Texas A & M gets its first taste of SEC football this Saturday as they host the Florida Gators in College Station, and the university apparently felt it necessary to welcome themselves to the conference with this billboard at a busy intersection in the northeast corner of Gainesville.
That's according to UF's official athletics site, which presents a picture of the billboard advertising the Aggies as having "The Best Academics & Cleanest Program in the SEC," alongside "Real Football. Real Tradition."
The "cleanest program" claim is laughable; see here for a list suggesting the Aggies are actually the sixth-dirtiest program of all time (and it's a legitimate argument). Maybe they meant "since joining the SEC"? As for academics, I think Vanderbilt might put forth a strong claim to that title; in fact, Vandy blows Texas A & M out of the water.
But this is just trolling, right? And I guess it worked, delusional Aggies fans, because here we are posting about it.
"There ain't nothing you can't solve with one more beer"
from what I heard from some pretty well connected Aggie buddies "back in the day", they may have been the dirtiest of all the SWC teams. I think Ron Meyer alluded to that as well. Not sure what they have going on these days, but they better be cheating if they want to compete in the SEC
So they go from kissing everyone's @ss in the SEC with their welcome video to talking trash about a bunch of schools with more titles to show than them??? Hahaha! This is gonna be fun to watch everyone in the SEC drum the ags! They're gonna find out where they stand soon enough! Vanderbilt and Kentucky know their place, aggies will know as well within 1 season!
I have family that are Aggies, and so I typically root for them. But this is a real a-hole move. Why be the bear that pokes the bee's nest with a stick? They are likely not going to have a good 1st season in the SEC, and this sort of thing isn't going to make for a friendly welcome from opposing schools' fans.
1. If I'm a resident of Gainsville, Florida (or really anywhere outside the state of Texas), then I probably haven't given much (if any) thought to Texas A&M University ever. . . and certainly not to their perpetually mediocre football program. Suddenly seeing this billboard on my way to work one morning would be. . .well, odd. I can't think of any other way to put it. It's like if you lived in San Francisco and drove past a Clemson billboard one day. You'd just be scratching your head. I guess that's just the reality of conference realignment.
2. Touting that you have the cleanest program in the SEC is like saying you're the one innocent guy in prison.
3. The crack about academics apparently doesn't account for Vanderbilt.
4. This whole college football fad of putting up smack-talk billboards in random corners of the Earth is really stupid. What a collassal waste of money and energy. I'm sure the money spent on that billboard could have fed 100 homeless people for a week.
