The Worst Column. Ever.

by Peter Bean on Nov 29, 2006 3:14 PM CST in Football Comment 59 comments

Finally. A reason for me to explode. I've been way, way, waaaaay too measured lately. Restrained, really. Even in defeat, I congratulated the Aggies and Dennis Franchione for executing a masterful gameplan against the Horns.

And then this.

This... this... wow, where to start? The following is a column written by a student named Eric Pederson for Texas A&M's student newspaper, The Batallion. The article is reprinted in its entirety, with my commentary inserted, as needed.

If you'd prefer - read the whole thing here before reading the chopped up version you're about to get below.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Texas A&M quarterback Stephen McGee was so tired that he was throwing up. Play after play, he took licks from the No. 1-ranked Texas rushing defense. But play after play, McGee got up looking for more.

Unlike Texas quarterback Colt McCoy, McGee isn't sheltered in his team's offense. The Texas offense is set up to hide its weakness at the quarterback position. Rarely is McCoy asked to do anything other than hand the ball off, toss a screen or throw a quick slant.

No way. You're not really going to write this column, are you? You cocky, one-win bitch of an Aggie. McCoy is sheltered? From what? Being forced to run the option because he can't pass? As for your assertion that he just dinks and dunks the ball underneath, you clearly missed all the McCoy to Sweed bombs that McCoy's used to bury opponents this year. Like, for example, the first half 50 yard strike to Limas that he threw as he got absolutely killed by a Husker defender.

On the other hand, the A&M offense wouldn't move against good defenses without McGee's willingness to get out of the pocket and take tough hits.

I found it incredibly hard to believe that this wasn't satire when I first saw it. I had to check, and re-check sources to confirm that this was a real column. It is.

To any and all aspiring writers out there. Hell, to any and all aspiring lawyers out there. Do not argue this way. Do not assert a weakness as a strength. If this is your idea of a good argument, by all means - PLEASE - go into politics. This is called spinning, not proper argumentation.

A&M's offense wouldn't move against good defenses unless McGee ran the ball. That's because Stephen McGee can't pass the ball. This is what scouts call a "weakness in the quarterback." To assert it as a strength is just hack-tastic bullshit homer nonsense.

In comparison to McGee, it is obvious that McCoy lacks toughness. Both quarterbacks were knocked around on Friday, but McGee had enough left for a nine-minute, game-winning touchdown drive. McCoy wasn't able to leave the field under his own power.

More bullshit spin. McCoy came into the game injured with a stinger. What if we'd evened the playing field? Say, for example, we'd popped McGee with a stinger injury two weeks before the game. Now: ask A&M to move the football without any ability pass or run. I'm sure that would have worked out just great. Even our injured Colt McCoy managed 14 points (only 7 with the Collie-humping referees). I'm not sure the Aggies could have managed a field goal if McGee had a stinger. This isn't dehydration, douche bag. It's a freaking neck and shoulder injury.

Some attribute McCoy's injury to a penalized hit by A&M defensive tackle Kellen Heard, but such talk is nonsense. Imagine McGee in McCoy's situation following his third interception of the game.

McGee would not put himself in position to be leveled by a 320-pound defensive tackle. Instead of pouting like a schoolgirl with his chinstrap off and head down, McGee would have been downfield looking to take someone's head off.

Even if McGee was the recipient of a similar questionable hit, McGee would have had to be restrained from delivering a counter-blow to a man twice his size. McCoy just lay on the ground like a fish out of water.

Critics also like to whine about Michael Bennett's helmet-to-helmet hit in the later stages of the game. But such fans have short memories. Rewind the clock to 2005.

When McGee received a helmet-to-helmet clocking from Texas linebacker Robert Killebrew in the 2005 A&M-Texas game, the A&M quarterback got up, yelled in Killebrew's face and scored a touchdown on the next play. On Friday, McCoy couldn't get up after Bennett's similar hit.

Now you're just being petty and small, instead of just stupid. Colt McCoy "put himself in a position" to get brutalized on a penalty? Oh, yeah? How about if I and a roaming gang of angry Longhorn fans came to your home, broke your windows and beat you senseless with a lead pipe. Should we tell the judge, "Your honor, he put himself in this position. He didn't have bars on the windows."

You asshole. Is this what such severe insecurity does to you people? If so, maybe we ought to consider passing a state law that the Aggies get a gifted win more than once every seven years. Say, every five years. Just to keep you from totally losing your f*cking minds.

