A&M chancellor takes shot at Texas for having alcohol at games

[BleedGopher]

per CBS:

Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp fed the fire of the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry this week with a response to the news that the Longhorns will begin selling alcohol at football games.

According to Gabe Bock of TexAgs Radio, Sharp suggested that the 12th Man doesn't need the "numbing" effects of alcohol like Texas fans might given the program's recent struggles.

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Go Gophers!

 

[TexasAggie11]

About half of our fanbase thinks the comment is hilarious, the other half thinks it is asinine.

At any rate, it was a good way to avoid having to actually address the question or engage in debate.

Also, alcohol is readily available in Kyle Field. You just have to either be sitting in the $2,500-$15,000 seats (or in one of our suites) or bring a boot flask.

 

[Kuato Lives!]

About half of our fanbase thinks the comment is hilarious, the other half thinks it is asinine.

At any rate, it was a good way to avoid having to actually address the question or engage in debate.

Also, alcohol is readily available in Kyle Field. You just have to either be sitting in the $2,500-$15,000 seats (or in one of our suites) or bring a boot flask.

It's dumb because even he knows that if it was allowed A&M fans would be pounding down beers just as much as any Texas fan.

I was against the sale of beer at TCF initially for no real good reason but now I would never want it to leave. I actually drink less pre-game now that I know I can have a few inside the stadium.

 

[Too Long in the Wasteland]

per CBS:

Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp fed the fire of the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry this week with a response to the news that the Longhorns will begin selling alcohol at football games.

According to Gabe Bock of TexAgs Radio, Sharp suggested that the 12th Man doesn't need the "numbing" effects of alcohol like Texas fans might given the program's recent struggles.

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Go Gophers!

Actually, you need the numbing effect of ol' demon alcohol to put up with living in College Station. Which is about as far as you can get from anywhere in eastern TX without getting closer to somewhere else

 

[justthefacts]

The only reason it's dumb is because the teams don't play anymore. I'm all for fueling a rivalry, but it helps if there's a rivalry. If you're so sure about Texas's struggles, do your best to get them back on the schedule. That's the real travesty in all of this.

As for the comment itself, it's the exact kind of dumb sports controversy that is almost completely viewed through the lens of which team you root for. If you're a disinterested 3rd party you find it mildly amusing. If your guy says it about your rival, you think it's great. If your rival's guy says it about you, you're outraged.

For instance, consider if this was Barry Alvarez talking about TCF. The ensuing thread would be 18 pages long and would almost certainly involve references to Wisconsin people being fat, being drunk, and mating with deer. I don't need to look at shaggybevo.com to imagine what the response is like in Austin.

 

[TexasAggie11]

...College Station... Which is about as far as you can get from anywhere in eastern TX without getting closer to somewhere else

This is the most confusing statement I've read on this forum in a while. College Station is located nearly dead center in the Texas Triangle megaregion, the fourth largest megaregion in the nation. Five of the twenty largest cities in the United States are within 200 miles of College Station, as is 75% of the Texas and Louisiana Population. Houston and Austin are both within 90 miles of campus. I can be in five cities larger than Minneapolis before you could get from Minneapolis to Fergus Falls.

College Station may not be for everyone, but it was Kiplinger's #3 Best Places to Live in 2013.

 

[dannygopher9100]

Whats wrong with College Station?

 

[TexasAggie11]

If you're so sure about Texas's struggles, do your best to get them back on the schedule.

2011:

Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin was put in control of A&M's conference fate last month. And Wednesday, he decided to seek conference affiliation elsewhere -- away from the Big 12. However, in an interview with Aggie Media, he said he'd like to continue the rivalry with the University of Texas.

"We are willing to play [Texas] every year," Loftin said. "Any place, any time we can agree on."

2013:

Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin, a chief catalyst behind the Aggies’ move to the Southeastern Conference, wants to make one thing clear: He’s still all for A&M playing Texas in football, “anytime, anywhere.”

“I said it before, and I value my integrity,” Loftin told me on Tuesday night. “I said it two years ago and I meant it then. There’s no reason why we shouldn’t play each other, if we want to. I think they (Texas) will at some point in time feel like it’s the right thing to do, as well, and we’ll get there.”

2015:

Sumlin, who is entering his fourth season at Texas A&M, is also on board with playing Texas again, particularly after hearing from fans and alumni on both sides.

"Now, moving into Year 4 and listening to our former students and our alumni base and knowing a lot of Texas alums, it's important that we play again," Sumlin said.

2015:

As for (Longhorn head coach) Strong, he said he needs to win some games before pushing the idea up the Texas Athletics administration system.

"Let me win some games first," he said. "Then I can push it. I don't know if I want to go walking into College Station right now."

The ball is in their court.

 

[justthefacts]

This is the most confusing statement I've read on this forum in a while. College Station is located nearly dead center in the Texas Triangle megaregion, the fourth largest megaregion in the nation. Five of the twenty largest cities in the United States are within 200 miles of College Station, as is 75% of the Texas and Louisiana Population. Houston and Austin are both within 90 miles of campus. I can be in five cities larger than Minneapolis before you could get from Minneapolis to Fergus Falls.

College Station may not be for everyone, but it was Kiplinger's #3 Best Places to Live in 2013.

I think you've just illustrated his point more elaborately. If you are in the geographic center of College Station and you start walking in any direction, you are getting closer to a big city. But when you're in College Station, you're in a small town.

Contrast that to Minneapolis, in which you're already in a big city. People St Cloud live only 75 minutes from the Twin Cities, but they're still living in St Cloud.

Oh, and while Austin may be bigger than MInneapolis, the Twin Cities is bigger than all but 2 of the 5 you mention.

 

[TexasAggie11]

I think you've just illustrated his point more elaborately. If you are in the geographic center of College Station and you start walking in any direction, you are getting closer to a big city. But when you're in College Station, you're in a small town.

Contrast that to Minneapolis, in which you're already in a big city. People St Cloud live only 75 minutes from the Twin Cities, but they're still living in St Cloud.

Oh, and while Austin may be bigger than MInneapolis, the Twin Cities is bigger than all but 2 of the 5 you mention.

Except the College Station/Bryan MSA is 250,000. That's hardly a big city, but is also a far cry from being a small town.

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

Let's get this thread back on track and agree that it takes a lot of alcohol to live in either TX or MN.

 

[MNGoldenGophers1]

^ not that this is a bad thing mind you.