Come Ride With Me Through the Veins of History

Congratulations to Mr. Joseph R. Halbert, currently of Guadalajara, Mexico, for correctly naming "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead as the Wednesday Song of the Day.

Normally, most colleges and universities do a decent job playing up the entire "student-athlete" concept, but today, the proverbial scales fell from my eyes as I watched the Texas A&M-Rice baseball Super Regional (even better than the regular regional, because it's SUPER).

During coverage of sports that folks do not normally watch, college baseball being one of these sports, the networks love showing facts about the players on the screen just below their relevant stats. For instance, during the game, a viewer might learn that Tim Nelson (name entirely fictional) is hitting .345 this season with 13 homeruns and 56 runs batted in for State U. Below this information, ESPN might choose to tell us: "Tim is an Aquarius. Normally, before heading to bed in the evenings, Tim enjoys a nice glass of port along with a few passages from selected Cormac McCarthy novels and poetry by Samuel Coleridge Taylor."
That information, while perhaps not as relevant as Tim's current slugging percentage, helps the viewer to understand Tim as a complex figure, rather than a baseball playing-drone. Well, at least that's what the information is intended to do. Today, however, I learned that multiple players on the Texas A&M baseball team are "Agricultural Leadership" majors.

What in the name of Yogi Berra does that mean exactly? Does that degree allow you to serve as one of the people who led Big Brown from the paddock to the starting line at yesterday's Belmont Stakes? The idea that there is a major such as "Agricultural Leadership" both shocks and intrigues me.

I'm begging for anyone who is an A&M graduate or anyone has experience leading agriculture to enlighten me on this shadowy subject.