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Happy for the coogs. Homecoming - Perhaps going to a highschool without football, I've never really understood the appeal or concept of homecoming. But I really just don't get it at the college level. Most schools have stadium capacities well over their student population size... who the heck do they think fills the other half of their stadiums if not the alumni? From my perspective.. homecomings at the university level are embarrassing. And I'm not calling out UH, I know it's prevalent across the country. If you have to dedicate a special weekend for alumni to visit your campus and attend a football game, you're doing something wrong.

It might be the special stuff.... They black-topped beltway 8 north of 290 a yr ago with a trial installation of a new blacktop that is supposed to be rain resistant. It works great. It's porous and allows water to pass through and off to the sides. It does a great job of not allowing standing water or remaining slick during a downpour. Could be the same stuff.

So it's gone from " We couldn't have done such a thing.. where's the photos and reports?" to "It's only a minor prank, so who cares? " . How easily you now claim it .... No more denial on your part, guess that's a start.

And i said.. I would have equal disdain for aggies that did such a thing if it crosses the dangerous/nasty/more permanent harm line. I'm for accountability of anyone that does such a thing. I'm sure you horse was fixable and I'm not sure if soapsuds are permanent, dangerous, or nasty. I never said I was against all pranks. I would agree with you on the painting of your statue. I don't remember that, but I don't doubt it could have happened. I think that is close to crossing the line.

Yeah.. I just read a similar article with the fish bait. That would change things a little, not as bad as feces. I remember that PMC incident. That kid was kicked out of the corps among other things. I believe he also had to in-person apologize to the longhorn band later. He was instantly held accountable. Deservedly so. It is seeing comments like from the Tech presdient saying its more akin to prank than vandalism. It's comments from their student body president that pretty much match Distrbuaire.. "we didn't do it." It's the zero accountability and denials that get me hot tempered. Agree on the Auburn tree.

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I have no problem with campus pranks by students. Pranks between dorms, outfits, frats.. all fun. I have no problem fun pranks against other schools. Stealing little trinkets and small stuff.. even a mascot briefly. all fun. But there's a line of respect that I don't think should be crossed when in comes to other schools, especially visitors. This prank in my mind, crosses that line. I would have equal disdain for a group of aggies if say they defaced property or a statue on another campus with paint. Toilet paper, Fine. Paint ! Bad bull !! Also.. I will admit.. my view of this prank is clouded by other incidents with Tech. I've had friends assaulted there on game day. I've had friends get their tires slashed on game weekends. Throwing tortillas. Fun. Throwing batteries. Not fun. I've been to at least 2 dozen aggie away games and Lubbock ranked at the bottom of the list as the worst times filled with the worst people. And what's funny... It's like Why? Why be nasty assmongers to visitors ? Austin and longhorn fans, if not gracious or overtly nice, were still never nearly as bad. Most student bodies and alumni were awesome hosts. Not Tech. CT huh? BQ here. Guess that explains why we so naturally butt heads. Edit.. I forgot, want to be fair. I did have a tire slashed in austin once. But in fairness, I did have my back windshield peppered with aggie stickers including the Calvin peeing on an upside down longhorn. Still. longhorn fans on game weekend were never mean spirited asses.

It's all Strength of schedule. I guarantee that when the first BCS rankings come out, assuming everyone in the Coaches top 7 keep winning, it's going to be: 1. 2. 3. OU, LSU, Bama ( in some order ) 4. OSU. 5. 6. 7. Boise St, Wisc, Stanford. ( in some order ) B12 and SEC started the season with more ranked teams and/or higher ranked teams. B10 isn't that far behind now.. obviously having 6 ranked teams currently, tied with B12, is nothing to sneeze at. But y'all started the season with 5 ranked teams, the highest at #10. SEC started with 8, 2 in top 10 and B12 started with 6, 3 in the top 10. Current ranked teams left to play - OU -4 OSU -4 LSU -3 Bama -2 Wisc -2 Stan -1

You apparently think it's really all Aggies, all the time. That means you think it wasn't really tech students that rammed the goal post in the stands, but aggies. It's not that hard. Great long article. I can see from the beginning it's written with a tech slant. Not gonna bother finishing it because I've heard all the excuses before. All the details in the article.. don't matter. Going to lay the goal post at Will Rogers feet - Who cares. Irrelevant. Aggies still in the stands - Aggies always have a very short yell practice even after a loss. I didn't realize your stadium rules dictate we evacuate the premises immediately. Aggies goading Tech students with the goal post. - Goal post is a weapon. That's like saying if a bad guy has a gun pointed at a good guy's head and the good guy says "Go ahead do it", it somehow the good guy's fault for being shot when the bad guy decided to pull the trigger. Deciding to take the goal post over a fence - All great.. unless that fence is blocked by a mass of people. Fight afterwards, even the aggie on aggie punch. Irrelevant. Only part that matters is Tech students decided to pull the trigger. They rammed the goal post into a large group of opposing fans. That alone could have seriously hurt someone, and is the only part that matters and the only reason why it made Tech look so bad in that situation.

