first off, yes, I do attend and will be graduating from texas a&m either this december or next may with a degree in petroleum engineering, depending on whether I get an internship this fall with petrohawk/bhp in australia.
Good for you. I hope that it works out well for you.
now, you're still not comprehending what i'm saying. I don't care if you're gonna bash me or my school (well, not exactly true, especially when you bash in your specific condescending way, see my paragraphs under the quote) i'm used to it and don't take offense too much. I don't get my feelings personally hurt by it, and usually have some clever retort to give back to them because that's my personality.
Well you do seem to care, but you also seem to have had no problems criticizing Longhorns fans in the past and the alums in general. Some of it I've even agreed with. And weren't you just earlier in this thread calling all MMA fans a bunch of *********s or something like that, yet you're calling my hypocrtical?
however, don't say you don't like it when people take shots at the school you support then turn around and do it right back. this is what gets at me. you have an inability to sense your own hypocrisy. you've stated multiple times you don't like it when people say stuff about the longhorns, then you respond in like. if you don't like it, then why do you do it?
Well as I've stated before, when Aggies do it, I just find it amusing. When most other fans of other teams or schools do it, I do as well. I know that Texas is doing great things to stay competitive and it's not a school to frown upon. Not to me any way. If someone else feels differently, well that's their perogative, but it isn't going to change my thoughts one way or the other. But if someone is smack talking or trashing my favorite team just to do it or out of hate, or where it's not legit, then I'll gladly put a few things in perspective for them or send some of it back. You know that old saying in here that people like to use. "Don't start none and there won't be none." Well that goes hand in hand doesn't it. You don't see me jumping in on Aggies threads just to bash them consistently. You've never seen me start an Aggie thread to bash them. But if I'm going to listen to some digs being taken at the school or team I root for and I don't consider it legit, then it's game on!! If you consider that hypocritical, because I'm not going to turn the other cheek because you say so, well so be it. I disagree, because I'm not running around looking for reasons to pick on Aggie.
you are correct, it's not! people are free to root for whoever the hell they want. but this patronizing mumbo jumbo about a&m being a cute little doormat for the high and mighty longhorns, or how anything an aggie says shouldn't be taken seriously or however you put it earlier in this thread is just freakin' stupid,
Well sorry, but that's how I feel. That's how a lot of fans that root for UT feel and even fans that don't like either team that I talk to seem to get the same feeling as that.
even moreso in my eyes coming from someone who didn't even attend said school. it's total snobbishness/dooshbaggery on my part, but i'd much rather have an actual graduate talk **** instead of a t-shirt fan trying to talk down to me because it's just comical coming from people who don't know what it's like to attend either of the schools involved.
And see, it is quite obvious that you do push this tired rhetoric. "You didn't go to school there so you can't root for them!! T-shirt fan!!" Lol! What the hell is a T-shirt fan any way?? And just because you strut around your campus singing the Aggie fight song or how you miss your mommy around the dorms doesn't make you anymore educated of a fan or about the school in general than a guy that didn't go there ever or someone who went there 30 years ago. Half of my family went to UT for the record. My grandfather whom I'm very proud of was a big time Alum over there that donated a ton of money there annually and told me football stories about his years at Texas ever since I was a little kid. So did my father who didn't go there by the way, but his brother did and a lot of my cousins did. I've been attending games out there since I first knew what football was. Some 18 year old brat who just graduated HS and is enrolled there because he decided to go there probably doesn't know half of the stuff I know and have cherished about the team since I was little. But according to you, HE has more right to say the things I'm saying than I do?? Puuuullleeeeese!! That's a bunch of horseshit if I've ever heard it in my existence. Show me this rule that states only school enrolled students should root for a college football team. In case you haven't noticed, it's a business and it operates for revenue and off of what the fans bring in. My family has contributed a lot of money to that school and has raised all of us to root for that school. We weren't forced to attend there though and never was that something I cared about doing when I graduated.
as an aside to this, real longhorns and I get on great as it is. there's always ribbing and jokes to be had, but there's usually a lot of respect there between us, because we know how great both institutions truly are, in their own separate ways.
Real Longhorns. Lol! You see that's the thing you obviously can't get past. Either you went to school there or you didn't and that's the thing with you. Guess where I did go? I went to University of Houston. I never cared about that place one way or the other either. Never cared about their athletics, because I took classes there. That didn't make me "a cougar." I wanted to live in Houston when I graduated. I didn't automatically become some Cougar fan for life because some bitter fan of some other school such as yourself said I had to. I knew where my fan allegiences were and they weren't going to change. Your whole premise behind this is silly.
I do agree that both institutions are great schools though. I have a lot of friends that attended A&M and partied there a lot when I was younger. You keep this chip on your shoulder completely looking past many of the statements in here that I have said.
