JABQ04 said:

---

Hey Nav said:

---

Quote:

---

I'm old and on the way to getting drunk because I know how the games gonna play out.

---

Good call, rock star. Hope you didn't miss too much.

---

Didn't miss a second of it. Thanks for checking up. Overall the nights was a rousing success. Beer, whiskey, food, fire pit going, Ags win. Hell of a night with other Ags in the neighborhood.

One of the few occasions I'm content being wrong

---

BillYeoman said:

---

My son is a Fish. I was disappointed they didn't do the march. He said the game was optional. I normally drive up (I live in Houston) to watch them march and drive back if I don't go to the game.

Not to brag on my son but he went to the game in uniform. He took his buddy (West Point freshmen) and his younger brother. They had a great time.

Side note: Is it true that West Point freshmen only do PT once a week?

---

MarathonAg12 said:

---

Outlaw0206 said:

---

Not to add fuel to the fire, but a cadet just told me a bunch of cadets don't even plan to wear uniforms to the game tonight. Something about no one in Corps leadership putting out what the required uniform is for the game.

March to 3000 is well on its way!

---

I mean. Sounds about right. Sounds like my disgruntled ETSING E-4 finding every excuse to get out of something.

---

BillYeoman said:

---

My son is a Fish. I was disappointed they didn't do the march. He said the game was optional. I normally drive up (I live in Houston) to watch them march and drive back if I don't go to the game.

Not to brag on my son but he went to the game in uniform. He took his buddy (West Point freshmen) and his younger brother. They had a great time.

Side note: Is it true that West Point freshmen only do PT once a week?

---

Tango_Mike said:

---

BillYeoman said:

---

My son is a Fish. I was disappointed they didn't do the march. He said the game was optional. I normally drive up (I live in Houston) to watch them march and drive back if I don't go to the game.

Not to brag on my son but he went to the game in uniform. He took his buddy (West Point freshmen) and his younger brother. They had a great time.

Side note: Is it true that West Point freshmen only do PT once a week?

---

No it's not true. They do organized PT at the squad level three days a week and have boxing/MilMove (basically gymnastics/CrossFit/IOCT) two days a week. Freshmen also have mandatory IOCT two Saturdays a month. The IOCT (Indoor Obstacle Course Test) is medieval

---

Martin Cash said:

---

cavscout96 said:

---

Warrior 66 said:

---

Its been a while since I've posted anything here, but I got alerted to the fact that there was concern about the Corps not marching in today, and thought I needed to at least let everyone know why that decision was made.

First, this decision was made before the new Commandant arrived in October, so this is in NO way his issue. He had absolutely no say in this decision at all. This decision was made several years ago, when the A&M - LSU game was moved from Thanksgiving day to the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

As many of us experienced, we always played tu on Thanksgiving day, and the entire Corps was here for the march-in and the game. Even when the game was played in Austin on Thanksgiving, the entire Corps marched in to downtown Austin for the game. It was what we all remembered and experienced during our time in the Corps when we played tu every year. It was tradition.

When we moved to the SEC and no longer played tu, we began playing LSU on Thanksgiving day, and the march-in remained the same for the game when we played at Kyle Field. However, after a few years, LSU no longer wanted to play the game on Thanksgiving day, and wanted the game moved to the Saturday after Thanksgiving. When the game got moved to Saturday instead of Thanksgiving day, we had to make a decision about whether or not we wanted to bring back the entire Corps for a march-in and to attend the game or just make it optional for the cadets to return from their Thanksgiving weekend to attend the game. The Aggie Band would still return for their halftime performance, as always.

As I remember it, after a lot of discussion with cadets and staff, we made the decision to make the LSU game played on the Saturday after Thanksgiving at Kyle Field optional for cadets to attend, with no march in. Cadets who returned to attend the game had to attend in uniform, but we decided not to make it mandatory for all cadets to return for the march in or the game. Its been that way since the game moved to the Saturday after Thanksgiving, which has been a few years now.

So thats the reason why you will not see a march in today. Again, the new Commandant had no say in this decision - it was made several years ago before he even got here. While I know there are many who don't like the decision, you at least know now why it was made - and I can assure you it was NOT an easy decision to make for any of us, but was made with several factors to consider.

---

this is all 100% accurate.

i don't like it, but the info above is dead on.

---

No, it isn't. The tu game was not always on Thanksgiving. My zip year in '74 it was on Friday. After that it was rarely on Thanksgiving, usually on Friday or Saturday. My recollection is we've only played LSU on Thanksgiving twice, in 2014 and 2016. Being a BQ, I don't know when it whether those games were mandatory for the Corps or not. We were always there. This is inexcusable.

---

ABATTBQ87 said:

---

1984 we played TCU on the Saturday after Thanksgiving and tu on Saturday December 1st

---

HollywoodBQ said:

---

ABATTBQ87 said:

---

1984 we played TCU on the Saturday after Thanksgiving and tu on Saturday December 1st

---

Whoa. So y'all burned Bonfire after Thanksgiving?

That's wild to think about.

---

HollywoodBQ said:

---

ABATTBQ87 said:

---

1984 we played TCU on the Saturday after Thanksgiving and tu on Saturday December 1st

---

Whoa. So y'all burned Bonfire after Thanksgiving?

That's wild to think about.

---

Serotonin said:

---

IIRC we had required march-ins when I was a CT in Austin and Waco. The Austin march-in would take place on Friday morning and then the game was later that morning or the afternoon.

As others have noted, Saturday night games seem far less burdensome than Thu or Fri games of the past. You're coming back on Sunday anyway, so just come back a little earlier and go booze it up with your buddies at the Chicken after the game.

---

F4GIB71 said:

---

Do they even do spirit signs today? I remember either someone in the outfit had artistic talent, like K-1 in the photo, or if no one had talent, be as gross as one can imagine. My fish year in 1967 prior to the Cotton Bowl against Alabama, one outfit hung a sign that said, "Stop the Crimson Tide!" Unfortunately, I cannot describe the rest of the sign, or I might get banned.

---

BoerneGator said:

---

Wasn't H-2 the day duck outfit? H-1 was the jock outfit, as I recall…

---

ABATTBQ87 said:

---

BoerneGator said:

---

Wasn't H-2 the day duck outfit? H-1 was the jock outfit, as I recall…

---

E-1 Jocks

---