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A serious conversation about the role of Yell Leaders

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Ghost of Bisbee
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The amount of emphasis A&M enables yell leaders to have in the media for our football game needs to change. They are a liability more often than not.
Tired of seeing cringe yell leader **** blasted out on tv and social media week after week after week.

Yell leaders need to continue doing what they do best. Lead yells.

At some point over the last 15 years, it's turned into a look at me fest. Tired of it. Flame away

Aggie1188
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Who doesn't love being mocked? Teenagers (players) love it. Not.

Yell Practice appears completely embarrassing based on these videos, but the Gameday-insults would be negated in large part if we just added women/cheerleader to the sidelines for the tv cameras to have women to show the world rather than only men dressed funny.
wangus12
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I agree. Perform the role that they should which lead yells at sporting events. Stop giving them microphones
The Debt
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Yes let's remove what is unique because OP is a sheep.
Ghost of Bisbee
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Hey, if I were in Omaha over CWS I said I was gonna play board games with you at that bar

I take it back now
Jason C.
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Yes, PLEASE make our school just like all the other ones, THEN people will be able to focus on what's really special about A&M.
mm42
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It is super weird. Sometimes people are mocking you for a good reason.
Aggie1188
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The Debt said:

Yes let's remove what is unique because OP is a sheep.
literally everyone is making fun of you. Lmao. And you're a sheep for literally shouting to keep the status-quo. OP is not even asking to get rid of yell leaders. He's asking they stop embarrassing us at Yell Practice. And I'm just asking we add some women on the sidelines for the Tv cameras..
Kenneth_2003
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What has changed is the amount by which you care what others think.

We're different, we always have been.

Don't like it? Throw those horns up!
Shoefly!
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Yes, I understand Sharp hired a choreographer for all their new dance routines. Cringe!
unmade bed
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Oh noes. People are making fun of us on the internet!!
Ghost of Bisbee
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I didn't say make it like all the other ones

So many are quick to think
"THEY WANNA TAKE YELL LEADERS AWAY GTFO"

that isn't the case. They should continue doing the job they signed up to do

What they need to change is how they're being used as an extension of A&M in the media outside of their yell leader duties

Its a lose-lose for all of us. The world isn't laughing with us they're laughing at us
The Debt
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Aggie1188 said:

The Debt said:

Yes let's remove what is unique because OP is a sheep.
literally everyone is making fun of you. Lmao. And you're a sheep for literally shouting to keep the status-quo. OP is not even asking to get rid of yell leaders. He's asking they stop embarrassing us at Yell Practice. And I'm just asking we add some women on the sidelines for the Tv cameras..


"THEYRE ALL GONNA LAUGH AT YOU!"

How small is your junk? Do you live your life based on the approval of people? Get tested for low T. Seriously.
Ghost of Bisbee
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Kenneth_2003 said:

What has changed is the amount by which you care what others think.

We're different, we always have been.

Don't like it? Throw those horns up!


**** wasnt as big a deal before quality video phone capture and social media amplified everything.

Some things are better left contained to our student body and not the world

Anyone who can't see this is getting left behind in the dust
gordo6
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They really gotta stop doing this or at the very least live streaming it. Holy **** that's embarrassing
RoadkillBBQ
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Jason C. said:

Yes, PLEASE make our school just like all the other ones, THEN people will be able to focus on what's really special about A&M.
So the national perception about A&M being gay is special?
Society is evolving and sometimes that means changes need to be made. No one is saying to eliminate the yell leaders. Maybe just put some female eye candy on the sidelines too.
Showstopper
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I don't know why you guys think yell stories not making a lot of sense is new. I remember a joke spot with some of my friends was when someone would tell a story that didn't really hit or make sense, someone would say, "And that's just what we are gonna do to them Aggies!" And I didn't get the sense that yell stories being kind of dumb and not making sense was exactly new in the 90's. I think the only difference from now and 15+ years ago is everyone having smartphones that record video and us televising on the web something that really isn't that much fun unless you are a little bit lit.
gordo6
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Don't eliminate the yell leaders, stop live streaming this nonsense, stop saying these dumb jokes, just do the yells and that's it. Stop corps block and put some women cheerleaders on the sidelines
aTmneal
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Popular opinion here...

People who whine about the yell leaders are bigger dorks than any yell leader I've ever encountered.
Ragnar Danneskjoldd
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If you're actually embarrassed by things the yell leaders do might i suggest get off the internet, invest in a real life, and then realize it doesn't matter if other fan bases think you're "cringey".
Txmoe
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Yeah! Let's be more like Florida State and just keep repeating the same racially insensitive gesture and sound for the whole game!
Dr Lane Trowlan
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Ghost of Bisbee said:

The amount of emphasis A&M enables yell leaders to have in the media for our football game needs to change. They are a liability more often than not.
Tired of seeing cringe yell leader **** blasted out on tv and social media week after week after week.

