Here's the deal bud. I'm pretty sure that I speak for my fellow Former Students of Texas A&M when I say that never in my life have I felt an inferiority complex to UT. UT has a great athletic department, that is true, one that I'd like A&M to have, but at the end of the day being an Aggie means more to me then how our sports teams perform. This may be hard for those of y'all that didn't attend "the university" and are t-shirt Longhorns to understand, but it's true. Bonfire, Muster, Silver Taps, the Aggie Network, Midnight Yell Practice, the Corps, Northside vs. Southside, "pulling out", class sets, THAT is what being an Aggie is all about and as far as I'm concerned A&M has the market cornered in Texas on tradition. For those of us who walked the campus in College Station for 4 or more years to earn our degrees and experienced these things first hand, its hilarious that some people who've never sniffed Austin would attach themselves to that other school in Austin.
I'm not getting down on UT grads. Most of my best friends from HS went to UT and we stayed friends throughout college. But I've said it before to my uncle, a die-hard Husker who gave it to me and my dad after we got stomped in our first Big XII championship game. I mentioned all those things and said, I'd rather be a Texas Aggie on the worst day, then a Husker or a sip on the best. Nov. 19, 1999 and Nov. 26, 1999 were 2 examples of that.