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Conservatives Beat Aggies(Texas A&M)?
WSJ.com ^ | 12-01-03 | Best of the Web

Posted on 12/02/2003 8:07:06 AM PST by SwinneySwitch

The Texas A&M football team has just finished a dreadful season, going 4-8 overall and 2-6 in the Big 12 conference, including a 77-0 humiliation at the University of Oklahoma. Texas A&M's athletic director, Bill Byrne, has a novel theory as to why his school is suffering athletically. He blames the Young Conservatives of Texas A&M, a student group, which held one of those "affirmative action bake sales":

"Free speech is not an issue for me, and differing political beliefs are not an issue for me, because I believe that reasonable people can disagree. But I'm disappointed over the national attention that Texas A&M University received recently because of a few individuals and their idea of a protest.

The Texas A&M Bake Sale plays right into the hands of those who recruit against us, in both athletics and in the general student population. They will use something like this to suggest that Texas A&M does not have a welcoming environment.

We all know that is not true. Unfortunately, a few individuals represented 45,000 students and an entire community in precisely the wrong light. My hope is that those of you who have a chance to influence public opinion will speak out against anything like this that discredits Texas A&M University. It causes me to redouble my efforts to do exactly that."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aggiejokes; aggies; am; bakesale; texas; youngconservatives
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Talk about national attention!
1 posted on 12/02/2003 8:07:07 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
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To: Texaggie79
ping!
2 posted on 12/02/2003 8:08:21 AM PST by BrooklynGOP (www.logicandsanity.com)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Talk about being a complete idiot. The team has a lousy season and the coach blames a protest?

What a tool.
3 posted on 12/02/2003 8:08:41 AM PST by Bikers4Bush
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To: SwinneySwitch
Is this from the Onion?
4 posted on 12/02/2003 8:10:58 AM PST by Dante3
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To: SwinneySwitch
seems quite the contrary to me...let the truth be told, then proven and recruits show up. tell the truth, they will come.

a majority of Aggies is Texans and Texans is truth tellers
, well except some there in Houston.
5 posted on 12/02/2003 8:11:04 AM PST by cars for sale
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To: Bikers4Bush
Holy Moley. I am SO embarrassed. I am an Aggie, and I can't believe how my alma mater has backslid in the past decade...
6 posted on 12/02/2003 8:11:53 AM PST by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: cars for sale
I'm in Houston. That's no lie!
7 posted on 12/02/2003 8:12:45 AM PST by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Bikers4Bush
Is this the athletic equivalent of the "Twinkey Defense?"

I saw the game with Oklahoma and believe me, it's gonna take a load of Twinkeys to explain this season away. What an idiot. Must be a dem.

8 posted on 12/02/2003 8:14:06 AM PST by Adrastus
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To: SwinneySwitch
How did this liberal AD get hired down in Aggie Land?
9 posted on 12/02/2003 8:14:11 AM PST by hapc
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To: SwinneySwitch
...a few individuals represented 45,000 students and an entire community in precisely the wrong light...

Precisely the correct light.
10 posted on 12/02/2003 8:14:22 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: SwinneySwitch
Did you hear about the aggie on the road going to college? Saw a sign that said Clean Restrooms ahead. By the time he got to campus he had cleaned 86 restrooms.
11 posted on 12/02/2003 8:14:50 AM PST by SF Republican
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To: Dante3
No, Onion content is not allowed on FR anymore. In short, the Onion sucks.
12 posted on 12/02/2003 8:15:36 AM PST by xrp (The best service 'public servants' can do for the public is to get out of public service.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
The repute which football coaches have for wisdom is unfathomable to me.

He's a farging football coach - not a philosopher!
13 posted on 12/02/2003 8:17:00 AM PST by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: Endeavor; lodwick
The Texas A&M Bake Sale plays right into the hands of those who recruit against us, in both athletics and in the general student population.

If we extend this theory to Iowa State recruiting,,, are we to assume the Bondage Club, funded by student fees, is going to increase or decrease enrollment?

14 posted on 12/02/2003 8:19:09 AM PST by Iowa Granny (One man with courage makes a majority..... Andrew Jackson)
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To: Dante3
Is this from the Onion?

No he was imported from the University of Nebraska.

15 posted on 12/02/2003 8:19:45 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: SwinneySwitch
University of Oklahoma has one of the most conservative coaches in America -- Bob Stoops and his staff. When invited to the White House after the 2000 National Championship season by Pres Bush, Bob Stoops came right and out said we supported you Mr. President.

Tell the Aggies they lost because they have an athletic director with mush for brains. The way they hired Franchionne from Alabama while firing Slocum the way they did, the Aggies deserve everything they have coming.

Was at the Oklahoma/A&M game -- The Aggies quit on their coach halfway through the 2nd quarter. We played everyone including the scout team and the Aggies still couldn't cross their own 41 yard line. Three first downs -- give me a break! Baylor gave more of a game by far then the Aggies.

They were pathetic and gave about 30% in that game. This is one game we could have scored a 100 or more. Taking a knee on first down on the 3 yard line with a lot of time left in the game should have been an embarrassment to the Aggies. Or how about letting the clock run in the second half and no time outs when the Sooners got first downs or either team ran out of bounds. Franchione saying if the clock hadn't been running, they could have least scored just added insult to his own program. They couldn't even get a first down against our scout team, how were they going to score. Then he said the ref never told him the clock was going to keep running but the ref said they did!

We put in plays with a fullback that have never been run here so we wouldn't score and what do the Aggie players do -- tackle our player in the backfield that was 10 yards behind the quaterback to not to score and then march around the field beating on their chest after the tackle in the 4th quarter down 77-0!

Texas A&M should be ashamed of their Aggie football team and the performance they put on here in Norman -- to quit and not try hard says a lot about their coaching staff and the players themselves. I would take Baylor's pride over the Aggies any day of the week for this season.

Maybe some Aggie can tell us Sooners why they wave white towels around -- that Saturday it looked like surrender flags. Don't you think waving a towel with the A&M red color would be more appropriate.

My two cents -- have zero respect for the Texas A&M football program right now -- they should get a clue from Baylor who never quit in our game. I have kept my mouth shut about that 77-0 win, but this article takes the cake. OU for their information is a conservative university for the most part as is Okie State who also clobbered the Aggies.
16 posted on 12/02/2003 8:19:45 AM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- OU Sooners are #1)
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To: SF Republican
ROFLOL!!! Longhorn fan perhaps?
17 posted on 12/02/2003 8:20:33 AM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- OU Sooners are #1)
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To: Dante3
The Journal got it from Bill Byrne's Wednesday Weekly.

http://www.aggieathletics.com/feature.php?type=1&Feature=41
18 posted on 12/02/2003 8:21:19 AM PST by SwinneySwitch (Freedom isn't Free - Support those who ensure it!)
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To: SwinneySwitch
This isn't news. EVERYONE beats the Aggies.
19 posted on 12/02/2003 8:21:40 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: SF Republican
Is it true that an Aggie diploma doubles as a handicapped parking sticker in Houston?
20 posted on 12/02/2003 8:22:29 AM PST by hapc
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