Final Eyes of Texas in College Station! 11-24-2011

On the field for the last Eyes of Texas against the Aggies

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[hunteralford13]

Maybe because we think like normal people A&M

[greengreen2700]

@patient451 Where are your facts? I don't need 2000 characters and some colorful words to prove that you're full of it. I never said it wasn't about money. Why don't you look pride and rhetorical question up; you're actually misusing both. If you can't see that the vast majority of tu fans don't go / haven't gone there, then you're not worth my time. You can't maintain a steady position, you're unclear, tactless, and your only points are unfounded. Don't bother to reply, I'm not interested.

[patient451]

@greengreen2700 discover the wonderful world of capitalism. But when you do, and you finally rid your head of contradictory standards of debate, keep it to yourself. I genuinely would like to not discuss this further.

[patient451]

@greengreen2700 of the content of your "argument" astounds me. Real arguments rely on a lot more than things like "tu has more tshirt fans than A&M". I've been to college station countless times, I have family there, a good number of my cousins are A&M alumni. I know what the environment is. Your fact-less condescension is nothing short of amusing. Bring more than Aggie rhetoric to the discussion if you want it to be "valid", as you put it. Also, look at SEC motivations for expansion, and

[patient451]

@greengreen2700 t-shirt fans? Do you have numbers to support this? Was a census done? Or is this the product of Aggie lore, which permeates the arguments between schools, and is really just a reversal of a decade old trend in which A&M's profitability was buoyed by merchandising? That's a rhetorical question, by the way, don't answer it. (Must I explain rhetorical questions now, as well? Or do you have that concept grasped? These are also rhetorical questions, so I hope you do.) The sheer irony

[patient451]

@greengreen2700 running at the chance. There's a profound difference in fanbase and "pride" - I said Texas has more pride, as in the school itself has too much control in its own financial interests and assets to engage in the kind of conference realignment activity A&M's toiling in. I didn't think I'd be explaining the concept of pride today. And I'm sorry, but if you're looking so adamantly for a solid argument, why do you insist on this age-old Aggie fallback plan of claiming UT is mostly

[patient451]

@greengreen2700 Sigh...delusions of grandeur. It's financial fact that the SEC wanted to land a more lucrative deal with FOX and expansion makes perfect sense to do it. Texas was an early choice but there was no way they'd leave the Big 12. Tech was never going to happen. I'm a senior at UT, so no I'm not "from the SEC" - but it doesn't take someone with a business degree to know that college football is about money first and everything else second. The SEC wanted two new schools - A&M came

[greengreen2700]

@patient451 tu's fanbase is almost entirely tshirt fans, while A&M's isn't. that's why they make more money. A&M left for better opportunities, certainly more so than to get out of tus shadow. Oh wait!? You're from the SEC? Oh, you're not? So your arguments are based on... nothing? Clearly the SEC wanted us for a reason. Bottom line. Hell of a lot more... pride? You have few REAL fans. You haven't been to College Station have you? I grew up in Austin so don't bs me. next.

[patient451]

@greengreen2700 money, which they'll get from the SEC's equal share money pool, and they'll take a few seasons of getting donkey stomped all while maintaining that this was the best decision they ever made. This is about money and it's about pride, both of which Texas has a hell of a lot more of - which is why you don't see anyone in Austin losing sleep over the Aggies throwing a tantrum on their way out the door. The response to this final game just proves the Aggies can't let anything go.

[patient451]

@greengreen2700 themselves if they think the SEC picked them because they're a strong football contender. Seriously? A team that had all the talent to make a BCS bowl pulled a 2010-Texas and went 6-6, 4 of the losses coming after holding huge first half leads - INCLUDING against the one team they set out to beat, at home. A&M hasn't been relevant in the Big 12 in years - the conference has belonged to OU and occasionally Texas, and A&M's ego is too damaged to handle it anymore. A&M wants more