The hype around McCoy in 2006 has been nonsense. Sure his numbers have been good, but so would mine in Texas' cushy offense, which is by no coincidence catered to a quarterback who lacks toughness.

For the first time this millennium, A&M has the edge over Texas at the quarterback position. After four years of listening to Texas fans say former Aggie quarterback Reggie McNeal didn't have the toughness to be successful, A&M fans can now say the same about McCoy.

If McCoy is still the Texas starter in 2007, Aggie fans have to like their chances of winning at Kyle Field.

You're officially the most deluded human being on the planet, surpassing Kim Jong Il.

Practically sane.

Funny, though - y'all dress the same.

--PB--

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I cant believe that this got posted

It seems ridiculous to me that someone would criticize a player that had to be taken off on a streacher. Even for aggies, this is a new low.

by Wells on Nov 29, 2006 3:29 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Is it a new low?

How about the aggie that put him there? That isn't low enough?

It's indefensable for a player to hit someone that late, for no reason. It was an obvious attempt to hurt him.

It's quite different to say that he somehow deserved the hit. Classless assholes.

If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable.

by GoHorns on Nov 29, 2006 3:34 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I guess I ment in Journalism

The hit was a ridiculous cheap shot, but in football it is expected.
But ripping on someone who was taken off in a streacher, it is much less expected. And it is not just some crazy on a forum, this guy is their sports editor.

by Wells on Nov 29, 2006 3:47 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

it's expected because they're the aggies

first, I don't believe a shot that cheap is expected in football generally. Just when you're playing trash.

way back on Nov 20, in those halcyon days when we fully expected to once more obliterate the aggie dreams, I made a comment on a post regarding how our fanbase viewed the aTm/OU rivalries.

I said I despised the aggies because of a cheap, deliberate attempt to injure a Texas QB, and took a perverse pride in it.

So, mid-70's or mid-'oughts, they're still the aggies, and the only thing keeping them from being lovable losers is that they're really not at all lovable...

my comment:
The other factor was that, although you could hate (as all right-thinking people do..) OU, but in football terms at least, you kind of have to respect them. As brutal as the competition gets, I really don't remember any cheap or dirty stuff on the field. To me aTm is dead, and has been ever since they purposely went after Marty Akins' injured knee on the very first play of the game, after he'd pitched out and was standing 15-20 yards from the play. I have yet to meet an aggie fan who isn't proud of that. I'm not talking about one who isn't overtly embarrassed at the tawdriness and cheapness of the act, but actually proud they did it...

I like and respect many individual aggies, but as an institution and a fanbase, to me they're just the guys who celebrate the deliberate injury to an opponent. That and pull swords out on cheerleaders.... that and fling poop on opposing bands.....

As of right this moment, I still feel the same...

by agent orange on Nov 29, 2006 7:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That's hilarious

Their first chance in seven years to gloat and rub it in, and they fumble the ball by rolling this guy out.

Criticism is most hurtful when it's truthful. Reading this column just makes me feel like I need a Dr. Pepper. They could have talked about any number of problems with Texas, which there clearly were. But this guy calls Colt McCoy a wimp after being taken out on a stretcher.

This guy would go well in a USC cheerleader outfit. His heart's in the right place, but he's an idiot.

by Longhorn13 on Nov 29, 2006 3:37 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

You nailed it

If he'd written a column about Texas not having enough fire, or about crumbling with so much on the line, well... we would have had to wince and acknowledge the truth in it.

But this - well, you said it perfectly - he fumbled the ball. Total, complete bullshit.

by Peter Bean on Nov 29, 2006 3:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

It's like something out of the twilight zone

Eric Pederson is officially nominated for douche of the year.

by Hornbud on Nov 29, 2006 3:38 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

OOOH...

PB, can we have a BON-specific "Douche of the Year Award"?

