A big Ay-Whoop-de-doo: SEC newcomers party in the A-T-L
Say howdy to the Missouri mascot. His name is Truman the Tiger. (Photo by M. Bradley)
Kevin Sumlin, who coaches football for Texas A&M, entered the lobby of the JW Marriott and was swamped by humanity. “This is like walking into a bowl game,” Sumlin told Billy Kennedy, who coaches basketball at A&M. “Or the Final Four.”
Actually, the festivities Wednesday night in Buckhead were just that — festivities. The schools joining the SEC decided to throw a little party in the city where the league stages its football championship and, as is the case with anything involving SEC football, there turned out to be nothing little about it.
“They’re amazed,” Georgia president Michael Adams said, speaking of the delegations from A&M and Missouri and their reaction to the size of the throng. “I’m amazed.”
Estimates put the crowd at nearly 1,000 folks, most of them backers of A&M and Mizzou. (Speaking of which: A staple Missouri cheer goes “M-I-Z,” to which the proper response is “Z-O-U.” And the traditional Aggie greeting is, “Howdy!” There’ll be a quiz later.)
“What a turnout,” said SEC commissioner Mike Slive, who has seen a crowd or two.
Said Gary Pinkel, Missouri’s coach: “[Joining the SEC] is huge for our fans. It’s been good for ticket sales, and it’s been very, very good for recruiting. … Recruiting in the SEC has been nothing but positive for us. Everyone believes the SEC plays the best football, and to high school kids there’s no question who’s the best.”
Missouri’s first SEC game will come Sept. 8, when it plays Georgia in Columbia. A&M gets its SEC christening that same day against Florida in College Station. “Two pretty big names right off the bat,” said Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity, who has worked both in Athens and Gainesville.
And it’s not as if the Bulldogs and Gators are in the habit of visiting either place. This will be new — and potentially frazzling — for everybody concerned. But what’s life without variety? Without risk?
Said Sumlin: “Unless you’ve been [to College Station], it’s hard to understand. ESPN named it the No. 1 gameday experience, and those folks go a lot of places. I’ve been in both locker rooms, and I know what Kyle Field means.”
Pinkel on the Georgia game: “Our place will be pretty cramped.”
For the record, 2012 won’t mark the first rodeo for either Mizzou or A&M. They’re exiting the Big 12, which was itself a fusion of the Big 8 and the Southwest Conference. But in contemporary college football, there are essentially only two brands — the SEC and everybody else.
Pinkel again: “This league is like the NFL — every week you’ve got to play well.”
How the newbies will fare among the upper crust remains to be seen, but it’s clear from the enthusiasm expressed Wednesday that both sets of fans are thrilled to have rich new neighbors. Otherwise they wouldn’t have held an open house in a different time zone.
But it was nice for those of us who’ve been around the SEC for a while now. This correspondent was given his first taste of the Aggie Way, which is to be confused with no other. After Sumlin and Kennedy greeted their constituents in a packed meeting room, the floor was yielded to two Aggie yell leaders, who, not entirely surprisingly, led a yell. But the composition thereof left these ears in search of translation.
An obliging yell leader provided one. Said Drew Nelson: “That one goes, ‘Farmers, fight! Farmers, fight! Farmers, farmers, fight, fight!’ And then, ‘Ay-WHOOP!’”
That’s “Ay-WHOOP!” — not to be confused with “Pig, Sooey!” — and it’s accentuated by clasping one’s hands, extending and twining the index fingers and throwing those hands and fingers over one shoulder.
Said Nelson: “You’ll be hearing, ‘Ay-WHOOP!’ a lot.”
Sumlin, who performed the hand gesture like a champ, has been hearing about nothing except his new league. Flying back from the Indianapolis 500 on Memorial Day, he and his family changed planes at Hartsfield-Jackson. “My son had on an Aggie hat, and some people recognized me. For 20 minutes they followed us through the airport saying, ‘Welcome to the SEC, coach.’ That was pretty cool.”
