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2 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

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Texas head coach Tom Herman was asked yesterday at Big 12 Media Days about the possibility of renewing the Longhorns’ rivalry with Texas A&M, a game that hasn’t been played since the Aggies bolted for the greener pastures of the Southeastern Confernece.

“I would love to see the rivalry renewed” he said.

Herman was asked this question prior to the appearance of A&M boss Jimbo Fisher at the SEC Media Days and since there was plenty of time for Herman’s response to hit social media before Fisher came to the podium, it didn’t take long for Fisher to be asked about the possibility of playing the game as well. In fact, the first question of the afternoon addressed to Fisher was about the possibility of playing Texas.

“Yeah, if it's beneficial to Texas A&M” Fisher said. “I know we're scheduled out right now for ten years. If it's something that benefits Texas A&M, we'll definitely be interested in that and make those judgments as they come.”

Herman’s response was pretty enthusiastic and in his answer he gave several reasons why the game should be played (although many of them had to do with Texas’ fans). In stark contrast, Fisher’s tone was lukewarm at best and his answer was pretty succinct.

In other words, one of them thinks that they need the game and one of them thinks that they don’t.

However, it’s interesting that the coach that would like the rivalry to be resumed has the team that is supposedly “back”, is ranked in the top ten in most pre season polls, and isn’t discussing how difficult it’s upcoming 2019 schedule is. For all of the advantages that Herman has going into the fall of 2019, he seems to be looking for something to elevate his program.

In contrast, Jimbo Fisher is embracing the challenges of a difficult schedule by talking about the opportunity that lies ahead for A&M this season to play the nation’s top three programs.

Why is the outlook of the two coaches so different?

Well, while the two programs aren’t competing on the field, they are competing in recruiting off of it. One of them has a ton of momentum in that regard and one of them doesn’t.

With many prospects looking to make decisions during the summer so that they can play their senior seasons free of the burden associated with making a decision, closing strongly with commits during this time is the equivalent of doing so in December and January prior to the enactment of the early signing period. Fisher was a master of closing people down the stretch at Florida State and he secured seven commits during the late signing day in his first February in College Station. The Aggies are currently ranked 12thin the 247 Sports Composite with 15 commits. Nine of them are four and five star prospects. In addition, A&M continues to have crystal balls coming in on some highly regarded prospects such as Longview quarterback Haynes King, New York state running back Daniyel Ngata, and Tennessee offensive lineman Chris Morris.

In contrast, Texas entered the 2020 recruiting class with a lot of momentum after a ten win season and an upset of Georgia in a New Year’s Six bowl but are ranked 31st nationally in the 247 Sports Composite and have just eight commits. Not only that, they were supposed to have received a big recruiting boost from the commitment of defensive lineman Vernon Broughton who reportedly even made a recruiting video in which he committed to Texas and who planned to announce this week. Broughton was considered to be a big coup for Texas as they had issues recruiting top notch defensive linemen in recent years and it would have represented a big get in a head to head battle over the Aggies.

Instead, Broughton has delayed his announcement and the Aggies not only remain in the hunt but have a recruiting event scheduled for the end of the month in College Station that he could attend so that he can bond with A&M commits. Even if Broughton does commit to Texas, they’re going to be watching him closely anyway to see if makes that trip to Aggieland.

Herman needs something to flip the script not just right now but potentially in the future since he faces the prospect of going head to head with Fisher for years. He can’t afford to wait until the season starts to reverse the Horns’ current trends because recruiting is almost over in sense (just four of the top 15 prospects in the state of Texas remain uncommitted at this point).


Fisher is dealing from a position of strength as the better recruiter of the two and has an air of “I’ve got this”.

And if Herman doesn’t get the game with A&M and he can’t beat the LSUs and Alabamas in the near term, Fisher will continue to stockpile the talent that will enable him to beat those programs and compete at a level on the field that will leave Herman needing more than just a game with the Aggies to level things off of it.

 

 Next time somebody asks Herman or CDC about renewing the rivalry, they should answer both yes and no simultaneously and preemptively covering all the bases so that these mouth breathers have no available response.  Deliver the answer in both a serious and joking tone. Simultaneously.

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anyone want to tell them what happened to Buster Douglas in literally his very next fight?

And now nobody remembers who Mike Tyson was.  Aggies have quite a way with backfiring metaphors.

Edit to add: Typical of Aggies after hiring Fran Sherman Sumlin Jimbo to assume that they've already arrived at that elusive next year.

