We’re not jealous of a school with an emasculated mascot… and we don’t burn our colors. WTF is ‘burnt’ orange?? Lmfao

This doesn’t deserve a response, but trolls like you will always be trolls. “Big” brother got its mascot name from Aggies (check 13-0), is a younger little brother in date of opening and undergraduate and graduate size. There are more former students (“alumni”). more faculty, more Academic All-Americans, more National Merit Scholars (I was one), A&M was the first in Texas to surpass $1 billion in research, and has ~25,000 engineering students (“Big” brother is more known as a very good liberal arts university – but apparently from reading your posts I surmise you did not attend there or else you did not avail yourself of English, Philosophy, or general education courses or you would have come across as an EDUCATED TROLL instead of a troglodyte). As I am preaching to the choir since you are on to greener pastures (mom’s basement? another trolling expedition?), I would add that after the Senior Academies, TAMU is the top Senior College of military schools, with statistics like 20,000 Aggies serving in WW2 with 14,000 officers, in everything from Doolittle’s Raid to scaling cliffs with the Rangers at Normandy (that’s in France, btw – can’t assume you would know Pointe du Hoc or Utah and Omaha beaches). And for every Nat Champ t.u. has earned (yes, they have had great success in sports), I would gladly forego the sports honors and bragging rights for lifelong memories and experiences – answering “here” multiple times at Muster, the minor key taps to 3 directions at Silver Taps, working cut/stack/push on Bonfire, standing for the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band at halftime, singing Spirit and 12th Man, getting my Aggie Ring, and now just walking the campus and remembering. Even the Northgate playlist at the Chicken is more valuable to me than bragging rights in football or baseball (but we did beat the ‘horns 3 of 4 while I was a student and afterward went to 4 Cotton Bowls in a row – I was at every one). For all the insults trolls like you think you can use to “get” us, all true Ags know something you never will – “From the outside looking in you can’t understand it; from the inside looking out you can’t explain it”. This proverb is still true, though times are changing and it is getting diluted. The Aggie Code of Honor, the Core Values, the Traditions – they are in danger of eroding and losing their “salt”. It used to be “2%ers” – now I am sad to say it is much larger. I was blessed to be a non-reg living on campus – it changed my life, and I could have gone to ANY college in this country. Including that school in Austin. God blessed my path, and the broken road I traveled to get to A&M and in the years since, and I am so grateful for the chance to belong to the 12th Man for life – and to pass it down to my children.