Welcome to the Aggies. Welcome to M-I-Z, and to Z-O-U, too. A big Ay-WHOOP to one and all.
By Mark Bradley
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xxxldawg
June 6th, 2012
8:52 pm
Welcome to the show…
T-Bone
June 6th, 2012
9:23 pm
If first gets Kudos, then second should get an “Ay-Whoop!”
Jamaaliver
June 6th, 2012
9:51 pm
Just wait til Syracuse joins the ACC!! It’s gonna be a PAR-TA….ah nobody cares.
MattMD
June 6th, 2012
10:01 pm
Oh wow, a whole 1,000 people! Howdy? Mizzou?
What a bunch of lames.
Outstanding expansion job on getting some Big-12 outcasts. Jesus.
Paul in NH
June 6th, 2012
10:27 pm
I find it ironic that the Wind Power Conference is taking place in Atlanta at the same time that the A&M and Missouri coaches are expounding on the wonders of the SEC. Perhaps they bumped into some attendees.
http://conferencehound.com/conference/awea-american-wind-energy-association-wind-power-conference-2012/56252
Ryan
June 6th, 2012
10:58 pm
Sec worst academically. LOL
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sports
June 6th, 2012
11:06 pm
When is the ACC going to Division 2???
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11:17 pm
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ToccoaDawg
June 6th, 2012
11:36 pm
Welcome to the SEC. Dear Lord, Prepare them for the butt whuppin they are about to receive.
wxwax
June 7th, 2012
12:09 am
Dad was an Aggie. I think he would be enjoying this, if he were still around.
I’m sure it will take A&M some time to load-up on SEC talent, but the school cares about its football, so they’re a good addition to the conference.
KJ
June 7th, 2012
12:11 am
“Sec worst academically. LOL”
I’d be willing to bet you couldn’t get into at least half the SEC schools.
Jack Dennis TN
June 7th, 2012
12:44 am
Welcome fellers. Now button your chin straps.
JacketFanMarcus
June 7th, 2012
12:46 am
@ Paul in NH: You must be a SEC fan/alum. You have no sense of direction or scale, buddy!
Just for your education, Atlanta is a very big city.
The SEC event was in Buckhead. The Windpower Conference was downtown at the World Congress Center. Very unlikely they would either group would “bump” into each other.
You know, Atlanta is not New Hampshire.
Courtney J.
June 7th, 2012
12:56 am
Welcome to the show Texas. Why, however, are we accepting Missouri? Missouri is not considered a southern state.
Courtney J.
June 7th, 2012
12:58 am
Sorry! I forgot to put the A & M after Texas!
DW Cole
June 7th, 2012
1:14 am
Mizzou will be a solid SEC team and surprise a few people. And for the comments about Mizzou not being Southern….Here are Mizzou’s historical southern ties: One of the stars on the Confederate flag is for Missouri (voted to secede; Union troops invaded and set up a Union Government). The 8 counties around Columbia (where Mizzou is located) are called “Little Dixie”. The county next to Columbia has never has officially re- joined the “Union” after the Civil War and is proudly called the “Kingdom of Callaway”. “Dixie” was Mizzou’s unofficial fight song (along with confederate flags waved at the football games when Mizzou scored) until the late 1950’s; this changed when Mizzou became integrated and Mizzou’s coach at the time (the legendary Dan Devine) started recruiting African Americans and he requested that Dixie not played and Confederate flags not be waved…also Mizzou had not played Iowa in football since 1904 (until the our Bowl game in 2010); all had to do with Iowa having an integrated squad and Mizzou walking off the field. Mizzou’s oldest rival “was” Kansas (the second longest college football series in the country) and the hatred goes back to the Civil War era… Kansas fans yell “slavers” and hold up signs depicting Mizzou as slave owners. Even the mascot name “Tigers” come from the name of the militia group that protected Columbia from marauding bands of Union “Jayhawkers-Red Leggers” who were killing, raping and pillaging western and central Missouri towns (i.e. see the movie Law Josey Wales). The Kansas football team wears red stockings only one game a year: for the Mizzou game (guess the red socks are now retired). We welcome SEC fans with open arms to Columbia; Mizzou has been was picked as the best game day/tailgating school in the Big 12 by several polls/groups. Columbia is consummate college town (as noted last fall in Southern Living). MIZ-SEC!!!