And can we name it after Ryan Perilloux?

by billyzane on Nov 29, 2006 3:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That sounds perfectly reasonable

Our early contenders are Eric Pederson and the crazy mother of the Sooner child who threatened a frivolous lawsuit against me for posting that poster of her crying kid.

by Peter Bean on Nov 29, 2006 3:48 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I hope Pederson shows up over here to try and

defend himself. It's odd, with the suppposed 'rivalry' no aggies have been on BON talking shit. It seems like OU and tOSU had some representation before the games with them. Or did I just miss it? Internet might be hard to come by in B/CS.

by jimmer on Nov 29, 2006 3:54 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Aggies

A few have stopped by, but squeaking one win out by 5 is not enough to shake them from the shell shock they have from losing so many times in a row. If they are playing well next year be ready for them to show up come mid-november.

by Wells on Nov 29, 2006 3:59 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

very few aggies know how to use computers

except to make music videos of themselves, whether they be the lamest rap video ever or just plain homoerotic.

by billyzane on Nov 29, 2006 4:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

quick question, on that

I'm a bit new here, but is the kid that was crying after the 2006 game, the same kid that was crying after the 2005 game?

by Hornbud on Nov 29, 2006 4:03 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

2006 game

they showed it on tv.

by bamfor on Nov 29, 2006 5:36 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Yes,

they did. After the 2005 game they showed a kid crying, he was about the age that he had no memory of OU ever losing to Texas at the time. And again, in 2006 they showed a kid crying, and it looked to me like it was the same kid, but could be wrong.

by Hornbud on Nov 30, 2006 9:19 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

no shit?

she did? that is classic.

by kicker on Nov 29, 2006 4:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

She'd better make it

A class-action.

That photo remains my wallpaper to this day. And I still laugh every time I see it.

by orangeblood1 on Nov 29, 2006 6:20 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

PB

I got a lead pipe in the back of my car, if you're serious.

Pederson to McGee, "You really are a little badass, I mean the heart you showed out there, just watching you makes me want to be a better person."

McGee to Pederson, "Roll over you're taking all the covers."

by Tbone Stallone on Nov 29, 2006 3:50 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

frickin

hilarious....

by joey on Nov 29, 2006 8:53 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

award names?

i vote we take a little after south park...

"The Ryan Perriloux Biggest Douche in the Universe Award"

To be given yearly. It has a nice ring to it.

...til Gabriel blows his horn

by BigTexBD on Nov 29, 2006 3:50 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

(Sigh)

So I've been lurking around and reading this blog for a while, but this post finally deserved a comment.

I'm a grad school Aggie and one of the first things that I heard upon arriving on campus was that the Batt is a joke. This takes the cake.

I've actually been fairly disappointed with the Aggie reaction online to the Heard hit on McCoy. It seems that the general online opinion is shifting to "it wasn't a dirty hit and he shouldn't have been ejected." This is hogwash and it embarrasses me every time I hear it. (Although I stress online, as in TexAgs).

I played high school football (albeit in Michigan) and as a defensive lineman I feel qualified to assert that the hit was dirty. Regardless of whether he heard the whistle or not, as a player you can tell when an opponent is walking off the field (and removing his helmet no less) and Heard shouldn't have hit him, it's as simple as that.

I suspect that your negative opinion of Aggies existed long before I ever set foot on campus, so I can't hope to change that. I do feel that it's important though to speak up and say that not all Aggies are represented by this doofus in our student newspaper. In fact, I would go a step further and say that true Aggies (those who actually believe in the self-important BS that we project, like not booing or respecting opponents) wish that the hit hadn't happened and hope for a speedy recovery for Colt McCoy.

Disclaimer:
For the record, I do think that A&M will win next year, but it has a lot more to do with a young team returning ~16 starters and nothing to do with McCoy's toughness.

by Off Tackle Tom on Nov 29, 2006 4:00 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Thanks, Tom

I don't hate all Aggies. One of my best friends from grade school wound up an Aggie - collie protective detail in the Corps, no less.

Just hate the asshats like this one.

Thanks for speaking up. Gives the good Aggies (of which there are many) a good name.

by Peter Bean on Nov 29, 2006 4:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Tom

I think we all know this guy is not representative of all aggies, or even most aggies. Just like there are good sooners out there (matth). Sadly this is idiot represents your school in a semi offical capacity. Wish more of you would take a stand.

by billb on Nov 29, 2006 8:42 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

My new favorite word

Is Douchetard. And this SOB reporter is the first one to earn the right to be called a DOUCHETARD. I had just finished reading that bullshit column on the Statesman web site, (after which I ralphed my Thanksgiving leftovers), before coming coming over here. Now I've ralphed again.

Here's hoping Robert Gates' first act as SOD is to agree to allow Al Qaeda to firebomb College Station. Would anyone really miss it? Besides the farm animals?

