An Aggie's view on UM-Alabama
I sit next to a Texas A&M grad and I mentioned to him that they, seemingly, finalized the deal for Michigan to play 'Bama at Jerry World in 2012. Suffice it to say he's very, very unhappy.
He said they need to make a rule that you can't play a neutral site game in any state not represented by a conference because all they are doing is using the game as a recruiting tool and that upsets him, a lot (at which point I told him he can blame Jerry but he didn't seem to grasp that one). Beyond that, apparently Oklahoma State used to have a camp in Houston and they passed a rule that said you can't have an out of state camp (don't know if that's a Big 12 thing or a NCAA thing) and he was very upset with OK State doing that because they are just mooching off of Texas. I asked him, well, what's wrong with that? OK State is closer to Houston than Texas Tech is so should you ban them from Houston as well? What if you were an LSU fan and they had a camp in Houston, would you still support the ban? He then said that he thinks no team from outside of Texas should be able to even play in Texas unless it's against a Texas team because, get this, the state of Texas is spending it's money to educate these kids and build the stadiums so they shouldn't be supporting anyone from another state doing anything to get those kids outside of playing a Texas team...
Yeah, Texas really is its own nation...
September 27th, 2010 at 2:13 PM ^
Like the type of nation that gets their asses whipped at home by a mediocre UCLA team.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:16 PM ^
Or the type of nation that needs the referees to help them out in order to beat Nebraska in the Big 12 championship game.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:18 PM ^
the school's football program will have to speak for itself if you're talking about recruiting. So what if a northern school comes to Texas to recruit. If Texax A&M is upset that they are losing recruits they need to look at their own program to improve. And I felt the same way when we lost Rojo from Muskegon to USC.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:27 PM ^
at Ford Field. They can play SMU, if they prefer. YeeeeHaaawww! I'll go, y'all.
Please just promise that there'll be about 10,000 cute, rowdy, Texas women at the game. Oh, wait. That kind of rules out A&M as a contender, doesn't it? Dang.
September 27th, 2010 at 3:26 PM ^
Please just promise that there'll be about 10,000 cute, rowdy, Texas women at the game. Oh, wait. That kind of rules out A&M as a contender, doesn't it? Dang.
Swing and a miss.
September 27th, 2010 at 3:37 PM ^
Huge miss. As a freshman at A&M, I can say that A&M absolutely blows Michigan away.
September 27th, 2010 at 3:49 PM ^
We might be able to get Bill Ford to put up some Jerry Jones-type money. A&M versus SMU. Glorious coeds, a massive promotion for the F-150 pickup, A&M's hurt feelings are soothed, and best of all, they can, uh, recruit Michigan.
September 27th, 2010 at 4:48 PM ^
We have two Texas A&M students/alumns on this board? Weird.
September 27th, 2010 at 5:40 PM ^
Make that three, I did my undergrad there.
September 27th, 2010 at 7:10 PM ^
September 27th, 2010 at 2:18 PM ^
September 27th, 2010 at 2:35 PM ^
+1 for the use of "wackadoos"
September 27th, 2010 at 3:23 PM ^
Love the profile pic, I live in RIchmond. There is a guy in town whose license plate says FMICH. I wasted no time calling DMV and saying I was offended by the suggested language.
September 27th, 2010 at 9:19 PM ^
September 27th, 2010 at 2:18 PM ^
that has only, UT, A&M, TT, Houston and Baylor and whatever other school that UT wants to destroy, then you can lock down the state, but when Jerry World has 110k watching two of the most-storied if THE most storied programs in college football playing and spending big bucks in-state to do it, just STFU.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:35 PM ^
September 27th, 2010 at 6:14 PM ^
Isn't that basically the new Big 12?
Oh wait, they're not all in Texas...they're just all in Texas's pocket.
September 27th, 2010 at 10:32 PM ^
(Conference Texas)
September 27th, 2010 at 2:20 PM ^
September 27th, 2010 at 2:30 PM ^
I'm a Texas resident as well so I'm not really lumping us all together but I don't know of any other state in the country that has more "Eff everybody else, my state is the best of everything" people than Texas. Part of that might be that there are basically no major cities along the borders (I'm not counting Texarkana) and it takes you hours on end to get out of the state from most all the major cities that creates this kind of mentality. I mean, I've known literally dozens of people who've never left the state in their lives and a number of them are over 60 and probably never will leave the state and I'm in DFW so we're not talking Midland or something. I just can't imagine any other state is like that.
But no, not everyone is like that and I know a number of UT fans that are pretty level headed (don't know any Aggie fans that are that level headed tho so I'll let that speak for itself) so it's not the whole state but, suffice it to say, there are a number of people very PO'd at Jerry despite the economic windfall that a game like UM-'Bama brings to the area.
