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Courides earned his bachelor’s degree (2008) and master’s degree (2015) from East Stroudsburg State, where he played rugby and helped lead the team to the 2007 Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union title.
Nice.
As someone whose blood is one-half British, I’m fully qualified to declare rugby players as being wired differently from the rest of humanity.
To them a concussion is just the universe giving a cheeky wink and a pat on the head.
Absolute legends.
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What’s the point in posting pictures of a cheerleader from 2 decades ago?
And yet, in this very thread you’ve referenced a fb game (Texas A&M 0 OU 77) that took place on 11/8/2003.
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Each cadet should be able to keep their helmet.
*Midshipmen
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re: Each Navy helmet for today’s game takes 4 hrs to hand paint
Posted by EKG on 12/13/25 at 9:56 am to Night Vision
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Who paid for it and why are they wasting all that money?
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Under Armour, Navy's official apparel partner, designs, produces, and funds the special alternate uniforms for the Army-Navy game—including those stunning hand-painted helmets.
As part of their sponsorship deal with the Naval Academy, Under Armour covers the costs of creating these custom, one-of-a-kind pieces (which take years of collaboration and planning). This is standard for service academy alternate uniforms: Under Armour handles Navy's, while Nike does the same for Army. The academies themselves don't pay out-of-pocket for these; it's baked into the apparel contracts, which also include standard gear and branding benefits.
Each Navy helmet for today’s game takes 4 hrs to hand paint
Posted by EKG on 12/13/25 at 9:51 am
That’s 4 hours of hand-painting.
Per helmet.
They’re completely customized, one-of-a-kind masterpieces.
Truly bespoke works of art.
Military Times
Per helmet.
They’re completely customized, one-of-a-kind masterpieces.
Truly bespoke works of art.
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The U.S. Naval Academy’s uniform for Saturday’s Army-Navy game pay homage to the U.S. Navy’s original six frigates from the service’s 250-year history.
The Under Armour-made football jerseys and helmets include elements that honor the USS Chesapeake, USS Congress, USS Constellation, USS President, USS United States and USS Constitution, the only remaining frigate of them all and the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
The font for the jersey’s wordmark and numbers are inspired by the “Act to Provide Naval Armament” document that authorized the invention of the first fleet.
The Navy’s original frigates are also represented through six ropes woven into the sleeves and collars of the uniform, with 250 knots that embody the service’s anniversary.
The Under Armour logo on the uniform is also adorned with copper, a nod to the chemical element that was pivotal in the construction of the six frigates, which were draped in copper to protect the wooden hulls from marine damage.
The stone-colored pants of the this year’s uniform recall the uniform of sailors during the time of the original frigates and are emblazoned with six ropes for the six frigates and 126 knots for the 126th Army-Navy game.
The copper-colored helmet is intricately detailed with a sketch of the USS Constitution on one side and “USN” on the other side.
Splitting the helmet down the middle is a wooden plank displaying six ropes with 126 knots, again in commemoration of the 126th Army-Navy game.
Military Times
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I wonder when the rest of the SEC will figure out that Texas and Oklahoma are never subject to a home and away with their rival and one of the hardest games on their schedule is at a neutral field......
I’ve said the very same for decades.
It’s not right that the horns never travel to Norman.
Going to ATX isn’t typically as daunting, but the premise stands.
It was different when they were in separate conferences.
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Keep telling us about how you don't care. It might work, eventually.
Gings5 becomes emotionally pressed about anything A&M related.
Ignore him.
:thup:
re: 2026 Schedule: A&M has the chance to empty Tiger stadium in back to back seasons.
Posted by EKG on 12/12/25 at 1:57 pm to DeathByTossDive225
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You got rid of Kelly & Sloan, so I suppose we owe you a debt.
re: 2026 Schedule: A&M has the chance to empty Tiger stadium in back to back seasons.
Posted by EKG on 12/12/25 at 1:26 pm to SemperFiDawg
We’re actually headed back to two destinations next season where we played this season.
At LSU and at Mizzou.
Kinda wild.
Both, however, are far better than back-to-back trips to the Soy-latte Sodom a few miles west of CSTX.
At LSU and at Mizzou.
Kinda wild.
Both, however, are far better than back-to-back trips to the Soy-latte Sodom a few miles west of CSTX.
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I wish. We have back to back bye weeks which I'm not sure has ever happened before.
Back-to-back bye weeks for Mizzou has to be a scheduling fail by the SEC.
Zero chance that was intentional.
If I’m Missouri’s AD, I'd be raising holy hell and demanding a fix before the ink even dries on those schedules.
ETA: A poster above says he doesn’t see back to back bye weeks on the Mizzou schedule. I haven’t checked either way, but it seems extremely far-fetched.
re: Texas A&M Meat Judging Team
Posted by EKG on 12/12/25 at 12:45 pm to Pvt Hudson
Quality beef is no laughing matter.
