Of course, ... (Aggie Corps of) Cadets and have found none of … Mond, who could not be reached for comment, later removed the retweet.

Capital One Fan Vote: Who's the best team in the country. Ross, a general in the Confederate States Army who fought to preserve slavery, is a former Texas governor and is credited with keeping a downtrodden A&M from closing in the late 1800s as its president. So, for now, what I will focus on is what I can control: My own resolve to be a part of the solution. How Mond protests and how he plays should be unattached, of course, but the tenor of many responses from fans have zeroed in on his on-field performance, and the Aggies are 13-11 against SEC foes in his three seasons as a starter.

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The iconic Rudder was a World War II hero and perhaps A&M’s only leader in that disruptive 1960s era who could have pulled off such drastic and needed changes. Thousands of Corps members, dressed in khakis, stand together during games at Kyle Field and are the Aggies’ most ardent supporters for those few hours, win or lose. This weekend, protesters for keeping the statue held signs that read "Aggie traditions matter" in response to the "Black Lives Matter" signs and sang the "Aggie War Hymn," the school's fight song, to counter BLM protesters.

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As debate continues about a controversial statue's place on the Texas A&M campus, senior quarterback Kellen Mond has taken on a role as an outspoken critic of … On ExpressNews.com: Voices: Coach Jeff Traylor, UTSA football players vow to speak out. Brent is the author of four published books about Texas A&M, three related to A&M athletics. "We are all entitled to our opinion, but we are not entitled to our own wrongheaded facts," Sharp added.

Voices: A&M QB Mond’s comments on removing statue receives praise, Photo: Michael Miller /Bryan-College Station Eagle. Instead of integrating the TAMU campus, PVAMU was created. Mond, who is from San Antonio, again replied to a since-deleted tweet that said people were spreading false information about Ross. Critics of the statue say it should be moved based on Ross' past as a Confederate general and historic claims of suppression of indigenous and black citizens in Texas. It’s quite an evolving dynamic at historically buttoned-down A&M and on other campuses across the nation this summer: players becoming vocal activists on a variety of matters via social media, at the risk of alienating plenty of the people who have ponied up financially to make places like Kyle Field and its surroundings so appealing to recruits and current players. He is a complicated figure in Aggies lore, but as Mond and others point out, the confederacy aspect submerges all others.

Perhaps this generation will be the one to fundamentally ensure social justice in America. Critics of Ross point to his days as a storied "Indian fighter" in the early Texas frontier. In the Civil War, he was accused by Union generals of killing black soldiers who were captured in battle in Yazoo City, Mississippi, and threatening to use "no quarter" against commanders who fought alongside black soldiers against him. He killed and disenfranchised blacks. Authorities reached a guilty verdict after discovering that despite wearing uniforms in public, displaying military medals, and being big time hardos, less than half of cadets go on to serve in the military. It’s quite an evolving dynamic at historically buttoned-down A&M and on other campuses across the nation this summer: players becoming vocal activists on a variety of matters via social media, at the risk of alienating plenty of the people who have ponied up financially to make places like Kyle Field and its surroundings so appealing to recruits and current players. ", If one side is protesting racism, the other side is counter protesting racism. On Saturday, A&M professor Michael Alvard, an assistant in the school's department of anthropology who is a supporter of the statue's removal, was arrested by Texas A&M police after crossing police tape into an "exclusionary zone" between the protesters while trying to speak.

Photo: Michael Miller/The Eagle / Michael Miller.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The student body of Texas A&M University was rocked today by news that their Corps of Cadets is guilty of stolen valor and has been for 143 years.

https://t.co/G6vwB3sH5E. Last Wednesday, the statue of Lawrence "Sul" Ross, a former Confederate general, Texas governor and A&M president, was vandalized, spray-painted with "Racist" and the acronyms BLM and ACAB, and a clown wig was placed atop the statue's head. "It's a FACT for a reason. A lot of times law enforcement in retail outlets might not be in uniform, but everybody knows who the store detectives are, and that’s happened more times than I’d like to count. A&M president Michael K. Young has since announced a commission will determine the statue’s standing, in pushing the volatile topic down the road. Prairie View A&M was created to obtain federal funds from the second Morrill Act (1890).

