Texas A&M

A&M to the SEC! Texas as an Independent?! The Big 12 and Texas-OU is Kaput?

By Richie Whitt
Sep 7, 2011

As we speak I'm told University of Texas president Bill Powers and athletic director DeLoss Dodds are planning an informal lunch with state power brokers at Barton Creek Country Club in Austin to discuss the feasibility of the Longhorns becoming a football independent. Hello, Notre Dame of the South? The plan goes thusly:...
With A&M Gone, the Big 12 Might Set Its Sights on ... Dallas?

By Richie Whitt
Aug 30, 2011

The Aggies are a joke. After a 15-year marriage, they want a divorce. Greener pastures they say, failing to camouflage their hissy-fit jealousy of Texas. Their long-time spouse, the Big 12 Conference, shrugs and begins courting other attractive partners. And now, almost three weeks after we'd all deemed the Aggies...
Guess A&M Finally Listened to its Own Fight Song

By Richie Whitt
Aug 15, 2011

Like a lot of Aggie traditions, how is their nonsensical, yet sacred War Hymn going to sound in the SEC? Good bye to Texas University; So long to the orange and white Imagine the curious looks in Florida's Swamp when the Aggies, trailing 42-7 in the third quarter, start singing about about...
A&M to the SEC: Didn't We Just Have this Conversation?

By Richie Whitt
Aug 11, 2011

The grand ol' Southwest Conference lived to be 80. The Big 12 Conference may die a teenager.Only 17 and just a year removed from turmoil that left it with just 10 teams but supposedly unity and cohesion, the conference is again this morning reeling with the news that Texas A&M...
Texas A&M Quarterback Jerrod Johnson Falls From Heisman to Hartford

By Richie Whitt
May 3, 2011

One thing I will do is admit when I'm wrong. And Aggies fans, I was wrong about this one and y'all were right. Texas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson was indeed good enough to be a first-round draft pick. In the United Football League. The Hartford Colonials last night made Johnson the...
Aggie Fans are Definitely Sad, Apparently Cheap

By Richie Whitt
Oct 5, 2009

Got a buddy who is Cowboys' season-ticket holder. One of the privileges is getting first dibs at all the events - not just NFL games - at the sparking, billion-dollar joint. So he buys four tickets on the 50 to last month's Oklahoma-BYU game. Cost him $1,200, and he sells them...