Wonderful synopsis. Going to pos-rep you on some other posts because this one deserves more than one, imo.
Points four and five are what bewilder me. I know they shouldn't, because I damn well know aggy as an overall mob lack the ability for reflective thought and change; however, it's wild to me that more of them don't catch on to the cyclical charade within their AD and it's attached media propaganda artists.
They hired their own version of Steve Patterson in Alberts, who is more focused on cutting costs due to the Jimbo (let's display our big dick energy by lighting money on fire via inane decisions) fiasco than running an effective and avant-garde athletic department. They set the market, competing only against themselves, in that contract. Now it comes out they may have known it was a possibility that Schloss would leave, yet didn't begin due-diligence on a replacement and will now absolutely pay the price for it next season with poor on-field results. They fall for the spin over and over. Yet, somehow, this all Texas' fault (among a massive history of other grievances).
A&M is the living picture of an abusive and narcissistic person who accepts no responsibility for their own actions, wields an absolute victim-oriented external locus of control, and is incapable of uncovering their own deleterious personality traits because it's just too painful to uncover reality - they are their own enemy.