Rumors of Aggie mischief circulate as maroon bluebonnets pop up on University of Texas campus

BCS Eagle ^ | 4-10-2014 | Andrea Salazar

[Jane Long]

Pardon my ignorance, but is there some sort of rivalry between these two schools?

Not anymore. A&M is now SEC...and left TU in the dust ;)
(See post # 18)

Whoop!

[petro45acp]

Gig em!!!

Go Corps!

KYPD

[GeronL]

Auburn is still in denial that Alabama comes first in dictionaries?

[MarineBrat]

I planted a bunch of Texas Bluebonnets in my flower beds this spring. The seed packet was several years old, and only a few germinated, but the ones that have look like they’re happy little sprouts.

[17th Miss Regt]

The seeds would have had to be planted as recently as last fall and as far back as a couple of years ago.

How did the editor let this boner get by?

[fishtank]

This is a small part of the story here:

http://everything2.com/title/Texas+A%2526M-University+of+Texas+Rivalry

Also, going back to the Vietnam War times, the rivalry was especially fierce, because Texas A&M was full of patriotic military cadets and t.u.austin was full of hippie-antiAmerican commie-loving baistages.

[fishtank]

http://www.thebatt.com/sports/bill-would-revive-a-m-ut-rivalry-1.2977750#.U0xPffldXl4

Bill would revive A&M-UT rivalry
By Mark Doré

Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 00:01
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The A&M-UT rivalry is the third most-played rivalry in Division 1-A college football.

Texas State Representative Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City, filed House Bill 778 on Monday, an action that, if passed, would reinstitute a longstanding, recently discontinued in-state athletic rivalry.
Guillen, a Class of 2000 Aggie graduate, took to Twitter saying the bill would require UT and A&M to play each other annually in a nonconference, regular season football game.
The two schools met on the football field every year from 1914 through 2011, but an A&M move to the Southeastern Conference derailed the rivalry.
“This game is as much a Texas tradition as cowboy boots and barbecue,” Guillen told The Texas Tribune. “The purpose of the bill is to put the eyes of Texas upon our two greatest universities to restore this sacred Texas tradition.”
The bill doesn’t specify when the game should occur, but it does state that whichever team refused to participate in the contest would suffer restrictions on its athletic scholarships, reported the Texas Tribune.
“I think the people of Texas want a game, and we’re trying to get them one,” Guillen said.
There is some precedent for the filing. In 1955, a Florida Legislature bill that sought to require an annual Florida-Florida State game in all sports was struck down, but then-governor LeRoy Collins personally requested that the schools’ athletic directors work out a deal, which they eventually did.
In 1997, a similar bill was passed in North Carolina Legislature demanding University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and North Carolina State play East Carolina annually.
The Alabama House of Representatives also passed a similar measure in 1947 intended to encourage an Iron Bowl renewal between Auburn and Alabama. When the schools continued their impasse, the legislature threatened to withhold state funding unless the rivalry was resumed.

[fishtank]

http://bevotraditions.blogspot.com/2010/11/bevo-and-how-he-really-got-his-name.html

Some teasip wrote this.... since it's almost a 100 year old tradition, who knows?

[SPRINK]

actually a rivalry has to be close. UT has dominated them in almost every sport...do they dis-like each other? yes but there really isn’t a rivalry in a true sense

[tillacum]

That is a good “DON’T TREAD ON ME”

[Milton Miteybad]

Actually a rivalry has to be close. UT has dominated them in almost every sport...do they dis-like each other? yes but there really isn’t a rivalry in a true sense.

Even Mrs. Miteybad, a loyal an Aggie as there ever was, said, upon hearing that A&M was joining the SEC: "What? Shouldn't they learn how to win in the Big XII first before they try something like that?"

[Scoutmaster]

If it's a prank, well played, Aggies, well played.

This UT alumnus respects A&M.

However, when you mess with the color of bluebonnets, you're not messing with UT, you're messing with Texas.

[Sequoyah101]

Rivalry? Rivalry you say? How about mortal enemies?

I have seen Tea Sips driven from the sacred ground of Kyle Field at SABER POINT! I’m not saying which end of the Saber my “friend” was at.

Whoooop!

‘course I’ve also seen Ags duct taped between two mattresses naked, hauled to Nebraska and dumped in a truck stop parking lot. The Corps gets pretty tough when it is open season on white belts.