A&M football team has never needed bus security. Way to cause a first ! Does your car show polish only work on windows 10' up ? That's funny, cuz mine also works on the ground level cargo hold doors. Reports say on one of the bus, locks were busted and couldn't be locked up for the night... guess which bus had the **** in it. You're joking right ? It you wanted to plan something like this, it would be pretty easy to have a spotter follow the team from practice back to the whichever hotel. But that wouldn't even be necessary. It's not like hotel locations are Top Secret. Hell, for bowl games, the hotel locations are usually advertised for fan access. Plus, it's not like Lubbock is that big. It's not that much bigger than Bryan-College Station. I'm sure the Aggies use the same hotel they use every other year and probably one of the same 2 or 3 hotels that all visiting teams use. In your world, apparently hotel arrangements for visitng teams are so hush-hush that the Coach drivers apparently don't even know the final location until they are on route, and Then.. Then they apparently press the Cloaking button as they roll into town so that local fans can't follow them. And in a small college town of only a quarter million, apparently all the locals are too dumb to put 2 and 2 together that a convoy of charter buses sitting in a hotel parking lot on a football weekend has a very damn good chance of belonging to the visiting team or band.

Who cares about the punch? Throwing a effin goal post at visiting fans is repulsive all on its own. Are you now suggesting that Tech fans are such pansies that they would let a visitng team, that just lost, storm their field and tear down one of their goal posts ? Don't think so.

You're comparing generations of aggies tagging out of sight steam tunnels to how you treat visiting fans and teams ?? I've traveled to multiple bowl games and b12 championship games and to every campus in the B12 except Colorado and ISU, multiple times for South div teams. My experiences tell me that Techtards are special in their nastiness and aggressiveness towards opposing fans.

You try to absolve Tech's misdeeds by focusing on details that are wrong. Who cares if it was shoe polish and not paint, like mistakenly reported. Fact remains lots of vulgarities were put on 4 buses. Who cares if it was only one bus that had **** in it. That's still one bus too many. That's still pretty nasty. Everything I've read has indicated it was more than just a single turd. Our mascot travels with her corps handler. She would never have any direct interaction with the football team in traveling arrangements. Just like the goal post incident...... Techtards try to keep the focus on the McKinney fight. Yeah, so in the mayhem, an aggie threw a punch at another aggie. Agreed, and not the point or the correct focus. That was AFTER techtard students rammed their goalpost into the aggie fan section after the game. So it's all aggie sabatoge to paint other schools poorly ? Are you saying that was really Aggies dressed up as Techtards that decided to then throw the goalpost into their own fans after a loss ????? You're kidding, right ? And because it was ONLY polish and a little bit of ****, it was most likely aggies, not techtards ???? Yeah.. Chilen flag. Was put there by a Chilean corps member to mark the 1 yr anniversary of the Chilean mine incident and to honor an Aggie who was instrumental in the rescue. Pranks are fun.. They are supposed to be fun. Stealing a mascot to show you can would be fun. Killing a mascot, too far. Vulgarity and excrement crosses that line from fun to nasty... Whatever. It made the national news, and made you clowns look bad. Like I said.. Good riddance.

I think the winner of LSU/Bama will be the de facto SEC winner and in the Championship game. I think the Aggies don't stand much a chance in Norman, so Bedlam, OU vs OSU should be between two unbeatens. OSU is looking dominant and they'll probably have 2 more ranked games - Baylor and Kstate before playing OU last game of the season.. I see them jumping Wisconsin, Stanford and Boise if they win out. Techtards spray painted our team busses and spread dog poop inside them. When I was a student, it was a given that there would be problems, physical altercations, when visiting Tech on game day. Good riddance assholes clowns....

Didn't say it couldn't be done... Volume of a cube is 3x as much as a pyramid. Sitework is pricey. But if price is no object, which I assume it isn't since the project probably hasn't gotten past the pretty rendering phase, then kudos to you for your unique solution. I wonder how much 2/3rds of a cubic city block's worth of flubber would cost ? That is for the historic city center only. I'm not sure what developer would want to build in whatever relatively small area that 'historic city center' entails so bad that they'd dream up a project 10x more expensive. The rest of Mexico City is open for the business of building skyscrapers.

Interesting but impractical. You can build a 5 story parking garage above grade for about the same amount that it would cost to build a 2 story parking garage sub-grade. I imagine for something 65 stories deep, that multiplier would be significantly greater. Throw in that Mexico has pretty frequent seismic activity. Engineering a building to sway and give when the earth shifts is one thing. This would be more akin to engineering a missile silo in a seismic zone that has to be able to withstand shear along it's entire 65 story height. Mucho dineiro ! Pretty renderings. Not gonna happen.

