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Who Had A Better Year: A&M or texas?

I got to thinking last night (scary) as I watched the final outs of the College World Series, who had a better year overall, A&M or texas? Robert Cessna writes an article about this exact question.

ESPN showed multiple videos during the CWS of Augie Garrido and the texas players, saying that at texas, "National Championships are expected, nothing less is to be accepted." They gave off a very "2nd place is first loser" vibe. After all, the national runner-up trophy props open their bathroom door in Austin (find that hard to believe).

So I am interested in what the people in Austin think of the national championship totals from this past year:

Aggies - 3

Horns - 0

texas may have finished better in the sports everyone cares about, but by their own admission, national championships are the expectation.

I don't know that A&M has Austin shaking in their boots, but they have undoubtedly have their attention now.

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texas had a better season in football

that is really the only sport that matters in this State.

Pointing out that we have three national titles and they have none really doesn’t mean anything, because we could point out that we have more national titles than any program in the nation.

The bigger question is, would you trade the year we’ve had for the year Florida had in football, or the year North Carolina had in basketball, or the year LSU had in baseball? Does 1 of those 3 trophies equal or surpass our 3 trophies?

by Beergut on Jun 25, 2009 3:03 PM CDT reply actions  

the answer is yes. I would trade with any of those teams.

texas had a better season in football
that is really the only sport that matters in this State.

agreed. but by their own (again, theirs not mine) definition, they failed. no championship = no success at texas.

by jarrett.adams on Jun 25, 2009 4:16 PM CDT reply actions  

my point is that by texas' definition we had a better athletic year...

now would they trade year’s with us? no way.

but again, they are the ones making the statements on ESPN that anything less than a NC is unacceptable.

by jarrett.adams on Jun 25, 2009 4:18 PM CDT reply actions  

I was in a bar with no sound

if they said anything less than a national title is unacceptable, they must be really miserable today.

by Beergut on Jun 25, 2009 5:13 PM CDT up reply actions  

I wrote a bit about this...

…in a fanpost over at CornNation. The Ralphie Report had a link to a story that included a chart, comparing the finishes in the 21 sports under the Big 12. I whittled it down to the 12 sports all 12 schools participate in, and the Aggies finish…on average…a full spot above Texas. A&M finished in the top 3 in 8 of the 11 non-football sports.

Now that was just for the Big 12, I didn’t know about your three NC’s this year. Congrats guys.

by Wolvie on Jun 26, 2009 3:43 PM CDT reply actions  

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