TCU went full on aggie for the Super Regional

[joeywa]

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[Aaron Carrara]

 

[Godz40acres]

 

[hoskins5]

You never go full aggy!

 

[joeywa]

You never go full aggy!

Oh, it get's better.

Major egg on the face of TCU brass with this situation. 

Thanks to Aggies, #TCU15 backfires in spectacular fashion

By Beau Holder

The greatest story you'll see today began in the clever minds of the top brass at the TCU athletic department and evolved into the One True Champion of Super Regional ticket sales right on the TexAgs forums.

With the intent of preventing tickets to the Texas A&M-TCU Super Regional in Fort Worth from falling into the hands of those loud, mean ol' Aggies, TCU cooked up an idea. Even the on-the-berm GA seating, the seats not already given to TCU season-ticket holders and other alumni, would be protected and first released secretly to only the purple-clad. Complete home dominance would be assured — and with it, victory.

The Frogs wrapped this beautiful idea up in an impenetrable lock and key, a defense system to rival the greatest fortress. It was a covert operation for the ages. It was a word whispered in the shadows.

It was "TCU15".

Now, where could this plan go awry? Well, the man with the self-destruct button was TCU Athletic Director Chris Del Conte himself.

After the masterfully encrypted "TCU15" password was emailed out to loyal Horned Frogs, Del Conte went a step further and posted it on Twitter. Which, it's probably fair to say, was ... a mistake.

An enterprising Aggie got his hands on the code and brought it to the TexAgs Premium forum, where it was on like Donkey Kong. Ags from all over began snapping up the GA tickets, which it appears were intended to be for TCU students as well. Were.

The tickets sold out before Thursday's public release and the story was hilarious enough to earn a tip of the hat from Total Frat Move, which featured a TexAgs mention, some sweet glimpses of general saltiness from KillerFrogs users and a parting shot: “Just saying, but SMU wouldn’t make this kind of mistake.”

 

[streettopeschel]

Tcu needs a loyalty point program. Or something.

Twitter is going to lead to the end of civilization.

 

[joeywa]

Tcu needs a loyalty point program. Or something.

Twitter is going to lead to the end of civilization.

I think they need to sell beer INSIDE the Athletic Department.  Hell, it couldn't hurt. At least then they'd have an excuse. 

 

[tejasrulz]

I know a couple where she is a TCU grad & he is an aggy. I now worry about their kids.

 

[joeywa]

Here is some info from the TCU camp, and I'm sure the real story is somewhere in between.

- All tickets are sold out Saturday and Sunday
- If necessary, a limited number of GA tickets will be sold for Monday after Sunday's game
- By NCAA rule, TCU had to give A&M 600 reserved seats
- The 3,900 other reserved seats were taken by TCU season ticket holders
- GA went on sale to the public late Monday night and were sold through late afternoon Tuesday. They were bought by both TCU and A&M fans. All these tickets are for the GA berm and where ever else people can stand/sit and watch without a reserved seat.
- It's well-documented that many TCU fans bought GA tickets.
- Max reserved + GA capacity is estimated to be 6,000 to 7,000. That's 4,500 reserved seats and 1,500 to 2,500 GA.

 

[doc longhorn]

It won't matter.  By the 3rd inning most of the aggy seats will be empty anyway.

 

[hoskins5]

Here is some info from the TCU camp, and I'm sure the real story is somewhere in between.

- All tickets are sold out Saturday and Sunday

- If necessary, a limited number of GA tickets will be sold for Monday after Sunday's game

- By NCAA rule, TCU had to give A&M 600 reserved seats

- The 3,900 other reserved seats were taken by TCU season ticket holders

- GA went on sale to the public late Monday night and were sold through late afternoon Tuesday. They were bought by both TCU and A&M fans. All these tickets are for the GA berm and where ever else people can stand/sit and watch without a reserved seat.

- It's well-documented that many TCU fans bought GA tickets.

- Max reserved + GA capacity is estimated to be 6,000 to 7,000. That's 4,500 reserved seats and 1,500 to 2,500 GA.

So what you're saying is, aggy isn't as smart as they think they are? ...weird

 

[Matt Cotcher]

For all the chest thumping A&M did, this tells a different story:

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[J.B. TexasEx]

I read another article where Del Conte said only 310 general admission tickets were purchased by aggies.

So, yeah, it's just more aggie being aggie

 

[Bear19]

Aggy is going to embellish anything and everything. It's what aggy do.

 

[java]

Is purple the new maroon? Just asking. I mean if Aggies did buy all of those tickets, did they go in disguise?

