LSS is a contest to determine which school defeats the other more often in NCAA sports. Well, by golly that is important. I live in Austin and will tell all my sip neighbors that Bill Byrne has better overall sports programs than Dodds. I guarantee you the sips will not like that.

For the 2nd year in a row... yeah- they wouldn't like that at all...

I actually like the LSS competition. It adds something to the rivalry. I'm glad to see the softball win. Way to go ladies.

Towards the argument that we are a women's athletics school...

Yes we dominated t.u. in women's sports last year. However, this year we are spreading out our wins. Of the 8 possible men's events where LSS points could be acquired we won 4 of the 8 (M Basketball, M Tennis, M Golf and M Cross Country). Opportunities for men's points are still available in M Track and Baseball. So solid opportunities to win two more men's events.

It doesn't matter in the end how we win this thing though.

There will still be complaints.

"Yeah but A&M didn't win football". "Yeah but most of the wins were in women's sports". "Yeah but all the wins came on Mondays, we didn't fare well on Tues.-Sun. games". "Yeah but nobody really cares about the LSS".

You can follow the Lone Star Showdown on facebook now...

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/State-Farm-Lone-Star-Showdown/194218995146

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There is an interesting quote from the article NoDannyNo posted:

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One point also will be awarded to each team that finishes higher at the Big 12 men’s and women’s outdoor track and field championships May 15-17 in Lubbock. A&M’s women will be favored while the men’s side is too close to call.

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Is this true? Or is Riggs being impartial? I must admit that I do not know a lot about the track teams, but it was my understanding that A&M Men should be heavily favored. I checked out the rankings on Big 12 Sports. A&M is 3rd nationally and tu is 13th with Baylor 10th and Nebraska 11th.

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Side question double bubble. I noticed you recently started posting on TexAgs. Did you do so to let everyone know how much you don't care about the LSS?

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Holden, happened to be one of the first things I read that I felt like commenting on. Gotta start somewhere.

The LSS is an advertising gimmick and has no value except for that given to State Farm (name recognition) and the two schools (endorsement money). It doesn't add anything to the competitions on the field...no one is motivated to win due to a point in an advertising gimmick.

I can understand why it is a big deal to some Ags, though it clearly isn't to all Ags, who grasp for positive news after a run of years taking it in the shorts on the athletic front. It's for geeks and losers.

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no one is motivated to win due to a point in an advertising gimmick.

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Are you arguing that the esprit de corps that it's introduced across our programs and teams doesn't exist?

It may be an advertising gimmick, but it's a gimmick to get more people to the matches, which DOES make a difference.

And to the people who think football should be weighted more heavily, here's the thing. No one is trying to argue that football isn't the more visible sport, gets higher attendance, more money, etc. But that's not what the LSS is trying to measure. The LSS is trying to measure which school, overall, has a more successful athletics program, and more specifically, which school's athletics program is more successful than the other ON THE FIELD. A win in football still only counts as 1 win. Wins in some sports count as Big 12 championships (golf, track, swimming), so you could argue that they're worth more! When was the last time an A&M t.u. football game counted for a Big 12 championship?


Fact of the matter is, no matter what you guys think, if a football program finishes in the top 10 every year, and every other sport finishes 8th-12th in the Big 12 every year, the AD will be gone. The football coach will stick around, and the football program will continue to thrive, but the AD will be toast. So yes, the LSS does matter.

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Is this true? Or is Riggs being impartial? I must admit that I do not know a lot about the track teams, but it was my understanding that A&M Men should be heavily favored. I checked out the rankings on Big 12 Sports. A&M is 3rd nationally and tu is 13th with Baylor 10th and Nebraska 11th.

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From my understanding, track rankings aren't so much like most rankings. I believe that they rank them based on who should do the best at Nationals, not how they have been doing on a meet by meet basis. Sure that plays in to some of it, but if you have a bunch of people placing 3rd at meets, you could end up with enough points to win them, but those type of people wouldn't get many points at Nationals. Same with a team that has just a few good individuals, but they dominate and will win or place highly at nationals. At least that's how I understood the guys talking on our Other Sports board

double bubble sounds like a bitter whornfan, upset by the fact we're going to win the LSS again. like most of them, he probably went through the normal transition of laughing that we thought we could ever win it, to discrediting the fact that we were closing the gap, to claiming last year's win was a fluke, and now trying to discredit the whole event

it's also fairly obvious he was here previously under a different handle, more than likely "dean martin"

poor teasip

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It's a competition....if you're a competitor, then you care about it!

dubble bouble, you sure do b**** alot about the uselessness of one of the few things that gets your interest level up.

were gonna win

wolverine, the State Farm Advertising gimmick isn't intended to get people to "matches" and it hasn't been shown to do anything but get exposure to State Farm in the press. Which is what is was intended to do and what they are paying for.