.

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I get your point but perhaps we could sign up a much better NFL team than the Texans if we go that route.

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I was going to say the cowboys, but they would choke when needed the most.

1. Too much risk. Another accident would be catastrophic in a number of ways.
2. Too much liability ( cost of insurance and potential lawsuits)
3. It's not about "them" anymore. Other matchups on that weekend will be just as big or bigger.
4. Students haven't built one in 24 years.
5. Bonfire of old was a time and place. That time has passed and the place has been put to better use.

The university has no business sanctioning another one, just for muh feels.

yep, tickets, parking, VIP seating, etc..,

Agthatbuilds said:

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I dont think any contractor would be willing to take on that liability

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the bonfire may be so small that liability is basically n/a

Artimus Gordon said:

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1. Too much risk. Another accident would be catastrophic in a number of ways.
2. Too much liability ( cost of insurance and potential lawsuits)

Yes, these are the reasons Student Bonfire hasn't been officially acknowledged, and probably shouldn't be

3. It's not about "them" anymore. Other matchups on that weekend will be just as big or bigger.

??? We will only be playing in one football matchup that weekend, I can assure you. We didn't start burning giant piles of wood because somebody halfway across the country thought that our game was the biggest of the weekend. I can also guarantee if we ended up playing LSU instead of tu on Thanksgiving, Burn wouldn't move dates.

4. Students haven't built one in 24 years.

That's just dumb.

5. Bonfire of old was a time and place. That time has passed and the place has been put to better use.

Bonfire of old was only brought on campus because a bunch of students got pissed at a dude, tore down his barn, and used it for the '35 stack. Letting time pass you by is your own decision, but I would recommend against it. Life gets boring going down that road.

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it's all about the fear of liability- what a bunch of cowards.

All the supposed "good Ags" "98% ers" and "Ol' Army" would have to do is cut off all donations to TAMU, 12th Man etc.... until the school recognizes Student Bonfire to this somewhat limited extent:

Allowing the football team, FTAB, yell leaders, and Corps. to participate.

ghollow said:

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My hope would be that a contractor is in charge of the construction but students actually build the bonfire under the contractor's supervision. I would assume that former students would make up the team in charge of the build.

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This is not rocket science!!!!!!!

If it's built correctly, it cannot fall.

But given that, build a metal ring with i beams around it if you want. Use Wooden dowels to hold it in place. Not pressure, just in place. Bury it inside the stack. Wood burns, dows burn, Stack eventually falls, nobody has to know.

Good gosh, this is not hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The reason stack fell, started circa 95,96. I commented to the wife in 97, something is not right! Stack was falling every year in less than 15 minutes. In 97 98? It fell before the war hymn was over!

What happend? Bonfire has center pole. You are supposed to go out about 6 feet and drop another 12 mini center poles 5 feet deep. Go out another 5 feet drop 20 center poles, and continue. When stack is done it has 80 poles 5 feet in the ground. It physically cannot really fall over if the thing is anywherer remotely close to balanced.

Circa 95 that stopped happening. There were zero poles in the ground in 99.

Fine with contractor build as long as its on campus. No offense to all those who spent years as students building..... we just want to watch the bonfire.

Maybe contractors consisting of former students if that makes yall feel better.

Yep. With all the climate change BS they will probably just use electric lights to make it look like it's burning.