I called you and ass because I might have been banned if I had called you what I was really thinking.
As I said, no one I know is involved in the idiotic behavior and we don't encourage or praise it - in case you haven't notice this entire thread was about our lack of respect for the ADMNISTRATION at this time - so the lack of response from them in any regard is about par..
As it turned out, the father of an Aggie player, who was then the Govorner's assistant, was hit in the face by someone who turned out to be an Aggie. He reported to the police initially he was struck by a tech fan. All tech officials did after the incident was criticize the misidentification.
Really? So what happened to the Aggie who hit this man? Why did the man lie and say it was a Tech student? Did he get into trouble for making a false claim?
See how stupid it is to try to hold an entire school responsible for the actions of a few?
>>I said you showed no class<<
I really don't give a rip what you think. Your assessment means nothing.
>>making an assine statement regarding your feelings<<
You are the one who introduced vulgarity into the conversation, not me. And this isn't a justification for you thinking you have some right or obligation to critique my style or comments. If you don't like it, refute it. If you can't do that, which you obviously can't since you made a personal attack, ignore it. You do neither and somehow think I'm the one with the problem.
>>something that had nothing to do with the thread.<<
Oh, boy. First of all, it had something to do with the thread. Second, show me ONE thread with more than about 5 posts that stays exactly on the specific point of the article.
>>so the lack of response from them in any regard is about par..<<
Then why the hell are you making such a fuss when you essentially agree with me?
I've been called lots of things on here, but this is a first: name called by someone who supports at least part of my point.
>> Really? So what happened to the Aggie who hit this man?<<
Lubbock police were trying to find out specifically who he was so they could charge him, and ONLY him, with a crime. They were not interested in the other tech students throwing punches.
>>Why did the man lie and say it was a Tech student? <<
You misunderstood (which was my fault, since my description wasn't all that clear): the person who punched McKinney (forgot his first name) was an Aggie fan. McKinney was an A&M player's dad, and former assistant to Rick Perry. Things obviously got very confused in the melee, and after it was over, McKinney charged that a tech fan hit him -- which is what he believed (nobody lied to anyone about this). When it came to light (by a newspaper picture, I think) that it wasn't a tech fan that actually hit him, but another Aggie fan, it was like the tech administration felt that tech had been vindicated in the ENTIRE event. They made a bigger deal about McKinney's misidentification than they did about the behavior of their own students.
>> See how stupid it is to try to hold an entire school responsible for the actions of a few?<<
You aren't reading my posts: it isn't just a "few," and I'm holding the "school" responsible because 1) it happens every year; 2) they do nothing about it; and 3) whenever its brought up they try and change the subject or bring up bad behavior on the part of other students to try and minimize the damage. For example, you can't talk to a tech fan or student about this who won't bring up an early '80s incident involving an A&M corps person and an SMU cheerleader. The cheerleaders had been harrassing this individual, and he eventually pulled a sword on them. Nobody got hurt, but he obviously went overboard. I've heard various things about what happened to him -- everything from kicked out of school (don't think that happened) to suspended from the corps activities (almost certainly). At any rate, sabers were gone from anyone's side after that game.
This shows the difference in how a responsible school manages trouble: they deal with it. The Aggie wasn't on the field anymore, and the swords were gone. He might have even been charged with a crime. The only person, to my knowledge, that was charged with a crime coming out of the 1994 basketball brawl (which I witnessed) in Lubbock was an Aggie. I can assure you he was not the only one throwing a punch; just the only one that laid some idiot out!