what do you mean you don't care? if A&M is about ANYTHING it's about tradition. i question your true Aggie-hood.
It's almost like you didn't even read my post. 1) No rivalry will be "lost". The rivalry, as has been shown, would be "ended" by one party or the other, namely the party not named A&M. 2) UH's rivalries weren't the argument, the argument was that it was the state's 3rd largest school getting its nuts stomped on. Which is much more substantial than some petty rivalry nonsense.
So I guess they're doing the right thing by distancing themselves from UT and possibly leaving this "inferiority complex" behind them?
1. the best response to this would be a ridiculous picture where someone is dancing above text that reads, "didn't read!!" 2. I hear ya...I misunderstood. When you said loyalty I thought you meant to the rivalry. 3. When all is said and done, I have a difficult time believing A&M will continually choose to add the University of Texas as a non-conference opponent while playing in the SEC.
please stop repeating this like it's fact. it's not. if i say i wanted to kill kim kardashian a year ago, it's not a certaintly that she'll die at my hands and not due to some random disease she'll catch boning every mediocre pro athlete. you can't run around saying i killed her when she's not even dead.
I don't know...it's endearing to the university, apparently....to the culture....it's just annoying to people like me. I still think they have a far better chance of being super relevant on a national stage sticking in the Big XII...but it's not my decision to make.
+1. I just want it to be done. Sick of hearing about it, I don't really care, I just want the Thanksgiving Day tradition to be upheld. To erase over 100 years of history/rivalry is friggin' ridiculous. I am a grad and will not be paying for the Longhorn Network, if it ever even comes to U-Verse. I live close to many, MANY bars off of Washington and will go to one to watch the Rice game. I'm not interested in the crap sports, coaches interviews all the time (Mack Brown is pretty upset with this too as he will be followed a lot, and even blocked the "request" to show practices on the network) or anything else on the network. Seems like a humongous waste of money on ESPN's part.
I don't really care about UT anymore. Back when I was a young and r****ded and wrapped up in college athletics, yeah, it was fun to be a little angry fanboy... but now my "hatred" of UT is centered around the way UT runs the state educational system. It's a real s**tshow. Bugs me on a personal level. I don't really begrudge UT for doing what it does, making money, getting what it wants, etc. Hate the game, not the player, and so on. But I do have a problem with people that support UT without a vested interest in UT's success, all the while completely ignorant or indifferent to the plight UT presents to higher education in Texas; much in the way one is annoyed with a teabagger voting against their own interests. Athletics are just a way of exercising those feelings. Indeed, my fandom is a complicated thing. (P.S. I don't like A&M either, heh heh)
Except that it is. Until you can show me otherwise. If A&M makes the decision to stop playing UT, I will change my username to DonnyHornFanHookEmForeverBevoRulesMost. I personally doubt UT would stop playing A&M either, but they're the only ones rattling that sabre at the moment.
In all honesty, I'm the least Aggie-ish Aggie you'll ever meet. Whenever I meet people and tell them I graduated from TAMU I preface it with, "I'm not one of those crazy Aggies". If you met me you'd think I went to UT.
i will only be friends with you if you can admit it's wilfred's fault that he and harper broke up in 2032.
I don't hate UT. I'm not on board with their bandwagon fans. But the reason I'm all riled up isn't because I hate UT, I respect that they're doing what's best for them. Which is all I want for TAMU. What pisses me off is Texas is now running the conference and nobody has the balls to do anything about it. I get that OU is sitting pretty and OSU is tied to them. At least TAMU is trying to get something done here. UT is bigger than the Big 12, that's a joke.
Me too. It'll be a brutal schedule for the Aggie but I'm all for that game. I don't care how many people say that UT fans don't care. I've met tons of alumni that do. I know the players on the field understand the importance of that game. Its a great rivalry and it shouldn't die. It hurts college football if it dies.
No rivalry will be "lost". The rivalry, as has been shown*, would be "ended" by one party or the other, namely the party not named A&M. This statement suggests that: 1) The rivalry game will not be "lost", as in, it would be logistically feasible to play it still, and the game would still be able to be played, provided both sides wanted to. 2) The rivalry game would be "ended", as in, one school or the other would have to decide to stop playing it. 3) The only school that has said that they would stop playing the rivalry game(s) was UT. Apparently as recently as today (According to Chip Brown). Is it possible A&M would say "furk TU!" and stop playing the game? Yes. But I'd put the odds at somewhere between zero and .0000000000000001%
This seems to be what UT doesn't understand, that leveraging so much power over a conference will ultimately destroy it. The Big 12 allowing teams to have their own network's is a stupid rule that looks like will ultimately be its undoing.
