AboveGroundPool said:
GAC06 said:
I don't think I've ever referred to my school as anything other than Texas A&M University or just A&M. The people that attended or currently attend are the Texas Aggies. Not the Oklahoma Aggies or New Mexico Aggies or Utah Aggies or any of the many other "Aggies" out there. It's a concept so simple I'd expect even a complete dip**** like you to grasp it easily.
Well, Gack, I'm probably confused, but it looks like today, at 4:30 pm central time, you referred to aTm as the "Texas Aggies."
New Mexico State are Aggies. Not New Mexico.
Utah State are Aggies. Not Utah.
Oklahoma State WERE the Aggies. Not Oklahoma.
Are Baylor students "Texas Bears?" Are Tech students "Texas Raiders?"
Others may've answered your query later in the thread, but I'm getting tired of reading through, so here goes.
First, I want to point out that sips pass bs, anti-A&M information online with such incredible efficiency that Aggies all over the planet sometimes are trash-talked with the exact same phrasing of the same talking points within days of a narrative taking shape.
Unfortunately, you chose to ignore and not pass along pertinent facts that don't fit your anti-A&M agenda. Many of us have posted the following on many threads to many sips many times in the past. Would you sips please pass along accurate info, even if it's not anti-A&M? This **** is getting tiring, and you've only embarrassed yourself by your profound lack of knowledge. Here goes ... again:
There were a lot of land grant schools created a long time ago that called themselves "Aggies."
North Carolina A&T, the Carolina Aggies
Mississippi A&M, the Mississippi Aggies
Texas A&M, the Texas Aggies
Oklahoma A&M, the Oklahoma Aggies
Kansas A&M, the Kansas Aggies
Colorado A&M, the Colorado Aggies
The Michigan College of Agriculture and Polytechnic Institute, or Michigan A&PI, the Michigan Aggies
New Mexico A&M, the New Mexico Aggies
Utah A&M, the Utah Aggies
There were also historically, traditional Black colleges who, for some reason, never seemed to call themselves "Aggies," which means students of Agriculture:
Florida A&M, Alabama A&M, and Prairie View A&M
All of these schools, at various points in the past, decided to expand course offerings and degrees offered, and all except Texas A&M decided to drop the "A&M" from their names and add word "State" in its place, to signify, nominally, that change from more narrow-scoped "colleges" to more fully well-rounded "universities."
Most of them also changed their nicknames from "Aggies" to something else, except for Texas A&M, North Carolina A&T, New Mexico State and Utah State, who are all still called Aggies.
The bar/entertainment area near the KSU campus in Manhattan is still called "Aggieville," though they'd changed their nickname to the "Wildcats" long ago.
Our school, therefore, is called "Texas A&M University" after undergoing several changes through the years. We are most properly called "Texas Aggies," as differentiated from all of the other Aggies from all other states, past, present and future.
Please pass this info along. This crap is getting tiring. Or, please continue to show how aloof and ignorant is your fan base, over, and over, and over again.