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10 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

Ah, yes.

aggy welcomes themselves to the SEC. Truly embarrassing if they had any pride. What is Bowtie up to these days?

Not really these days, but getting fired as Chancellor of Mizzou for creating a “toxic environment through threat, fear and intimidation," while mishandling campus racism events and implementing right-wing policies.

Also wrote this dogshit screed.  The 100-Year Decision: Texas A&m and the SEC

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11 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Not really these days, but getting fired as Chancellor of Mizzou for creating a “toxic environment through threat, fear and intimidation," while mishandling campus racism events and implementing right-wing policies.

Also wrote this dogshit screed.  The 100-Year Decision: Texas A&m and the SEC

Let me guess - Bowtie takes all of the credit for moving aggy to the SEC? New York Times bestseller?

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1 hour ago, DFW Horn said:

Let me guess - Bowtie takes all of the credit for moving aggy to the SEC? New York Times bestseller?

Well, he was working behind the Big 12’s back (and Mike Sherman’s) for a couple of years to make the move and lying about us all the while. 

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6 minutes ago, markstanco said:

Looks like he borrowed a shirt from grandad and granddad also tied the tie.

Well, the more important aspects are whether or not his mom has nice bolt-ons and if she thirst traps Austin suburbs. Aggie traditions both...

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This guy is on the rollercoaster:

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Texas A&M had another swing and miss on the recruiting front yesterday as five-star edge defender Tank Jones ended up committing to Oregon over A&M and Alabama. The Aggies were considered to have been in the driver's seat for the last little bit of the recruitment, but the Ducks came in strong at the end to steal Jones away.

This bears an eerie resemblance to the way things happened with Lamar Brown less than one month ago. After Brown's official visit to College Station, the optimism was flowing, and Aggie fans were convinced they'd be bringing in the five-star defensive tackle. However, Brown committed to LSU, leaving A&M fans high and dry.


This isn't to discount the many recruiting wins that the Aggies have had over the past month or so— pulling in Bryce Perry-Wright, Brandon Arrington, Tristian Givens, KJ Edwards, and others have been massive wins. But when you go from dreams of the top overall class to trying to figure out what's next, it's a big time disappointment.

Where does Texas A&M football turn after missing on Lamar Brown and Tank Jones?
There are a few things to keep in mind here. First of all, even though the Aggies missed on these two prospects, they still have a top-3 class in the nation— and that's not an empty number by any means. They have addressed needs quite well in this class, and if they simply sign the guys they currently have committed, it will be a real testament to Elko and this staff's recruiting ability.


Secondly, the Aggies aren't going anywhere in any of these recruitment. NIL makes things tougher nowadays, but Texas A&M showed last cycle that they can stay in these big time recruitments and end up flipping players in the end. They did as much with both Lamont Rogers (a five-star, for what it's worth) and Jamarion Morrow in last class alone.

So nothing is over until it's over, even if things seem pretty bad right now. The Aggies will have a chance to sort things out on the field against LSU, obviously, though that will be a tough win to get.

Lamar Brown, Tristen Keys, Ethan "Boobie" Feaster, and Tank Jones are all players that the Ags will stay on until pen meets paper. If Texas A&M has the season that we're expecting as fans, their chances of a flip will go way up.

 

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3 hours ago, Tex Pete said:

Well, he was working behind the Big 12’s back (and Mike Sherman’s) for a couple of years to make the move and lying about us all the while. 

A&M being sneaky and secretive to leave the Big 12?  Smart, shrewd power play!

Texas and SEC officials leaving A&M out of the loop for Texas to join the SEC? Why those sneaky, low life sonsabitches, destroying the Big 12 and everything wrong with college football!

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On 7/30/2025 at 2:41 PM, Steamboat1874 said:

Winnie turned out alright….

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Danica McKeller is smart as fuck, too. She earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from UCLA and a Ph.D in mathematics from the University of Chicago.  

On 7/30/2025 at 9:46 PM, TrashMaster G said:

Dustin Long? Wasn't he in Dodgeball?

Off-topic, Justin Long is a really, really cool and nice guy. He's a friend of one of my best friends and we smoked weed together. Dude is just chill af. Legit funny as hell. 

That's all I've got. But if you meet him he's very approachable and very nice. 

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21 minutes ago, Matuka said:

A&M being sneaky and secretive to leave the Big 12?  Smart, shrewd power play!

Texas and SEC officials leaving A&M out of the loop for Texas to join the SEC? Why those sneaky, low life sonsabitches, destroying the Big 12 and everything wrong with college football!

now you're getting it, here's your white surrender towelette  

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1 hour ago, utee94 said:

Wait, I thought they were busy shoving Texas into a locker?  Now their 2026 class is cooked?

