The common statement I had to listen to from 1974 to 1978 and then 1980-1983 while in school was "Wait Till Next Year" when it came to football. Because we had a meddlesome alumni group and an incompetent trail of athletic directors.

History is again repeating itself. An inept AD, a BOR scared to upset the alum, and state politicians who feel they are the only people who know what the university needs.

I'm a born and raised Aggie. Have 3 degrees from the University....or as I told my students....it took me 3 times to get it right.

Watching the meltdown in College Station and Austin has been quite a humorous experience. A&M is so entrenched in traditions it can't help itself....it's like the wife who has been abused for 20 years of a marriage and will not leave her husband because she thinks he really does love her.

If the Big XIIRevised ends up happening A&M will be relegated to the equivalent of a third rate football program because they will be forced to continue to play the likes of Baylor and get their butts handed to them by Texas every year. They have no one to blame but themselves.

What is even more amusing is how Texags.com is melting down over this. My favorite thread over there right now is the one titled "What would you do if we DON'T go to the SEC". In my 50 plus years of being part of the A&M family I've seen this happen with each crisis of confidence....it happened when Gene Stallings left, when Emory Bellard left, when Jackie Sherill left, when John David Crow as AD caused a financial meltdown for the Athletic Department, when RC Slocum was fired, when Fran was hired, when Reggie McNeil was skipped over as starting QB his freshman year, when Fran was fired, and when Sherman was hired. Now the panic is happening again because the Aggie faithful know Texas is playing them big time.

The more things change the more they stay the same.