I have a commitment to the truth.

by steezy on Nov 29, 2006 4:10 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Well,

wouldn't it be their fault for putting themselves in such a vulnerable position anyway?

by Hornbud on Nov 29, 2006 4:14 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

And...

It would DEFINITELY show a lack of toughness if they succombed to radiation poisoning.

I have a commitment to the truth.

by steezy on Nov 29, 2006 4:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

You know...

... I feel like an ass. There's a bonfire comment that I made in my head, and I can't go through with it. This is my confessional.

by Longhorn13 on Nov 29, 2006 5:03 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Same here...

...I went so far as to even type it out...but then again, I'm a lot better than the douche known as pederson, and I can locate a delete key on a keyboard.

by Hornbud on Nov 29, 2006 5:33 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

BON is like...

...a higher class hornfans. I think that's why I stopped going there.

by Longhorn13 on Nov 29, 2006 6:59 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I think it would be awesome

If Robert Gates could get the Stormtroopers Of Death back together to release another album. Unfortunately, I think the SecDef job will keep him occupied for a while.

by Kahuna on Nov 29, 2006 5:13 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Woa Steezy Sleezy

Firebomb College Station?? Real mature post. So much for the classy BON blog. None of us called for firebombing Austin. Have a drink and stop blogging based on angry emotion. You wish your college prez could be appointed to such a high position in government.

by mjs on Dec 4, 2006 9:57 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

We got a winner...

of the Firsthand Douche Award. It's been a while since we've had such a deserving candidate.

My favorite part of that whole ridiculous diatribe is when that dickhead realizes what an abosolute piece of uncalled for shit he's written and tries to cover his ass by saying "Texas fans said for the last four years that Reggie McNeal didn't have the toughness to be successful." As if that baseless accusation makes any of the crap he just wrote justified.

I've never heard anybody question Reggie's toughness. If anything, we felt sorry for him as he had to play in VY's shadow under a coaching staff that didn't know how to capitalize on his unique skills. Plus, he couldn't hit water if he fell out of boat, but nobody questioned his toughness.

Idiotic drivel.

by 54b on Nov 29, 2006 5:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

What a dickhead AND a dumbass

Clearly this dick with ears did not see the Texas - Kansas State game for if he had, he would surely know that Stephen McGee is not the second-coming of Christ - Josh Freeman is. In fact, Josh Freeman gave birth to Stephen McGee while being the first human to step onto the moon - true story...saw it on Andre Ware's History Channel special last night.

I am glad this guy was able to take McGee's Johnson out of his mouth long enough to provide this drivel which should become bulletin board inspiration to the 'Horns for next year. Just plain classless. Frame the article for Colt, with a picture of that loser Heard, and let's prepare to beat the living shit out of 'em next year!!!

Food for thought....In my job, I do a lot of driving - all day, every day. And there is one thing I have come to notice about cars with the Aggie former student association sticker on them - I would bet 85% - 90% of the vehicles are either maroon, white or a combination of the two. Check it out the next time you are on the road for an extended period of time. These people are f*cking FREAKS! They can't help themselves and they have major penis envy - Pederson obviously is no different.

by Screw O.U. on Nov 29, 2006 8:01 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Gang, he's a student journalist

I think we're giving him and his student newspaper WAY too much credence by even discussing the article here. As a former adjunct lecturer in journalism, student journalists -- like anyone or anything else -- have to develop maturity as writers and thinkers.

I think the best we can do to address a column filled with misrepresentations and gaps in logic is to ignore it altogether -- or at least recognize it for what it is -- STUDENT journalism.

by texfite on Nov 29, 2006 8:15 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

whoa whoa whoa, slow down

have to develop maturity as writers and thinkers.

We're still talking about Aggies here. Develop maturity as thinkers? That's rich.

by the other Andrew on Nov 29, 2006 8:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

If yahoo is going to reprint it...

...it's more than fair to rip him. By the same logic, all college football players are students too, who need to develop maturity. When players make stupid, stupid mistakes -- not just normal mistakes -- they get ripped. Chris Webber's timeout and Reggies Bush's lateral in the Rose Bowl are perfect examples.

by Longhorn13 on Nov 29, 2006 9:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

bad examples of "student athletes"

Bush and Webber were payed athletes, remember. By the way, when will we see any news on the Reggie Bush and his parents $750,000 house fiasco? If that personal lawsuit by that Media Group against Reggie is still ongoing, that would hold it up.

by bleed burnt orange on Nov 30, 2006 12:53 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Mr. Professor

Doc,

I'm all for treating kids as kids... but homeboy's writing with some real skip in his step. He's confident enough in his writing to punk McCoy? Well, then he ought to be fine with getting ripped to shreds for writing total garbage.

