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  1. Will y’all stop looking for some sort of Maroon Media Conspiracy, there isn’t one. A&M is the college football equivalent of a hot chick with a smoking body and all of daddy’s money but is also a complete psycho. The national media is the random dudes at the bar that she flirts with to get attention but anyone who grew up with her or dated her knows that she can only hide the crazy for so long.

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  2. 20 minutes ago, utexas8 said:


    Not arguing this at all because it just doesn’t happen but how did miss state get rid of their coach one year in? Nobody is talking about it. It’s obvious he wasn’t gonna work but I can’t believe they did it.

    Arnett only got that job because Leach died when the transfer portal was open, I believe MSU didn’t have an AD and it was after the coaching carousel had already ended. Arnett was an emergency stop gap to stop everyone from poaching MSU roster and then not getting to be able to hire a coach until after the portal had already closed if they had done a proper coaching search.

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  3. 28 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    Don’t like the rumor of Lincoln to Aggie. While he’s proven to be an idiot on defense, he would get the best QB’s and skills players, and if he lucked into a decent DC, that could be a problem. 

    It doesn’t matter what DC Lincoln has, he simply doesn’t care about defense and isn’t going to structure his program to develop a tough complimentary football program.

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  4. Just now, billfromlaketravis said:

    I think Dabo would be a recruiting witch at aggy and form an unholy alliance with Pastor(?) Dindy. 
     

    But they’d struggle with the portal and clean recruits. I also think the culture install would take a least 3 years. The aggy roster is talented, but full of shitheads who don’t want to work. 

    Dabo is absolutely not a recruiting witch like Jimbo.

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  5. Based on actual on actual resources, money, fans support, recruiting base, conference, facilities and NIL A&M is a elite tier job, so the the national media are not dumb asses for call long A&M a top five job. The real dumbasses are the people in charge of A&M with the resources of a top 5 program and have jack shit to show for it. Y’all sound like Texags complaining about some media conspiracy, the national media does not go digging into the politics and card room meetings where the real dysfunction that makes A&M what they are happens. National writers ask the local “beat writers” for information on what’s happening and as well all know A&M has successfully purged any local reporters not taking orders directly from A&M. 

  6. 2 hours ago, BornAndRaised said:

    Hopefully this isn't in relation to the aggy job. I don't think it's a splash hire that they're looking for but Patterson in the SEC with aggy money would be an interesting combo.

    Patterson is an absolute hardass and raging dickhead, 50% of that roster would transfer out by the end of spring. If there is one coach who is not ready for the new era of CFB and already struggled dealing with elite talent before NIL and the transfer portal, it’s Gary Patterson.

  7. On 11/9/2023 at 5:49 PM, BachelorTrek said:

    In the 60s, the football-team dorm was Moore-Hill (no A/C in it then) -- they just had installed A/C in it right before I started at The 40 Acres. Roberts/Prather/BrackenHELL had heat, but no A/C at that time yet...ugh

    I heard the story of the student who was high/tripping/drunk/everything who thought he was Zeus and took out the long fluorescent bulb tubes from the lights in all the Jester hallways, chased people down the halls of Jester screaming & maniacally-laughing, "I AM ZEUS! FEEL MY LIGHTNING BOLTS!" and threw the fluorescent tubes at residents/people with a big glass-crash/pop sound each time, terrorizing them.

    He finally was caught, but he had thrown a shit-ton of tubes everywhere down several halls, which that alone was a mess to clean up. After he was bitched out by the Head Resident who wanted their pound of flesh, I assume he was expelled, too.  Lulz.

    I also had a classmate who was one of the crew that dognapped Reveille VI in '93. One of the funniest parts was how after aggy denied for a whole week to acknowledge their mascot had been dognapped, the mascot-dognappers produced photos/video as proof they had the dog. This aggy denial is much like when all the aggy "special" flags were stolen as a prank from their museum-whatever, and they denied it happened without looking to see if the flags were still there--- whoever called them about it said, "Why don't you go look first?"  Lulz.

    Of course after aggy finally admitted that their mascot had been stolen, they left the dog tied to the sign (near Lake Travis somewhere) and made the anonymous call to tell them where to pick up the dog, unharmed.  Lulz.
     

     

    Wait is this the Revile kidnapping that Bernie Burns talked about on his Rooster Teeth podcast?

     

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  8. 16 hours ago, WBT said:

    Worked out ok for Tennessee 

    Tennessee Bobby Hill was the head coach at UCF and had shown flashes. Heupel wasn’t exactly in demand and Tennessee’s Athletic Department was a mess that made 2010’s Texas Atheletic Department look like Ohio State, so they did a package deal and hired a G5 AD and their coach because no quality candidates wanted anything todo with Tennessee. When I mean if A&M sets up Jimbo, they end up so fucked in the coaching search that they’ll have to be like Tech and hire Baylor TE coach as HC.