“Having been a high school football coach, Earl knew the A&M coach was probably having trouble recruiting, because so many of the football players just wanted to go where the girls are,” Margaret Rudder said in the 1990s. The information is out there, but some people don't want to research because it could change the way they perceive someone / something.

"You can't make up a FACT," Mond said. Last summer Mond uncharacteristically boasted he was the best quarterback in the Southeastern Conference, what’s become his second most surprising assertion to date among A&M fans. “The values of Texas A&M University do not align with RACISM, VIOLENCE, SLAVERY and SEGREGATION,” Mond wrote. His coverage of Texas A&M’s move to the SEC from the Big 12 also netted a third-place finish nationally in 2012. When I look at my football team, a true melting pot of diversity, I am buoyed by their thoughtfulness, their desire to do better and their willingness to demand change. Yes, one side is counter protesting racism. "It is unequivocally true that Ross agreed with, supported, and defended these policies until his death, even as he carried out what might be considered isolated acts of charity towards some communities of color.". As in, “Why are you following me?” And you can get confrontational about it — or not. ", A&M's Mond wants controversial statue removed, 'We're truly blood brothers': A rare cancer, a risky transplant and how David Shaw saved his sibling's life, Minnesota DC out vs. Illinois after positive test, Virus issues at Navy lead to Tulsa postponement, Central Michigan stadium, broadcast lose power, Georgia's LeCounte out of hospital after wreck, L'ville postpones UVa game after 15 test positive, Cal opener 'in jeopardy' after player tests positive, The nine things you need to know about Clemson's D.J. They’re finally getting it entering Kellen Mond’s senior season — far from the four walls of Kyle Field. His coverage of Texas A&M’s move to the SEC from the Big 12 also netted a third-place finish nationally in 2012. He’s a four-time winner of APSE National Top 10 writing awards for the San Antonio Express-News, including a second-place finish for breaking the Dennis Franchione “secret newsletter” scandal in 2007. "Anti-Black laws, poll taxes and voter intimidation, and violent attacks against people of color were the primary way that white southerners consolidated their power in the post-Reconstruction era," the statement said. Mond’s retweet about the Corps prompted much more angst from A&M fans than anything to do with the Ross statue. They’re finally getting it entering Kellen Mond’s senior season — far from the four walls of Kyle Field. A&M was an all-male, white military institute until then-president Earl Rudder pushed for the inclusion of female and black students in the mid-1960s. Brent Zwerneman is a staff writer for the Houston Chronicle covering Texas A&M athletics. Mond left himself no wiggle room among fans primed to pounce on his first mistake this season — if there is a season based on the global pandemic — and the howls for backup Zach Calzada will resonate from A&M followers long before the scheduled opening kickoff Sept. 5 against Abilene Christian at Kyle Field. The first occurred this past week, when a suddenly emphatic Mond threw himself into the debate on whether a statue of one of A&M’s first presidents, Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, should come down. In a Twitter post, Mond noted a protest last weekend of the statue’s longtime prominence on campus and a counterprotest at the same time in favor of keeping the statue. But maybe we have failed. ", In response to a tweet saying that wasn't the case, Mond replied: "If one side is protesting racism, the other side is counter protesting racism. He is a graduate of Oak Ridge High School and Sam Houston State University, where he played baseball. Current Arizona and former Texas A&M football coach. 6 Cincinnati: What you need to know, UH still trying to get running game off the ground, UT's D’Shawn Jamison gets by with a little help from his friends. Thousands of Corps members, dressed in khakis, stand together during games at Kyle Field and are the Aggies’ most ardent supporters for those few hours, win or lose. Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp wrote a letter to the editor of The Battalion, the school newspaper, in 2018 disputing any claims that Ross was a white supremacist and saying that Prairie View's first president had once said that Ross was "perhaps the best friend black Texans ever had" because of his advocacy for the institution. His widow, the late Margaret Rudder, once said while her husband’s actions were noble, they also had much to do with football, at least when finally allowing women to attend A&M. The post Mond retweeted included the hashtag: “Defund the Corps.”. Instead of integrating the TAMU campus, PVAMU was created.