No, TAMU definitely wants to play tu every year. There's way too much money involved in that game to let it die.
I generally don't get involved in arguments involving anything that comes out of TexAgs. TexAgs message boards are the Aggie proof of
Gabe's Internet Theory (language in link is NSFW). That being said, the t-shirt argument is too much.
To start with, tu has an absolute buttload of t-shirt fans (t-shirt t-sips as they are affectionately called)...and they are much more obnoxious than regular t-sips. Its a great school and if you went there I expect that you can and should talk as much smack as humanly possible about how consistently good the program is. There is nothing more irritating that dealing with swagger and smack talk about how good tu is from a person who did not attend the university. You can tell me all about how good "your" team is, as long as you are talking about UNT, SWT, TSU, TWU or whatever school you actually attended.
That (admittedly bitter) attitude is why some ags don't welcome in t-shirt fans. They remind us of one of the things we hate the most about tu. There is a sense that Ags are all in this together, us against a world that just doesn't understand, and frankly, the t-shirt fans are just a little late to the fox hole. Should we take all the help we can get? Sure, especially as long as there appears to be no one in the athletic department who is remotely capable of handling the national media. Will we accept the help? Students yell "Two Percenter!!" at other students who leave football games before the final second is off the clock. My guess is there will always be a palpable division between the "Old Army" Ags that went to the school, and the rest.