So what the crap is an Aggie anyway?

[liveanddiedeac]

Texas A&M has Lassie for its mascot, I’m watching the end of this New Mexico State v. Utah State bowl game both Aggies and one has Cowboy looking decals on their helmets and the other has a Bull looking decal on their helmets. I can’t even tell you what NC A&T dresses up as their mascot, what the crap is an Aggie???

 

[IamThunderbolt]

Someone tied to agriculture.

 

[liveanddiedeac]

Someone tied to agriculture.

So I guess call yourself the Aggies and pick your mascot? You’d think if anybody would’ve been Aggies it would’ve been our friends from Raleigh.

 

[IamThunderbolt]

A&T already claimed it.

 

[liveanddiedeac]

A&T already claimed it.

Yeah, but nobody claimed the “John Deere’s”

And the Aggies New Mexico State version just won their bowl game in OT.

 

[HailToTheDeacons]

It's French for 'empty seat'.

 

[EatLeadCommie]

Many of the schools with State after their state name now used to be A&M schools. Texas A&M is about the only one that never changed it. Being agricultural and mechanical schools, they often were referred to as Aggies and took the name on with pride. Oklahoma State used to be the Oklahoma A&M Aggies too.

 

[liveanddiedeac]

Well there are lots of Aggies, but only one Demon Deacon.

 

[PhDeac]

Florida A&M (FAMU), Prarie View A&M and Alabama A&M are the only ones I can think of right off hand. They’re all HBCUs.

 

[bym051d]

Idk, but thumbs up anyway!

And spin those towels.

 

[bluefish]

Way, way back in the day Clemson was an A&M.

 

[jeff276]

Idk, but thumbs up anyway!

And spin those towels.

They do have a nice marching band, i was really impressed with them at half time.

 

[Deacfreak07]

It's French for 'empty seat'.

TITCR

 

[BacktoBack]

They do have a nice marching band, i was really impressed with them at half time.

Agreed. Trying to figure if the band was bigger than Wake's freshman class . But they were very good

 

[Lohengrin]

Texas A&M has Lassie for its mascot, I’m watching the end of this New Mexico State v. Utah State bowl game both Aggies and one has Cowboy looking decals on their helmets and the other has a Bull looking decal on their helmets. I can’t even tell you what NC A&T dresses up as their mascot, what the crap is an Aggie???

When I was a kid in Pittsburgh there was a car that was parked on our street with a "Texas Aggies" window decal on it. I thought clearly they named themselves after a girl named Aggie. No joke.

 

[SCDeac]

Way, way back in the day Clemson was an A&M.

Clemson students have discovered a new use for sheep....wool.

 

[MNHammer]

Maryland was known as the Aggies until the 1920s, but it was originally known as Maryland Agricultural College.

 

[lazydeac]

What was WFMLI’s mascot/nickname?

 

[Shorty]

They do have a nice marching band, i was really impressed with them at half time.

Yep. And that military style maneuver, flanking on a hard cut, is very hard to do. If one person flanks early, you‘re screwed. It becomes a domino effect of imprecision.

 

[DeacDaddy]

Very few Aggies are actually aggies. True for Deacons too of course!