Yell leaders need to continue doing what they do best. Lead yells.

At some point over the last 15 years, it's turned into a look at me fest. Tired of it. Flame away




Wanna know how I know you're a dewsh? Because you allow your life to be influenced & affected by what happens on social media. We all know social media is a plague on the world, and yet you still abide by it. A&M isn't for everyone. That's by design. We'll never be loved by everyone, and that's ok. Get off social media and be a man.

I hope nobody listens to you.
RoadkillBBQ
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Ghost of Bisbee said:

Kenneth_2003 said:

What has changed is the amount by which you care what others think.

We're different, we always have been.

Don't like it? Throw those horns up!


**** wasnt as big a deal before quality video phone capture and social media amplified everything.

Some things are better left contained to our student body and not the world

Anyone who can't see this is getting left behind in the dust
Exactly
Social media is the devil. But it's not going away and peoples perceptions matter. A&M is just a big business at the end of the day. And social media can destroy institutions and reputations whether fair or not. The yell leaders play into the athletic exposure and not the academic side. Why give impressionable recruits any reason whatsoever to question something? And yes, it's easy to say if they are so short sighted as that the Ags don't want them anyway. But is that true? It's a new day and age gentlemen. And this isn't coming from some millennial. I attended my first Aggie game in 1972.
aTmneal
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Txmoe said:

Yeah! Let's be more like Florida State and just keep repeating the same racially insensitive gesture and sound for the whole game!


Bunch of pansies in the thread.

Aside from me, of course.
RoadkillBBQ
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Ragnar Danneskjoldd said:

If you're actually embarrassed by things the yell leaders do might i suggest get off the internet, invest in a real life, and then realize it doesn't matter if other fan bases think you're "cringey".
I could give a f*** less what most folks think of me personally. The point is, it's a widespread perception whether deserved or not. Do you not think this could have any affect on recruiting whatsoever? Don't think this won't be used against us in the day and age of EVERYONE having a public platform.
Ragnar Danneskjoldd
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RoadkillBBQ said:

Ragnar Danneskjoldd said:

If you're actually embarrassed by things the yell leaders do might i suggest get off the internet, invest in a real life, and then realize it doesn't matter if other fan bases think you're "cringey".
I could give a f*** less what most folks think of me personally. The point is, it's a widespread perception whether deserved or not. Do you not think this could have any affect on recruiting whatsoever? Don't think this won't be used against us in the day and age of EVERYONE having a public platform.

As long as the checks clear we're good.
Sparkie
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RoadkillBBQ said:

Jason C. said:

Yes, PLEASE make our school just like all the other ones, THEN people will be able to focus on what's really special about A&M.
So the national perception about A&M being gay is special?
Society is evolving and sometimes that means changes need to be made. No one is saying to eliminate the yell leaders. Maybe just put some female eye candy on the sidelines too.
Maybe take some sensitivity classes and stop your homophobic use of the word gay. Whats wrong with being gay?
cvenag03
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Would you still feel this way if Twitter didn't exist?
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RGLAG85
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Ghost of Bisbee said:

Kenneth_2003 said:

What has changed is the amount by which you care what others think.

We're different, we always have been.

Don't like it? Throw those horns up!


**** wasnt as big a deal before quality video phone capture and social media amplified everything.

Some things are better left contained to our student body and not the world

Anyone who can't see this is getting left behind in the dust


Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God....I don't want to be left behind in the dust! No, not that! What do I need to do? Do I need to become a conformist?

HELP!
Sawgrass
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Someone help me out here...are we supposed to be racists, Nazi's, militaristic or gay? I need to know what to wear to my local bar to watch the Arkansas game?
gordo6
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You realize college station isn't exactly a paradise in the middle of Texas. Horns have the luxury of living in Austin which is enticing to young adults. We need every benefit we can get and have zero negative perception
Drum5343
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unmade bed said:

Oh noes. People are making fun of us on the internet!!


Truly a tragedy we cannot overcome
PascalsWager
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gordo6 said:

You realize college station isn't exactly a paradise in the middle of Texas. Horns have the luxury of living in Austin which is enticing to young adults. We need every benefit we can get and have zero negative perception
28 year old white liberals too poor to afford to live in California. Not high school football players.

College Station is a great place for an 18 year old kid. Austin is fine too.

None of this matters. AT ALL
RGLAG85
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Sawgrass said:

Someone help me out here...are we supposed to be racists, Nazi's, militaristic or gay? I need to know what to wear to my local bar to watch the Arkansas game?


Jorts, with open toed sandals, a maroon blm shirt that's sleeveless (wife beater), shaved head dyed purple with ss tattoo.

Hope that helps.
 
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