Something I thought about the other day, how much two events that happened several years ago put aggy athletics in the position they are today:
Playing out the Covid year in football. Their 9-1 smoke and mirrors record was the major influence in extending Jimbo to that ridiculous contract, an albatross they'll be fighting for years. That season also prompted the 2022 recruiting class spending spree that blew up the program spectacularly.
Big brother hiring del Conte. Aggy seemed to have gotten lucky with the Pierce to Texas, CDC to Texas, Schloss to ag timeline. Unfortunately for them, we pulled the plug on Pierce and inevitably hired Schloss before he could end aggy NC drought. But then they took it to another level and really stuck it to us, hiring our hitting coach right out from under us, the guy who was the brains behind the CWS run. Then money-whipping all those loyal, red-ass, good ags to come back, post #1 Preseason Ranking (whoop!) and show Schloss what a big mistake he made leaving Good Ol' Texas and Mechanical College!