  9. Just now, Vertigo said:

    Eh, just have a singular "whistleblower" from the AD report something to the NCAA. Let the NCAA open the investigation, then the school and AD react as though this is all a surprise. You know.. kind of like their bag game. 

    Coaches and their agents aren’t dumb, they would see right through that.

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  10. 7 minutes ago, Vertigo said:

    Honestly, A&M could just self report all of their recruiting shit for the 2020 and 2021 classes to the NCAA and then just fire him for cause. What exactly would they be forfeiting in that scenario? a couple of 8 win seasons? A bowl ban to the Texas bowl and maybe worse next year? That is on a silver platter for them if they truly can't afford his buyout but want him gone. 

    Having to hire position coaches from Big 12 teams as a Head Coach because no candidate would ever take that job after that move.

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  11. 1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

    And you're missing MY point, apparently. You cited Gundy's "system" as not a fit with A&M culture, and the fact it's a reclamation project. And I countered that Gundy did a 1 year turnaround based out of spare parts no one wanted based entirely on his coaching accument. It can't be fucking culture when everyone has been there less than a year. The point is the growing paints might not be as long or painful as you'd think. 

    OSU got blown out by South Alabama and lost to a shitty ISU team, the season would already be over for A&M, the Ags would have been freaking the absolute fuck out and ready to fire the guy into the sun,  especially following an atrocious off season. OSU’s willingness to roll with the punches and having lesser expectations let’s Gundy succeed. Gundy and OSU are on course to have a better season than anything the Ags can  hang their hat on in a decade but nobody is discussing OSU in the same category as Texas and Bama and that would be seen as not enough in the eyes of A&M.

  12. 2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I'm not sure this is entirely true. Conventional wisdom with his mass exuodus after last season had Gundy winning like 4-5 games. Instead he's arguably put forth his finest coaching effort to date, and he did it with cast-offs from the portal and other programs. And that turn around wasn't 3-4 seasons. It was immediate, and no one saw it coming this season. 

    This is missing my point, it’s not about Gundy it’s about A&M. Even if Gundy could perfectly replicate his system at A&M,  they would blow it up before it could bare fruit because the Aggies couldn’t handle the lows. The Ags would flip the fuck out if Gundy was recruiting against Mizzou, Arkansas, and Kentucky and not Texas, Alabama and Georgia. They would be apocalyptic if Gundy lost a humiliating game against a bad team even if that loss is used as a building block.

  13. 1 hour ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    What about Gundy? I don't think he's got any desire to leave oSu and he's about to be the unquestioned best coach in a shitty conference, but if aggy offers him $10-$15mm a year he'd have to at least listen. Plus, he hates NIL so he'd be hands off & likely let the rubes try to continue their antiquated bag game.
     

    Gundy can’t recruit blue chip players, his program and culture is allergic to elite recruits. Gundy’s under dog, development based program won’t work at A&M because their ego couldn’t handle the painful growth period under Gundy. A&M would rather sign a 5* and touch themselves to all the off season articles about elite talent and then have them under perform rather then quietly develop someone who is a beast like Ollie Gordon.

  14. 3 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    It's kind of crazy he wasn't sacked and frankly rarely pressured today.  That's what makes his INTs today so WTF.  The one to Cook, yea Cook fell but there were three Kstate guys over there so even if Cook doesn't fall that's a 1 on 3 "50/50" ball.  Then the botched screen pass, I mean I don't even know what to say there.  

    He is pretty tall so the funny thing is visually I think he "sees" the field better than the 3-4 inches shorter Ewers and early it even looked like he was standing tall and progressing through reads. That seems like something to continue to try and take advantage of, because he doesn't seem to be able to throw well when on the move and likely not something that fixes itself in a week.  

    He wasn’t sacked because he was throwing picks. He should have eaten the sack on the horrific pick in our red zone, he did the exact same thing vs BYU just this time KSU was able to capitalize.

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  15. 36 minutes ago, HateYouAndMyself said:

    There is a decent chance Napier will be coaching to save his job that last week against FSU now. There are lot of key people around Gainesville who never wanted him in the first place and they were already handing out freshly sharpened pitchforks and lit torches early this year when things seemed to be headed down the toilet. 

    Obviously that talk quieted down when they started playing better and won some key recruiting victories but if they miss a bowl? I don't think he survives that. If nothing else this should help take the pressure off with Robinson. 

     

     

    They’re not firing him after two years, that would take an exceptional disaster of mass decommits and transfers and total locker room revolt which doesn’t remotely seem to be and issue. Florida is now in the exact same situation as Texas was in 2015 with Charlie Strong.

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