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Florida plays Florida State
Georgia plays Georgia Tech
South Carolina plays Clemson
Florida plays Miami (I think this is getting started again)
Kentucky plays Louisville
BYU plays Utah
New Mexico plays New Mexico State

All of these teams play "rivals" from other conferences and it doesn't seem to hurt them. No reason this game shouldn't be played again.

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But in all of those "rivalries", you did not have one school that actively sought to control the other, to thwart any attempt at success by controlling the state media and the outcome of the games by cheating referees and umpires.

That is the reason most of us despise t.u. and refuse to schedule them.

Now that they are in the bed of crap they created, let them sleep in it.

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Florida plays Florida State
Georgia plays Georgia Tech
South Carolina plays Clemson
Florida plays Miami (I think this is getting started again)
Kentucky plays Louisville
BYU plays Utah
New Mexico plays New Mexico State

All of these teams play "rivals" from other conferences and it doesn't seem to hurt them. No reason this game shouldn't be played again.

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But in all of those "rivalries", you did not have one school that actively sought to control the other, to thwart any attempt at success by controlling the state media and the outcome of the games by cheating referees and umpires.

That is the reason most of us despise t.u. and refuse to schedule them.

Now that they are in the bed of crap they created, let them sleep in it.

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Agreed.

Any Aggie that wants to play the cows again needs to remember their arrogance, hubris, and condescending manner when we switched to the SEC.

We said we wanted to continue to play. Our new conference said they would work out sked so we could play every year on Thanksgiving.

Cows response was to say their sked was full (yes, we know it is as we were on it), belittle A&M, throw a tantrum, take their ball and go home.

F cow. They need this game. WE DO NOT NEED THIS GAME. It helps cow, doesn't help us at all even if/when we win.

We are already engaged in a war of perception and $, a war we are winning. So why would we help them?!?!?!?!?!?!

PS - there would be no additional $ to play cow, for those that think their would be. It would just be a non-conference game covered by existing TV contracts, it would be no different than playing North Texas.

Trent Hunter's "TARGETING" "PENALTY" is all I need to remind of what playing sippy is like. Cheaters and the sycophants that aid them. Never schedule them again.

When the Arky game turns back into a home and home series in 2022? then I think the hogs may try to get the sips to play every year at Jerryworld. I would be willing to schedule the sips again starting in 2023 but only at Kyle Field. I see no reason to agree to play them ever again in Austin. If they don't like it, too bad. I don't see the land thieves playing Nebraska every year. Why not keep playing teams from the pac or acc instead of the lowly BDF.

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what does "not needing to play them" even mean. That has nothing to do with it. The fact is the two biggest schools and most storied programs in the state of Texas should be playing one another every year regardless of the sport or conference. Politics, money, "need to", "want to", shouldn't and don't matter. It's the right thing to do and it needs to be done. Sports are entertainment and any time these two schools play it's entertaining.

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Well, thats your opinion on the matter. Not a very valid argument than just because you think so. No facts to back up your statement very well, other than you THINK it should be your way.

My opinion is that you're an idiot. See how that works.

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Winning the rivalry game makes for a great year. 1-11 with a beating of t.u. is a good year in my book

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College football is about rivalries. It isn't about riding the coat tails of the SEC to mediocrity. We have a history of 100+ years of this rivalry and the culture of A&M was shaped by it. It is time to renew the heart of A&M football culture and bring back the rivalry.

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As someone who is 180-degrees from your way of thinking i beg of you to keep making your case in this manner. The last part i quoted is precisely why i think we, internally, needed to make a break. I think the number of Ags that think this way is a diminishing minority but this attitude needs to go away altogether in my opinion if we are to enjoy the success our program is capable of

"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." GSP

Head: don't play them, don't need them

Heart: Saw 'em off in glorious victory on a November Saturday!

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Florida plays Florida State
Georgia plays Georgia Tech
South Carolina plays Clemson
Florida plays Miami (I think this is getting started again)
Kentucky plays Louisville
BYU plays Utah
New Mexico plays New Mexico State

All of these teams play "rivals" from other conferences and it doesn't seem to hurt them. No reason this game shouldn't be played again.

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yeah there is. We do not need it.

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Scaredy cat

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No, no no, never, never, no no no, never.

Those clowns can go fill their openings with directional schools. Nostalgia isn't a good enough reason to play them.

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Not purple.

would love to play them if we could be assured of a fairly officiated game. but since this is t.u., we'll never be able to do that.

im content to let them stew for another 10yrs while our LSU rivalry reignites.

Play them. Replace the UCLA type game with tu.

We should never play them again unless we begin receiving fair treatment from the Texas media.

Fair is when we consistently beat them very badly and win a National Championship. Then and only then will the media jump on our band wagon.
Respect is earned on the field of play!

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Fair is when we consistently beat them very badly and win a National Championship. Then and only then will the media jump on our band wagon.
Respect is earned on the field of play!

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Not with the sips its not. I see the whole "play them" crowd is back out in force clamoring to play the sips again because of their personal identity issues that live and die by comparison to them.

What none of them seem to notice is that the media and the sips never respected you for winning that game and never will. You play them again (any time in the remotely near future) and you're giving them a very easy avenue to pin you right back down under their thumb as "little brother." Winning that game 20 times in a row does not control the narrative. Not playing is the only thing that controls the narrative.

Remember that the sips were and are bad business partners. They destroyed two conferences (and they're about to put a knife in the dying corpse of the BDF). They ruined storied rivalries because of their constant need for a slanted playing field in their favor. Retrospectively, we laugh at OU for volunteering to get in bed with the sips and stay in it. We left for greener pastures when we had the chance. Lets stay in the green pastures.

"... 10 years while our LSU rivalry reignites."


Remember, it ain't a rivalry if we continue to lose...

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Fair is when we consistently beat them very badly and win a National Championship. Then and only then will the media jump on our band wagon.
Respect is earned on the field of play!

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Not with the sips its not. I see the whole "play them" crowd is back out in force clamoring to play the sips again because of their personal identity issues that live and die by comparison to them.

What none of them seem to notice is that the media and the sips never respected you for winning that game and never will. You play them again (any time in the remotely near future) and you're giving them a very easy avenue to pin you right back down under their thumb as "little brother." Winning that game 20 times in a row does not control the narrative. Not playing is the only thing that controls the narrative.

Remember that the sips were and are bad business partners. They destroyed two conferences (and they're about to put a knife in the dying corpse of the BDF). They ruined storied rivalries because of their constant need for a slanted playing field in their favor. Retrospectively, we laugh at OU for volunteering to get in bed with the sips and stay in it. We left for greener pastures when we had the chance. Lets stay in the green pastures.

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Ignore the little bald womanizing midget behind the curtain.

Part of me would love to beat them again, and right now is the perfect time to do it. But the only way I could be comfortable with it is of we dined some contract that said we will NEVER use referees from their current conference at that time (worded that way because who knows how long the BDF will be here). That's my number 1 concern, and that phantom pass interference was enough to set that in stone forever.