After a monthslong review, Texas A&M University decided not to bring back the student bonfire tradition it discontinued 25 years ago after a deadly accident, President Mark Welsh III said Tuesday.

For decades, students built a 60-foot bonfire every year ahead of football matches between A&M and the University of Texas at Austin. The tradition was suspended after tragedy struck in 1999, when a stack of logs collapsed in the middle of the night, killing 12 people and injuring dozens, some severely.

Welsh said reviving the tradition would not be in the best interest of the university.

“After careful consideration, I decided that Bonfire, both a wonderful and tragic part of Aggie history, should remain in our treasured past,” Welsh said.

Just Alabama things, I guess. Fuck that state.

👋 [email protected] — noticed activity here is low, especially while in season. Prior to my post today regarding UT vs Alabama game, last activity was ~6 days ago.

I would like to see this community flourish during the season like it does on the pretender “front page of the internet” site. I would be willing to invest time to automate creation of pre-, post-, and weekly discussion posts. But I don’t want to do that if the community is not active or is not wanted (ie, deemed as “spam”)

Lmk your thoughts/opinions/suggestions.

Texas is back?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4474186

cross posting for visibility. Come join us at [email protected] or don't. Up to you really

As always honor system 1 ballot per voter, and do your best to make sure you don't repeat any teams. Pretty standard week 1, with a few big results. Can't wait to see what we think of the standings now. I still plan on trying to get results posted on Wednesday so if you're going to submit a ballot try to do so by sundown on Tuesday.

Fellow CFB lovers, why in the ever-loving-fuck, are we failing to have a legitimate CFB community? I loved r/CFB but without 3rd party apps I cannot contribute during a game or track comments.

That being said, how have we not coalesced into an instance that hates our rivals? Praises the beauty of the Disasterpiece that is El-assico and tier 2 Bowls, brings up trivial/non-relevant demeaning facts about our rivals?

Where are the petty, the salty, shit-talking masses, and we should be heard in all of our frivolous bullshit.

Get everyone here. Let's recreate the beautiful shotftorm that was r/CFB

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4140911

1. Georgia 124(4)
2. Michigan 118(1)
3. Ohio State 110
4. LSU 97
5. Alabama 93
6. Penn State 90
7. USC 86
8. Texas 81
9. Notre Dame 79
10. Tennessee 78
11. Utah 78
12. Washington 75
13. Clemson 63
14. Oregon 60
15. Florida State 57
16. TCU 48
17. Wisconsin 33
18. Kansas State 32
19. Oklahoma 31
20. Ole Miss 31
21. Texas A&M 26
22. North Carolina 20
23. Tulane 16
24. Oregon State 15
25. South Carolina 15

Others receiving votes: Duke 14, Louisville 10, Wake Forest 8, Baylor 7, Boise State 4, Iowa 4, Kentucky 4, Maryland 4, Arkansas 3, Mississippi State 3, Iowa State 2,Texas Tech 2, UTSA 2, Illinois 1, Kansas 1

Again if you would like more granular results they can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FoyR3wPFVjfjPaqWhGqVIqXe9y23l968lFooFHZVZ88/edit?usp=sharing

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4016842

I will crosspost this to lemmy.world, only fill out one ballot please. Week 0 is in the books, let's see how this shakes up our polling. As previously discussed I will be posting the results on Wednesday of each week. Mods is there an appetite to make the results reflected in the banner?

For those that don't know, there is a sister community over on fanaticus.social/c/cfb that was also relatively empty in the first wave of users and as such we consolidated here as there were a few more active users. However given juan seems to be a phantom and the mods over there are active should we switch community posts back over there? They have a small mod team that's active again and based on yesterday they seem to be willing to put some work into shaping the community. Again as this is the fediverse it doesn't really matter since you can very easily sub to both but since we're small I imagine a little bit of cohesiveness will help things like the c/cfb poll and weekly threads. Discuss

Edit: per discussion I will be moving my posts to [email protected] (also [email protected]) and cross posting them here for visibility

Y'all thought the start of "football season" would end realignment rumors? HA!

Though actually, I suspect this one is one or both of Cal-ford trying to put pressure on the ACC, a la Yormark courting UConn to nudge the four corners. I can very nearly hear the sarcastic drone accompanying the ACC's wanking gesture.

I think the best way for this to work is for people to post a parent comment for any game they're watching. But honestly y'all can do whatever, I'm not a mod

Edit: I would also encourage sorting by new, but ya know, I'm not signing your check

Amazon.com is in early talks with Walt Disney Co about working on the streaming version of ESPN it is developing, while possibly also taking a minority stake in the sports network, the Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

I know I'm supposed to be mad and all, but I am pushing for canceling our DirecTV Stream subscription and this could help. We mostly use it for background noise, news, and sports, but TV news is basically repetitive shouting (national) or J-school babies doing their own reporting or undercover ad pieces (local), so if the linear ESPN stuff is on a stream we're down to paying for inertia.

Stadium still exactly the same tho