Texas A&M Better

I guaranteed losses to LSU, Bama, and Arky next season including losing to Auburn and MSU if played in away games after they lost their second game of the season. I pissed off a few Aggie posters on this board because I said it like I expected it. I'll let you rattle the beehive.

110% agree.

Sherman has done for us kind of what Zook did at UF before Meyer got there; gotten the talent to a respectable level, but unable to get us over the top.

The next coach will be in much better shape than Sherman was when he came here, Fran had gutted our program and the locker room was toxic.

As far as WHO the next coach will be....2 of the last 4 coaching changes were us money whipping a coach at a major program to come here. Jackie at Pitt (we made him the highest paid coach in history at the time), and Fran at Bama (i know....i know....but it was still something no one thought could happen at the time, sanctions be damned). The other 2 were guys who "got" A&M; RC Slocum, who was a Jackie assistant, and Sherman, who was an assistant here under Slocum.

It is time in the cycle for another big time "outsider". Jackie worked out, Fran did not.

Your AD needs to look at shelling out around $4-5 million to hire a good SEC caliber coaching staff. You will be looking at around $3 mil for a HC,about 500K each for a OC and DC, and 500K total for the other assistants. Will Muschamp is getting paid just under $3 mil/yr with no head coaching experience prior to taking on the UF job.

I'd fully support throwing 4-5M at Meyer.....maybe he'd laugh, or maybe he'd like to come to the lone SEC school in Texas that is 90 miles from Houston talent and a few hours from DFW/East Texas. Only Meyer knows what the next challenge is that he wants. Maybe that means Ohio State or PSU, maybe it doesn't.

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You guys should take a look at Tubberville. That would be interesting. I would rather not see it happen, but I think it would make a lot of sense for both parties.

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You know I thought the same thing about one month ago. But if I was AM I would put the money out to get a bigger name. I don't know if Tubby still has it. I know he beat OK, but look at the last couple of weeks.

I think it is safe to say that Meyer won't be wanting PSU after the recent child sexual assault allegations, "cover-up" allegations, and indictment of the PSU AD and former DC.

His name is on KSU's stadium. 0% chance.

As to Meyer, no one will argue that OSU isn't the most LIKELY place for him to end up......but we'll see. I think its fair to argue A&M would be there right after them if there is not a mutual want between Meyer and OSU. Maybe he doesn't want to deal with the sanctions they'll be dealing with. Maybe he wants to be in the SEC as opposed to the Big 10.

Slight longshot, but something we should at least look into.

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AU86,

We play them next week. Should be a good measuring stick of coaching staffs. My enduring memory of Snyder is A&M beating his team in the '98 Big XII championship.

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I think AM has far more talent than KSU. But what Snyder gets out of his is amazing. Look at what they did last night at Okie State. Amazing. I would have loved to watch that game.

Preaching to the choir here boys. I would say 80% of Aggies are on the fire Sherman bandwagon. Even if we win out the rest of the season we want him gone. His ineptitude is astounding, and the next couple of years will tell a lot about how serious Texas A&M is about its football team. Lets analyze the last four coaching hires:

Jackie Sherill: Offered him to be the highest paid coach in CFB and it paid off. Great coach and brought is to be a respectable top 15 program.

R.C. Slocum: Admin got scared with being on probation and wanted a good ole boy, hence R.C. He was an assistant for Jackie and the admin knew he wanted to win with class and do it "the right way". His defenses were solid for the most part but offense was terrible. Class does not always win. He was let go after a 6-6 season

Franchione: Cannot argue with the hire. National media and CFB fans alike thought he was the real deal. I am amazed at how poorly wrong most of the medias opinion was.

Sherman: This hire pretty much made all of us sick. Our "national coaching search" lasted all of what 3 days? Sherman is another one of those good ole boys who wants a team full of choir boys. The boosters lobbied for Sherman, and I am personally glad they are eating their words now. The big money Ags went over our AD's head and more or less forced the hire, and they are now staring at mediocrity once again

The next coaching hire and timing of it will tell a lot of us all we need to know about how our school views football. If we hold onto Sherman past 2012, many of us will lose faith (even more-so than we have already). As a general rule money wins plain and simple. We should not go out and make another budget hire. We should go out and throw upwards of $3 million at a PROVEN college coach, and him hire some top assistant that recruit their butts off. As I said, the next few years will really tell us how serious our school is about winning. Just know that the majority of us are fed up with Mike Sherman and never liked the hire in the first place

I am in the minority. I do think that we need to force an OC/playcaller on Sherman for 2012. However, he has assembled a hell of a lot of talent on offense. I want to see if his West Coast offense can succeed in the SEC. I would hate to fire Sherm at the end of this season, get another West Coast offense guy, and then learn next year that he was the wrong guy.