Originally posted by Longhornfan1024
The aggieness of this post is outstanding.
1. Try to discount UT's huge wins advantage because UT had an advantage.
2. Claim to be dominating the football landscape in Texas after finishing 4th in the SEC West with a solid .500 conference record.
3. Claim Strong has been a dud in recruiting with no actual evidence to back up that claim.
4. Claim no one can see the LHN when it has continued to pick up carriers, including the most important carrier for Austin viewers--TWC.
5. Conveniently fail to mention that the SEC network is facing the same problems getting carriers that the LHN and virtually every other sports network faced.
6. Revert to conference smack talk because you can't talk smack about your own success.
7. Limit the entire conversation to football because you know you can't talk shit about other sports.1. For the umpteenth time, pretending there were not clear advantages in athletics for t.u. until the modern period is asinine. Y'all would refuse to play us at home, took advantage of war time to overwhelm a depleted military college, we were an all male military college during that time, which didn't hold the same attraction as a school with girls and non-military regulations to top athletes, there were no scholarship limits at the time, which compounded the problem by your school offering 100 scholarships to anyone and everyone to keep them from going to other in-state rivals. Since the modernization of A&M, the record is more indicitive of the true equality of the programs.
2. We finished 4th in the SEC West and still finished ranked ahead of y'all. Baylor was a top 10 team, but who gets more coverage? A&M is ubiquious in the state now, much like it was a sea of burnt orange the previous decade. We are the "it" team now, we have the most coverage playing in the best conference, we have a popular coach who is dominating recruiting, and the athletic department and university administration in Austin are a clusterfuck. That sounds dominating to me.
3.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/teamrank/2015/all/all;_ylt=AjucZSjXdaKT2WlDsA21_NtDPZB4Despite the usual bump in recruiting a new coach brings, y'all are behind Northwestern for 2015 recruits. On our end, we are in the drivers seat for the majority of elite talent in the state, and very likely could end up with 5 5*s and 9 4*s when all is said and done.
4. TWC only carries it in Texas, not nationwide. Despite that, it doesn't matter what it is showing in Austin, because everyone there would rather watch A&M anyway.
http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com/2013/09/am-alabama-ratings-point-to-secs-genius-in-importing-the-aggies.html/5. SEC Network already has Dish and U-Verse in the fold, which is way ahead of the curve. DirecTV will pick it up at the last hour, and cable will follow.
6. We have been better than y'all since we moved to the SEC, and all signs point to that dominance continuing for at least the near future. We are winning more on the field than y'all, against better competition, winning in the eyes of the recruits, putting more players in the NFL to continue our exposure, building the best facilities in the country, etc. etc. While we haven't had the ultimate success (yet), we still have been way more successful than y'all recently.
7.
http://thedirectorscup.com/current-standings1/We have beaten y'all in the Directors cup 3 times, and y'all have beaten us 3 times. We have 9 national championships the past 5 years, y'all have won 3. Doesn't look like that argument has legs.
