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Hi Randy, let's make a deal.

If you can find two legislators to begin the process of passing a Constitutional amendment to end Texas A&M's status as a branch of The University of Texas, segregate the financial assets of the PUF, and leave A&M to our fate by May 31st, 2018, then TexAgs will use our collective power to insure the passage of this amendment.

If you fail, then you agree to let OR set you up for a six month stay at a resort/spa of our choosing where you will get your own room, three meals a day, activities and take little pills from paper shot glasses. If at that end of the six months, the Director of the Resort (abbreviated Dr.) request that you stay a bit longer, then OR will gladly sign the paperwork. Yes, it's a big commitment on our part but I think we can make it work.

It's a fair deal, what say you Randy?

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Overruled. Once he loses, we activate Anthony Hopkins and fava beans, skip all that lib $$$ intervention.

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Irish_Man said:

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Every time i open this thread i always hope I'm about to read how randy has turned his head into a canoe.

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You don't understand very much about **** culture, do you?

The **** culture is a very insular culture that places extreme value on bonding social capital and conformity. They don't readily accept innovative ideas and largely choose leaders from within their culture. They use code words such as "Old Army" to refer to the "grand old days." Those "grand old days" are almost always the days when the school was racially segregated and excluded women. The "traditions" are actually largely fabrications which are the basis of a veneration of white, male privilege. They have no "grand traditions" that are focused on the contributions of women alumni. The only African-American of either gender they commemorate on their campus was a graduate of the University of Houston. The mere suggestion of their "Ol' Sarge" cartoon character being represented as an African-American or of women being allowed as cheerleaders during football games would be dismissed without discussion. Their entire culture revolves around the veneration of white, male privilege. This cultural problem has nothing to do with the demographics of the MSA in which they are located.

The culture of UT Austin shares few of the cultural identifiers of the **** culture. The UT Austin culture has long been more progressive, more forward-looking, more willing to embrace (or lead) change. Women have long been included in most, if not all, major cultural positions with the campus culture. The UT Austin culture places far more value on bridging social capital than bonding social capital. There are few traditions within the UT culture that would not be tossed aside in a second, if a reason presented itself. The UT culture, by embracing innovation and change, has offered far more opportunities for advancement and growth and has been a leader in the societal and technological changes the state has experienced over the past half century (if not longer).

To claim today's millennial, urban, minority athletes are equally indifferent to indifferent whether they attempt to blend in insular, rural leaning, culturally dishonest, radically conservative, closed-minded culture over-obsessed with the importance of bonding social capital or a progressive, urban, intellectual culture that embraces the value of bridging social capital is absurd.

I point out my argument was that **** has trouble recruiting in all three major sports and has under-performed schools such as UT, LSU and OU in football as well as UT, Rice, LSU, OU, Baylor, TCU, and Tech in baseball for a reason. Regardless of how much money they borrow for facilities of that they throw at football coaches, they will still have the same inherent, cultural problem. That all the other schools in the same region can out-perform **** without having to resort to such extremes speaks volumes. If **** was truly a desirable destination, they would not have to resort to such extreme measures. **** simply has no choice, due to their cultural baggage.

As for racial sensitivities, I will simply ask one question - if both UT Austin and TAMU hired African-American head football coaches, which of the two coaches do you believe would be most likely to receive threatening, racist hate mail from the school's alumni?

**** suffers from the same problem as BYU - both are culturally inflexible and not willing to change to make those outside their culture more at ease. Either someone (of any race) conforms to their culture, or they are largely ostracized. As long as **** maintains their over-importance on bonding social capital and strongly enforces their cultural norms, they will have a difficult time appealing to those who choose to go through life not wanting to be conformists. Quite a number of young, urban elite athletes nationwide would rather attend college where they are largely accepted for being culturally different than to abandon their cultural identity to embrace all that is redneck, closed-minded and "****."

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As for racial sensitivities, I will simply ask one question - if both UT Austin and TAMU hired African-American head football coaches, which of the two coaches do you believe would be most likely to receive threatening, racist hate mail from the school's alumni?

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As for racial sensitivities, I will simply ask one question - if both UT Austin and TAMU hired African-American head football coaches, which of the two coaches do you believe would be most likely to receive threatening, racist hate mail from the school's alumni?

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Head coach Darrell Royal attempted to recruit African-American athletes to play for UT, but many were turned off by the University's reputation for racist tendencies and slow integration.

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MooreTrucker said:

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We had a female president fairly recently as well.

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MooreTrucker said:

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We had a female president fairly recently as well.

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Dark times indeed.

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Prognightmare said:

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More Randy gold:

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You don't understand very much about **** culture, do you?

The **** culture is a very insular culture that places extreme value on bonding social capital and conformity. They don't readily accept innovative ideas and largely choose leaders from within their culture. They use code words such as "Old Army" to refer to the "grand old days." Those "grand old days" are almost always the days when the school was racially segregated and excluded women. The "traditions" are actually largely fabrications which are the basis of a veneration of white, male privilege. They have no "grand traditions" that are focused on the contributions of women alumni. The only African-American of either gender they commemorate on their campus was a graduate of the University of Houston. The mere suggestion of their "Ol' Sarge" cartoon character being represented as an African-American or of women being allowed as cheerleaders during football games would be dismissed without discussion. Their entire culture revolves around the veneration of white, male privilege. This cultural problem has nothing to do with the demographics of the MSA in which they are located.

