Texas A&M came into this season with a ton of hype, bringing in the number one recruiting class because of all that oil money... A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher almost had an aneurism when Alabama coach Nick Saban called the school out for paying players....A&M has this tradition called the “Midnight Yell,” where every Friday night when the clock turns 12, one of these “hype guys” goes and tries to hype up the crowd by saying the lamest things about the team they’re playing on Saturday.“I Googled this team to make sure they’re even real. I was really confused, because Appalachia is definitely not a state. But, sure enough I found them, and they’re located deep, and I mean deep in the backwoods, just like you would think any hillbilly college that names themselves the ‘Mountaineers.’I just hope that these guys can get here tomorrow alright, because I know for a fact that half of their football team can barely even read the name on their jerseys, let alone read a map.It’s a shame that the only two brain cells that all these guys have left are gonna get knocked out by our wrecking crew defense tomorrow.”
The final score was Appalachian State 17, Texas A&M 14. Better luck next year, 'wrecking crew.'
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A&M pupils might want to review their Sun-tse.
And more modern advisories regarding firing up one's enemies.
Eric Hines
Marshall last week and App State this week. Both of those small mountain colleges have the reputation of being "giant killers" through the years.
App State has been doing this to ranked teams for years.
Eric,
Don't know about Sun-Tse but I do know that Machiavelli also had a few choice things to say on the subject in Discourses On Livy. Human beings never learn. :P
Towering Barbarian, my take on Sun-tse in this context is from the reverse. He counseled to always leave your enemy a face-saving/honorable way off the battlefield.
By so viciously smearing and denigrating Appalachian State before the battle even had the forces set up, the Aggies made it impossible for Appalachian State to leave the battlefield under any circumstance. And, to boot, created for themselves the humiliating defeat that their smears created.
Eric Hines
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