What's your school? I say law school doesn't count and that you are an Aggie. I've got friends that went to schools that aren't good in football, but went to law schools with decent college teams. It seems they disregard the bad athletic program in favor of the good program. Thoughts?

do whatever you want

First world problems

My law diploma from the school in Austin is framed with a maroon mat around it.

So some other person wants to claim a football team of a school they actually went to!!! What an idiot!

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White Privilege

I have a BS from A&M and an MS from texas. You can be damn sure I bleed maroon and refused to sing the Eyes of Texas during graduation.

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good bull

Not every alumni group is like TAMU's. If any undergrad Ags are like the OP describes they are very few and far between. I can't imagine alumni from K state, Nebraska, or SEC schools being any different from us.

I have seen this many times with Cougar High, Baylor, obviously Texas State (that's a given), SHSU, etc.

WGAS

t.u. has a great law school.

My aunt's dad (by marriage) was a tOSU grad and you'd know it within about 17 seconds of meeting him. I was at her and my uncle's house one day and saw a tOSU and UM coaster on her table and asked why the UM coaster was there (she's an Ag), and she told me that's where her mom went. I joked about how a tOSU grad could marry a UM grad, and she stated he met her while he was at UM Law. Dude never mentioned it. I guess it's like the song says, when the lights go out, the colors are all the same.

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t.u. has a great law school.

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It doesn't hold water to Baylor's Rape Defense program.

My doctorate from tu also has a maroon mat around it.

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Some do. Some don't. That's just the way it is.

My master's from tu isn't even framed. Not sure where it is, to be honest. Didn't attend graduation, either.

I felt VERY funny walking into my first class on that campus. Felt a little better when I saw several classmates in there, including our head yell leader.

I still root for them to lose every game in every sport 100-0.

My MBA from tu is framed with a maroon mat.

I did go to a football game while I was there. Cheered for the other guy and I don't even remember who it was.

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It doesn't hold water to Baylor's Rape Defense program.

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That class isn't offered for undergrads.

At my texas u. professional school, Ags and Coogs remained faithful.
Everyone else became a die-hard horn fan.

Went to tu for the MBA, and it's mounted slightly lower than my and my wife's A&M degrees.

Dropped out of A&M with my ring to go to University of Texas Med school in San Antonio then Baylor College of Medicine residency at TCH.

I'm an Aggie, the rest is just job training.

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What's your school? I say law school doesn't count and that you are an Aggie. I've got friends that went to schools that aren't good in football, but went to law schools with decent college teams. It seems they disregard the bad athletic program in favor of the good program. Thoughts?

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I didn't go around and poll the 280 other kids in my class, but here's my take...

The fellow Aggies in my class at Texas Law were Aggies, first and foremost.

And I can't think of any real big Longhorn fans that didn't get their undergrad in Austin that were big Longhorn fans. The exceptions being some folks that were "Longhorn families" and had been Longhorn fans before that.

I also know of folks that had terrible (or no) football team or reputable athletic program at their undergrad that still remained loyal to that undergrad institution over Longhorn athletics.

So, I don't think its just a result of the Longhorns having struggles athletically. I'm sure if they were better, more students would be bigger Longhorn fans but I don't think there is a huge shift in athletic loyalties.

It probably doesn't hurt that the law school in Austin is very much on the corner of campus and many/most of us live(d) in the direction that didn't require us to criss-cross campus.

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Oh my.


All I can say is they taught us in Austin to get ahead of legal problems...

...and then just wait for Baylor to call and ask you to fix everything they screwed up.

My undergrad in Aggieland, Graduate degree at tu.....won't even hang my Tu rag.

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What's your school? I say law school doesn't count and that you are an Aggie. I've got friends that went to schools that aren't good in football, but went to law schools with decent college teams. It seems they disregard the bad athletic program in favor of the good program. Thoughts?

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I went to TAMU undergrad in CS and SMU for MBA immediately after....never, ever, ever occurred to me to consider being anything but an Aggie.

Of course my year (1 year program) at SMU was the first year they were coming off the death penalty so.....they sucked something awful (kinda like the horns now, but with a valid reason).

It's like the Laws of Robotics

• 1. An alum may not root against their undergrad school.

• 2. An alum may not root against their graduate school except when this would conflict with the First Law.

• 3. An alum may root for any other team they want so long as such rooting does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

On the Second Law, so long as your grad school and undergrad school are not playing against each other, it's pretty much up to your judgment whether rooting for the grad school counts as violating the First Law. Rivalries are the obvious situation where that might apply.

Once an Ag, always an Ag!

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What's your school? I say law school doesn't count and that you are an Aggie. I've got friends that went to schools that aren't good in football, but went to law schools with decent college teams. It seems they disregard the bad athletic program in favor of the good program. Thoughts?

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I'm currently doing this. I'm an Aggie and always will be. All the other Ags at UT Law feel the same way.

Got MBA at McCombs. Hate them with a passion.

EDIT: There were 6 of us in the program of about 150 and several wore orange and went to football games. I couldn't do it.

I went to Indiana for my MBA and really tried to get into their basketball with the same passion I have for A&M sports. Being honest that should've covered my bases. But for whatever reason after I graduated in 96, I never really followed them. Even though Aggie hoops sucked total ass at the time, I still followed it more than a tourney level, but not great, Hoosier team.

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Hey, that's a class at Texas Law now!

Your undergraduate institution and no other is your "alma mater"---literally it means "the mother of your soul."

So if you treat your grad school job training as the mother of your soul, I mean, I guess go on with your bad self.

I'm still kind of put off that the laws of robotics begin with 1.

#OrganicPrivilege

The easy answer to this is always "it's your undergrad institution."

But a lot of it probably depends on how much you connect to the different universities. A good friend of mine did his undergrad at Vandy and doctorate at A&M. But during grad school, he really got into being an Aggie, and I think he considers himself more of an Aggie than a Dore because both Texas (the state) and Texas A&M felt like home to him. And in my opinion, that's the sort of thing I'd like to see more of.