Published April 18, 2012 - 10:14am
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It’s hard to ‘gig’ a team early when they aren’t even officially a part of the conference yet, but the Aggies are gettin’ gigged for their recent wardrobe malfunction.
Aggieland Outfitters produced a shirt for sale that showed the Aggies’ SEC pride, but they obviously had the geography wrong and included the state of North Carolina and didn’t even include the state of Missouri:
And Aggieland officially responded to the mishap yesterday:
Howdy Ags – This is Aggieland Outfitters. We have a sponsor username for mybcs.com, but I didn’t want to offend our friends at CC Creations who sponsor this board, so I thought I’d repost this under a new personal account to follow the guidelines of TexAgs.com
All I can is that we messed up on this shirt.
The original design was meant to have the old SEC states with Texas on the back as an addition to the conference. Somewhere from sketch to finished product North Carolina got added. Sometimes mistakes happen and we just plain missed it.
Funny enough, the SEC licensed the shirt and didn’t notice it either, so maybe they know something that we don’t know about expansion in North Carolina?
Hopefully we didn’t totally ruin anyone’s day with this. We’ve got lots of great SEC merchandise coming out, and we’ll make sure that the maps are correct next time!
Gig’em!
Aggieland Outfitters
If this mistake would have happened in the Big 12, no one would be talking about it. Welcome to the big leagues, Aggies.
Being an Arkansas fan, and remembering the our teams old SWC days, I can tell all of you that the Aggie jokes are numerous concerning their stupidity. This is just another example.
whats funny is your degree(assuming you have one) is nothing. Facts are facts. You are by far an embarrassment academically. Proof??
Rankings:
#58 in US News National Universities
#19 in US News Public Universities
#10 in National Universities by endowment at $7 billion in 2011
#6 in the US in starting salary for graduates in 2011-12 from a public state school.
http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/top-us-colleges-graduate-salary-statistics.asp
#5 in The Washington Monthly for national universities – which considers research, community service, and social mobility
#2 in the Wall Street Journal “most likely to help students land a job in key careers and professions”
#23 in the 2011 Kiplinger’s Personal Finance best-value public university on the basis of in-state tuition
#35 in the 2011 Kiplinger’s Personal Finance best-value public university on the basis of out-of-state tuition
Research:
AAU:
One of 62 invited members of American Association of Universities, which recognizes the nation’s best research institutions.
National Science Foundation has recognized Texas A&M as one of the top 20 research institutions.
Texas A&M received nearly $580 million in research funding, ranking the school among the top 20 American research institutes. #1 research universtiy in Texas.
Texas A&M ranks 13th among U.S. research universities in exchange agreements with institutions abroad and student participation in study abroad programs.
One of only a few universities that holds land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant designation
projects funded by such prominent and diverse agencies as NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research.
Global recognition:
Newsweek International ranked Texas A&M as the 77th university globally on the basis of “openness and diversity” as well as “distinction in research”
The Times Higher Education Supplement listed Texas A&M 60th among the world’s top 100 technology universities, 24th among America’s top biomedicine universities, and 50th among North America’s universities.
The 2011 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 158th overall in the world, 40 places up from 2010.
Other:
Texas A&M is one of three public universities with a full-time, volunteer Corps of Cadets. It provides more commissioned officers to the United States Armed Forces than any other school outside of the service academies.
The best one I remember was when they sprayed Cow Dung on their Campus buildings because it supposedly made the buildings look antiquated.That one was hilarious. The Aggie jokes from the past are numerous and most originated from UT. Even the students that went there had special jokes for the BQ’s and CT’s. not to mention the All Male Cheerleaders at SWC games in the 1970′s before women were enrolled at A&M. I wonder if the Dixie Chicken is still the watering hole at College Station? All jokes aside welcome to the SEC Aggies. P.S. don’t forget to bring your crying towels.
“If this mistake would have happened in the Big 12, no one would be talking about it.”
The writer must be full of himself because we (Big 12) catch and make fun of the Aggies self inflicted gaffe’s every chance we get. Their mistakes do not go unnoticed.
To Txsaggie: Book learnin’ is a whole lot different than repeatedly doing dumb things in the public forum and interwebs.
Sweethearts of Texas A&M….Welcome to the SEC where Texas football is a whole lot of nothing….
Texas A&M is not a faithful representation of Texas football nor does the connotation of “Texas football” associate with A&M.