This is really sad, here we our the week of our first game and this forum is dead. Normally, this site would be lit up. Most of the stories brought up are negative. Okay, I'm through venting.

Get a dog.

Aggie09! said:

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Get a dog.

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this phrase should be auto perma ban.

When the season starts, buy stars.

2020 has everyone distracted. I'm totally looking forward to Saturday. My plan consists of fishing all morning on lake Travis, Drinking and floating in the lake and listening to sports updates until early afternoon, then heading home to watch the game.

People can't tailgate, can't go up sports bars, and are discouraged from having big watch parties. It's just hard to get into the mood, but it will happen.

More and more, F16=TexAgs now.

It's become a tiresome place.

Space-Tech said:

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When every other thread is denigrating Aggie football players because they choose to support and issue that rubs the older Aggies the wrong way and that they "should be grateful for the free education they receive" as if that somehow forfeits all their other rights as a human being, it gets pretty tiresome.

Take Mond. He should be criticized for his inconsistent passing, questionable awareness, and overall playmaking ability. Not his stance on BLM, or his Confederate ancestry, as if he somehow had some say in who his ancestors were.

Or Ausbon. Ranked #3 in the 30 players in 30 days and now that he opted out even on the TexAgs radio show they were backtracking on him, saying "maybe he's top 10, but not top 5". And of course he's being roasted here in the forums as being a "quitter" and that's among the nicer things said about him along with Hines.

Texags was always a contentious space, especially between the sunshine pumpers and the pot bangers. But Covid-19 and the death of George Floyd and the resulting social justice movement has brought on the full toxicity of F16 into nearly every forum and a relatively small cohort of forum members will vehemently denounce and reject anyone who opposes their viewpoints.

Targeted flagging, being called a troll or alt of a banned user, and vague threats have made the zoo just too toxic to deal and it has drained all the fun out of these forums.

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well said.

Space-Tech said:

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When every other thread is denigrating Aggie football players because they choose to support and issue that rubs the older Aggies the wrong way and that they "should be grateful for the free education they receive" as if that somehow forfeits all their other rights as a human being, it gets pretty tiresome.

Take Mond. He should be criticized for his inconsistent passing, questionable awareness, and overall playmaking ability. Not his stance on BLM, or his Confederate ancestry, as if he somehow had some say in who his ancestors were.

Or Ausbon. Ranked #3 in the 30 players in 30 days and now that he opted out even on the TexAgs radio show they were backtracking on him, saying "maybe he's top 10, but not top 5". And of course he's being roasted here in the forums as being a "quitter" and that's among the nicer things said about him along with Hines.

Texags was always a contentious space, especially between the sunshine pumpers and the pot bangers. But Covid-19 and the death of George Floyd and the resulting social justice movement has brought on the full toxicity of F16 into nearly every forum and a relatively small cohort of forum members will vehemently denounce and reject anyone who opposes their viewpoints.

Targeted flagging, being called a troll or alt of a banned user, and vague threats have made the zoo just too toxic to deal and it has drained all the fun out of these forums.

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The athletes brought politics and the "social justice" movement into sports, not the fans. Politics are divisive. This BLM movement is devisive. The athlete's actions have caused this.

While it sucks politics got into sports, I applaud the many fans for standing against the athletes. It is great to see people valuing their beliefs over some self absorbed people playing games. College and professional sports just really are not that important when weighed against the issues we have in this country. I wish sports and those issues could have remained separated, but the Social Justice Warrior athletes and the scared league commissioners wouldn't let that happen.

Sports were great entertainment. However, when the athletes brought politics into sports, it became less entertaining and more important that fans who don't agree with the athletes push back. It is not all fun and games anymore.

Every professional league has fully embraced BLM's manufactured and ill focused "movement." I hope the NBA, NFL, and MLB face massive repercussions and loss of revenue as they alienate and anger much of their fanbase.

It remains to be seen how far the Aggies, the SEC, and college football push the "social justice" movement. For now, i don't support Mond and those athletes that have suggested Aggies who don't support their liberal agenda are racists. If the Aggie athletic department also pushes that agenda, I will be against them as well.

Because of the athletes actions, football and politics are no longer separate. They are intertwined. It should be expected that the Football Forum has changed.

