if the aggies win the lone star showdown (still a large if), will horns everywhere accept a year of aggie sports over horn sports or will they insult the system and claim other facts that twist to their favor.
Like last year, the horns won the points, but most aggies would consider it a victory simply because they won the football game.
Now, no one is saying that aggie sports will have reached UT status if they win or that A&M is now ahead of the UT programs (actually, I bet a bunch of dumbass aggies will say that) but, I wouldn’t. A year is a year. But how will horns view it? Excuses? or defeat? or possibly with hope for revenge. Interesting…

Other than having to hear aggie boast about it if they win like it’s some nationally recognized achievement (they probably think it is).

I think it’s clear that A&M has better women’s programs right now, but they will never have better men’s programs than Texas, and overall, Texas will always be considered by the rest of the world to be superior to A&M. That’s all that matters to me. I couldn’t possibly care any less about what the aggies think. They already think they have better sports programs. Winning or losing this ridiculous “showdown” isn’t going to change that in their minds.

I think what we all have to come to understand is that no one outside the state of Texas knows or cares about this. It’s meaningless. It’s practically something the aggies created in hopes that they would someday have some measuring stick that says they might be better at sports than Texas, logic be damned.

(And specifically the state of Texas Teams)

I think it’s pretty arrogant of the Horns to think that they have the corner on the market right now.

A&M has improved vastly across the board in all of their sports (bar the abortion that is Franchione Football)

Texas FB last season was very deceptive and any logical fan knows it. It took late game implosions on the end of oSU and Nebraska to even make it look respectable.

Let’s be honest. What matters to most of us? Football. Despite not having better teams the last two years, the Horns lost. No excuses. Both years Mack put out a better product on the field and came back empty handed.

Aggie B-Ball has come to even footing with UT whether Longhorns like it or not. For Horns to act like they have a great history before the late 90’s are only deluding themselves like the Aggies that think they have great Football history before the late 80’s. A&M is just late in getting to the show in this area. The women’s hoops has far and away passed Texas.

Aggie softball and baseball both improved greatly at the end of last season while the Horns springball has done nothing spectacular since.

Both of A&M’s track squads have legit shots at big things this year.

UT has great tradition in all sports. Nobody will argue that. But the arrogance to think that A&M or even Tech (that won’t be any time soon) can’t be better is just a little arrogant and short sighted.

and shrinking… but not quite fast enough…..

sigh….

moneymaking tool for the two schools, and an advertising vehicle for State Farm, no more, no less.

Quite frankly, I don't care about most of the minor, non-revenue sports.

Swimming - active drowning avoidance

Diving - let's grade the splash they make when they hit the water

Track - why run so fast if no one is chasing you?

And who gives a damn if you run faster indoors or outdoors?

Tennis - country club sport I'll never play

Golf - see tennis

This is Texas, football is king in this State. I want to beat texas in basketball and baseball, too, but bottom line is, if you win in football, it trumps everything else, and every texas fan knows it.

I just like to beat texas (in pretty much any sport) b/c it keeps you people (and your fanbase) humble.

I pay attention to women's soccer, softball, and basketball b/c I used to go to their games while I was at A&M, but I don't delude myself into thinking that these games matter to other people.