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that's a pretty stupid story. LSU and Arky were the 2a and 2b teams in the SEC this year and we lost to arky by 7 and were competitive last night for 3.5 quarters against you all.
I sure hope so Ricky, but our defensive performance last night gave me second thoughts about our defense. I'm hoping it was just a bad game because OU isn't that great right now and Texas is flat out bad and is in turmoil with all the coaching staff turnover.

If we can get our crap together, A&M can get back onto the big stage over the next couple of years.
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The halfback TD was was a beaut.


Yea, he was a pretty good qb in HS and he looked great when he made that pass. Good spiral, velocity, accuracy, etc.

I'm not sure why we haven't used that ability more (I'm pretty sure that's the first pass he's attempted in 3 years).
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I love how 41-24 is 'moving in the right direction'.


I was referring to the fact that we brought it back to an 11 point game with < 10 minutes left, hence me writing "kept things competitive into the 4th quarter"

You guys put it on ice after that because you were the better team, but it was a game before that.

Congrats on a good game

Posted by IntnetMillionaireAg on 1/8/11 at 4:15 pm
A few thoughts on the game:
-you all were better than we were. The result wasn't a fluke.
-it was irritating that Jefferson picked last night for his Heisman coming out party, but with the way your OL dominated our DL, it wasn't going to matter much. It would have been a close game if Les hadn't called a single pass play.
-On that note, our defense was horribly disappointing. No offense, but you guys were hardly an offensive powerhouse this season and we forced one single punt all game. That's embarrassing.
-the refs didn't call a pair of offsides penalties on you guys which was irritating, but I think we ran for 6-7 yards on both plays so it didn't matter much. Other than that, it's the usual few "wow that linemen was holding!" but the refs weren't really a factor.
-Sherman could learn something from Les when it comes to playcalling: if the run is working, keep ****ing doing it.

Bottom line: I thought our offense performed fairly well in putting up 24 points against one of the stingiest defenses in the SEC, but our defense played their worst game of the year by far. Some of that is because we still have some depth problems left over from Fran, so injuries resulted in guys taking the field that are flat out bad. But that's still no excuse for your linemen to take us to the woodshed like they did.

The overall result was disappointing, but you guys are a legit top 10 team this year and we kept things competitive into the 4th quarter. I'm not one for moral victories, but after a decade of completely sucking and getting prison raped by every big name team we play, it's good to see that we seem to be moving in the right direction. Hopefully we'll spend the next year or two in the little ten, continuing to build depth, and then we'll jump ship to the SEC.

PS - frick all of you
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That's understandable, no D has been.


Yea that defense was absolutely insane. They stonewalled everybody. We sucked arse that year, so it was sad to have to live vicariously through you all, but I loved watching you guys destroy Oklahoma.

The only other college D I've seen that looked that good was USC 2008. All 3 starting LBs (Cushing, Matthews, and Malaluga) drafted in the first 2 rounds. 1 goes on to win defensive rookie of the year, the other is probably going to win DPOY this season. Hell, two of the backup LBs were even drafted. Then they had Taylor Mays at safety (and he was an AA that year).
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What in god's name would give not just one person, but a group of people, any indication that Mike Sherman has proven more during his tenure at A&M than Miles has at LSU?


Les' clock management has been amazingly bad. Also, this is the first year in 3 tries that Sherman has done anything at A&M, but he went ~60-30 as a head coach & GM (he had both positions at the same time) in the NFL, won a few division championships, and won a few playoff games.

He was a fairly successful head coach at the highest level. Not outstanding, and he probably was never going to get to outstanding (which is what Green Bay demands, but he was fairly successful.
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Texas A&M gave up 31 points to BAYLOR in 1 HALF...playing at a high level??? Holding Nebraska to a goose egg may look good on paper but I think the myth of their high powered running QB offense was exposed this year.


Notes on that:
1) It was 30 points in about 25 minutes (not that it really matters).
2) We pitched a shutout and gave up ~150 yards in the remaining 35 minutes, which is something.
3) Baylor HATES A&M and it was on the road. They came roaring out of the gate and we had a few busted plays go for huge gains. Kinda like 2 of the TDs your defense gave up to Arky.
4) We simply had a bad half. You all gave up nearly 40 to a 4-8 Ol' Miss team at home. Does that make your defense sucky? Hell no, it just means that they had a bad day. Same with us against Baylor. They had a nightmare first 25 minutes and then proceeded to beat Robert Griffin and his OL into submission.

1 Other thing: our D held Oklahoma to 17 points on 105 plays. They averaged under 5yards/pass attempt and 1.6 yards/rush. We stonewalled them on 4th and goal inside the 2 3x in one game.

