Texas A&M Basketwhat?

People at work have been giving me, one of 2 Fightin' Texas Aggies on the crew, all kinds of hell about Texas A&M's "basketball program." I usually reserve the Reuter-quotes for stuff like Texas Tech "University" and Texas State "University" and so forth. But yeah, I'm goin' after my Aggies on this one. I graduated in '98 (but am class of '97!) and basketball doesn't matter much more now than it did the whole time I was there. I remember Lynn Hickey, the women's basketball coach back then, actually handing out fliers in front of the dining hall so more people would show up. I'm not a basketball fan, so I didn't go. But I appreciated her efforts. For all the good that does the "basketball program."

I was sure she would have torn R.C. Slocum to shreds since he (by all accounts) didn't, um, interact much with the student body at large. Fat lot of good that did him. Nope, I did baseball games and the rare football game. Football games were a lot of work. Baseball was far better suited to my sedentary and verbally abusive mindset.

So I was talking about the TAMU "basketball program". They lost to Baylor. BAYLOR! The Baptists are, in theory, the whipping boy for the Big XII. Remember that Simpsons episode when they're watching that bootleg Army briefing film and the general is explaining "Operation Whipping Boy," in which all the launch sites would target Springfield for calibration? That's Baylor. Victor over Texas A&M University's "basketball program."

Frankly, A&M's basketball team could win every single one of their games, find a cure for Parkinson's, and fend off Mongol hordes and the most they'd get from me is:

700 SAT, Baby!