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Can Texas A&M ever change their image?

Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:07 pm
Posted by North Dallas Tiger
United States of America
Member since Mar 2024
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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.

Posted by Hugh McElroy
Member since Sep 2013
18574 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:08 pm to
Alternatively, and hear me out on this, go frick yourself.
Posted by SEC Doctor
Member since Aug 2024
5788 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:10 pm to
Isn’t U Texas in a city that prides itself on being weird?
Posted by AllDayEveryDay
Nawf Tejas
Member since Jun 2015
8440 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:10 pm to
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.
Posted by TheFourHorsemen
Next door to Ric Flair
Member since Jul 2021
4410 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:10 pm to
If Bear Bryant could not change their soft gay image nobody can.
Posted by North Dallas Tiger
United States of America
Member since Mar 2024
13008 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:11 pm to
I appreciate your candor.
Posted by ChapelHillSooner
Chapel Hill
Member since Dec 2020
886 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:16 pm to
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.
Posted by Aggie in TN
Franklin TN
Member since Jun 2022
2237 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:24 pm to
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.
Posted by BHTiger
Charleston
Member since Dec 2017
6994 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:26 pm to
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.
Posted by Atari
Texas
Member since Dec 2009
3856 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:27 pm to
quote:

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 by AggieArchitect2004
Member since Oct 2023
1917 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:30 pm to
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.
Posted by Wellborn
Cypress, TX
Member since Oct 2014
3441 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:32 pm to
I hope not.

You do you, and we’ll continue to do us … with zero fricks given.
Posted by Longhorn Actual
Member since Dec 2023
2178 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:32 pm to
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.
Posted by Aggie in TN
Franklin TN
Member since Jun 2022
2237 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:33 pm to
George Bush was former director of CIA.

The More You Know
Posted by giveemhell
Member since Nov 2012
97 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:36 pm to
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 by AggieArchitect2004
Member since Oct 2023
1917 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:38 pm to
As was Robert Gates (former president of A&M)

And George Tenet who spoke at my commencement.
Posted by AggieArchitect2004
Member since Oct 2023
1917 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:40 pm to
quote:

They were rejects in high school

Not true. Your mom liked me.
Posted by Windy City
Member since Jun 2019
2049 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:47 pm to
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 by Wellborn
Cypress, TX
Member since Oct 2014
3441 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:47 pm to
quote:

They were rejects in high school,
You sound silly.



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 by Dr RC
The Money Pit
Member since Aug 2011
59884 posts
Posted on 10/8/24 at 10:53 pm to
quote:

I wonder if Aggie fans wish their traditions and culture would be more normal.


No.

quote:

What if they completely reversed course and embraced a new, cooler, more normal image over time?


No.

quote:

Is that even possible at this point?


No.
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