We have a culture here of friendliness and being able to walk up to anyone and start a conversation. Our university president gets absolutely swarmed every time he goes anywhere. Where that backfires is when anyone and everyone thinks they should walk up to Manziel at anytime and say absolutely nothing of value.
Hitting on a girl at a party? "Hey, Johnny, hate to interrupt, but what do you think the score of the Bama game is going to be?"
Taking a dump in a public restroom? "Can I get an autograph when you are done in there? And while I have your attention for a few minutes..."
Enjoying a dinner with friends? "Hey, mind if I sit down...Hey, remember that time you bobbled the ball and then threw a touchdown pass to Swope...Yeah, that was really cool."
We mean well, really we do. But, that culture of greet everyone you see and we're all Aggies so we're all equal can get really annoying if everyone wants a piece of your time for no real reason. At 20, you're thinking about getting pussy and playing video games, whether you have a shelf full of trophies or not. You don't want someone talking to you at the urinal or stopping you every ten steps in the mall.
At Baylor, half the kids there don't even realize they have a football team and probably thought Griffin was the groundskeeper. Florida students were respectful enough to give Tebow his space. Here, it's a college town where every single person, no matter their previous interest in football, knows you and feels like you should have a 30 minute conversation with them. It could get old.
I don't think Manziel is at all dissatisfied with A&M, and College Station in the context of his tweet is merely a place where he can't live a normal life or even a celebrity life. It's beyond that here.
We've been put down and battered for years (y'all Gophers might understand that). We've heard for two years prior to last season that the SEC didn't want us, or that we would be the whipping boy of the league. We've been told that texas university was our big brother and we were the also-ran. Every success we've had has also come with a setback and an opponent taunting "Pooooooor Aggies."
So, Manziel has given us occasion to rise above that, to achieve what we've always been capable of. We're getting some of the respect we deserve now. Of course, there are lots of other people and factors which have brought us to today, but he is the public face of all that.
And so we flock to him, and want to be his friend, or give him advice, or whatever else.
We also have 50 year old men following a 20 year old kid on Twitter and scrutinizing his every move. OMG, he dressed up for Halloween and danced with a hot girl? Next step is a meth habit!
The whole thing is a non-issue. Sumlin and Hyman will talk to him about his Tweets and the world will go on, and eventually in a few months the old men will get upset about a pic Johnny Instagrams of himself with a cigarette. OMG, we will lose to UTEP because he will be winded from lung cancer. Maybe it's weed laced with heroin he's smoking.
Besides, even if he hates it here 1) he has the money to fly out to wherever he wants to go on the weekends, and 2) he will just play as hard as he can next season so he can get drafted and leave. I can live with the latter.
Who hasn't said they're sick of school and want to go somewhere else? And how many of them had people trying to steal their jock strap to sniff it? Again, this is all a non-issue, and it must be a slow day in every man's life who is following this closely, as well as for ESPN.
Go rent the movie The Junction Boys about our 1957 football team under Bear Bryant. If I remember correctly, the quarterback stops by a whore house to obtain the services of a prostitute on his way back to school. Or watch Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, where a booster takes our entire team to the Chicken Ranch. We used to laugh that stuff off, but now we get our panties in a wad when a kid expresses frustration that he probably can't even get a blowjob in his car without 15 people peeking through the window.
Considering that schools within a 90 mile radius of us have players arrested for drugs, breaking their girlfriend's jaw, and who score a 6 on the Wonderlich test, if our biggest scandal of the year is a rich boy whining that he doesn't like a college town because of drama, I'll take it.