 

Well, in that case it must be a big locker.

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3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

This guy is on the rollercoaster:

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Texas A&M football is looking to have a breakout season under Mike Elko in his second year down in College Station. The Aggies finished a disappointing 8-5 in 2024 after slipping down the stretch of the season, losing games to South Carolina, Auburn, Texas, and USC.

However, the Aggies had a real shot in all of those games— yes, even South Carolina, which was a contest that was tied at halftime and spiraled late when A&M lost control. It was precisely because the Ags were so close that things were so frustrating for A&M fans; the quadruple-overtime game against Auburn, the definition of a result on the razor's edge, was the pinnacle of that frustration.


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But as we move into the 2025 season, it's time to finally stop looking backward, and look forward to what is coming up for the Aggies. Of course, the irony is that, sometimes, you have to look backwards to know what's coming up— and in that vein, there is an interesting blueprint from the past that can inform how things look going forward.

Texas A&M can look to beginning of Georgia, Kirby Smart dynasty to see roadmap for 2025
So why am I picking Georgia here? It's not just because they're one of the hottest names and best programs over the last near-decade, but because of some specific similarities that jump out between the Bulldogs in their breakout season and Mike Elko's squad— and it goes beyond the defensive-minded head coach in his second year.


In Kirby Smart's first season at Georgia, a place that had had some great seasons but never really achieved their potential under Mark Richt, the Bulldogs went... 8-5, including a home loss in a rivalry game. In all honesty, it was a worse season than Elko and the Aggies just had, given that the Bulldogs got smoked by Ole Miss, lost to Vandy, and fell to Georgia Tech at home.

They entered the following season with middling expectations. They were ranked no. 15 in the preseason AP Poll, and advanced metrics like SP+ (then called S&P+), had them just outside the top 20 in their first ratings.

Of course, the preseason AP Poll has yet to drop, but the Aggies could well swap these two numbers: I expect them to land in the high teens or low twenties in the poll, and SP+ sees the Aggies as a top-15 team for the season. A similar profile indeed— not to mention the Bulldogs were facing a big question mark at quarterback.


But the similarities don't end there, of course. The Bulldogs opened with a game against a upper-tier G5 team in Appalachian State— much like A&M begins with UTSA, who will be no slouch when it comes to that level of team— before an early-season matchup... at Notre Dame.

The Bulldogs emerged from South Bend after defeating the Irish 20-19. The closest of calls, but they came out with a win— one that sprung them forward with dizzying speed and momentum. They began to trounce opponents— Mississippi State, Tennessee, Missouri, Florida— going undefeated for the first two-thirds of the season.

If the Aggies can beat Notre Dame, it's not hard to see something similar happening. Auburn and Florida at home are the biggest tests during that time, but if the Aggies can defend Kyle Field the same way they did last year, they should emerge unscathed from those games— perhaps even with similarly emphatic wins, if they have this kind of momentum.


Eerie similarities mark 2025 Texas A&M Aggies and 2017 Georgia Bulldogs
It was a November matchup on the road in the SEC against their second-biggest rival where the Bulldogs tripped up— and they did so big time. The Auburn Tigers destroyed Georgia, 40-17, in Jordan-Hare two weeks before they would similarly run roughshod over the Alabama Crimson Tide.

Of course, looking at A&M's schedule, you see the comparison. A November matchup on the road in the SEC against their second-biggest rival— also named the Tigers, for whatever that's worth— when A&M heads to LSU.

Georgia went undefeated the rest of the way in the regular season, vanquishing Georgia Tech on the road, before avenging themselves against Auburn in the SEC Championship (thanks in no small part to Kerryon Johnson's injury). It wasn't until the overtime game against Alabama in the national championship, when Tua threw to Devonta Smith on 2nd and 26, that the Bulldogs lost another game.


If Texas A&M follows this path, losing in the national championship, I think most Aggie fans would take it. Conference champions and making it all the way to the final game? Better than what most expect of the Aggies this year.

But there are some discontinuities, too. For one, the Aggies have a lot of their road games mashed together at the end of the year (but Georgia only had 6 home games, all told, in 2017, for whatever that's worth). It should also be said that A&M's slate is significantly tougher this year than UGA's was in 2017.

But the similarities here are hard to deny. Though we're all tempering our expectations at the moment, it was in a very similar state that the UGA fans found themselves before the 2017 breakout. Can the Aggies replicate it? We'll just have to see.

 

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Why stop there?

What about the similarities between Texas A&M and Lombardi's Packers. Or the 2001 New England Patriots?

Texas A&M is a program with a great future, and always will be,

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