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As you mentioned in the Parc Binz thread..... Binz(Bissonnet) on the other side of Main has 4 lanes. At Main (where it look like on google maps that they have 5 lanes), The ROW at that point is 72' Bissonnet transitions from 4 lanes to 2 lanes around Kelvin/ Morningside. The ROW on Bissonnet between Morningside and Montrose is mostly 63' but is actually 77' at Ashby. EXPAND Bissonnet NOW ! There is plenty of room for a dedicated turn lane or perhaps 4 full lanes. SouthHampton needs to stop treating their small segment of Bissonnet as a neighborhood street. It is not. All their streets that run parallel to or intersect Bissonnet are their neighborhood streets. Bissonnet is classified by the City of Houston GMIS as a Major Thoroughfare. The 1.5 mile stretch from Kirby to Montrose can and should be expanded. Why ? This location is on a major thoroughfare. It is located 1/2 to 3/4ths of a mile from 2 other major thoroughfares. It is located less than half a mile from a prestigious university and less than 1 mile from the 2nd largest employment center in the city. It is a great location. Lots of major thoroughfares have neighborhoods, even insanely pricey neighborhoods, right off them. The only reason this location is any different is that the neighborhood actually thinks they own this stretch of major thoroughfare and that the rest of the city has no right to it. Bissonnet is not a neighborhood street. It's a fine location for this kind of project and this segment of road is a perfect candidate for expansion. West Alabama has the exact same ROW - 63'.... Bissonnet could easily be made a 3 lane road with a similar lane changing setup probably without even losing any trees. PS... I didn't realize Buckhead had this all up on their webpage.. but they a good job explaining what Bissonnet is per the city guidelines. PS II... Metro doesn't run buses on neighborhood streets.. they run them on major thoroughfares, like Bissonnet. PS III... And it's not a hi-rise. It's a midrise. It will be close in height to these two residential midrises, which also happen to be on a major thoroughfare immediately surrounded by residential neighborhoods.

The honeymoon will be over once this football season ends. No biggie. Concur. My love for A&M and hatred for ND has given me a 1-3 record on those games. I'm incapable of picking ND to win one or Ags to lose one.

When you mention Bissonet to most Houstonians, they are are going to picture it as a major 5 lane thoroughfare. They are going to picture it with all it's commercial properties stretching from the West up to Morningside. They'll also picture it as one of the major streets that runs through the heart of our Musuem District. If they look it up on Google maps, they'll see that it is one of the yellow lines indicated a major street.. one of only 3 major E-W streets that run the majority of the distance between 610 and 288 between 59 and the South Loop. What they do not imagine is the 1 mile stretch, 2 lane residential stretch between that commercial and museum district that really has no bizness being there. Bissonet might be schizo.. but I laugh at the scale arguments... because it effin Bissonnet and a project such as this should be on such a street. The project is NOT being built on Wroxton or Albans a few blocks off Bissonnet.. it is on effin Bissonnet. You have commercial half a mile to your west. You have museums half a mile to your east, and you have, as you mentioned, the Rice Apartments and parking garage a few blocks away. Not only should this project be built here.. but this 1 mile stretch of Bissonnet should be expanded to 4 lane in order to fully wear its name proudly. Also I laugh because the opponents of this project have screwed themselves over. They HAD a retail component... maybe a wine bar, maybe a coffee shop, maybe a high-end dry cleaners. But thanks to their bitching and moaning.. all gone. They HAD high end condos.. They now have rented apartments. So not only do they have poorer new neighbors, but more of them, considering the condo units would have been larger and fewer in number. Their bitching and moaning has made the traffic problem worse. DISCLAIMER: I recently lived half a mile from this project and supported it fully even then. I now live a mile away but travel through the neighborhood multiple times a week on the way to the med center... so screw you Ashby haters that has cost me a coffee shop, wine bar or dry cleaners along my route. I hope you all get Vitamin D deficient from all that Ashby Hi-rise sun blockage.

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It's official... Ags are in the SEC. Suck it 20th. http://www.tamu.edu/...nouncement.html http://www.secdigita...conference.aspx Your record attendance is only 3000 more than ours.... Try adding a few 3rd decks. PS... Looks like we all pretty much kicked ass in the pick'em this week. No big changes in the standings if any.

senior QB jinx continues... Tanny couldn't settle down and stop screwing up 2nd half.... Though the last pick that sealed it was just a good play on Fuller by the corner, the pass was fine. Third game in a row we've come out lackadaisical in the 3rd... that's gotta be on the coaches. Season aint over.. but damn that sucks.

I was waiting for another day like today. Dow matched our low for the yr. I went back in.... some. No Whammy ! No Whammy !

What part of town was it stolen from ?