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Post by bluehaze on Jul 30, 2020 10:30:00 GMT -5
Don’t see the correlation. I don’t own any MEAC sweatshirts and don’t plan on buying any Big South gear. I’m not going to all of a sudden start cheering for Charleston Southern because we are in the same conference. I’m pulling for A&T period.
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Post by Maxell on Jul 30, 2020 10:48:11 GMT -5
I grew up watching the Big Four on TV and was a fan of all four Duke/UNC/STate/Wake Forest. I gravitated toward the Black players on each team. BUT after I graduated from A&T, that stopped. I no longer had the desire to call myself "a fan" of another university's sports team, ever. I will reference them as childhood teams but that's it. I rarely keep up with P5 teams even today unless A&T happens to be playing one and I would definitely not wear another school's gear.
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Post by thefriscotxaggie on Jul 30, 2020 11:04:54 GMT -5
Again I will wear any HBCU gear but i will not wear any Power 5 gear. I have now plans to wear a sweatshirt to promote another Big South member schools.
We (my family) wear Shaw, Fayetteville State, Hampton, Southern, Texas Southern, Grambling Elizabeth City State. I am gone promoted those schools when I am not in Aggie gear. Sad day when we would rather sport a Carolina / Duke shirt than promote fella HBCU. I watch Power 5 games because I like sports but I would not watch Carolina or anyone else if the Aggies are on.
Us switching to the Big South is irreverent in my mine cause we all on this board no how bad the MEAC administration / structure is. Dennis Thomas way or the highway and we rightfully took the later.
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Post by Aggie One on Jul 30, 2020 12:51:36 GMT -5
If they (P5s and the G5s) do indeed manage to play, I'll just be watching the games and hoping they have decent matchups worth watching so my wife won't come nagging me to go shopping with her at some gawd awful store somewhere off in the deep country or having to do the never ending honey-do list every weekend.
Its going to be really lonely around here this fall without A&T football.
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Post by Aggie Monster on Jul 30, 2020 12:56:59 GMT -5
I have no love for ANYTHING not A&T. If there is a connection to the university somehow(kids or parents) then fine, root all you want, but lets break those cycles of rooting for teams that have nothing to do with us. Just rubs me the wrong way. No one would ever say, "Its OK to root for Hamptom when they not playing us." or "Its OK to root for Alcorn in the SWAC". Nor would someone that went to UNC say "Yeah, I'm going to root for Georgia". Aggies or nothing for me in college athletics. Me and UNC/Duke loving Aggies always have it out over this. Makes not sense to me at all. yet, you can support joining a pwc conference? how 'bout hbcu's or nothing for you? if you can root for the big south conference, why can't other aggies root for unc or any other p5 school of their choice? ain't like they're placing unc ahead of a&t. i've rooted for unc athletics all my life, far longer than i've rooted for a&t. but that's because i grew up watching unc athletics on tv, a&t wasn't on tv back then. ain't nothing wrong with rooting for p5 schools as long as your loyalty lies with a&t. rooting for p5 schools is one thing, they're in a totally different class than a&t. but becoming a pwc conference member and supporting a pwc conference instead of an hbcu conference is totally different. pretty "ironic" that you can embrace becoming a pwc conference member which previously had "nothing to do with a&t", but yet you have a problem with aggie alums who also root for p5 schools... What in the world are you talking about? I dont have a MEAC T-shirt or root for any other MEAC school. So whats your point? I'll root for A&T no matter the conference. Has nothing to do with Big South or MEAC at all.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 30, 2020 13:03:03 GMT -5
the point is that one aggie feels it is inappropriate to be a fan of a p5 school, that the only school aggies should be fans of is a&t. that notion conflicts with the idea that its okay to forfeit your loyalty to an hbcu conference in favor of a pwc conference.
so in other words, its wrong to root for a p5 school even though a&t is your only true loyalty. yet, it ain't wrong to turn your back on your fellow hbcu brethren in order to support a pwc conference. if you favor joining the bsc, then you "support" the bsc whether you wear any of the individual bsc school t-shirts or not...
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jul 30, 2020 14:45:08 GMT -5
Personally, I am supporting A&T not the BS Conference. I could care less about the other teams.
My loyalty has an always will be with A&T no matter what conference they play in. I definitely will never wear a P5 or ACC Sweat Shirt or other paraphernalia.
I definitely will never say "we lost" last night referring to Duke or Carolina as I have heard some Aggies say.
Hell most of them ain't never been on Duke or UNC's campuses and say "we won or lost" last night.
They ain't gone reference a HBCU school or wear their paraphernalia. They don't even keep up with their sports.
Support what teams and conferences you wish. I ain't gone put them above A&T and I damn sho ain't gone purchase their products.