Seriously, though - I know it's "student journalism." But let's not be apologists for it. I know 20 years olds that write thoughtfully. This goes way beyond "carelessly written" or "slightly naive." This is a brass, bullshit hack job.

No excuses.

by Peter Bean on Nov 29, 2006 11:15 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

You miss my point

I never asserted the student journalist is above criticism. My post was actually meant as criticsm of the writer. That is, I don't give weak writing and poor reasoning credence by arguing with it. I simply ignore it.

Give me a story that makes a focused point with logical reasoning -- whether I agree with it or not -- and I'm all over it in debate. Give me weak, unsupported opinions -- and that's an easy D in my classroom.

by texfite on Nov 30, 2006 7:27 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

And that's fair

Point taken.

by Peter Bean on Nov 30, 2006 8:18 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

what???

you'd give that crap a D???
What kind of aggie curve are you grading on?

by agent orange on Nov 30, 2006 2:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

D for Douchetard

by 54b on Nov 30, 2006 9:57 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

ah

I know 20 years olds that write thoughtfully.

Thanks boss.

by aorist9 on Nov 30, 2006 9:20 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

morans

You dumbass longhorns are just dissing this article cause it rips your lame excuse for a quarterback. If some UT student/fan wrote something similar to this trashing A&M (which they have) yall'd be laughing and supporting it.

Another example of yall just being pussies and making excuses to try to compensate for the fact that your football team blows ass.

Bevo sucks dick

by texasftball80 on Dec 7, 2006 7:11 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

posts and

comments like this are what make BON the greatest blog in sports. Seriously, I think I check this shit before I even check e-mail in the morning.

by joey on Nov 29, 2006 8:57 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

YOU SUCK

Seriously man, if this is the first thing you check in the mornings then you need to get a life. It's obvious you're a longhorn because you have nothing better to do other than get on here and analyze and give reasons why your team sucks dick. Thats all yall do is give excuses.

White power

by texasftball80 on Dec 7, 2006 7:07 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

typical

My best friend's two sisters are Aggies, both of whom are older than I by 3 and 7 years. Their husbands, friends, colonics partners, blah blah blah are all Aggies.

For the 6 seasons of us wiping our asses with what was known as the Aggies' Wrecking Crew/12th Man/World's Most Severe Case of Gigantic Institutional Penis Envy, I relished in our wins and basked in my pride over our great university and our football team. But I did not do this gloatingly. I never called any of them to rub it in their faces, or to taunt them about how much their football team sucks (even though they all called me after the 2000 loss - at which time I expressed my sympathies for the tragedy). Friday afternoon, my TV wasn't even cold when I started to get the calls. "Ohhhh, wasn't that such a great game? What did you think of the game? I can't wait till next season. I don't think Colt was playing very well, do you? Blah Blah Fucking Blah."

WTFO?

I find it funny that even though I never called them to even talk about the game after the Longhorns won (assuming they'd be in a bad mood and probably not want to talk about it - like I was on Friday), THEY COULDN'T WAIT TO CALL ME.

I simply ended the call by saying, "Please don't wait until the next time the Aggies win to call me. I don't want to wait another 6 years to talk to you."

Hook 'em Horns

by LonghornWSO on Nov 29, 2006 9:02 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Correction

I meant they called me after the 1999 game...

Hook 'em Horns

by LonghornWSO on Nov 29, 2006 9:03 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

burnt orange COUNTY

that's HILARIOUS. how do you aggies keep coming up with such great insults? that's got to be the new "t-sips." they keep getting more and more clever! every time i think you can't top yourselves, you manage to...it's astounding, really.

as for the rest of what you said, the commenter who wrote that post was referring to the journalistic growth of all students in that field and telling us to give the guy a break because he's just a kid. we never claimed this thread was about anything more than bashing this article, which even an A&M student who posted agreed was terrible. maybe you should actually read the posts before you post your own high-minded drivel.

oh, and Pony Boy.....well, just when I thought you couldn't top Burnt Orange County....

by billyzane on Nov 29, 2006 9:28 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Shameless