The culture of UT Austin shares few of the cultural identifiers of the **** culture. The UT Austin culture has long been more progressive, more forward-looking, more willing to embrace (or lead) change. Women have long been included in most, if not all, major cultural positions with the campus culture. The UT Austin culture places far more value on bridging social capital than bonding social capital. There are few traditions within the UT culture that would not be tossed aside in a second, if a reason presented itself. The UT culture, by embracing innovation and change, has offered far more opportunities for advancement and growth and has been a leader in the societal and technological changes the state has experienced over the past half century (if not longer).

To claim today's millennial, urban, minority athletes are equally indifferent to indifferent whether they attempt to blend in insular, rural leaning, culturally dishonest, radically conservative, closed-minded culture over-obsessed with the importance of bonding social capital or a progressive, urban, intellectual culture that embraces the value of bridging social capital is absurd.

I point out my argument was that **** has trouble recruiting in all three major sports and has under-performed schools such as UT, LSU and OU in football as well as UT, Rice, LSU, OU, Baylor, TCU, and Tech in baseball for a reason. Regardless of how much money they borrow for facilities of that they throw at football coaches, they will still have the same inherent, cultural problem. That all the other schools in the same region can out-perform **** without having to resort to such extremes speaks volumes. If **** was truly a desirable destination, they would not have to resort to such extreme measures. **** simply has no choice, due to their cultural baggage.

As for racial sensitivities, I will simply ask one question - if both UT Austin and TAMU hired African-American head football coaches, which of the two coaches do you believe would be most likely to receive threatening, racist hate mail from the school's alumni?

**** suffers from the same problem as BYU - both are culturally inflexible and not willing to change to make those outside their culture more at ease. Either someone (of any race) conforms to their culture, or they are largely ostracized. As long as **** maintains their over-importance on bonding social capital and strongly enforces their cultural norms, they will have a difficult time appealing to those who choose to go through life not wanting to be conformists. Quite a number of young, urban elite athletes nationwide would rather attend college where they are largely accepted for being culturally different than to abandon their cultural identity to embrace all that is redneck, closed-minded and "****."

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They just pried the sign off...Simpkins Hall lives forever.

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A person can't ever assimilate with the **** culture if that person doesn't give a $#@! about the **** plot of "sacred" grass upon which nothing notable ever happened, if they prefer to wear a hat inside the student center, or if they are wholly indifferent to the story of some guy who, back when football was a club sport, quit the football team in November, was later asked during an exhibition game to get into a spare uniform in case they coach wanted him to play a few downs, never played and, for two decades afterward, no one thought about in the least until the head of the alumni association wrote a fictional play using a few elements of the event.

The **** culture venerates both the true and fairy tale stories of what ****s did during WWI, WWII ,etc. Why is it so difficult to understand that black students, instead of blindly venerating "**** history" sometimes wonder about how their ancestors fared during the same time. **** doesn't diminish that part of their school's culture by mistake. These people were still burning crosses on campus into the early 1970s to send messages of extreme hate to black athletes living on campus. When you are a student, or an athlete, at Texas A&M, you venerate only white, male history. And the "history" you must blindly accept as the embodiment of virtue is often wholly fabricated. A lot of young minds want nothing to do with such a freak show of a culture.

And it isn't just athletes **** can't recruit. The **** student body is 96% in-state students. **** simply is not an attractive option to young millennials outside the redneck culture who have viable options to attend other universities.

To think there are a large number of elite out-of-state athletes of any race or religion who have nothing in common with the redneck, **** culture who will choose to put themselves in such an environment, over the opportunity to go to any number of other major universities simply because some rich, racist alumni got desperate and overpaid a football coach, is absurd. Especially when those rich alumni are some of the most strident proponents of the culture that demands veneration of white, male privilege and demands rejection of any contrary influences that might reform or modernize the culture we recognize as "****."

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I bet money that that cross dresser Randolph duke mailed that letter to the Sumlins

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When you are a student, or an athlete, at Texas A&M, you venerate only white, male history.

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....and then the unicorn pooped butterflies.

The End.

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Which is why Quentin Coryatt is unknown in Aggieland.

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When you are a student, or an athlete, at Texas A&M, you venerate only white, male history.

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....and then the unicorn pooped butterflies.

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Wildmen03 said:

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We also had black football players before they did. We had our first in '67 and they had theirs in '69. They technically had players on the team in '67 and '68 but none of them saw the field.

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We also had black football players before they did. We had our first in '67 and they had theirs in '69. They technically had players on the team in '67 and '68 but none of them saw the field.

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Who was our first in 1967? I don't recall any black players on our roster until Hugh McElroy in 1969.

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Three African-Americans received athletic scholarships on 196768 track team; two others joined football team.

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We also had black football players before they did. We had our first in '67 and they had theirs in '69. They technically had players on the team in '67 and '68 but none of them saw the field.

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Who was our first in 1967? I don't recall any black players on our roster until Hugh McElroy in 1969.

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Not sure, just pulled the info from the TAMU library page.

https://archiveexhibits.library.tamu.edu/africanamerican/chronology/index.html

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Three African-Americans received athletic scholarships on 196768 track team; two others joined football team.

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