re: Aggies Will Have Midnight Yell Practice by Walk-Ons

Well one thing for sure. They are not protesting trump. ATm is one of the most conservative schools in the country.

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Aggies Will Have Midnight Yell Practice

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I married an Aggie. You guys don't know half of it. It really makes you understand how they can be so mediocre while having one of the richest athletic departments in the country.

My wife begged me to go to yell practice with her in 2012. The insults the yell leaders throw out were just extremely lame. They weren't offensive. It's your typical sophomoric football banter. Johnny was beaten as a kid. Judge let LSU adopt him because they can't beat anyone. I was way more offended by the educated adults getting a kick out of the whole thing.

I do enjoy Kyle Stadium when A&M is doing well. When they really get their yelling synchronized, it can take away your equilibrium.

I don’t think Walkons is sanctioning it. It’s just near there.

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We can make fun of them all we want but I think it's a pretty cool and unique tradition.

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Your first point is spot on. We can, and will, make fun of them all we want. Everyone else does. Why should we be different?

"Unique" is a gross understatement.

I will give you this, their dedication and depth of tradition is impressive. But there is nothing "cool" about it. It's at best weird, and that is a universally held opinion outside of the university and it's alum.

This may seem a little overly dramatic, but it doesn't stop with sports or with graduation. Their tradition in essence is a brain washing. It stays with many of them the rest of their lives. And guess what. They believe it somehow makes them better than you. If you don't believe me come live among them for a while. You get 2 or 3 of them together, and become a little fly on the wall, and you will find out in a hurry what they truly think of Tiger fans. Oh man! Unless you like being thought of as a drunk inbred, you're in for a rude awakening.

Anything that happens twice on their campus is automatically a tradition. If you ever need help getting to sleep, have any Aggie explain it all to you.

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When they really get their yelling synchronized, it can take away your equilibrium.

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I have been to Kyle field for both day and night games and never witnessed this. I think the rehearsed cheers take away the noise. It is not even in the neighborhood of Tiger Stadium even with their huge student section taking up one side of the stadium.

The most bizarre thing they do to me is a sing song that is about sawing off the Texas Longhorns horns. Really?? How long have they been out of the Big 12? They sing this at least twice a game.

Being from Texas originally, it wasn't too bad coaching in College Station when they were in the Big 12. But once they joined the SEC, they lost their rivals and need someone to hate and We're the closest thing to them.

Kid you not... when I was an assistant principal, a parent of a student who was in an altercation came in to my office to complain about my discipline. He said, "I am an Aggie professor of engineering and since you are a LSU graduate, you don't have any idea of the Aggie way and we Aggies run College Station and this school, so your way, the LSU way, doesn't belong here."

I told him, "since you want me to do things the Aggie way, I'll go back and send him to alternative school for 30 days and he can't walk the stage at graduation either. Since it was his 1st offense ever in HS, I gave him 5 days on campus suspension so he can still walk the stage, which is the right way."

He changed his tune right away...