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re: Is there much chance Jimbo jilts Aggy?
Posted on 11/29/17 at 12:14 pm to AUCE05
Posted on 11/29/17 at 12:14 pm to AUCE05
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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.
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.
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Posted on 11/29/17 at 12:27 pm to aggressor
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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.
While true, the same has been said about Arizona and Arizona State for years. They have a ton of money available, especially in and around Phoenix. Great facilities for the PAC 12. Very fertile recruiting grounds in AZ and CA. Either one could blow up into a powerhouse in football with the right coach and system. Yet they don’t. They have been all potential and talk for 20 years.
A&M has more money and a bigger recruiting ground than those two, but they are still valid examples that programs can have all the separate pieces and potential and never quite get there.
These ingredients don’t come together just because they happen to exist in the same space. You guys get made fun of around here because of the constant assumption that it is a forgone conclusion that you will take over college football because of money + Texas + SEC. The equation of success in college football is a lot more complicated than that.
And I’m not saying that it will never happen. It’s just not inevitable. A&M has never proven that it can put the pieces in place and keep them all there. Neither has LSU or anyone else in the SEC other than Bama, for that matter.
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