re: Young LSU fans are cracking me up... (on A&M)

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Football is the 20th winningest program of all time.

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Once again. They have not finished in the top 5 since 1956. ATM football is a joke. There's a reason OU & LSU can get the players they do out of Texas. Texas can only get so many so LSU & OU come in and take what they want. It's actually a beautiful thing. They keep swaying and having douche bags in white jump suits yelling, yet they can't figure out why nothing ever changes...

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ATM football is a joke

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You must be a UT fan.

But your right, those UW Badgers sure have a lot of cache in the South.

Ask A&M what the Cotton Bowl was like on Jan 1st, 2005. Tennessee absolutely embarrassed them. It was still funny to hear all the Aggie "yell leaders" after it was 21-0 in the 1st quarter. Those guys are committed - I give 'em that.

I do not want to play A&M for the reason that they could possibly beat us and we'd never hear the end of it. We have not beaten them since 1990.

1991 was an embarrassment beyond embarrassments. Welcome to the rivalry, Crazy Curley. Greg Hill and Leeland McElroy rushed for about 400 yards combined (as did another back with them whose name escapes me). That was when the momentum shift swung to A&m, as previously we had won 4/5.

1992 was on national tv and was competitive for a half, despite A&M scoring after their first 4 plays from scrimmage. Robert Davis kept us in it for a few with a long near-td run from scrimmgae that Ryan Huffman finished off. A&M ended up convincingly beating us.

1993 was another trip to College Station and another easy loss. LSU really had no idenity at that point until the season (later, the running game would become established with Jay Johnson and Juice Williams). 3 losses in a row to A&M? Unheard of! Ya know what though? This was the sign of LSU football officially hitting the skids - as if a prior 2-9 record wasn't enough evidence.

1994 was a pathetic display of offense on a hot, but energetic night in Tiger Stadium. A&M was starting to become the team that was slightly under Nebraska, but way above Texas and OU.

1995 was expected - a loss in College Stadium. The Tigers played as well as they had since '90, but it wasn't enough against a top 10 Aggie team. It was too bad the magic wasn't officially back until 2 games later vs. Auburn. It's also too bad that the last game in this mini-rivalry series would be the first winning season for LSU in 6 seasons.

If we had played A&M from 2000 to 2009, LSU would have gone 8-1 at worst. A&M had lost its awesome coaches and hit its low note with Dennis Franchionne (who I would love to play, no matter who he's with). Now that we have a chance of playing them again, here they are on the up and up. I think we can beat A&M, especially on a fast track. Nonetheless, they will have huge numbers in Arlington and will be amped to play us. They'll be underdogs and will be told they cannot play with the speed of the SEC. They played Arkansas tightly, however, and are much better than the 6-6/5-7 teams we have seen them put on the field as of late. This is A&M's bst squad since the 2000 season.

Also, the one thing that gives me hope is that 4/5 bowl opponents we have played have been crushed. Perhaps, minus last season, we can have a repeat of those month-to-prepare-for-games. Meanwhile, those EXPECTING a blow out should keepin mind that we blew out ZERO good teams this season (unless you consider a 29-7 win over State such). Playing A&M in Dallas doesn't conjure up quick feelings of an LSU domination. I still would rather play in Dallas as opposed to Orlando, but A&M is one of those teams who we BETTER beat or we will have to wait another 15 seasons to get revenge on for games, by that time, that will be a quarter-century old.

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Once again. They have not finished in the top 5 since 1956. ATM football is a joke. There's a reason OU & LSU can get the players they do out of Texas. Texas can only get so many so LSU & OU come in and take what they want. It's actually a beautiful thing. They keep swaying and having douche bags in white jump suits yelling, yet they can't figure out why nothing ever changes...

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I hate them as much as the next guy, but a joke? Maybe of late, yes, but read my previous post. I realize they have had struggles of late and recruiting battles have been lost to us, UT, OU, and even Baylor and Arkansas, but remember what it was like 15 years ago. Had it not been for Nebraska and here and there Colorado, A&M might have had a couple of seasons where they could have played for an AP or UPI title.

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while TAMU has been pretty much even with Texas for the past 30 years.

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Great first post.

So Texas has had a Heisman winner (Ricky Williams)
Gone to 2 BCS national championships. Won 1.

OU has had 2 Heisman winners (Jason White & Sam Bradford).
Gone to 3 BCS national championships. Won 1 (2000)

The Big 12 (or 10 now) is always the Big 2 little 10.

Once again, it's OU/Texas (this year OU) playing for the title. Don't give me the tiebreaker crap because the same thing happened to Texas in 2008.

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Everybody has an excuse. They are not elite in football. As long as Texas & OU are around, they won't be either.

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I have no excuse. I know they are not an elite program right now, but things come and go in cycles. OU, Nebraska, Colorado, and now Texas all have had losing seasons in the past 2 decades - all of them winning national titles or playing ina title game in that same span. Do you not think it's imaginable that A&M can have another come up season or 3 and win a Big XII title?

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They are not elite in football.

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Neither is Michigan State, as others have mentioned.

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Recruiting is huge, I give you that. However, we can recruit in Flordia just aswell

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I would guess that the point of the recruiting talk is that LSU would be playing a Texas team in Texas. That would go over well with Texas recruits should LSU win, giving them an edge over a possible competitor on a potential recruit.

The Tigers play a Florida team every year and every other year in Florida, so exposure there is no problem. Playing a Big 10 school, with which LSU would likely never compete for recruits, probably isn't that helpful.