Conservatives Beat Aggies(Texas A&M)?

WSJ.com ^ | 12-01-03 | Best of the Web

[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."

[cars for sale]

except one, I have a great school boy friend from N TX living in Houston who is a pillar of the earth

[The_Victor]

Let me get this straight...

A&M has a dismal season on the football field...
Football coach blames conservatism on campus.

I don't see how the coach is helping his cause. If I'm a football player, I'm not going to A&M simply because the coach is a dolt.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>>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":

AD Byrne, you just lost 77-0. Your players had a little more wrong than 1 or 2 teeed off NAACP Pass rushers. If I were socially disadvantaged by about 77-0, perhaps I'd look for a scapegoat or two as well. Afterall, getting your Texas Art and Music a---- whipped on national tv probably has a disparate impact on your recruiting efforts.

Truth to be told, most college athletes are professionals and don't let annoying things like AA Bake Sales pee in their cheerios. If Big 10 competition is beyond the scope of 'The Junction Boys', there are other remedies.

When Oklahoma was gleefully snipping The UT Longhorns, an obviously happy OU drunk, help up a sign stating 'Texas should consider touch football.' It was nice of OU's fan base. It should sensitivity to the obviously disadvantaged that were stinking up the gridiron on an otherwise lovely Saturday afternoon.

[ken5050]

Mom..love yer rant....but, BUT..time to switch to the decaf..it's only football

[luckystarmom]

Not when RC Slocum was coach.

The school fired their best coach because he had one nominal season, and they hired the new coach and had one embarrassing season.

I'm an Aggie, and this is an embarrassment.

[dfwgator]

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!

I remembered that, it was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen, I wished OU would have hung 100 on them (and they very easily could have).

[dfwgator]

The school fired their best coach because he had one nominal season, and they hired the new coach and had one embarrassing season.

Well at least he did better than Bear Bryant did his first year at A&M.

[Tacis]

Where is the ACLU? Where are the free speechers?

If a big time coach ever even breathed the thought that the team lost because some leftists on campus were protesting Bush about [anything], the leftie wing nuts would be sreaming for a resignation. They'd be screaming about surpression of academic freedom, get rid of the Patriot Act, and sensitivity training for all, especially the new coach.

If this coach is such a jerk than he is not only a lousy football leader, he is a stain on the Aggie colors and should be asked to leave immediately. I plan to write my state legislators and demand significants cut backs in the money we are wasting with this program and that the next coach be slected only after assuring that he'd stand by his results and not go looking for scapegoats!

[dfwgator]

Coach Fran didn't make those comments, the AD did.

[ken5050]

Nebraska just one-upped A&M

[buffyt]

"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."

I didn't know that. I am grad. of Okla State Univ '73. I guess I will be kinder and gentler to Stoops from now on! Bedlam rivalry you know!

Best of luck in your bowl game!!!!!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

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":

Weren't the current crop of players (the ones who lost 77-0) recruited prior to the affirmative action bake sale? This clown should get his head out of his ass and switch off NPR. He really should try a new profession.

[jern]

that was my first thought.

[Texaggie79]

O M G!! I want Bill fired NOW. HE is the reason people don't want to come to A&M.

[Texaggie79]

Bill is the AD, from Nebraska. Not the COACH....

[vetvetdoug]

I would be embarrassed if I were from Texas A&M. I said it before, A&M was a decent college until it decided to go PC. Now its a cesspool for liberal democrats. Being a cesspool, it is hard to get the good quality football players that are numerous in Texas to go to A&M. Every good program in the country has Texas football players on the roster; just look at Oklahoma.

[Pedantic_Lady]

Talk about being a complete idiot. The team has a lousy season and the coach blames a protest?

Oh, A&M is full of B.S. excuses every time they lose a football game. I remember once when my university (UT-Austin) beat them, they said we only won because the bonfire collapsed. Losers. (Might I add that this was a few years before the bonfire collapse tragedy that cost the lives of some young students.)

[Pedantic_Lady]

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.

PWA HA HA HA

[Pedantic_Lady]

Is it true that an Aggie diploma doubles as a handicapped parking sticker in Houston?

ROFLMAO

[PhiKapMom]

Looks like you guys are going to the Cotton Bowl with a Sooner win over K-State. Hope you all go down there and trounce Ole Miss! The planets are aligned really odd though -- Longhorns want us to win also in Kansas City. Roy Williams was really funny when he said he couldn't believe he was wishing for a Sooner win -- they get in the BCS Bowl with our win over K-State.

We have to uphold the Big 12 South being Conference Champions again as well! The North, except for K-State, isn't really that good this year. Looks like Nebraska may be going where the Sooners went after Gibbs, down, down, and down before Bob Stoops came on the scene.

Bob Stoops and his staff are conservative along with our Athletic Director and Kelvin Sampson who spoke to the Cleveland County Republican Club several months ago -- a lot of the players are as well.