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June 7th, 2012
1:26 am
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Paul in NH
June 7th, 2012
1:29 am
JacketFanMarcus
Thanks for the information “buddy”. I am very familiar with the geography of Atlanta. Pity you didn’t understand the allusion to “wind” when talking about the SEC. You are obviously the kind of pompous, humorless idiot I had to teach when I was getting my PhD from GT.
Jefferson Davis Hogg
June 7th, 2012
1:40 am
@ DW Cole….Awesome post and very accurate…..and also remember Redlegs very well from the movie…..I personally have always considered Mizzu a southern state that fits in very well with the rest……Also, If people would research, they also are a very good academic school which by the law of averages will upgrade the overall appearance of the SEC conference considering the standards of schools such as Alabama and SC
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June 7th, 2012
3:16 am
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Civil Unrest
June 7th, 2012
4:20 am
The Acc should focus on women’s field hockey.
GT4Life (the original)
June 7th, 2012
4:55 am
DW Cole surmises that “MIZ” belongs in the SEC by lauding its racist past (or present maybe)…welcome to the SEC indeed!
Buckeye
June 7th, 2012
6:55 am
Ryan,
My kid who graduated from Vandy would disagree.
Delbert D.
June 7th, 2012
7:03 am
I don’t think anyone has a problem with Vandy.
Delbert D.
June 7th, 2012
7:16 am
“Missouri is not a southern state.” I doesn’t matter, since TV signals travel 186,000 miles per second (slightly less through cable and distribution systems.) ESPN and CBS aren’t paying schools pallets of cash to put fans in stadium seats. With large screens and HDTV, the viewing experience is excellent. It’s not 1962, when folks got 2 games on Saturday on their 19″ black and white set.
Across the wide Missouri
June 7th, 2012
7:47 am
It will be quite enjoyable to see Missouri’s student-athletes put an azz-whupping on Mark Wretched’s thugs and woman-beaters.
Beast from the East
June 7th, 2012
7:48 am
Welcome to the SEC!
dean
June 7th, 2012
7:59 am
Learn where the Mason Dixon line runs folks. Some of you sure are an ignorant lot!
those A&M cheers are pretty pitifull!
Shug
June 7th, 2012
8:05 am
Will these SEC cheerleaders in the media please stop slapping each other on the back for the SEC supposedly being such a great conference. I have no doubt that Missouri and Tex A&M fans have been to big cities, seen swanky hotel lobbies, and heard crowds cheering.
Wrecker
June 7th, 2012
8:10 am
I understand that the SEC has some great teams, but it also has Kentucky, Ole MIss, Miss. State, Vanderbilt, and lately, Tennessee and Florida. That is 6 out of 14 teams that I would consider mediocre in most conferences. Throw in 2-3 cupcakes a year and most of the top SEC teams have 5-6 built-in wins per year, just like the top teams in most conferences.
Don’t get me wrong, the top 4-5 of the SEC every year are outstanding, but that does not mak the remaining teams great, or even good.
Paddy
June 7th, 2012
8:20 am
MattMD…….Texas A&M is a Big 12 outcast? It is quite evident you have never attended a game at College Station. An experience that holds one of the top thrill factors in sports. If you don’t know about college football don’t post!!!!!!!!!!!
Old School
June 7th, 2012
8:27 am
MattMD gets the bitter cynic award of the day.
Andy
June 7th, 2012
8:44 am
Thanks for the laugh this morning Mark.
Chi Town
June 7th, 2012
8:53 am
Lord Saban will welcome them both.
Soon….