Yet you were going for cheap attaboy laughs from message board dorks by trying to dunk on the 23-year-old Texas A&M grad who likely signs off on purchases that move more money before lunch than your bloodline will see in a decade.
:booboo:
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re: Texas A&M Meat Judging Team
Posted by EKG on 12/12/25 at 11:42 am to Dissident ag
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Outside of the 3rd grade peen jokes, hopefully fellow southerners can appreciate the value being brought to the world.
Top meat judges are smart as hell (and do exceptionally well for themselves $).
But keep mocking Texas A&M University educated meat judges who walk straight into six-figure jobs, deciding whether your $300 ribeye is actually Prime or just overpriced Choice … while you champion the Gender Studies grad who’s now an unpaid intern writing editorials about how enjoying a rare steak is a microaggression against climate justice.
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Meat judging is a rare, high-precision skill that directly determines USDA quality and yield grades, enabling accurate valuation of livestock carcasses worth billions of dollars annually in the U.S. meat industry.
Graduates from elite meat-judging programs (led by Texas A&M University) are the primary recruiting pipeline for USDA graders, plant QA managers, and procurement buyers at major packers, commanding premium starting salaries and rapid career advancement because companies cannot easily train this expertise in-house.
A single grading decision on a rail of beef can swing tens of thousands of dollars in value, making expertly trained meat judges critical to profitability, supply-chain efficiency, and the consistent quality of meat reaching consumers.
re: I've been waiting to see Georgia play at Texas A&M
Posted by EKG on 12/12/25 at 10:46 am to Dawg4Life47
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College Station is a shite hole in the middle of nowhere
Calling it a shite hole just shows you don’t know what you’re talking about. Not really worth addressing beyond that.
Middle of nowhere?
It’s smack in the middle of the Texas Triangle (Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, San Antonio–Austin)—basically equidistant from three of the ten largest cities in the country.
On an average day it’s a Houston suburb.
“Middle of nowhere” doesn’t apply when you’ve got 2.5 million people in the metro area you share with Bryan.
re: I've been waiting to see Georgia play at Texas A&M
Posted by EKG on 12/12/25 at 10:35 am to RelentlessAnalysis
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Because it has the headquarters for the college of education
That’s Harrington and Harrington Tower, not Blocker.
re: Texas a&m DC Jay Bateman going to Kentucky?
Posted by EKG on 12/11/25 at 12:35 pm to TexasWranglers
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there is nothing to do in CS except support ATM.
You couldn’t be more wrong.
I grew up in one of the country’s biggest cities and have a pretty good handle on various locales. I also spend a ton of time in College Station and God-willing, will land there permanently in the future. Claiming “there’s nothing to do but root for A&M” is what you say when your entire exposure to the area is message-board memes or a six-hour game-day fly-by.
CS has a range of great bars, live music, fantastic food, outdoor escapes, and friendly Texas culture—none of which you’d notice from the parking lot. It’s not a large metro, but pretending that any place without soul-crushing traffic and $25 drinks is a wasteland is peak burnt-orange nonsense.
It’s booming and is way more than just the university. My biggest concern is that its rate of growth will continue.
re: Stereotyping fan bases after my first month here.
Posted by EKG on 12/11/25 at 8:38 am to Water_dawg
Homeschooled kids reason for themselves as opposed to conforming.
The public-schooled masses crave approval and fold when the herd disapproves—the polar opposite of Texas Aggies, who don’t give a single shite what anyone thinks.
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The public-schooled masses crave approval and fold when the herd disapproves—the polar opposite of Texas Aggies, who don’t give a single shite what anyone thinks.
:doublebird:
It’s a breeding ground for strange personalities
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Laughter is good.
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You so proud of your team’s traditions, you should have a curated set of links to sites explaining all this “history” behind tbe weirdness.
Because long ago we learned our traditions aren’t for others. We post an explanation, and the instant reply is:
“Nobody cares about your cult”
“Pretty gay bro”
47 eggplants and a photoshopped Reveille
Thus, we are perfectly happy keeping explanations in-house for people who actually give a damn (freshmen, recruits, visiting families, the random German tourist who stumbled into Kyle Field).
The rest of y’all can keep thinking we sacrifice goats at midnight or whatever coping mechanism gets you through our existence.
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Why does a team called Aggy have a dog as a mascot?
Because “Aggie” isn’t an animal or a thing; it’s what A&M students and Former Students are.
Texas A&M never wanted a guy in a farmer costume as a mascot.
(“Aggie” mascot attempts in the 1920s looked ridiculous and were quickly dropped
) Reveille became the official mascot when Ag cadets accidentally hit a dog with their car then smuggled her onto campus.
She barked each morning when reveille/bugles sounded on the Quad.
The mascot was born.
And “Aggy” isn’t our name; it’s Aggies.
The deliberate misspelling—started on a horn message board—is an attempted pejorative used by horns in retaliation for Aggies calling UT and horns “t.u.” and “tea-sippers.”
Some SEC message boarders subsequently glommed onto it.
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