Texas A&M has no plans in place yet to erect statue of Johnny Manziel
It is probably a matter of when, not if, Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel will go bronze, but top A&M administrators said there are no immediate plans for a statue of "Johnny Football" on campus.
Manziel's reign over College Station has come to an end, at least officially. He is no longer on the team or enrolled at A&M -- meaning that the countdown to a decision on whether to immortalize Manziel on campus has begun. Statues of living people are generally given extra consideration because there's still the chance the subject will do something the university won't want permanently remembered.
For example, the university solicited real students to pose as models for the War Hymn statue on the east side of Kyle Field. However, the statue will use their likenesses, not the individual students. The reason is so that A&M administrators don't have to literally "saw" an Aggie out of the middle of the statue if they are guilty of not upholding the Aggie core values 10 or 20 years down the road.
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The university has special rules governing where and how to place statues, and those requirements are even more strict if the subject is still alive. The gatekeeper for statue decisions is the Council For Built Environment and, ultimately, the university president.
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Besides, shouldn't they wait until he has realized his potential in the pros?
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