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Dodd's final gift to us Ags.

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aggiehawg said:

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Hi, tbird!! How are you and the missus?

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DeepEastTxAg said:

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Does that psychopath actually think A&M is still a branch

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DeepEastTxAg said:

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Does that psychopath actually think A&M is still a branch or is he trying to be insulting? Either way, this guy is unsuccessful and needs a little history lesson. A&M never was a branch. Only during proposal the college. Never after. Why doesn't anyone call this guy out on being dead wrong?

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I'm not saying the SEC will tell **** how they would vote if UT wanted in. I'm saying the Texas Legislature (actually the Higher Education Subcommittee) would tell **** to shut the $#@! up.

Texas actually supported ****s dream of AAU accreditation. And in return **** is saying they would actively try to $#@! over UT on something as petty as a sports conference affiliation?

If **** really wants to play hardball, I am sure they will get their wish. I'm sure in a tight budget cycle certain interests could find various ways to $#@! over **** and let them instead go to the Alabama or Mississippi legislature for adequate funding.

Making very public statements of their intention to $#@! over another state school if given the opportunity is something **** typically didn't think all the way through.

Obviously, UT's efforts on ****'s behalf when it came to AAU accreditation were a mistake. Hopefully **** can get Nebraskaed in the near future. And, for the record, UT voted in Nebraska's favor during the AAU termination vote. It was the Big 10 schools who voted against them.

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Making very public statements of their intention to $#@! over another state school if given the opportunity is something **** typically didn't think all the way through.

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That's projection on his part. Dodds certainly never had a problem doing it when the SWC broke up.

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Randie is not at all self-aware is he. He has dedicated his life to destroying A&M.

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Texas A&M has at least as much political power as tu. So we aren't going to be afraid of any backlash. And what are tech, Baylor, and TCU's political folks going to do? Pressure us to let tu into the SEC and leave their schools behind?

What did that ****** say about thinking things through? What a fool.

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I hate Sharp, but I wish he would have been endorsing UH and every other Texas school to the B12. there wouldn't be any political downside to that.

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Rocco S said:

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So basically the same folks that he thought were going to stop us from going to the SEC are now going to make us let tu into the SEC?

Yeah, ok.

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he lies so much Hillary has him on the short list for several jobs in her administration.

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Rocco S said:

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Texas A&M has at least as much political power as tu. So we aren't going to be afraid of any backlash. And what are tech, Baylor, and TCU's political folks going to do? Pressure us to let tu into the SEC and leave their schools behind?

What did that ****** say about thinking things through? What a fool.

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I hate Sharp, but I wish he would have been endorsing UH and every other Texas school to the B12. there wouldn't be any political downside to that.

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Yeah, he should've been guilting them into it like we were being guilted to stay.

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No ****ing Way There Should be a "Deloss Dodds Way."

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Some marketing clown in Bellmont dreamed up the idea of renaming 23rd, north of the stadium, "Deloss Dodds Way."

I say "not so fast."

I am a big fan of what Deloss did in building the athletics program at UT. But no way in Hell is it time to rename anything on campus after Deloss Dodds.

For all Deloss did, he created more than a small amount of controversy within the SWC and Big 12 conferences. I have no real problem with the majority of the decisions he made. I think the overwhelming majority of those decisions were in the best interests of the conferences and the member schools. I think college athletics benefitted from Deloss Dodds' leadership.

My problem is that Deloss hasn't spoken up to set the record straight on a number is issues. Until he addressed the controversies that were created, I think it is bull**** that he gets anything named after him, while leaving the alumni and the university to deal with the controversies and the lies perpetrated by the piece of **** administrators of the various universities that used to be in the same athletic conference as UT.

Until Deloss goes on the record and speaks about the formation of the Big 12; the LHN; discusses the exit of the members who left the Big 12; and a number of other issues; I don't think Deloss should get the honor the marketing people inside Bellmont are trying to bestow upon him.

Deloss can't just walk into the sunset, collecting accolades and not setting the record straight. He can't leave the university and the alumni with only one side of the story, the bull**** side of the story, being made public. He owes it to us to set the record straight.

And if Deloss slinks off into the sunset, claiming honors he hasn't truly earned, he will prove he doesn't deserve what the marketing clowns inside Bellmont have decided to grant him.

Any honor bestowed should come from the alumni, not from the marketing department. And as one of the alumni, I think Deloss has some unfinished business to attend to before he starts collecting accolades.

Deloss, you need to speak up and set the record straight. I am all for bestowing accolades upon Deloss. Just not yet.

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Deloss shouldn't get what amounts to a Lifetime Achievement Award if he isn't willing to go on the record and discuss his lifetime achievements. If he created the controversies (and he was at least a principal actor in them) he owes it to the alumni to set the record straight before he accepts any such award.

Deloss needs to walk us through how **** avoided the death penalty and explain what was going on at the conference level at that time. We deserve to hear Deloss' account of the formation of the Big 12 and the whole Prop 48 vote, including what the vote was and who voted for as well as against. The alumni deserve to hear about how the whole unequal revenue process materialized, as well as exactly which schools were demanding unequal revenue shares from 2008-2011. We deserve to hear just what the story was when Deloss talked to Byrne about what became the LHN.

After all, it's our university. If the alumni are expected to support the athletics department and recognize the award they are bestowing upon Deloss, we deserve to know just what we are celebrating him for accomplishing. (Correct me if I am wrong, but I am not aware of any great groundswell from the alumni that insisted upon renaming 23rd St.)

There are a number of issues Deloss needs to account for before we start bestowing accolades upon him. If the accolade is to come from the alumni, the alumni deserve to hear Deloss speak on his career at UT. If the "recognition" is only from the marketing idiots inside Bellmont, then let's just admit that and let's let it be an absolutely hollow accolade.

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