I just don’t understand…college kids can be idiots. When I was at Tech and we were losing, we got hammered and booed and cussed and whatever. I have been to games at Auburn, Virginia, Maryland, Pitt (I lived a lot of years on the east coast), Stanford, Cal (I lived in SF for several years), Minnesota, OU, LaTech and pretty much every D-I school in Texas except Rice, Houston and UTEP. Trust me…the students at every venue have a unique way of greeting their foes. To think this is a Tech thing, or that our students are any different than anywhere else is silly.

Do I like what they do? No, of course not. But don’t let that sort of thing beat you down, and don’t let the opinion of a visitor ruin it for you. Neb is a unique place and is known throughout college football as a friendly little haven. But they are the lone outlier, not the rule.

I read over on raiderpower a post from an Aggy who actually was at the game and had nothing but good things to say about the Texas Tech experience. It depends on who you talk to you and what their life attitude is in general. You yourself said this aggy fan was the most arrogant person you know. Well, that’s what people like him say. They always find a button to push – and then jump up and down on it all night long.

night after the game. I heard nothing but good things from all aggies around me and at the tailgating venues. This is heated rivalry but kids will be kids in the student sections. I have no problem with heckling fans(kids) because that is why we have home games people. It’s supposed to be a hostile environment to a certain degree. There is a threshold on what is or needs to be acceptable but lets not become a bunch of sensitive babies here. Be loud but be respectful is where I stand on this one. Lastly, congratulate the team that kicked our ass when necessary. Better days will come.

I had a running, friendly conversation with the atm fans sitting near me. No probs at all, but we are all a little older and a little more sober than when I was a student.

I didn’t see any inappropriate behavior anywhere around me. I did see some pretty good restraint by Tech fans in general after the game. There were a handful of Aggie students whooping it up pretty good in the midst of hundreds of Tech fans leaving the stadium and other than a few looks that would kill nobody bothered them. All things being considered, they (aggies) should know better than that. They were practically begging for trouble, not to mention being downright rude in somebody else’s yard.

Ditto. Very embarrassing. There were a # of atm fans around us & were most cordial.
Am sure they would have enjoyed hearing their school song as much as we enjoyed ours( as well as their bands’ performance). Need to show respect in order to receive it.

And that is fine. I’m sure there are things I should not have done when I was in school. Even though I don’t remember them which kinda makes my point.
Not really a fan of the boo’ing during the opponents school song and at halftime (really? who cares???).

But the thing I can’t get past is so-called fans chanting “No More Potts” as I have heard. UNACCEPTABLE in my opinion. I’m all for people showing their displeasure with Potts by cheering Doege coming in the game. But to have your home crowd chanting against a specific person is rediculous.

If the students doing this think they are such an authority then strap on a helment and get YOUR ASS on the practice field and prove it. Otherwise, just cheer for the guy who replaces him and leave the personal chants out of it.

You want to say that our fans are bad, understandable. But, have you ever been to a rivalry game somewhere else and been near the student section? Our fans are nothing out of the ordinary. I would like for us to be known for our great sportsmanship, but aTm uses every chance they can to make comments about us being classless or academically unacceptable. Like I said, our fans can get a little bit too rowdy from time to time, but it is always blown way out of proportion. I just wish I had a camera on me saturday to hear all of the remarks made by atm fans. Nothing at all compared to anything I heard from Tech fans. And did anyone notice that while our guy was laying on the field not moving, the Aggie band played what seemed to be every one of their songs while their fans sang along? Hows that for sportsmanship? That was one thing that impressed me from our fans, when an Aggie was down, our fans were for the most part quiet with a gun up. (But that of course was taken by the Aggies behind me as “classless tech”) And they make it a big deal that we boo the officials, yet they hiss in unison. How is hissing different from booing? Alot of the stuff you are hearing about Tech fans is really just some sort of Aggie inferiority complex. And in case you were wondering, here are a few good reason as to why we hate them so. From the daily toreador website. http://www.dailytoreador.com/news/fans-act-out-in-a-m-loss-1.2038339

“Real University Alum Tue Oct 27 2009 15:29 A survey? Way to go. Your school is a joke. Your fans are white trash. Your football team might be the only redeeming thing about that place, and that probably won’t even last more than a few more years. When the time comes to move on in the real world, if half of you even graduate, I take comfort in knowing you will be at the bottom of the totem pole. "

“Mike Tue Oct 27 2009 14:18 As an A&M former student, and present donor, I just wanted to let you tceh fans in on something. The whole Big XII recognizes you fans as the white trash, no good, scum of the conference. While you have had a good 6 or 7 years in football, yall are on your way back to the bottom- the natural pecking order- whether it be athletics or academics.
Thanks and Gig ’em "

So why were Ags on our school newspaper’s website to talk crap? Kind of adding fuel to the fire dont ya think? To me, making up lies about a university’s educational standards on their own site is much worse than dropping an f bomb here and there, or throwing a football over a wall. Could be that I’m young and dumb, but it just really seems like Aggie fans are the true trash of the nation. And it does seem that our sportsmanship at games has gotten better over the past 3 years at least. I hear less and less of the other version of the fight song, and if you thought this atm game was bad, you should have been there 2 years ago. Of course, they had guaranteed a victory and such so it may as well been deserved.

I attended the Tech at OU game last year & their fans (not students) threw our ball out of the building also, it’s just a harmless fun prank. They do the same thing when OSU comes to Norman- no harm, no foul.

College students are getting more out of control & dumb at hometown sporting events than ever before, maybe the school should police the student sections and do something about it.

Booing a marching band? Get a life.