Hook 'em!

 

[Epictetus]

On a lighter side, TCU scored two run shy of 15... (for TCU15).

13 runs on 18 hits

that's 2 hits per inning, and almost one and a half runs per inning.

I did see some aggie fans in a corner section, blowing soap bubbles.

Was in the top of the 4th inning when aggie rallied for 3 runs to close the score to 5-4.

A&M did not score the rest of the game after that 4th inning rally.

 

[Etex Horn]

On a lighter side, TCU scored two run shy of 15... (for TCU15).

13 runs on 18 hits

that's 2 hits per inning, and almost one and a half runs per inning.

I did see some aggie fans in a corner section, blowing soap bubbles.

Was in the top of the 4th inning when aggie rallied for 3 runs to close the score to 5-4.

A&M did not score the rest of the game after that 4th inning rally.

DavidS...I ask politely, not to get into your business. Regarding your avatar...the jet with the Longhorn logo 

attached. Where did you get that? I know that's an Embraer Phenom 100 jet...is it used by someone affiliated

with UT? It's a really cool avatar, I like it. I was just trying to figure where you got it? Searched online, but had

no luck. I really like your avatar; I won't copy it. Just curious as to where you got it.   

 

[Epictetus]

DavidS...I ask politely, not to get into your business. Regarding your avatar...the jet with the Longhorn logo

attached. Where did you get that? I know that's an Embraer Phenom 100 jet...is it used by someone affiliated

with UT? It's a really cool avatar, I like it. I was just trying to figure where you got it? Searched online, but had

no luck. I really like your avatar; I won't copy it. Just curious as to where you got it.

Absolutely not a concern to ask. No, not used, was off the cover of a Garmin operating manual.I then photoshopped the rest. Here's the link to the manual.

http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/190-00728-04_0A_Web.pdf

Can't remember what got me started following Embraer Phenoms... but started researching them as a plane I'd like to own and learn to fly.

I'm just a private pilot, single-engine fixed gear, so obviously a stretch to imagine such a thing. But if I had the money and time not a problem, why not!

Would be great to fly anywhere within reason in your own ship. And in a plane that can be flown by one pilot.

What got me interested was looking into these new screen-image panels and wondering what it would be like to fly with what amounts to a video simulator.

(from a Phenom Brochure)

BTW, average person might not realize Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 33 hours with dead reckoning only. Did not want the added weight of radios and similar electronics. Traded that weight for extra fuel which he ended up not needing. When he landed in Paris he had enough fuel to fly on to Italy. And when he got to the coast after crossing the Atlantic (before turning south to Paris) he was less than a hundred miles off his planned course, having navigated by making periodic pre-planned course corrections using a magnetic compass. And falling asleep part of the time!

Thanks to YouTube we can get some idea of going through a business jet checklist. Thing I miss from Air Force days is not having access to the cockpit during flights.

Today you can barely get a glimpse of the cockpit when boarding. That's about it.

Here's "Global Girl" helping with a Gulfstream maintenance checkride.

 

[Etex Horn]

Absolutely not a concern to ask. No, not used, was off the cover of a Garmin operating manual.

I then photoshopped the rest. Here's the link to the manual.

http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/190-00728-04_0A_Web.pdf

Can't remember what got me started following Embraer Phenoms... but started researching them as a plane I'd like to own and learn to fly.

I'm just a private pilot, single-engine fixed gear, so obviously a stretch to imagine such a thing. But if I had the money and time not a problem, why not!

Would be great to fly anywhere within reason in your own ship. And in a plane that can be flown by one pilot.

What got me interested was looking into these new screen-image panels and wondering what it would be like to fly with what amounts to a video simulator.

(from a Phenom Brochure)

BTW, average person might not realize Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 33 hours with dead reckoning only. Did not want the added weight of radios and similar electronics. Traded that weight for extra fuel which he ended up not needing. When he landed in Paris he had enough fuel to fly on to Italy. And when he got to the coast after crossing the Atlantic (before turning south to Paris) he was less than a hundred miles off his planned course, having navigated by making periodic pre-planned course corrections using a magnetic compass. And falling asleep part of the time!

Thanks to YouTube we can get some idea of going through a business jet checklist. Thing I miss from Air Force days is not having access to the cockpit during flights.

Today you can barely get a glimpse of the cockpit when boarding. That's about it.

Here's "Global Girl" helping with a Gulfstream maintenance checkride.

Man, those Embraer Phenoms are sharp looking!  Thanks for your reply.