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UT A & M Thanksgiving Day

Tuesday Nov 23 2010

Aggie Football player I regret that most of you have not attended a UT A & M Football Game in Person, it dwarfs any Roman Colisuem spectacle. UT has Bevo, the cowboys, the Silver Spurs, the huge band, cheerleanders that make the Cowboy Cheerleaders want to show up in their sweats, and

A & M has, well, spirit, sorry I was a UT Grad. I have never quite gotten over the all male  Aggie cheerleaders of the 1960s.

But as they say this time it is different, A & M has squeezed into the top 20 and UT was down four in a row, whipping mighty Florida Atlantic 6-3

And the nod it so the Aggies, and in Austin no less, geez,

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5 responses to “UT A & M Thanksgiving Day”

  1. Gilbert Gonzalez Jr. Avatar
    Gilbert Gonzalez Jr.

    Go Aggies Go

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  2. Phillip Garcia Avatar
    Phillip Garcia

    I have no favorite college football teams, but I do enjoy watching football. I prefer to watch the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, Washington Redskins, and the Philadelphia Eagles. I only thing I liked about college football is watching all the bowl games, and national championship game. If ever Texas A&M at San Antonio gets a football team, then that is when I will become a college football fan. Go Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving Day!!

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  3. Dennis Elam Avatar
    Dennis Elam

    Phillip
    Trust me on this, the Aggie UT game is THE southern match up!
    In Odessa we actually had a sit down dinner with home grown acts spoofing one another, this is the big one!
    It is Reville the bulldog versus Bevo the Longhorn
    We will be reporting on various developments, and to think that A & M is favored at Memorial Stadium in Austin,
    oh the embarassment!
    More to follow!!!!

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  4. Rene Castillo Avatar
    Rene Castillo

    My family has always been Longhorn fans but I really never cared for college sports much. But now that I am attending A@M I have started cheering for the Aggies. This was a good game but it was satisfying to see A&M end the Longhorns Season.

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  5. Dennis Elam Avatar
    Dennis Elam

    All
    there is no joy in Muddville
    the great Casey has struck out..
    That is from a famous poem about baseball, I know of no football equivalent, other than this past season for UT.
    One student reports that business at Austin restaurants and hotels has fallen off significantly, even season ticket holders are not attending from out of town! This is a good example of operating leverage, using high fixed costs, to boost revenue. But when business falls off, one is stuck with big losses. Here it is the business of wining.
    Hundreds of books are written on leadership and many use sports themes or examples. After all, if you compared these two teams player by player, physical size, running ability, etc. there would be little difference. Each has the best training facility and nutrition available. But it all comes down to working as a team for one hour. I spotlighted what I thought was an ethical shortcoming in Coach Brown. He remarked after the Iowa State loss that the team stinks. UT lost four in a row after that, and barely beat marginal Florida Atlantic. This performance of course was on display for their opponents, predictably it energized them.
    This ends a nine or ten year win streak for UT, one could study how it all unraveled in one game, and then really fell apart in one interview. Ethics and how we treat one another matter. Or as Socrates put it, how shall we live?

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