When REAL Aggie Football comes back, let me know.

Sports is an escape from the real world, including politics for me. I try to ignore it as much as possible when politics intrudes. I just look right past it as if it wasn't there, maybe with an eye roll if it is really egregious, but I can ignore quite a bit if I let myself, and just focus on the game.

While they are actually playing, it's the commentators that can be the worst offenders if they feel the need to bring up politics. I just ignore them.

I realized this past Sunday that college football had started back up and I hadn't watched a down.

It's a liberating feeling finally not caring about football. I stopped watching the pros in 1972 and took a pass on college ball without even realizing it.

Omega6464 said:

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I realized this past Sunday that college football had started back up and I hadn't watched a down.

It's a liberating feeling finally not caring about football. I stopped watching the pros in 1972 and took a pass on college ball without even realizing it.

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So what're you doing here?

Get woke go broke.

Space-Tech said:

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When every other thread is denigrating Aggie football players because they choose to support and issue that rubs the older Aggies the wrong way and that they "should be grateful for the free education they receive" as if that somehow forfeits all their other rights as a human being, it gets pretty tiresome.

Take Mond. He should be criticized for his inconsistent passing, questionable awareness, and overall playmaking ability. Not his stance on BLM, or his Confederate ancestry, as if he somehow had some say in who his ancestors were.

Or Ausbon. Ranked #3 in the 30 players in 30 days and now that he opted out even on the TexAgs radio show they were backtracking on him, saying "maybe he's top 10, but not top 5". And of course he's being roasted here in the forums as being a "quitter" and that's among the nicer things said about him along with Hines.

Texags was always a contentious space, especially between the sunshine pumpers and the pot bangers. But Covid-19 and the death of George Floyd and the resulting social justice movement has brought on the full toxicity of F16 into nearly every forum and a relatively small cohort of forum members will vehemently denounce and reject anyone who opposes their viewpoints.

Targeted flagging, being called a troll or alt of a banned user, and vague threats have made the zoo just too toxic to deal and it has drained all the fun out of these forums.

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This. It's frustrating that auch an educated/competent group of people can't be fine with athletes having a different view. I'm all about saying you disagree with an athlete, but the personal attacks are ridiculous. The personal attacks on Mond are embarrassing.

So many people avoided the politics board because they knew exactly what was in there. Now it's bled over to the football forum.

The treatment of athletes is posted for all to see. I'm frankly surprised Staff has allowed it to go on this long.

Everyone loses here. People that are pissed at the program are leaving and people that are pissed about the personal attacks are leaving.

I'm dreading the day when someone compiles all the personal attacks on our athletes and specifically Mond. Imagine being a 17 year old recruit and reading something like that.

Calling people racist and supporting defunding the corps will get you that.

impavidus said:

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Space-Tech said:

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When every other thread is denigrating Aggie football players because they choose to support and issue that rubs the older Aggies the wrong way and that they "should be grateful for the free education they receive" as if that somehow forfeits all their other rights as a human being, it gets pretty tiresome.

Take Mond. He should be criticized for his inconsistent passing, questionable awareness, and overall playmaking ability. Not his stance on BLM, or his Confederate ancestry, as if he somehow had some say in who his ancestors were.

Or Ausbon. Ranked #3 in the 30 players in 30 days and now that he opted out even on the TexAgs radio show they were backtracking on him, saying "maybe he's top 10, but not top 5". And of course he's being roasted here in the forums as being a "quitter" and that's among the nicer things said about him along with Hines.

Texags was always a contentious space, especially between the sunshine pumpers and the pot bangers. But Covid-19 and the death of George Floyd and the resulting social justice movement has brought on the full toxicity of F16 into nearly every forum and a relatively small cohort of forum members will vehemently denounce and reject anyone who opposes their viewpoints.

Targeted flagging, being called a troll or alt of a banned user, and vague threats have made the zoo just too toxic to deal and it has drained all the fun out of these forums.

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This. It's frustrating that auch an educated/competent group of people can't be fine with athletes having a different view. I'm all about saying you disagree with an athlete, but the personal attacks are ridiculous. The personal attacks on Mond are embarrassing.

So many people avoided the politics board because they knew exactly what was in there. Now it's bled over to the football forum.

