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Can Texas A&M ever change their image?
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:07 pm
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:07 pm
In Texas, you grow up learning Aggie jokes. I've hated on the Aggies for a long time, but I'm making this thread in earnest...
To me the culture and traditions of the institution are just plain strange. Even the school's commercials talk about and embrace those things as "different" or something to that effect...
I wonder if Aggie fans wish their traditions and culture would be more normal.
What if they completely reversed course and embraced a new, cooler, more normal image over time?
Is that even possible at this point?
I'll hang up and listen.
To me the culture and traditions of the institution are just plain strange. Even the school's commercials talk about and embrace those things as "different" or something to that effect...
I wonder if Aggie fans wish their traditions and culture would be more normal.
What if they completely reversed course and embraced a new, cooler, more normal image over time?
Is that even possible at this point?
I'll hang up and listen.
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Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:08 pm to North Dallas Tiger
Alternatively, and hear me out on this, go frick yourself.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:10 pm to North Dallas Tiger
Isn’t U Texas in a city that prides itself on being weird?
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:10 pm to North Dallas Tiger
At this point, reversing course would do more damage than staying on it. So, in some degree, it'll stay as it is.
But I'd agree, some things need to go, and likely will over time, again, to some degree but not totally. Hell, during the mizzou game students were chanting "over-rated!". That wouldn't have flown 10 years ago.
But I'd agree, some things need to go, and likely will over time, again, to some degree but not totally. Hell, during the mizzou game students were chanting "over-rated!". That wouldn't have flown 10 years ago.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:10 pm to North Dallas Tiger
If Bear Bryant could not change their soft gay image nobody can.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:11 pm to AllDayEveryDay
I appreciate your candor.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:16 pm to North Dallas Tiger
I have always thought that their image has held them back. Not many HS athletes are persuaded by that and more are turned off by it.
They still get solid recruits due to their location but I think their weirdness doesn’t help them.
They still get solid recruits due to their location but I think their weirdness doesn’t help them.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:24 pm to North Dallas Tiger
I grew up in Texas also, and the Longhorns were a bunch of draft dodgers and gay-liberal figs who do not represent the state of Texas.
And 90% of your fans didn’t go to school there and bought their tshirts at Walmart.
So yeah. We think you are weird also.
Don’t forget to trade in your firearms for dildos.
And 90% of your fans didn’t go to school there and bought their tshirts at Walmart.
So yeah. We think you are weird also.
Don’t forget to trade in your firearms for dildos.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:26 pm to North Dallas Tiger
I was told as a young buck in the 1980s ......rif you ever hold one in your mouth, you can never undo it
Great life lesson. The 80s was just the best.
Great life lesson. The 80s was just the best.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:27 pm to SEC Doctor
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Isn’t U Texas in a city that prides itself on being weird?
That was a battle lost well before the 90's when the city tried that "keep Austin weird" campaign. They priced out the weird and sold their spots to corporations. If you want a perfect example of gentrification you need look no farther than Austin. I'm sure other growing cities went though the same thing, but I grew up in and around Austin so I saw it first hand.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:30 pm to North Dallas Tiger
We have some really good traditions and then we have stupid shite that needs to go.
Traditions are fine. But being held captive in another era isn’t okay.
Traditions are fine. But being held captive in another era isn’t okay.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:32 pm to North Dallas Tiger
I hope not.
You do you, and we’ll continue to do us … with zero fricks given.
You do you, and we’ll continue to do us … with zero fricks given.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:32 pm to Aggie in TN
UT has a pretty strong military connection. Army Futures Command is in Austin and is tied into the University. We just don’t pretend to be a service academy like you do.
Sorta related fun fact: the CIA recruits heavily from Aggy and Auburn of all places.
Sorta related fun fact: the CIA recruits heavily from Aggy and Auburn of all places.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:33 pm to Longhorn Actual
George Bush was former director of CIA.
The More You Know
The More You Know
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:36 pm to North Dallas Tiger
They embrace their strangeness and wear it as a badge of honor. They were rejects in high school, but found a college full of other high school rejects that became their extended family. For that reason they'll never change.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:38 pm to Aggie in TN
As was Robert Gates (former president of A&M)
And George Tenet who spoke at my commencement.
And George Tenet who spoke at my commencement.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:40 pm to giveemhell
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They were rejects in high school
Not true. Your mom liked me.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:47 pm to North Dallas Tiger
As long as enrolling at places like LSU rather than A&M is a stigma of academic failure, I am sure the school will be just fine.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:47 pm to giveemhell
quote:You sound silly.
They were rejects in high school,
Texas A&M is tied with Purdue and the University of Michigan for the most Fortune 500 CEOs.
Aggie CEOS In The Fortune 500
Bruce D. Broussard ’84, Mays Business School, Humana
David M. Cordani ’88, Mays Business School, The Cigna Group
Kimberly A. Dang ’92, Mays Business School, Kinder Morgan
Robert E. Jordan ’85, ’86, College of Engineering, Mays Business School, Southwest Airlines,
Travis D. Stice ’84, College of Engineering, Diamondback Energy
Noel R. Wallace ’87, Mays Business School, Colgate-Palmolive
Darren W. Woods ’87, College of Engineering, Exxon Mobil
This post was edited on 10/9/24 at 6:22 am
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:53 pm to North Dallas Tiger
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I wonder if Aggie fans wish their traditions and culture would be more normal.
No.
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What if they completely reversed course and embraced a new, cooler, more normal image over time?
No.
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Is that even possible at this point?
No.
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