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Interesting notion of "tradition rich" schools. You and Missouri and Colorado don't really amount to much in the last 20 years or so. Y'all only had sporadic success in other time periods.
quote:That was one of those "sporadic" moments.quote:
Interesting notion of "tradition rich" schools. You and Missouri and Colorado don't really amount to much in the last 20 years or so. Y'all only had sporadic success in other time periods.
Didn't Colorado whip your ass in the '01 Big XII championship game?
quote:strongquote:20 years seems like such a short time frame when talking about traditions in college sports.
Interesting notion of "tradition rich" schools. You and Missouri and Colorado don't really amount to much in the last 20 years or so. Y'all only had sporadic success in other time periods.
However, it just so happens that the 2015-16 academic year will be the Big 12's 20th year of competition. As an avid college sports fan, can you please tell me what your conference's contributions have been to the many traditions that fans such as I enjoy?
It is sad, but I can only think of the many traditions that have been lost and wonder how you feel the history of the Big 12 will be viewed 10 yrs from now when it finally ceases to exist?
quote:The only thing dumb is lumping A&M, Missouri and Colorado with Nebraska. Now do you get it? I'm sure you do.
Are you too dumb to realize that Nebraska left the little12, and that's why he included them RVHorn? Which, by the way, is one of the teams mentioned by the OP...
quote:All that, and nobody but an Aggie thinks of A&M as a storied program as in an elite program.
Storied? Nah, there's nothing storied about a head football coach who won the SWC, joined the military, flew dangerous missions for the Allies in a world war, then returned home, and went right back to winning SWC titles for Daddy A&M again. Storied? Nah, there's nothing storied about Homer Norton, Joe Routt, Dick Todd, John Kimbrough, 1939-40-41, Yale Larry, Martin Ruby, Joe Boyd, Marion Pugh. Storied? Nah, nothing storied about the 1941 SWC champion team taking their military oaths at halftime of the 1942 Cotton Bowl. Storied? Nah, there's nothing storied about Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, the Junction Boys, Jack Pardee, Charlie Krueger, and John David Crow. Ken Hall, nah, he's not storied. Billy Pickard, Gene Stallings, Joel Hunt, the Dixie Classic, Kern Tips, Grantland Rice, not storied. The 12th Man, Dana X. Bible, not storied. I could go on like this for an hour, but this sip dipstick RVhorn is too ignorant of the history in this state to bother with.
quote:I know you don't mean to be , but you are funny.
Every school has stories. Some aren't as old as yours. It's very Aggie to self felate.
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13 0 Branding Iron
posted 10:04a, 01/22/11
Texas A&M will be in the SEC West in two years, maybe as soon as next offseason.
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13 0 Branding Iron
posted 7:54a, 07/18/11
IF we go (and I said we will within two years of the weakened Big XII deal).... We will ruin your sorry five win piece of sh** program and your idiot hillbilly coach.
quote:I knew renewals were down over 20%. But now it's 50%??
I repeat, Why are ticket sales down 50 % sips?
quote:Oh crap, the wiki folks are in for looong night. He'll start editing any and every thing on those topics.
Lol. An Ag texted me that poor obsessed Randy Duke is going bananas on the shag over my post. Since we know the doofus will be reading this, here's a clue for him: DX Bible was the A&M coach who flew missions in a world war. 1917: coached A&M to unbeaten untied unscored on season including the SWC championship. 1918: flew missions in France. 1919: coached A&M to unbeaten untied unscored on season & SWC championship.
quote:I just went over to shag to look at what he posted. It's in the 369 page thread where they continuously post on their Daddy A&M. Funny stuff, but, wow, that guy is obsessed. He reposted my post about 60 seconds after I posted it here. He found one error in my post -- which he needlessly conflated and misquoted anyway. There were two A&M football players who took the oath at halftime of the 1942 Cotton Bowl, so not all the A&M seniors on the team (though you can bet they probably all served). My error, which I'll gladly admit and own -- it's a trait Randy clearly doesn't share.
Oh crap, the wiki folks are in for looong night. He'll start editing any and every thing on those topics.
quote:quote:All that, and nobody but an Aggie thinks of A&M as a storied program as in an elite program.
Storied? Nah, there's nothing storied about a head football coach who won the SWC, joined the military, flew dangerous missions for the Allies in a world war, then returned home, and went right back to winning SWC titles for Daddy A&M again. Storied? Nah, there's nothing storied about Homer Norton, Joe Routt, Dick Todd, John Kimbrough, 1939-40-41, Yale Larry, Martin Ruby, Joe Boyd, Marion Pugh. Storied? Nah, nothing storied about the 1941 SWC champion team taking their military oaths at halftime of the 1942 Cotton Bowl. Storied? Nah, there's nothing storied about Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant, the Junction Boys, Jack Pardee, Charlie Krueger, and John David Crow. Ken Hall, nah, he's not storied. Billy Pickard, Gene Stallings, Joel Hunt, the Dixie Classic, Kern Tips, Grantland Rice, not storied. The 12th Man, Dana X. Bible, not storied. I could go on like this for an hour, but this sip dipstick RVhorn is too ignorant of the history in this state to bother with.
