The Aggies Are Class-tastic

by Peter Bean on Apr 8, 2007 10:07 AM CDT in Basketball Comment 19 comments

Forgive me for indulging in one last bit of schadenfreude before I settle in for some Easter Sunday Masters watching. Yes, once more, it's Fun With Aggies.

After Billy Gillispie shunned staying at Texas A&M for a chance to coach at Kentucky, the reactions among the Aggies were mixed. Some handled it with humor. Some handled it with class.

Many more, though, flushed dignity down the toilet in homicidal rage.

A quick perusal of Billy Gillispie's MySpace page reveals a terrifying range of comments, all of which I captured by screen shot.

Click "Full Story" below to read on.

From Kenny, we get juvenile pettiness and bigotry:

Jonny wishes BCG the worst:

BJ gets creative with the dictionary:

Krystal exacts female revenge:

Aggie John does what Aggies do:

And, my favorite, from Dustin, who looks to be twelve years old and totally, horribly corrupted:

You know what's funny about this whole situation?

All of it.

--PB--

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dustin = hilarious

i read the page before i came and saw the inside of this

by abcdmetrius on Apr 8, 2007 10:16 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

dustin was busy...

another of his great messages: "you suck balls just like kentucky does yea i guess thats where gay people and gay traditions are"

by billyzane on Apr 8, 2007 10:41 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

my favorite

is one from Heather posted April 7 at 7:22 pm.

"thanks for using A&M as a stepping stone!! SELLOUT!! have fun watching tumble weeds!!"

tumbleweeds? if heather thinks Lexington is a tumbleweed town, what the hell must she think of college station?

lexington city population: 260,512
college station city population: 81,699 (45,000 of which are a&m students...)

by billyzane on Apr 8, 2007 10:37 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

It's a metropolitan area man

It's Bryan-College Station. Have some respect. The BCS metro area population is nearly 140,000 by now. I'll be there next weekend. Hooray.

by Bob LaBlog on Apr 8, 2007 11:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thomas is my favorite

"i really thoguht you enjoyed being with the aggies

kentucky just cares about winning..and you left the great a&m traditions for that.. "

He does wish BCG luck at Kentucky. I just like the winning line.

by Bob LaBlog on Apr 8, 2007 11:27 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

What cracks me up is that these people express their hatred and biggotry and then hope he "does a horrible job" at kentucky. Is their ulimate revenge that Gillespe gets lazy on the recruiting trail and takes a few bad timeouts? What happened to "I hope you die"?

by detr0 on Apr 8, 2007 11:46 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Makes me wonder

what reaction most Texas fans would have to Rick Barnes bailing on us in such a situation.

I'd guess there'd be some hard feelings but I don't think I'd be calling him names or anything. If nothing else, I'd know we could get another coach of equal or better talent to take his place. Fortunately, Aggies can't be so confident...

In the end, I'd probably just sing, "Strangers in the night, exchanging clothing, strangers in my pants..."

So take that.

by Kahuna on Apr 8, 2007 12:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

probably because

we haven't spent the whole year fantasizing about stadiums named after barnes and saying "now we're a basketball school" and thinking barnes is infallible.

for an easter analogy, the aggies were his disciples and he just converted to buddhism.

by Vice President Coco on Apr 8, 2007 1:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Barnes

Just for the record, I really think we could NOT find a coach close to the caliber of Barnes. Who are you kidding? Barnes is one of the best in the business.

I'm real surprised at the aggies' classlessness! I have aggie friends and none is as idiot as these people.

If Barnes left in the same situation, I'm almost sure no one would have acted this foolish. What happened when Vince left a year early? Is there any doubt that no one will hate KD if he leaves this year?

by Cyrus on Apr 8, 2007 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

aggies are stuck in a different world

they insist that if you come to work or play for them, you become one of them. rudimentary economics and cost-benefit analysis have not yet come to college station such that they cannot understand why anyone would use employment or playing time at a&m as a stepping stone to something greater. this, combined with a delusional notion that there IS nothing greater than being at a&m, leads them to hate people who don't conform to their notion of what one is supposed to do.

"become one of us or we will hate you and call you ugly, bigoted names." that sounds fascist all on its own, without even mentioning the uniforms and marching in lock step...

by billyzane on Apr 8, 2007 3:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

What about classless Longhorns on MySpace?

Does anyone remember the John Brantley debacle? His pro-Longhorn page was absolutely trashed with hate messages from Texas fans.

