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What kind of 'Great Leader' expects people to blindly follow?

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A&M leadership comes up with the dumbest ideas, some of which are actually put into action. 12 empty seats, "The House That Johnny Built", hideous concrete War on Terror monument, frightening saw 'em off statue and the surrounding sundry zombie statues, card stunt with cliched slogans devoid of meaning. It's a constant barrage of stupid. I don't feel like other schools deal with this to the degree we do.

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We no longer have a journalism school. I'm not too keen on our marketing programs either, at the moment.

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A&M leadership comes up with the dumbest ideas, some of which are actually put into action. 12 empty seats, "The House That Johnny Built", hideous concrete War on Terror monument, frightening saw 'em off statue and the surrounding sundry zombie statues, card stunt with cliched slogans devoid of meaning. It's a constant barrage of stupid. I don't feel like other schools deal with this to the degree we do.

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You forgot "approach campus building design as if the planned intent was to make the main campus a museum to history's worst architectural ideas."

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A&M leadership comes up with the dumbest ideas, some of which are actually put into action. 12 empty seats, "The House That Johnny Built", hideous concrete War on Terror monument, frightening saw 'em off statue and the surrounding sundry zombie statues, card stunt with cliched slogans devoid of meaning. It's a constant barrage of stupid. I don't feel like other schools deal with this to the degree we do.

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You forgot "approach campus building design as if the planned intent was to make the main campus a museum to history's worst architectural ideas."

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Bomb shelters. We built a lot of buildings to be bomb shelters...and look like...bomb shelters.

Raise Young and Sharp's salaries to ridiculous levels and then they ask for $4 billion?

Pi$$ poor timing. Looks like a bunch of grifters at work.

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Yeah, not participating. We're supposed to blindly support the 'message'?

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Yeah! Sit there and pout because they didn't let you open your Christmas presents early! That'll show them!

He was pretty direct that this is going to be a pro-A&M message to get the word out about the new capital campaign. You've got to leave part of it a surprise to give people something to look forward to and try to inject some excitement. It's hype. If it's all drawn out, then it loses a lot of the appeal... You know what a book is about. Do you want to know exactly how the story is going to end? No?

This is just a fun little promotion. Of course, for all of you never-happy "angry ags" that are incapable of excitement, it's yet another thing that you can complain about. I feel sad that you are incapable of enjoying yourself...

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go back to premium cdub.

what is Pro-A&M for one person does not make it, simply, Pro A&M. Unless you know the specifics on the campaign which have not been made public, how can you claim that they this campaign, and any awareness, are Pro A&M?

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Pro-A&M is Pro-A&M. Maybe my in my "premium-ness", I can't understand your zoo logic.

And come on, The Foundation isn't going to do something to embarrass or alienate donors as they kick off a capital campaign.

I expect this to come and go without incident. It will probably even be underwhelming for you with all of the controversy you've attached to it. It's a non-issue. Just like the last "crisis" that TexAgs cried about.

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$4B!?

We're only talking about $10000 per person amongst the remaining living base of 436,000 former students. Granted, a lot of that sum is paid by a small portion of wealthy donors. For that kind of investment, you need to understand what returns you should expect.

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$4B!?

We're only talking about $10000 per person amongst the remaining living base of 436,000 former students. Granted, a lot of that sum is paid by a small portion of wealthy donors. For that kind of investment, you need to understand what returns you should expect.

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Maybe A&M should get into the whole life insurance business. Every graduate has a life insurance policy that pays A&M $10,000 when they die. Only a few dollars per month.

(That's a joke, BTW)

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltene."
"Eat mor chikn."
...or how about. ..
"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."

It's not gonna say, "Obama, thank for your service" is it?

No wonder the underlings are starving, A&M and it's new army administrators are dreaming up "new ideas". $4 billion for this kind of crap, stadium cards???!!! How high school!!

This is what it will say:

"If not us, then who?"

"Lead by example"

Love the irony of proclaiming the message of leadership by enlisting 100,000 unsuspecting followers.