The treatment of athletes is posted for all to see. I'm frankly surprised Staff has allowed it to go on this long.

Everyone loses here. People that are pissed at the program are leaving and people that are pissed about the personal attacks are leaving.

I'm dreading the day when someone compiles all the personal attacks on our athletes and specifically Mond. Imagine being a 17 year old recruit and reading something like that.

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It's all about feelings with you peeps.

BLM facts are anti-American, so much that they've now scrubbed their belief of disrupting the nuclear family from their website. And the only systemic racism around is the false narrative about blacks being unfairly picked on by the cops. I got news for you peeps, cops are a-holes to everyone....especially if you're an a-holes to them first.

If your different opinion is anti-American and racist, I'm not going to support you.

impavidus said:

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Space-Tech said:

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When every other thread is denigrating Aggie football players because they choose to support and issue that rubs the older Aggies the wrong way and that they "should be grateful for the free education they receive" as if that somehow forfeits all their other rights as a human being, it gets pretty tiresome.

Take Mond. He should be criticized for his inconsistent passing, questionable awareness, and overall playmaking ability. Not his stance on BLM, or his Confederate ancestry, as if he somehow had some say in who his ancestors were.

Or Ausbon. Ranked #3 in the 30 players in 30 days and now that he opted out even on the TexAgs radio show they were backtracking on him, saying "maybe he's top 10, but not top 5". And of course he's being roasted here in the forums as being a "quitter" and that's among the nicer things said about him along with Hines.

Texags was always a contentious space, especially between the sunshine pumpers and the pot bangers. But Covid-19 and the death of George Floyd and the resulting social justice movement has brought on the full toxicity of F16 into nearly every forum and a relatively small cohort of forum members will vehemently denounce and reject anyone who opposes their viewpoints.

Targeted flagging, being called a troll or alt of a banned user, and vague threats have made the zoo just too toxic to deal and it has drained all the fun out of these forums.

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This. It's frustrating that auch an educated/competent group of people can't be fine with athletes having a different view. I'm all about saying you disagree with an athlete, but the personal attacks are ridiculous. The personal attacks on Mond are embarrassing.

So many people avoided the politics board because they knew exactly what was in there. Now it's bled over to the football forum.

The treatment of athletes is posted for all to see. I'm frankly surprised Staff has allowed it to go on this long.

Everyone loses here. People that are pissed at the program are leaving and people that are pissed about the personal attacks are leaving.

I'm dreading the day when someone compiles all the personal attacks on our athletes and specifically Mond. Imagine being a 17 year old recruit and reading something like that.

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That's the thing, though. The athletes don't just "have a different view". They've decided to label people as awful things like racists. Framing it as athletes simply "having different views" but people who disagree "making personal attacks" is just incorrect.

The politics board didn't just bleed into this forum on its own. The athletes were the ones who decided to bring politics into football. Ergo, political discussion (and everything that goes with it) has bled over. Don't like it? Pressure athletes not to bring politics into things. But as it is, THEY opened the door to this.

That said, I wish more people would just mock it and move on, and not let it affect them to the point they just want to give up on things they love.

If Sully gets removed I blame the sunshine pumpers here. It's on yall.

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That's the thing, though. The athletes don't just "have a different view". They've decided to label people as awful things like racists. Framing it as athletes simply "having different views" but people who disagree "making personal attacks" is just incorrect.

The politics board didn't just bleed into this forum on its own. The athletes were the ones who decided to bring politics into football. Ergo, political discussion (and everything that goes with it) has bled over. Don't like it? Pressure athletes not to bring politics into things. But as it is, THEY opened the door to this.

That said, I wish more people would just mock it and move on, and not let it affect them to the point they just want to give up on things they love.

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This board is chaulk full of folks who have made sweeping accusations that everyone associated with black lives matter and the current social justice movement are "racist." And the rejoinder when its suggested they let up on those "awful things" is always along the lines of what you just said: "well, that athlete [that doesn't post here] started it."

Its unrelenting. It doesn't matter where a thread starts, they nearly all quickly turn into the same old fight. And the fights are increasingly hyperbolic, unhelpful, and down right nasty. It is toxic.

And the most Politics Board aspect of it is that no one seems to want to admit their own role in it and take responsibility for themselves, lest they feel like they're weak on the issue.