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anyone want to tell them what happened to Buster Douglas in literally his very next fight?

Well, Buster Douglas did win a championship which was more recent than, ahem, 1939.  Did I miss aggie even playing in a championship at any point in my lifetime?

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They will have a nice little skill position core of King, Wright, Demas and Cupp in a few years. I hope their O-Line recruiting is as bad as everyone seems to think it is. 

I think Cupp and Demas are going to perform well for them.  However, I am confident they will find a way to aggy up each and every season in the future as they have done in the past regardless of personnel.

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A reminder of the manchildren we're dealing with:

 

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Guess their offers for Garth & Crawford don't count since they've been UT commits for awhile. And BIG THANKS for taking Troy. 

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1 hour ago, RomaVicta said:

And now nobody remembers who Mike Tyson was.  Aggies have quite a way with backfiring metaphors.

Edit to add: Typical of Aggies after hiring Fran Sherman Sumlin Jimbo to assume that they've already arrived at that elusive next year.

yes, to torture that stupid analogy further, if A&M is Buster Douglas wouldn't the 1998 Big 12 championship game be their Tokyo? they turned right around and lost convincingly (to Ohio State in their bowl game) and never won anything meaningful again after that

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Can't wait til the 2021 and beyond, NFL draft, so we can finally take that dumb narrative away.  Players on both sides of the line will be getting drafted day 2, if not day 1 (Cosmi?) for the foreseeable future

 

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Can't wait til the 2021 and beyond, NFL draft, so we can finally take that dumb narrative away.  Players on both sides of the line will be getting drafted day 2, if not day 1 (Cosmi?) for the foreseeable future

 

Yep. Starting with the 2021 draft (when juniors fromour 2018 class can declare), we’re gonna be right up there every year with the top programs in the country regarding players drafted.

Hell, 2021 alone could be huge. We could easily have 10 guys drafted that year.

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28 minutes ago, Machinator said:

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Two kinds of people in the world see it this way: Aggies, and people with a personal ax to grind against Herman. Otherwise that is sort of the photo negative of Herman's resume. 

It's not a good look when people read your opinion of someone and think, "Jesus, what, did he fuck your wife?"

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25 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

Can't wait til the 2021 and beyond, NFL draft, so we can finally take that dumb narrative away.  Players on both sides of the line will be getting drafted day 2, if not day 1 (Cosmi?) for the foreseeable future

 

Yeah, once we get rid of that NFL narrative, aggy will finally have nothing negative to point to in their desperate obsession to tell the world that they are actually, really, if you look hard enough BETTER than the cesspool that is TU. They will finally just accept their status as a a upper-middle tier program. They will stop predicting natty's and Looch, now unrecognizable without his chin pubes, will tell everyone that Jimbo is quite frankly, a good enough coach to keep aggy exactly where it belongs and has always been. They will even talk about how maybe they should have stayed in the BDF, which maybe isn't really a dumpster fire anymore. They will remove all the glory holes in BCS, ban bestiality campus-wide, tear down the statue of the Racist Sul Ross, implement female cheerleading teams, and freely allow people to lie in the grass on Kyle Field and use "12th Man" with no fear of lawsuits.

And they will finally admit that Vince Young was better than Manziel, and even better than Reggie McNeil.

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yes, to torture that stupid analogy further, if A&M is Buster Douglas wouldn't the 1998 Big 12 championship game be their Tokyo? they turned right around and lost convincingly (to Ohio State in their bowl game) and never won anything meaningful again after that

I would go with beating Bama with Manziel as their Buster Douglas moment. They really haven't done shit before or after, but they will always have that one night.

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Two kinds of people in the world see it this way: Aggies, and people with a personal ax to grind against Herman. Otherwise that is sort of the photo negative of Herman's resume. 

It's not a good look when people read your opinion of someone and think, "Jesus, what, did he fuck your wife?"

Well that depends. Was his wife a stripper or a stewardess?

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I like to laugh at the Ags as much as the next guy and they’re certainly as queer and cultish as there is in college football. 

But they have the best WR, DB, and arguably the best QB in the state committed. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Evans wind up there.

Its gonna continue to be a war every year. 

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2 minutes ago, Ghost of Shag said:

I like to laugh at the Ags as much as the next guy and they’re certainly as queer and cultish as there is in college football. 

But they have the best WR, DB, and arguably the best QB in the state committed. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to see Evans wind up there.

Its gonna continue to be a war every year. 

King isn't the best QB in the state of Texas.. per my lonestar rankings

 

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