Every school has stories. Some aren't as old as yours. It's very Aggie to self felate.
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So here is my soon to be apocryphal story about one of the ags' great traditions.
About 30 years ago I was at a friend's house for a neighborhood picnic. Attending said picnic was an elderly man who was the grandfather of one of families on the block. He was probably in his mid-80s and was an A&M grad from the early twenties. The conversation turned to football and he proceeded to regale us with tales of the great Bear Bryant, whom he told us was a longtime **** coach and how they dominated between the wars but the attrition of WWII left their hallowed student body and football team decimated.
We were all interested in his stories of this **** greatness from times past and that prompted tales of great **** traditions like the "12th Man" and the vaunted corp and their intrepid leader Reveille. Finally, we got to the tale of the Bonfire tradition.
He told us how in the early 'aughts' some prominent ****s were into things like burning crosses. He didn't get into the specifics of why ****s were burning the symbol of our Lord and Savior, but he did say that it was an approved activity of 'Good Christian Men' in those days, which meant the ****s were at the forefront of the movement.
Since ****s always strive to be the best, there developed some competition over the cleverness of the crosses being constructed and burned. This proved to be quite a feat as he said these burnings were somewhat clandestine and it required some extra 'effort' to make sure the buildings weren't sabotaged. We kids assumed that other competitive ags must have tried to topple their structures.
Anyway, the competition became frowned upon, or perhaps it was the burning of crosses that became frowned uponit wasn't clear from his story. But the ags wanted to continue to have an outlet for their competitive spirit and they decided that they should put their skills to the test by coming together before the Texas football game and building a mammoth cross and burning it.
Some people felt that the occasion called for burning something 'tu' related. He explained to us that 'tu' was the way ****s refer to that school in Austin. No one could come up with a suitable idea, but that lead to them dropping the cross-burning idea as it could be construed that they were burning the Cross as a matter of idolatry and that was, and always has been, anathema to right and true ****s even to this day. So they settled on constructing a massive bonfire and thus the great tradition was born.
quote:This is my personal favorite. A wooden s***house was always sufficiently "tu related."
Some people felt that the occasion called for burning something 'tu' related. He explained to us that 'tu' was the way ****s refer to that school in Austin. No one could come up with a suitable idea, but that lead to them dropping the cross-burning idea as it could be construed that they were burning the Cross as a matter of idolatry and that was, and always has been, anathema to right and true ****s even to this day. So they settled on constructing a massive bonfire and thus the great tradition was born.
quote:Randy is a psychopath. Truth is not his reality.
Offered without comment because it is so persuasive it speaks for itself. An opus from Randy:
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So here is my soon to be apocryphal story about one of the ags' great traditions.
About 30 years ago I was at a friend's house for a neighborhood picnic. Attending said picnic was an elderly man who was the grandfather of one of families on the block. He was probably in his mid-80s and was an A&M grad from the early twenties. The conversation turned to football and he proceeded to regale us with tales of the great Bear Bryant, whom he told us was a longtime **** coach and how they dominated between the wars but the attrition of WWII left their hallowed student body and football team decimated.
We were all interested in his stories of this **** greatness from times past and that prompted tales of great **** traditions like the "12th Man" and the vaunted corp and their intrepid leader Reveille. Finally, we got to the tale of the Bonfire tradition.
He told us how in the early 'aughts' some prominent ****s were into things like burning crosses. He didn't get into the specifics of why ****s were burning the symbol of our Lord and Savior, but he did say that it was an approved activity of 'Good Christian Men' in those days, which meant the ****s were at the forefront of the movement.
Since ****s always strive to be the best, there developed some competition over the cleverness of the crosses being constructed and burned. This proved to be quite a feat as he said these burnings were somewhat clandestine and it required some extra 'effort' to make sure the buildings weren't sabotaged. We kids assumed that other competitive ags must have tried to topple their structures.
Anyway, the competition became frowned upon, or perhaps it was the burning of crosses that became frowned uponit wasn't clear from his story. But the ags wanted to continue to have an outlet for their competitive spirit and they decided that they should put their skills to the test by coming together before the Texas football game and building a mammoth cross and burning it.
Some people felt that the occasion called for burning something 'tu' related. He explained to us that 'tu' was the way ****s refer to that school in Austin. No one could come up with a suitable idea, but that lead to them dropping the cross-burning idea as it could be construed that they were burning the Cross as a matter of idolatry and that was, and always has been, anathema to right and true ****s even to this day. So they settled on constructing a massive bonfire and thus the great tradition was born.
quote:You just write the jokes at your own expense.
Four large, tradition rich state schools.
Replaced with TCU and West Virginia.
Still sounds stupid even now. I laugh every f-cking time I think about it.
You dumb b-stards.
And you are crowing about the coach you stole from Louisville...the coach that was an assistant for TWENTY-SIX YEARS before anyone would hire him as a head coach....there was a reason.
