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set shot said...
I have two older brothers who were Aggies, and I visited them and pulled for A&M to win when I was a boy. I had no desire to go there, and when I chose Baylor they became Baylor fans and remain so, though pulling for A&M to win first and foremost. Quite a number of friends from high school days went to A&M, good folks.
I never disliked A&M and don't dislike them now. I think that they were ill advised to forsake rivalries of over a century in the making to take an ego trip into a conference that is not a particularly good fit for them, but unlike others, I do not think that the SEC is that much better than the Big 12 from top to bottom, stronger at the top, admittedly, but weaker elsewhere, so A&M will do very well in time because they have every thing in place to do so, plus an assured recruiting base in East and South Central Texas, and I don't see the move as affecting that very much.
The ugliness that has surfaced of late is not confined to A&M. I did quite a lot of graduate work at Texas Tech, some at UT, and when I was out in West Texas I did not experience any thing like the vitriol out there that is raging on the high plains right now. Baylor was well thought of and there were quite a few Red Raider fans who thought of Baylor as their second favorite team. Something has changed. There is a coarsening of public discourse at every level, but there is a sort of pride now in being the most hateful bully on the block, tribalism at its most intense.
Texas was always the team that I wanted to beat the most, and yet, I had a couple of very good friends that played on the Longhorn basketball team and we squared off with great enthusiasm against each other, then went back to being good friends. Like mindedness does not depend on geography or group identification, but it is a requirement for the best kind of friendships. When I read some of the posts on Baylorfans, I find a sort of like mindedness to the people on the other message boards who they find despicable and I think, these opposing forces could be the best of friends, they are so much alike.
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Ashley Hodge said...
good post setshot. My wife wears some Aggie gear but she wears more Baylor gear. She was a little sore by a deception I pulled on her at the Showcase in Dallas. We had rented a suite and had some Aggies that she knew in the suite. Aggies played the opening game versus Arkansas. Baylor had the late game versus Gonzaga. She asked me if there were going to be any Aggies in the suite? I told her a lie, "I don't think so, you should wear Baylor gear..." So like a great wife, she decked out in green and gold. And then she saw some of her Aggie friends who gave her a hard time about the Baylor gear the whole game.
She didn't find it as amusing as I did. I try to avoid bringing her to Baylor vs A&M games because she's fiery by nature and although she's not a sports fan, she has a little competitive streak in her. But after that incident in Dallas, she was hellbent on coming to a Baylor vs A&M game at Baylor. I told her not to get offended if I heckled the Aggie bench the whole game. She decked out in Aggie gear but fortunately Turgeon's offense lulled her to sleep and she was reading magazines shortly after tip. Baylor won the game comfortably. She got the satisfaction of watching my friends rag on me for allowing her to wear Aggie gear to the game and she hasn't asked to go to another Aggie vs Baylor game. And since we won't play them again... non-issue.
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