re: Is there much chance Jimbo jilts Aggy?

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Sumlin has you guys in the playoff rankings last year, with a great recruiting class coming in. I know you guys don’t like to hear it, but TAMU historically has a low ceiling.

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Really depends on what you deem as "historically". In the 80's and 90's A&M won 7 Conference Titles and had another season we were undefeated but on probation. For instance when I was in school we lost 1 home game in 4 years. We made the disastrous hire of Fran from Bama but in the end we still hired a coach from Bama that you didn't want to lose at the time. We also hired Jackie Sherrill away from Pitt and made him the first coach with a million dollar contract. Pre WWII A&M was an elite program with multiple NC's. We are Top 15 in all time wins. Our current drought is the longest we have EVER gone without a Conference Title in the history of the program. We are currently the #1 Revenue AD in ALL of college sports.

We sucked hard from Post WWII-the early 70's outside of a few seasons because we were an all male, primarily military school at that time.

A&M has an incredibly high ceiling, we just have done a crap job of taking advantage of it. There is really nothing we don't have from a resource perspective that keeps us from being an elite program, we just haven't been because we are fantastic at stepping on our dicks and underachieving.