On a side note - does anyone have any idea how they are going to do tickets when they finally announce it? It's around my birthday and I'm thinking I'll give the wife an easy option of just getting me tickets for my birthday ;)
September 27th, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^
September 27th, 2010 at 2:19 PM ^
I live in Texas, and they have more moron fans per capita than any place i have been. Its either their team or nothing… I try to stay objective when i talk about the Longhorns and the Cowboys down here, but they just say "well your team sucks so you cant talk about my team" *sighs*
September 27th, 2010 at 2:26 PM ^
You've never been to Ohio? Lucky you.
September 27th, 2010 at 4:49 PM ^
definition: noun - 1. four lettered word meaning to become obsessively obsessed with obsession for OSU football, 2. to become an idiot, 3. a condition similar to Turrets Syndrome, where the afflicted can only complete partial sentences on any other subject than OSU football using a mixture of obscenities.
I'd put the State of Ohio up against Texas any day. They deserve each other.
September 27th, 2010 at 8:08 PM ^
Turrets Syndrome, eh?
September 27th, 2010 at 10:00 PM ^
Oh noes! They have mounted machine guns now?
September 27th, 2010 at 10:09 PM ^
to know that it is "Tourette Syndrome."
September 27th, 2010 at 10:33 PM ^
You really kicked him to the curb there.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:21 PM ^
colleague know that having M-AL play in Texas will bring millions of dollars to Texas in the form of flights, hotels, meals, beer, parking...?
As an added bonus to Texas, this is all money that the states of Michigan and Alabama don't make.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:24 PM ^
He really doesn't care about that, I started to point that out to him but all he cares about is the Div I talent staying in state no matter what.
September 27th, 2010 at 6:25 PM ^
Yeah but honestly, it's not like the average Texan will be materially better off because we played one game there. I'm sure the Motor City Bowl makes some tiny economic impact on Detroit, but I don't notice it.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:24 PM ^
Tell him the Longhorns already get all of A&M's recruits. If the aggies want to compete they need to get off their asses and get acquainted with Florida.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:26 PM ^
They still accept the US dollar.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:34 PM ^
Actually, from being down there, I think the peso is more popular in S. Texas.
September 27th, 2010 at 4:52 PM ^
MGoApologies...
September 27th, 2010 at 2:37 PM ^
M & Alabama playing in Dallas = Sold Out hotels, tons of money to the city
Any Texas team plays in this game and there is a major drop off in hotel revenue.
This is the same reason neither Georgia nor GT have played in the Atlanta kickoff game yet, and probably won't any time soon.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:39 PM ^
It wouldn't surprise me a bit if they continued their border fence "all the way around".
September 27th, 2010 at 5:25 PM ^
The people who used to inhabit the land now know as 'Texas' say illegal immigration has been around for a long time...except they called it 'invading white people'.
September 27th, 2010 at 6:16 PM ^
We've now crossed over into politics...
September 27th, 2010 at 6:32 PM ^
September 27th, 2010 at 6:50 PM ^
Don't think so.
September 27th, 2010 at 6:41 PM ^
Well, if it keeps people from Louisiana and Oklahoma out, I'm down with adding some more fence. Arkansas is meh and I've got nothing against New Mexicans. Are New Mexicans responsible for anything?
September 27th, 2010 at 2:42 PM ^
Liek the other guys, I too am in Dallas and all I can say is: A&M = CULT. These guys get together every Friday night (at midnight) to practice yelling chants.
September 27th, 2010 at 3:29 PM ^
There is a lot of weirdness at A&M, but in my opinion, Yell Practice is a pretty cool tradition. I'm really not sure why you singled that out as cultish.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:44 PM ^
I was pretty meh on this game, but if your Aggie friend is anything to go by, then I may come around to it.
Treating Michigan and Alabama like invading infidels is pretty comical, and if the game manages to piss off a wide swath of Texans then I'll be in total support. The sentiment that "no out of state teams should be allowed to play on the sacred ground that is aTexan football field" is so delusional that the people harboring it are worth provoking by repeated transgressions.
Also this sentiment...
I'm a Texas resident as well so I'm not really lumping us all together but I don't know of any other state in the country that has more "Eff everybody else, my state is the best of everything"
...is easily rivalved if not surpassed by Alaskans, unfortunately they don't have a football team to help make it more noticeable.
September 27th, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^
Aggie football......my sides hurt from laughing.....
September 27th, 2010 at 2:46 PM ^
Did the conversation shift to him exclaiming that Texas should declare its independence from the US? Texans love that topic as well.
September 27th, 2010 at 10:29 PM ^
"Secession".
September 27th, 2010 at 2:47 PM ^
Texas for a few years, about an hour and a half from Dallas. We went to visit him down there for Christmas one year. Iowa, I believe, was playing the 'Horns in a bowl game. We were cheering for Iowa (me being a Michigan fan, him being a Penn St fan, we wanted the B10 to win). Boy you should have seen the looks we got in the Texas Roadhouse that was showing the game.
Anyways, you should have told this Texas A+M fan to stay out of Florida then, because I noticed they had a recruit this year from Boyd Anderson HS (Demar Dorsey's HS)
September 27th, 2010 at 3:03 PM ^
I am not sure that there is a more delusional fanbase in the universe than Texas A&M (sans MSU, of course). This surprises me little.