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1 minute ago, Jiggy-Z said:

I always thought they should have kept Sherman.  I'm not sure they would have had the JFF Heisman year, but I think the lows would have been much higher.

He had a rough few years in the big 12 south, but recruited well coming out of the Franchione debacle, especially o line, and had them set up physically to compete in the SEC West meat grinder and finally adjusted to the college game.  He was their most solid coaching hire in my lifetime.  No crazy baggage, no bad habits, no drama etc.   

Whatever, aggy would have figured out a way to screw that up too.

Its not like Texas has been stellar with coaching hires/retains in the last dozen years, but at least Texas recognized the error its ways and made changes.

They had a magical season before his last, as I recall. His last season was snake-bit with the horror of losing to us when their fans already thought that the SEC patch of dominence was on their jersies. I don't know how well he would have done in the following years, but it was a bad way to go out.

Then fired over the phone in a recruit's driveway. Stay classy, Ags.

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2 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

They had a magical season before his last, as I recall. His last season was snake-bit with the horror of losing to us when their fans already thought that the SEC patch of dominence was on their jersies. I don't know how well he would have done in the following years, but it was a bad way to go out.

Then fired over the phone in a recruit's driveway. Stay classy, Ags.

Yeah, it was kind of a bad hire for the Big 12 with Sherman being and NFL guy.  But he figured it out and just got pretty unlucky his last year, also in a pretty tough Big 12.

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5 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

From TheAthletic:

  • Texas A&M’s fall from sixth to 24th ties the largest single-week drop ever within the poll. Again: Recruiting class rank does not automatically equal on-field strength

 

Are you really SEC if you drop that much after a loss?  FakeSEC just like their fake army bullshit.  

There's not one fucking thing that isn't fake about that place 

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32 minutes ago, C-Man said:

aggy needs somebody to eat Jimbo's playbook?

list-eater.jpg

 

17 minutes ago, Bevo Num1 said:
32 minutes ago, C-Man said:
aggy needs somebody to eat Jimbo's playbook?
list-eater.jpg

I see Matt Foley every time I see a picture of Listeater.

Is there a well-written and full-bodied write-up of The Listeater Incident somewhere? I know the story, but I don't think I've ever read an account of it. 

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2 minutes ago, hook me said:

Being complete morons is not much of a tradition & isn't difficult for "outsiders" to understand. You're a moron, we get it, the whole world gets it. Stop trying to mystify it.

You have midnight yell before every home game because you can't remember simple yells from week to week? - morons

You make really bad jokes & deliver them terribly? - morons

You give a guy that just burned down a blue blood program in a weak conference ~$100mm guaranteed at a non-blue blood program in a difficult conference? - morons

You hiss instead of boo? - morons

Dudes in white jumpsuits looking like they just broke out of prison instead of cheerleaders? - morons

Squeezing your nuts in hopes of yelling louder? - morons (squeeze harder & maybe there won't be a new generation of morons one day)

None of falls under "people just don't understand us or our traditions". It's all fairly obvious.

I repped the post for its incisive accuracy for the most part. That said, to be clear, FSU is not classified as a blue blood. 

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8 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I watched that game with one of my best friends, who is an aggie. We haven't gotten to see each other much over the years after he left Texas to get into the business school at ATM, but that day was one of those days.

It was an unbelievable experience. As it kept getting worse and worse, I started actually cheering to see if OU could get to 100 points. Fucking Bob Stoops. Just keep going, man. Make fucking terrible and amazing history. Bleh. I firmly believe OU could have won that game 112-0 without pushing themselves. I think that is the only OU victory I have ever enjoyed, and boy, did I enjoy it.

A&M's Jolly battled OU to the finish

Berry Tramel
 

With a minute left in a 77-0 game, with the Sooners appearing to play at three-quarters speed, Texas A&M tackle Johnny Jolly popped Oklahoma tailback Donta Hickson for a four-yard loss.

And then Jolly celebrated with a quick dance.

Perfect example of the modern me-first football player.

But on the dreary Aggie sideline, coach Dennis Franchione was pleased. For maybe the first time all day, he saw a spark.

"He was still playing hard, Franchione said. "He was still trying to get his teammates going. I admire him for it. I wasn't disappointed.

Jolly is back for his junior season and, as the OU-A&M rematch nears, doesn't regret his antics.

"Just a matter of playing hard, Jolly said. "Just playing every down like the first down.

Maybe his teammates drew strength from the tackle and floor show. Jolly doesn't claim to know. He just wants to send a clear message.

"Keep playing hard, no matter what happened.