Chi Town
June 7th, 2012
8:53 am
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zgoldatl
June 7th, 2012
9:01 am
If we go strictly by the Mason Dixon line, then Maryland would be Southern Dean. They fought for the union during the War for Southern Independence. Missouri fought for the South, so they are Southern enough for me.
If Heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie, I don’t want to go
Paddy
June 7th, 2012
9:09 am
zgoldatl!…….if that is true, we need to sack those yankees from UK! No wonder those liberal weenies don’t win, too much Cincinnati Chile and white wine up there in yankee land!!!
Joey
June 7th, 2012
9:12 am
You mean Maryland actually fought? I thought they laid down their arms when Lee and his boys saddled up.
Just send me to hell or NYC, It’d be about the same to me
Buckeye
June 7th, 2012
9:32 am
The SEC!SEC! is a women’s gymnastics conference.
Dumb Dawg fans
June 7th, 2012
9:39 am
“The SEC!SEC! is a women’s gymnastics conference.”
No, just UGA. Women’s sports is all UGA has anymore. They can’t compete in baseball, basketball or even football even though their fans claim a national championship every year.
The only difference between UGA fans and Bama fans is Bama fans have something to be proud of. Well, except for the whole tree poisoning and tea bagging part.
Mizzou
June 7th, 2012
9:41 am
Zgoldatl – Marylanders fought on both sides of the Civil War.
Dean – thanks for the history lesson.
SECers – Settle down. Outlaw Josey Wales is about a Missouri farmer turned Confederate bushwhacker.
zgoldatl
June 7th, 2012
9:47 am
Yeah MD fought on both sides (so did people in a lot of states), but there isn’t a star on the saint Andrews cross (Confederate battle flag) for Maryland. The government was union. But Joey is correct, they mostly just ran scared from General Lee.
Love NYC? Take 95 North and don’t come back
Sid
June 7th, 2012
9:52 am
JacketFanMarcus June 7th, 2012 12:46 am
@ Paul in NH: You must be a SEC fan/alum. You have no sense of direction or scale, buddy!
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JacketFanMarcus – I may be wrong but I think Paul was going for tongue-in-cheek humor.
Rocketman
June 7th, 2012
9:54 am
Welcome to the SEC!!! What two great schools to add to our conference!
KJ ... your comments .... SEC .... worst academically. You're wrong!
June 7th, 2012
10:04 am
Actually, you’re wrong. See link: http://www.aau.edu/
4 out of 61 of US’ Leading Pub/Priv. universities are SEC schools.
AAU MEMBERSHIP
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an association of 61 leading public and private research universities in the United States and Canada.
Membership in AAU is by invitation and is based on the high quality of programs of academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, and professional education in a number of fields, as well as general recognition that a university is outstanding by reason of the excellence of its research and education programs. Information about AAU membership is available here.
A membership committee of AAU presidents and chancellors periodically reviews universities for AAU membership; institutions recommended for membership must be approved by a three-fourths vote of the membership.
These are the most prestigious institutions in US.
MEMBER INSTITUTIONS AND YEARS OF ADMISSION
Brandeis University (1985)
Brown University (1933)
California Institute of Technology (1934)
Carnegie Mellon University (1982)
Case Western Reserve University (1969)
Columbia University (1900)
Cornell University (1900)
Duke University (1938)
Emory University (1995)
Georgia Institute of Technology (2010)
Harvard University (1900)
Indiana University (1909)
Iowa State University (1958)
The Johns Hopkins University (1900)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1934)
McGill University (1926)
Michigan State University (1964)
New York University (1950)
Northwestern University (1917)
The Ohio State University (1916)
The Pennsylvania State University (1958)
Princeton University (1900)
Purdue University (1958)
Rice University (1985)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1989)
Stanford University (1900)
Stony Brook University-State University of New York (2001)
>>>>> SEC **** Texas A&M University (2001) ****
Tulane University (1958)
The University of Arizona (1985)
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (1989)
University of California, Berkeley (1900)
University of California, Davis (1996)
University of California, Irvine (1996)
University of California, Los Angeles (1974)
University of California, San Diego (1982)
University of California, Santa Barbara (1995)
The University of Chicago (1900)
University of Colorado at Boulder (1966)
>>>>> SEC **** University of Florida (1985) ****
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1908)
The University of Iowa (1909)
The University of Kansas (1909)
University of Maryland, College Park (1969)
University of Michigan (1900)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1908)
>>>>> SEC **** University of Missouri-Columbia (1908)****
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1922)
University of Oregon (1969)
University of Pennsylvania (1900)
University of Pittsburgh (1974)
University of Rochester (1941)
University of Southern California (1969)
The University of Texas at Austin (1929)
University of Toronto (1926)
University of Virginia (1904)
University of Washington (1950)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison (1900)
>>>>> SEC **** Vanderbilt University (1950)*****
Washington University in St. Louis (1923)
Yale University (1900)
Shug
June 7th, 2012
10:06 am
Lest we forget, Missouri’s most famous alum was Skip Carey. (I would say Josey Wales, but his educational background was not addressed in the movie.)
Wrecker
June 7th, 2012
10:08 am
2 AAU schools before Mizzou and aTm. Do you think they were added for their academics?
Saints=Dung
June 7th, 2012
10:09 am
Across the wide Missouri June 7th, 2012 7:47 am
It will be quite enjoyable to see Missouri’s student-athletes put an azz-whupping on Mark Wretched’s thugs and woman-beaters.
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Same old trolls who think they are oh so clever. I think I know who you are but won’t give you the satisfaction of publishing your handle. Your attempt at a double entendre
with Richts name is barely nursery school mentality. Across the wide Missouri……you’re talking about the MO womens butts for sure.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
10:16 am
Paul in RDU now NH…………..hahaha!
OUCH you didn’t have to Blog Slap Marcus so hard
Wrecker
June 7th, 2012
10:17 am
Yes. Two reasons actually: academics and athletics. Next, UGA will join the AAU list as soon as it’s alumni giving rate gets on PAR with these institutions. Its academics, of course, have been on the rise (20,000 applications for 4000 freshman slots is certainly going to boost SATs/GPAs/HS Rank et. cetera.).
Thus, that will make 5 schools. The bammers, barners, vowels, rebels, and so on won’t make the list.
Andrew
June 7th, 2012
10:21 am
Just FWIW the “Farmer’s Fight” yell is not as written in this article, it’s: “Farmers fight! … Farmer’s Fight! … Fight! Fight! Farmers, farmers, fight!”
Following every yell is what we call the “wildcat”, which is a different ending to the yell based on your year in school. Seniors and Alumni say “A” and then whoop, the younger classes each have a different ending to the yell.
Craig
June 7th, 2012
10:22 am
“What’s all that paint about?” “It’s my death face.” “We sure gonna show those $EC schools somethin’ tomorrow! No offense meant!”
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
10:22 am
The SEC turning down West Virginia cause of Academics it too dam funny.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
10:25 am
UGa will not make it to the AAU. They have been turned down a few times already. Now that Adams is GONE UGa academics will fall and UGa will get back to focusing on being a Football Factory again.
Fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
10:34 am
As a former university administrator, I can promise you that being turned down is part of the process. You study and prepare your plan to present for admission to AAU. If you get turned down, then you have assessment results needed to go back and put resources where they’re needed. Repeat process. One day, if you give her the right ring, she might say “I do”.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
10:48 am
Yes BUT the Next President will be What the DWAGS want. He will be more about SPORTS than Adams was and the DWAGS will be happy again.
ActionNTheBigA
June 7th, 2012
10:57 am
Buckeye-Bet our gymnasts, much less our coaches, don’t come off the sideline to slug players….How many National Champions in a row is that now carpetbagger? If you can count that high!
Homepage | MrSEC
June 7th, 2012
11:00 am
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I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
11:27 am
When is the PARTY for GaState joining SUNBELT?
Curious George
June 7th, 2012
11:29 am
Kinda funny that the Buckeye is talking smack about the SEC being a women’s gymnastics conference given that the Buckeyes have fared so well against SEC teams. LOL. You got drubbed by Florida 41-14 and then got beat by a two loss LSU team 38-24. So yeah, please continue talking trash.
And to Shug…Skip Caray? He’s not even on the list of famous alumni from Missouri.
marcus
June 7th, 2012
11:30 am
they both gonna be taking A-Whoop’N….
welcome to the big time boys.. you think Texas and Oklahoma liked to whoop that arse, wait till you get a load of these cannibals. all you had to worry about before was that Texas and Oklahoma speed that you grew. these Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, S Carolina and Arkansas boys, mixed in with them northerners bring smoke. Mizzou might win 5 games, whereas A&M is good for 7, but that ain’t gonna be enough. you all will be wishing for the wins you had in the Big 12.
Wrecker
June 7th, 2012
11:58 am
Don’t use my screen name! Get your own!
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
12:05 pm
MARCUS
MIZZOU 2012 SCHEDULE
Date Opponent / Event Location Time
WIN………09/01/12 vs. Southeastern Louisiana Columbia, Mo.
WIN………09/08/12 vs. Georgia * Columbia, Mo.
LOSS…..09/15/12 vs. Arizona State Columbia, Mo.
LOSS…..09/22/12 at South Carolina * Columbia, S.C.
WIN………09/29/12 at UCF Orlando, Fla.
WIN………10/06/12 vs. Vanderbilt * Columbia, Mo.
LOSS…..10/13/12 vs. Alabama * Columbia, Mo.
WIN………10/27/12 vs. Kentucky * Columbia, Mo.
WIN………11/03/12 at Florida * Gainesville, Fla.
WIN………11/10/12 at Tennessee * Knoxville, Tenn.
WIN………11/17/12 vs. Syracuse Columbia, Mo.
LOSS…..11/24/12 at Texas A&M * College Station, Texas
Got 8 or 7 wins……Arizona St, UCF, Florida, and Tenn are going to make or break the season.
jj
June 7th, 2012
12:30 pm
They’re still the WORST two teams that could have been added.
bubba4dawgs
June 7th, 2012
12:46 pm
How do the Jacket Fan goons get on this blog? They surely don’t have anything to brag about on their own blog! Read the comment made by the Ph D wannabe who claims he got it at Ga Tech! Surely, GT turns out more sensible Ph D”s than that!!
iTiSi
June 7th, 2012
12:49 pm
Here’s hoping TX A&M and Missouri do not partake of the “thug culture” that exists primarily in the SEC and especially at one or two schools who shall remain nameless. Everyone already knows anyway. Keep it “classy” A&M and Mizzou! You will get more respect for it.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
12:50 pm
bubba4dWags…………Paul in RDu now NH will run your mutt brain ragged on most any subject you wish to discuss with him.
joe
June 7th, 2012
12:58 pm
Hey Buckeye, refresh our memories…whats your record against the SEC? Ya, thought so…shut it.
Argentina Blue
June 7th, 2012
12:58 pm
The Missouri game will probably be a good indicator of how the rest of Georgia’s season will go. Same thing might be said for the Jackets’ opener against Virginia Tech.
Paddy
June 7th, 2012
1:40 pm
Curious George…….well if Skip Carey is not listed as a prominent grad of Missouri, he should be. He will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (broadcaster division) when his time comes up. They may have to review that alumni list again. He gets my vote just for doing the Eddie Haas pre-game show in ‘85. Now that was a Hall of Fame effort if there ever was one!
ARdawg
June 7th, 2012
1:52 pm
DW COLE
Great history lesson. Great Post. Don’t let some of these homo GT trolls tell you otherwise. MIZZOU does belong in the SEC. If they didn’t, you wouldn’t be in it. The SEC is nothing more than a collective of schools who choose to associate and play together. Welcome to the SEC
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
1:57 pm
ARDwag what are you talking about. TECH TROLLS?
Texas A&M and MIZZOU double the AAU members the SEC has.
Those schools bring up the collective IQ of the Special Education Conference by 20 points.
The SCARY thing is if the rest of the SEC takes up the A&M kiss after a score. WHO really want to see all the SEC fans kissing their Wife Sister Cousins?
Mike I.
June 7th, 2012
2:01 pm
Courtney- learn your history before spouting off. Missouri IS a southern state! Did you get your education at an SEC school?
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
2:05 pm
MIKE I…….No, Courtney got their Edumacation from a Georgia Government School where they teach the US is a Democracy. NUFF said.
Robert
June 7th, 2012
2:10 pm
DW Cole The stars on the Confederate battle flag represent the original thirteen colonies. There is an informing story concerning this at http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/FLAG/confederateflag.htm. Otherwise, really good post.
ARdawg
June 7th, 2012
2:17 pm
twinkie
heh heh, stop your hating. I know it’s difficult to have a positive life outlook being a GT fan/grad but really, work on it. And don’t let those fries burn
AgsWin
June 7th, 2012
3:03 pm
For the poster that said the yells are weak….this is just a clip of 15,000 or so doing a “weak yell” at our Midnight Yell practice (a tradition held at midnight the night before a home game) Game day with tens of thousands more is even better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj36iGrlNlk
Moneyball
June 7th, 2012
3:33 pm
@ Paul in NH – I find it extrmely hard to believe that you have a PhD from GT or anywhere else, for that matter. As much time as you spend spewing hatred on the blogs, I have you pictured as an unemployed, zit-faced mama’s boy sitting at her computer in her basement. In any event, you are nothing but another uninformed techie troll.
Dr
June 7th, 2012
3:40 pm
Cheeries? Well put, point made, dumbass
dean
June 7th, 2012
4:52 pm
That post by “dean” at 0759 IS NOT ME.
Dawg in Sewer
June 7th, 2012
5:12 pm
yesases noones readesss and riteses ates missourisee. Wess welcomess themses liskd usese.
Poor Aggies
June 7th, 2012
5:12 pm
A&M’s culture, even it’s fight song is based on a long running inferiority complex due to living in the burnt orange shadow of the University of Texas. Their fight song states “Goodbye to Texas University” who they no longer play. Will they have to change it to “Goodbye to Tennessee University” who they will play every few years? “Gig ‘Em Ags” is based on gigging the TCU mascot. They have not played them in years. Their uniforms look just like Mississippi State’s. Maybe Jackie Sherrill could coach one half of football on each side of the field when they play. They ran away from the challenge of playing in the Big 12, where they could not compete to the big leagues and are suddenly inferior to over half of the teams in the conference. Great move.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
5:14 pm
What was wrong with the last few posts?
UCF>vs. Buffalo……………..Athens, Ga.
at Missouri *………….Columbia, Mo.
Syracuse>vs. Florida Atlantic …Athens, Ga.
vs. Vanderbilt *………Athens, Ga.
vs. Tennessee *……..Athens, Ga.
at South Carolina *…Columbia, S.C.
at Kentucky *………….Lexington, Ky.
vs. Florida *……………Jacksonville, Fla.
vs. Ole Miss * …………Athens, Ga.
at Auburn *……………..Auburn, Ala.
Southeastern Louisiana<vs. Georgia SouthernAthens, Ga.
Arizona St<vs. Georgia Tech…….Athens, Ga
The OOC is about EVEN. GSU is starting over with a NEW QB though. Whoever will be the GSU QB should have a lot of games under his belt when playing UGa but so will all the dWags that are not suspended for smoking dope. MIZZOU gets Southeastern Louisiana to OPEN so Mizzou should be better out of the GATE looking to practice for the dWags.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
5:16 pm
Poor Aggies…………most schools include some HATE in their Fight Song to include the BIG RIVAL………even UGa does it with TECH.
Alphare
June 7th, 2012
5:53 pm
Why cannot A&M convert their yell leaders to cheer leaders? Who would want to see a bunch of guys yelling around?
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
6:01 pm
Alphare………you know better. A&M is a HUGE Military school so Men YELL Leaders have been around for years. Do you want USC(the real one) to start calling the SONG GIRLS cheerleaders too?
Poor Aggies
June 7th, 2012
6:08 pm
Poor Fried twinkie. Great job in cultivating your inferiority complex. College Station will not be able to handle real SEC alcohol-induced tailgating that will interrupt their county fair/ family day environment. Also, Mizzou will be the 3rd best Tiger team after LSU and Auburn. Triplicity.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 7th, 2012
6:39 pm
Poor Aggies so A&M will be an AAU member and still be UGa in sports I bet they can live with that better than the mutts can live with being 3rd tier and 5th best in education.
KPz
June 8th, 2012
7:17 am
I continue to be baffled at why everyone thinks A&M will do so much better than Missouri in the SEC. Missouri’s in the East (easier division) and has beaten A&M two years running at Kyle Field. This year the Tigers hope to make it 3 at their home-away-from-home in College Station.
Pablo Serna
June 8th, 2012
11:09 am
Howdy!
Just a little correction about the end of our yells (and there are many). The “Ay” part is held for a few seconds, sounding more like, “AAAAAAAAA” – followed by “Whoop!”
Looking forward to welcoming y’all to Kyle Field!
+GIG’EM!!!
Pablo Serna
June 8th, 2012
11:14 am
To the ’sip troll… don’t you have a date with the land thieves?
Just to clarify, we do not have a fight song, folks.. it’s a War Hymn! We sing it at ALL games! It doesn’t matter who the opponent is. Get used to it! When we start swaying.. we saw ‘em off!!
Johnny Griffith
June 9th, 2012
1:22 pm
I hate to say it, but this party is the closest either one of these teams will get to the SECCG.
Wreckmaniac
June 10th, 2012
12:59 am
Wrecker, I don’t expect UGA to get to the AAU anytime soon. It takes a lot of money to pay the annual Richt raise and you know thats priority #1 at UGA. After two years of taking his team nowhere, the UGA defensive coach is paid more than most NFL head coaches. Where else do fans beg coaches to take more money for no results than UGA ?
Wreckmaniac
June 10th, 2012
1:00 am
After having lived in Dallas for 5 years, I had a lot of respect for A and M until they made this move.
Wreckmaniac
June 10th, 2012
1:03 am
I heard that UGA was heading to the Big East until they found out they would have to play games outside of Athens.
rugbydawg79
June 10th, 2012
4:32 pm
Well fellers this has been fun–I always thought Josey Wales was kinda a spin on the Jesse James story-I for one welcome the Aggies and Tigers
DaveH
June 11th, 2012
5:41 pm
MIZZOU vs SEC 20-8-1
Do I think it will be easy. Heck no. Will we compete. I know so.
joe
June 11th, 2012
10:46 pm
New comers not all SEC fans behave as the example that has presented on this site, for what it worth have a good year except when you play the Dawgs.
SCDAWG
June 12th, 2012
1:10 pm
The SEC should change its name to the Dixie Conference now with MIZZOU and A&M. All they need now is to add a school from NC and VA.
gt4ever
June 13th, 2012
11:43 am
Said Gary Pinkel, Missouri’s coach: “[Joining the SEC] is huge for our fans. It’s been good for ticket sales, and it’s been very, very good for recruiting. … Recruiting in the SEC has been nothing but positive for us. Everyone believes the SEC plays the best football, and to high school kids there’s no question who’s the best.”
What a BUNCH of horse crap! The SEC has two good teams… What a bunch of marketing hype that ESPN has created…. and of course people like Bradley who print this garbage!