re: Aggies being run out of Fayetteville

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Do you seriously care that fans from a visiting school practice yelling for a few minutes? How is that rude? Why?

And it's at midnight. In a Walmart parking lot. Who in the world would that bother?

No one disrespected anyone--we did/are respecting our hosts. Yell Practice has been moved in order to avoid upsetting anyone.

I just come from a different world I guess. We enjoy interacting w visitors and witnessing the football traditions of others.

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Both sides have to respect one another, imo. Personally, I wouldn't care. Hell we hosted Bama's alumni chapter meetings for 40 years at UT on campus the building used to be the faculty club but recently became the Visitor's Center where every student, recruit, and their parents begin campus tours -- an ill-timed Roll Tide! resulted in recruits and parents overhearing it and asking why the Visitor's Center which is designed to recruit students was yelling roll tide which a fair question. The Bama chapter ends its meeting that way so it was time to move -- not really much question there. However, once construction on our campus is more settled, it won't surprise me if they're given access to a different meeting place.

However, some fans do care about such things, especially since it's at midnight (really that's more the part that can be viewed as rude or maybe just inconsiderate/not thinking of your hosts' feelings might be a better way to put it, more than anything else albeit perhaps by accident. Wal*Mart is also a major part of the state of Arkansas' pride instead of just a mega-store like here and where you're from so I can see how it would be taken as an insult and without knowing the location of this store I don't know if the event might disturb those elsewhere whether residential or out at clubs). Arky is also coming off a meltdown from last year as well as a loss to Rutgers that really shouldn't have happened so I'm assuming they're a bit sore, especially given they know deep down they're not going to win against A&M.

Really, I just think you can't assume that a midnight tradition that involves making a lot of noise is going to go over well in a lot of southern towns (many roll up the sidewalks at 9.00 - except for the bars and Wal*Marts and some of those who've been to the bars are gonna be at the Wal*Mart).

But like I said, Arky should also be accommodating and help find a location ahead of time where no one will be bothered.