I can assure you that if a Texas defender took the same kind of cheap shot on McGee, the Aggie faithful would be screaming bloody murder. Heard's actions are inexcusable. That was no attempt at a block. If A&M has any shred of honor and integrity, they will kick this thug off of the team.

by Directdrill on Nov 29, 2006 10:00 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

you're silly

hehehe

by the other Andrew on Nov 29, 2006 10:05 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

the onion

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55656

see the last "lesser known rivalry" on the list. classic.

by billyzane on Nov 29, 2006 10:44 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

54b

I think we have a runner up for the new award

by burntorangenance on Nov 29, 2006 10:48 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Offended

I'm offended that you didn't include my "Dick With Ears" reference - I thought it was pretty good. Go back to herding your sheep.

by Screw O.U. on Nov 30, 2006 8:42 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Tough McGee?

Didn't I read an article about McGee crying after his team lost their spring game or something a few years back?

By the way, loved the post "screwou". You nailed the Josh Freeman reference. I was rolling. And the maroon cars - you're exactly right! I've pointed that out to my wife for years, as she used to drive a "burgundy" car but thankfully is not an aggie.

by the usual suspects on Nov 30, 2006 11:09 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Chill........

It was just a stupid college newspaper article....I mean, while at A&M as a student I hated The Battalian also. Better known as the Battabloid. Don't get your feathers too riled. Defensive.

by mjs on Dec 4, 2006 10:04 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

my point of view

I don't know who said that Aggies are condoning the hit on McCoy by Heard. The feedback I'm getting is he should be kicked off the team. He has done it too many times. Anybody who says it was good hit is an idiot and doesn't know much about football. What do expect from a guy who orginally was signed by "The U".........

As for the bennett hit, it wasn't late, but it was helmet to helmet. Both players just happened to be in the air when McCoy released the ball. I would accepted a flag on it.

And don't ever take the batt seriously, when more students get it to do the crossword puzzle and read the cartoons then for reading AP articles they already saw online before they went to class and stories about how a writer got tasered, its sad.(http://media.www.thebatt.com/media/storage/paper657/news/2006/12/04/Opinion/Aggielife.Editor.Says.Be ing.Tased.Was.A.Learning.Experience-2519843.shtml?sourcedomain=www.thebatt.com&MIIHost=media.col legepublisher.com)

I put out a better newspaper in high school with kids who couldn't write on an 8th grade level

Gig 'Em Aggies

by tokenag07 on Dec 5, 2006 11:08 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Chill??!!

Oh my god! The guy left on a stretcher! And there is someone criticizing his toughness? This makes my stomach hurt. I know the guy is a nobody, but it got printed, and re-printed, and is now in several places on the internet.

The hit was wrong, but to criticize a guy's toughness when he was playing injured, got hit rediculously late, and then left the game horizontally is inexcusable.

( For all the aggies reading this, horizontal means "Layin' down like hesa sleepin'" )

PS Mack suspeneded T. Brown, he would suspend Heard. And he would make the suspension and the apology - Public

"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese

by SwimTexas on Dec 5, 2006 11:37 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Babies

I hate to say it but Aggies and Longhorns are the exact same thing. Yall are both a bunch of pussies and all yall do is make excuses as to why you lost. "well if colt hadn't gotton hurt" or "it was a cheap shot" or "the refs blew that game for us" either way you lost. you can't just except the fact that you aren't national contenders anymore. Now you'll have to live with being national pretenders. You analyze what could have been, or like above, you breakdown an Aggie column and say what you think is right, just to get laughs out of all your homo friends in orange and boost your ego. You can't except the fact that A&M is as good, probably better than you now.
Get over yourself. Longhorns complain that all Aggies to do is look to tear down UT, but texas does the same exact thing. Here's a fun fact: NOBODY CARES ABOUT EITHER ONE OF THE SCHOOLS. The big 12 is a weak conference full of high school competition.
Another thing: Colt took his helmet off before the play was over, it wasn't a cheap shot, thats what DL are coached to do is block the QB after an interception. Quit bitching about that.

Yall like quotes from articles, Heres one:

"Texas trainer Kenny Boyd said late last week that McCoy is progressing well in his recovery. But even if he starts, Texas (9-3) knows the Hawkeyes (6-6) could send him back to the bench with one hit."

P.S. have fun in the Alamo bowl

by texasftball80 on Dec 7, 2006 8:57 AM CST reply actions 0 recs