"They know I'm going to do that. From the first play to the last play. Just Aggies playing football.

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‘Just aggy playing football’ - Johnny Jolly

Indeed.  Can’t argue that.  

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Is there a well-written and full-bodied write-up of The Listeater Incident somewhere? I know the story, but I don't think I've ever read an account of it. 
https://www.goodbullhunting.com/2016/12/9/13848480/aggie-flashback-the-listeater-saga-dec-9-2004-texas-a-m-tennessee-fran-donuts-cotton-bowl

Copying from my phone, but hopefully someone can cut and paste the text.
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3 hours ago, USC_TMB said:

Holy shit. LMAO at an aggy calling any other school a 'hillbilly college' (yes, including WV).

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Cross went on to call App State a “hillbilly college.” He does so while wearing overalls at an Agricultural school in College Station, Texas. Think about the irony there for a second.

From there, Cross jokes that the football team can’t read the name on their jerseys or read a map. This is especially funny because App State’s high school GPA requirement for admission into the school is higher than that of Texas A&M’s. Oops!

 

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9 minutes ago, C-Man said:

probably somewhere on Shaggy, but at this point, you'd have to navigate pages and pages of some pretty shocking porn... 

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2 hours ago, NoName said:

Klatt on A&M/App St - time stamped link: https://youtu.be/lui4D68jkx0?t=1741

  • "they continue to underachieve...based on unrealistic expectations"
  • Aggie fans hate him because of unrealistic expectations
  • look at the data: "A&M had a great JFF era, a great COVID year and everything in between has been average - last 10 seasons had JFF and COVID year. in the 8 other football seasons they lost at a minimum 4 games and only finished in the TOp 25 in 2 of those 8 years. in those 8 years they are 32-32 in the SEC. if you look at the first 50 for Jimbo and Kevin Sumlin they are pretty damn close. "
  • "they are what they have been for a long time............which is kind of average"
  • "offensively folks, it wasn't even close" - not like this was a game decided by bounces.

Shit, man. Klatt thinks so much like us, UT should award him an honorary degree.

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40 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I watched that game with one of my best friends, who is an aggie. We haven't gotten to see each other much over the years after he left Texas to get into the business school at ATM, but that day was one of those days.

It was an unbelievable experience. As it kept getting worse and worse, I started actually cheering to see if OU could get to 100 points. Fucking Bob Stoops. Just keep going, man. Make fucking terrible and amazing history. Bleh. I firmly believe OU could have won that game 112-0 without pushing themselves. I think that is the only OU victory I have ever enjoyed, and boy, did I enjoy it.

The weirdest thing about that game was that there were no turnovers, special teams or defensive scores.  It was A&M going 3 and out, punting, and OU scoring a TD, which they did on 11 straight drives.  Usually in an ass whipping -- like say our destruction of Colorado with VY in Houston -- there are some special teams scores or something.

Not that game.  Just force a three and out, punt, OU drive down the field and scores.  Complete domination.  A&M's best "drive" of the day was to their own 38 yard line.  That's right, they never got within ten yards of midfield on offense.

Another tidbit, the first or second play from scrimmage, Reggie McNeal through an absolutely perfect deep ball down the sideline to hit a receiver (Mobley) in stride. Mobley had two steps on the DB.  He easily scores if he catches it.  He did not.  It was all down hill from there.  For a brief shining moment it looked like Reggie was going to continue what he did the year before as a freshman when he burned OU over and over on deep balls.

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18 hours ago, Bookman said:

Look I need to defend our fightin' Texas Aggie brothers and sisters. Farming is really important. So is meat judging.

But we only need so many farmers and butchers. Most of these ags end up working as realtors in the Woodlands and Tomball.

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2 hours ago, hook me said:

Being complete morons is not much of a tradition & isn't difficult for "outsiders" to understand. You're a moron, we get it, the whole world gets it. Stop trying to mystify it.

You have midnight yell before every home game because you can't remember simple yells from week to week? - morons

You make really bad jokes & deliver them terribly? - morons

You give a guy that just burned down a blue blood program in a weak conference ~$100mm guaranteed at a non-blue blood program in a difficult conference? - morons

You hiss instead of boo? - morons

Dudes in white jumpsuits looking like they just broke out of prison instead of cheerleaders? - morons

Squeezing your nuts in hopes of yelling louder? - morons (squeeze harder & maybe there won't be a new generation of morons one day)

None of falls under "people just don't understand us or our traditions". It's all fairly obvious.

In summary:  Just because you're different doesn't mean you're special.

 

 

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