It does seem to be shady that the plan for the money is to address world problems while spending lots of money on this piss poor marketing campaign.

I would bet this may get a few seconds coming back from the break on TV (on the SEC network going up against LSU vs BAMA). Then it will show up in Aggie Twitter and Facebook feeds.

That is it. Lots of money spent for very little exposure. Poorly thought out and does little to inspire giving.

From the president on Facebook. Font looks jacked.

This is why I love texags. Someone figure out how to make this not suck!

I wish cuppycup would design a "Knox" for a Kyle Field card stunt.

This sh**t doesn't belong at Kyle Field.

Unless it says Fire Spav I'm not playing

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It does seem to be shady that the plan for the money is to address world problems while spending lots of money on this piss poor marketing campaign.

I would bet this may get a few seconds coming back from the break on TV (on the SEC network going up against LSU vs BAMA). Then it will show up in Aggie Twitter and Facebook feeds.

That is it. Lots of money spent for very little exposure. Poorly thought out and does little to inspire giving.

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Winner!

I don't like this idea.

Fighting cancer...like this stunt?

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Ags are some of the most generous, giving people on this planet. Ags ALWAYS step up to support people in need -- food drive, South Carolina, 911, wild fire relief, etc, etc, etc. There has never been a need for stunts and gimicks.

But now the Aggie Leadership will stage a huge lollapalooza by bringing JFF home and then using a card stunt to kick off a $4 billion extortion campaign.

I will hold my stupid card up when asked to because I do not want to see my University get embarrassed tomorrow night, but I do think that our leadership is trying to turn us into clones of our good friends from the capitol city.

We will see what kind of "identity" $4 billion buys.

I just hope that jet pack rocket man had a previous engagement.

Won't be embarrassing if no one does it. This is t.u. crap. Thank money bags Sharp.

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I hope this is not legit. If this is real then all I can say is wow.

WTF is the energy crisis? That feels like a dumbass buzz phrase that no one can really define. Maybe it has something to do with U.S. Americans and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and if not us then who?

I can just see folks affiliated with other institutions reading our "If not us, then who"...and responding with a smirkish grin, "Well, ME, that's who" or "Who? US of course!" or "let me give you a list."

Can these guys quit these lamebrain "ideas" (horribly made scary-face statues, 12 empty seats, etc) and let the university's achievements speak for themselves by focusing on hiring top faculty and boosting selectivity?

I wouldn't mind if the cards had something to do with the game, or "GIG EM" or somesuch. But this idea....

I think I'll head for the concessions right after the band. I would usually be ok with stuff like a card stunt, but spelling out a fundraising campaign slogan at a football game is kinda embarrassing.

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I hope this is not legit. If this is real then all I can say is wow.

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I honestly thought that was joke/troll due to the awful typography.

kudos to those of you with enough insight to resist this. $4 billion? Really? REALLY?

How many grads does A&M have? 500,000? That would be every man and woman giving $8,000.
Every single person alive who ever graduated from A&M giving $8,000. Wow.

Why not just double that and make it an $8 Billion- would prob just take one more card holding campaign.

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Well, Mark Klemm, if that is your best, you're kind of failing and I wonder about your campaign. People here asked a very simple, direct question.

What is the "stunt" going to say? And you won't answer that.

Is that your "best"? Is that the Aggie "Leadership" you're promoting?

1. "You has to pass the bill to find out what's in it." 2. Can someone find out how much Sharp is personally contributing? i.e. Leading by example. 3. Students need to coordinate a Fire Spav slogan instead.

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I hope this is not legit. If this is real then all I can say is wow.

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I honestly thought that was joke/troll due to the awful typography.

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Sadly I don't joke/troll. Just saw TAMU on Facebook share Michael Young's photo. I am a freaking engineer that works in web software development and I noticed it looks trashed.

There's nothing more inspiring than announcing to the world that you're about to Lead by Example

Boycott it!!!!

Sharp and his yes men need to stop this.