Howdy Aggies!

For an update on how we are honoring the 12th Man tradition in the redeveloped Kyle Field, please visit
http://kylefield.com/12thmanseats

Thanks and Gig ‘em!

So they arent a bonfire tribute after all?

Stupid. Put students in the seats.

Sorry, just not feeling it

30,000+ strong. The tradition is alive and well and quite visible.

So it's for past members of the 12th man? I guess that makes some sense, but I agree it would be better just to have the strongest and loudest student section possible. Which means more seats for students, not left empty.

If it's about the 12th man, leave exactly one empty.

Alarm! Idea overboard! Idea overboard! This is such a dumb idea I just don't get it. There are not 12, 12th Mans, there is one. They are represented by the entire student body. Why not have a bronze statue of Dana X. Bible at the 50 yard line to remember that as well? If there are any clocks in the stadium, they should have "12th Man" to mark noon and midnight. We can leave the stadium lights on 24-7 to commemorate midnight yell. Bronze boots with no CTs all lined up for the commemoration of boot line.

If you really want to do this idea correctly (powers that be), there should be one spot with a bronze statue of E. King Gill standing in it placed wherever he might have been in the stadium back then. Then they can zoom in on it during each game and say what that represents. Those 12 spots are going to be misrepresented each and every game by the broadcasters.

They need to figure out a way to put students in the seats. Maybe award them to twelve student as a spirit award. At the least, let all students with a sports pass enter a lottery for the tickets at the beginning of the season. My opinion is they can be special and used at the same time.

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They need to figure out a way to put students in the seats. Maybe award them to twelve student as a spirit award. At the least, let all students with a sports pass enter a lottery for the tickets at the beginning of the season. My opinion is they can be special and used at the same time.

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This. If the seats are about the spirit of the 12th man, they shouldn't be empty

Well, the assistant AD of TCU had his opinion on this arrangement. He should perhaps lose his job over his statement, for which, when 'caught' he apologized. It was on Dallas news last night, and perhaps in FWST as well. He must really be a classy person, as well as being a sip graduate.

So this is officially not a memorial for the 12? Just a dumb symbol of the 12th Man? Whoever came up with this idea has no idea what the 12th Man is.

Who can we contact about this? Just *****ing on texags isn't going to get this fixed, and this definitely needs to be fixed. We need email addresses and phone numbers.

Stupid idea. The quantity of 12 does not represent the 12th Man. Empty seats do not represent the 12 Man. Some one help me out here with some of the logic behind this.

http://www.aggieathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205437394

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Since John Sharp appears to be the point man for all this, I would guess him.

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Some one help me out here with some of the logic behind this.

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Can't help you with something that doesn't exist.

Hopefully the seats won't also be tilted at 12 degrees.

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http://www.aggieathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205437394

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None of those people seem to be in charge of this.

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Since John Sharp appears to be the point man for all this, I would guess him.

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I would guess so too, but I couldn't find an email address for him.

Stupid. What on earth does 12 empty sears have to do with the 12th Man? Dumb dumb dumb... Someone needs to have a talk with this guy and tell him it's a dumb idea.

I think Seattle has demonstrated one way to effectively market and promote the 12th Man, by picking a local celebrity to raise the 12th man flag seconds before kickoff. Every game begins by first acknowledging the 12th man.

They honor their 12th man by getting people involved and energizing the fan base. Having 12 empty seats is, well, having 12 empty seats. It may be referenced during a game as honoring our tradition, but commentators are already apt to do that by nature of watching a game at Kyle Field, and it may even be misconstrued as relating to the Bonfire tragedy which we have already seen, but it does nothing by way of promoting A&M as the true 12th Man.

If it's honoring a tradition, I believe that already exists in the form of a statue. And, as another poster said, it's going overboard. But, it is difficult for me to believe that this is nothing more than a marketing ploy following the rise in prominence of the Seahawks.

It's overkill and nonsensical.

Wasnt going to comment on this when I thought it was supposed to be some kind of bonfire memorial. Now that Sharp was confirmed its not, i will say this is a horrible idea.

Makes no sense.

Why 12 seats for the 12th MAN? The whole point is that the entire student body comes together as ONE, not twelve.

How do empty seats honor the 12th Man which is famed for passionately supporting the Aggies by SHOWING UP and standing?

Terrible idea. Featherston Rage!!!!!!!!

so dumb...

so dumb...

Terrible idea if the seats aren't meant to honor the 12 lost in the Bonfire. The 12th man statue is pathetic as well..

But @ the end of the day I could care less bc we now have the best stadium in the nation.

I liked the idea when I thought they (the 12 open seats) represented the students killed in the bonfire tragedy but now that they apparently represent the "12th man's spirit" or some crap it does seem pretty stupid to me. Seems as though the best way to symbolize the spirit of the 12th man, as previous posters have noted, would be to put students in those seats.

Although they couldn't be my lame ass, tweeting, picture-whoring new army brethren. Need some hardcore, redass ags like myself in those 12 seats. I'll volunteer!

Don't like it. Hope it goes away.

Manufactured monument. Unnecessary.

Manufactured monument. Unnecessary.

It's a dumb idea for a bonfire memorial as well. No shortage of dumb on this one. 12 empty seats is just 12 less fans that get to watch and yell, not the 12th man. It's a Baylor level tribute.

Please accept my vote for no.

This is the guy I emailed since I couldn't find John Sharp's email address:

Billy Hamilton
Executive Vice Chancellor
bhamilton@tamus.edu

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I was a freshman when the '99 bonfire collapsed... I worked on it and knew some of the students that were killed. The 12 seats being left empty as a memorial to the 12 Ags we lost that day would have been an incredible tribute in what will be an incredible stadium, but the 12 seats representing the 12th man is simply asinine. This sours my excitement for the redevelopment just slightly. I'm sorry but every game day I know what those 12 seats will represent to me.