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Post by saabman on Jul 30, 2020 17:49:29 GMT -5
It's amazing to see how a lot of the posters are trying to one up each other when it comes to loyalty LHM LOL! You either know where your loyalties are or you don't. I'm a college football fan careless about the professionals Football or Basketball.I enjoy the purity of the college game especially at the FCS and lower levels . I support all HBCU's but I do have my favorites but some of you continue to show your hypocritical side sometimes because you do not even show support for other HBCU's. So cut the one upmanship and think before you speak LOL.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Jul 30, 2020 18:30:01 GMT -5
I must confess...I'm not really a sports fan...I'm an A&T fan. I could care less about any sports college or pros except A&T sports. I've had two Panthers seasons tickets for 25 years and I usually gave them away. I don't own any other college or pro hats or tee shirts. I have a nephew playing on the Panthers so I have to own his jersey.
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Post by KidHeartless on Jul 30, 2020 21:45:36 GMT -5
I used to be a Duke fan....after a few talks with some students there....that sheeet dead
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Post by DECKS on Jul 31, 2020 11:27:01 GMT -5
It's really simple for me. As long as your money goes to A&T ........do what you like.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 31, 2020 11:54:48 GMT -5
some of the arguments "some aggies" (not all) make against the meac in favor of the bsc are the "very same" arguments that folk make about hbcu's in general. some aggies (including me) and hbcu alums in general get pissed when folk try to say that hbcu academics (including a&t) are "inferior" to pwc academics. they complain that hbcu's are also inferiro because hbcu's don't have as many resources as pwc's. further, they complain that many black athletes choose to attend pwc's rather than hbcu's because pwc's have better facilities. sound familiar? aren't those some of the same complaints "some" aggies have with the meac?
the same complaints some aggies have with the meac, are the "very same" complaints that some of the general public has with hbcu's in general. yet, those same aggies who trash the meac are some of the very same aggies who don't like the "hbcu stereotypes" that's bestowed upon hbcu's by the general public.
man, talk about the pot (some aggies) calling the kettle (the meac) black? we criticize black athletes who choose to attend pwc's. we criticize folk who put hbcu's down. yet, we willingly "join forces" with the very culprits (pwc conference) who more than anybody primarily perpetuate those criticisms...
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 31, 2020 12:11:43 GMT -5
and yes, i am a fan of unc "athletics" (not the school in general) and i'm not ashame to say so. i have stated as much from "day 1". growing up in eastern north carolina, i "idolized" not just unc football and basketball, but all unc sports teams. truth be told, had i been offered an athletic scholarship to attend unc coming out of high school, i would not be an aggie to this very day.
but that doesn't make me any less of an aggie. a&t is the "only" college that i favor over unc in sports. i didn't even like it when hampton upset unc in basketball before roy williams showed up. when i grew up, there was no carolina panthers and there was no charlotte hornets. so the next best thing to a professional sports team that as a "sports geek" growing up that i could call my own was unc athletics.
so i make no apologies that i'm a unc sports fan. i'm still a unc sports fan and the only school i place above unc in sports is "a&t". i'm a "loyalist", i don't switch my loyaties unless given legitimate reasons to do so. the only time i've switched my loyaties in sports is when i first decided to attend "a&t". i bumped unc from the top and replaced them with a&t, but everything else remained in tact...
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Post by aggieforlife on Jul 31, 2020 12:17:30 GMT -5
I see my comment started a thread no I am Aggie for Life..2nd generation Aggie Father and Mother had parts in Woolworth Sit in my comment was tongue and Check .I personally no few players from Charlotte that's on Team two of them consider A&T both are Brothers Brown Boys one is UNc leading receiver and the other will play this both from West Meck. I NEED a Football fix my money and support will always Bleed Blue and Gold plus my NEPHEW transfer From ECU..
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Jul 31, 2020 13:25:26 GMT -5
OSA, you are a product of UNC brainwashing as well as P5 brainwashing because of your environment and the lack of exposure of HBCU sports due to non tv contracts. I ain't gone hate you for that but you need to check the history of the Big 4. Check out who Coach K gave thousands of dollars to, to keep a stone racist in office (Jesse Helms). That is a fact, yet black kids go to Duke anyway because they don't know that and probably their parents don't either.
I saw Coach K on tv a few weeks ago talking about BLM and it should be stated everyday to bring awareness to the Afro American plight. Do you believe he really meant that? Hell No. He is trying to recruit some "One and Dones" to win a championship. Anybody that was a stone supporter of Jesse Helms is a RACIST also.
Other P5 schools have similar backgrounds as the ACC schools relating to their views of "white pride" and the use of black kids to make money off of their backs.
UNC and their history of the treatment of blacks and minorities is enough for me not to pull for them. However, I know why some people do.
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