Thee majority of Aggies fans are handling this with dignity and poise, I'm sure.

by jc25 on Apr 8, 2007 5:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Irrelevant

I'm not going to let classless Longhorns stop me from making fun of classless Aggies.

--PB--

by Peter Bean on Apr 8, 2007 5:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

well...

while i won't dispute that, Brantley never did anything for the University of Texas other than commit and then decommit. he was never a longhorn.

gillispie took that program from nothing and made it into a a national power this year and he eaves and many (though not all) show him no appreciation and instgead call him a "fag."

by billyzane on Apr 8, 2007 6:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

commit / decommit

While I don't approve of hating Brantley by few longhorns, but it's a totally different situation. When a top QB commits, the program will not go after other top QBs. Players are expected to honor their verbal commits.

For god's sake, have aggies already forgot what Gillispie has done for them?

PS. I'm facing a dilemma now! I used to hate Gillispie, and wanted him to fail in KY. after all this aggie hatred for him, I sorta want him to succeed!

by Cyrus on Apr 8, 2007 7:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

sad

I'm as devout a Longhorn as the next guy, but I come from an Aggie family. My dad, my uncles and aunts, and most of my cousins are Aggies. Matter of fact, both my parents grew up in the same, fabled "Graford, TX" that Billy Clyde did. Wimpy Gillespie is the cashier at my (Aggie) uncle's grocery store. So, to me, the whole thing is just sad. It's sad that Gillespie is leaving and it's sad that a bunch of knucklewalking assholes are posting ugly comments on his myspace page. What's so funny about that? I mean, I guess it's funny that there are people that stupid in the world, but that's about all the humor I see in it. I can understand why some Aggies feel betrayed. I don't know the college pedigree of the Gillespie family, but I know that in the neck of the woods where he grew up, A&M is THE school, just like we think of UT as THE school. (I've been jokingly called the "black sheep" of the family because I spent 6 years at TEXAS and earned 2 1/2 degrees there.)

So, yeah, the classless Aggies spouting obscenities deserve our scorn. But what's so funny about A&M losing a great coach who seemed like he was destined for that job? That's how some Aggies felt about Gillespie. Like he was Luke Skywalker or Neo or something. It's a big disappointment for them.

To take it one step further, though, how is Gillespie's departure amusing, from a Longhorn perspective? How is it even a net plus? Don't our teams get better when we play better competition? What's better preparation for the NCAA tournament, beating a mediocre A&M or losing to a top ten A&M? I have the same problem when Horns fans root for OU to suck in football, to lose their bowl game, or whatever. It makes no sense. Wouldn't you rather that people thought well of your opponents so that when you beat them it looks pretty good on your resume? Wouldn't you rather beat them at their best?

by rezboscace on Apr 8, 2007 10:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Oy

Rezbo - your commentary is too thoughtful for this thread. And I mean that in the best way.

I agree with almost virtually everything you bring up. I agree that BCG's departure is bad for the conference. I agree that BCG's departure is bad for the blossoming Longhorn-Aggie rivalry in hoops. I even empathize with Aggie fans who have reasonably stated their legitimate disappointment with BCG's departure.

With all that said, there's humor in the bottom 10% of a fanbase showing up at a coach's MySpace page to post the things that they posted. It doesn't cheapen the legitimate points of legitimate fans - but it's damned funny to point and laugh at a twelve year old kid who shows up and asks how to remove the "fagget" from his friends list. (If you can get over how frighteningly corrupted the poor kid must be.)

In any case, I think your fears are misplaced. This is just some petty point-and-laugh at your rival's misfortunes, as opposed to a legitimate celebration of everything involved with BCG's departure.

--PB--

by Peter Bean on Apr 8, 2007 11:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

To us (UTEP) he (Gillispie) was our Lando

Haskins was our Skywalker.

by bamfor on Apr 9, 2007 12:06 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Mark Turgeon expected to be named HC tommorow

Aggies of the world re-joice....

One of the well respected Basketball posters on our boards (MarcAg) said this hire scares the crap out of him. People on AW and Texags on split half pissed, half excited.

Im worried.

by HMFIC on Apr 9, 2007 7:51 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Aggy, get real

I bet Gillispie does a pretty good job at KY. The problem is these irrational Aggys who are deluded into thinking that the Aggy job is the epitome in coaching. BillyZane is so right in that the deranged Aggy fans can't distinguish from someone taking an interim coaching job in hellhole CS where they learn to bend over and sway from someone becoming a hopeless, terminal Aggy fanatic.

I never will forget ol' what's-his-name.

by Horntod on Apr 9, 2007 11:24 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs