I died laughing

[Casey67]

Yahoo Sports wrote an article listing the most valuable college football programs.  The Longhorns were first with a value of over 2 billion and aggie came in a distant second at 1.5 billion.

That's NOT the funny part.  It's this direct quote from the article:

"Texas A&M proves that you don’t need a shelf full of trophies to be one of the most valuable businesses in the country."

That back handed compliment was teeth shattering.  I died laughing.

 

[Quinncent McManning, Jr.]

Put it on a t shirt ags 

[Bobby Burton]

A&M being worth more than Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State and about a half dozen others is not exactly an endorsement of said list.

[GetHooked]

2 hours ago, Casey67 said:

I died laughing

Where are you buried?  So we can come to pay our respects.  

[Casey67]

2 hours ago, Bobby Burton said:

A&M being worth more than Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State and about a half dozen others is not exactly an endorsement of said list.

I imagine certain publicly disclosed factors played into that list and I can further imagine A&M exaggerating on their end because that's just what they do.

From stadium size to logo size to drum size they are clearly compensating for having an embarrassingly small...........uh...............trophy shelf.

I guess they have a bad case of micro-shelf.

Poor aggies.

Edited 6 hours ago by Casey67

[Thanos72]

That’s with 1/2 a billy of interesting funds  

[LonghornFan4Ever]

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Edited 4 hours ago by LonghornFan4Ever

[Rocky P]

1 hour ago, Casey67 said:

I imagine certain publicly disclosed factors played into that list and I can further imagine A&M exaggerating on their end because that's just what they do.

From stadium size to logo size to drum size they are clearly compensating for having an embarrassingly small...........uh...............trophy shelf.

I guess they have a bad case of micro-shelf.

Poor aggies.

Kyle field does hold more than Texas, plus they e been in the sec longer so theyve had a bigger paycheck every year from the conference.  They also have very motivated donors to try to be bigger and better than texas so they have dumped a lit of money into it.  

[chennups]

2 hours ago, Rocky P said:

Kyle field does hold more than Texas, plus they e been in the sec longer so theyve had a bigger paycheck every year from the conference.  They also have very motivated donors to try to be bigger and better than texas so they have dumped a lit of money into it.  

But before we joined sec, we had the lhn supplementing our big 12 payout. I don’t think they made than us—in fact with the 15m/yr from lhn, we may have come out ahead. 

[Tuco Ramirez]

29 minutes ago, chennups said:

But before we joined sec, we had the lhn supplementing our big 12 payout. I don’t think they made than us—in fact with the 15m/yr from lhn, we may have come out ahead. 

+LHN driving aggy out of the big 12 = priceless

[Jordan91]

7 hours ago, Casey67 said:

Yahoo Sports wrote an article listing the most valuable college football programs.  The Longhorns were first with a value of over 2 billion and aggie came in a distant second at 1.5 billion.

That's NOT the funny part.  It's this direct quote from the article:

"Texas A&M proves that you don’t need a shelf full of trophies to be one of the most valuable businesses in the country."

That back handed compliment was teeth shattering.  I died laughing.

 

My stepson graduated from A&M. So I had to walk the campus with him. Nice campus, and we end up at a bookstore. I look at this picture on the wall of a basketball game. I immediately notice Gabe Muoneke. This a guy who played basketball at UT in the late nineties. So it’s a picture of a game Texas played there. I look up at the score, and it’s something like 36-34. How could that be? So I look a little closer, and it’s the halftime score. And yes I looked up the score. A&M lost at home to Texas. So, they had a photo on the wall of a game they lost! I told the lady at the counter about it. “Well most of the students here don’t know that. Does it really matter”? No, it doesn’t matter. I still tell that story to every Aggie I run into.