Our D is legit. It's not LSU 2003 badass, but they are physical, play hard, and our d coordinator is friggin brilliant. This shows in all of the statistical rankings.
I'm sure there are a few idiots that think this, but aggies that know football think this is going to be a defensive struggle. Other than Ole Miss and Arkansas (a score that was inflated by two unlucky plays), the LSU defense has been stout as hell. You have several all conference players and of course PP shuts down a good chunk of the field by himself.
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So they've been on the field for more plays....maybe this is just an inability to get off the field by forcing 3 and Outs?


Actually, our 3rd down conversion defense is ranked 16th in the country at 34.3%

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I don't really care what offenses they faced, or how many plays they have been on the field, A&M's defense gives up more points than LSU's, and since points, not plays run or yards gained, win games, ill take LSU's defense.


If a team has more possessions, that's more opportunities to score points. Just about everybody in the Big 12 runs the hurry up. It means both teams' defenses will be on the field for more possessions, which means that the scores will usually be higher.

My opinion is that the defenses are about equal. I think that our qb is markedly better and the rest of the offenses are similarly talented (we've both got dynamos at RB and WR).

However, our punting is atrocious. It's funny, I can just about guarantee that PP is not going to take one back to the house because our short punts make it nearly impossible to return one. We've actually got the 7th best punt return defense in the NCAA. The flipside is, when we're punting 30 yards/pop, we've basically built a 10-20 yard return in anyway, so as long as you can fair catch them everytime, you're golden with respect to field position.

It's gonna be an interesting game from an X's and O's stand point. I'm obviously picking the Ags, but I think it will be close
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If I had class with that dog I would do everything to make it bark.

Apparently if she barks, they cancel class.


That's not entirely true. I had several classes with the guy that leads Rev around and the profs never let us out when she barked (she rarely did. Just slept for the most part).

I have heard of profs actually letting kids out, but it's rare. In my experience, they always kept going
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Your defense is talented for sure, but we have the best linebacker in the country. Who would be the best player on your team. Easily. Patrick Peterson is good, but his special teams contributions make him regarded higher than he should be. Von Miller is the superior player


This one is at least debatable. PP is a hell of a ball player, but so is Von Miller. They don't just hand out the Butkus award to anybody you know.

I'd expect every Aggie to say Von's better and every tiger to say PP.

But neither is an outlandish statement
It always makes me laugh when people just assume they can extrapolate what an entire fanbase thinks from isolated information like this.

I mean wow, it's 1 post from a guy who doesn't even have an ag tag.
The ole miss of the big 12??

Good god. Look we had a few good seasons, but essentially, sucked before ~1970. We were a small, all male military institute (which is the reason that like 3/4 of our 50 games against LSU were played in BR). Also, before scholarship limits were put in place, Texas gave 'ships to every single halfway decent athlete in the state.

Anyway, since 1972 when Emory Bellard and Aggie football officially arrived in the modern era, we are 295-168-3, which means we've won 63.3% of our games and lost 36.7%. And that includes the last decade, during which we've absolutely sucked (the football Gods were punishing us for firing RC).

I'm not sure what Ole Miss is like, but winning almost 2/3 of your games over the last 38 years isn't bad at all, especially considering we've been to 4 bowls since 2000

That's not absolutely superb, but it's a big step above mediocre (which is what I think you were trying to imply).

Also, we were a hair's breath away from winning a national title in 92 (or more likely splitting one), but 4-5 of our impact players (2 or 3 starting OL a starting RB, and maybe a starting DT) were suspended before our bowl game against #5 ND because of an article some longwhorn journalist wrote about how we were giving improper benefits (the same journalist was nowhere to be found a few years earlier when Texas was paying players out the nose). Long story short, we got crushed 24-7 or 24-3 or something. But we were a hair's breath away from winning the big one that year.
But the 2010 LSU Tigers and Texas Aggies have never played.

Damn I'm looking forward to this game

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Gene Chizik thinks he's in the minor leagues and you don't want a division rival getting it.
Dantonio played a single team that's currently ranked and lost to 7-5 Iowa. Sure the fake FG over ND was cool, but ND sucks. Why the hell were they in OT anyway?
Doug Marone of Syracuse? Give me a break. That conference is worse than the Mountain West.
Saban just might be the anti Christ.
Gundy? Bahahaha Bob Stoops is so deep in Gundy's head that he knows what the OSU plays are gonna be before Gundy calls them.

But you can do yourselves a favor by voting for Sherman. Here's why:

I won't lie. This last decade we've sucked harder than Linda Lovelace. But we're finally starting to come around. Why does that matter? Because This Big 12 - 2 is doomed. It's got a few more years left at most. When that happens, the Ags want to go to the SEC. But we won't be able to excise ourselves from the longhorn parasite and head East unless we're standing on our own two feet. Voting for Sherman will help us do that. Help us do that and in a few years, we'll get into the SEC West and renew a rivalry that's 50 games old and full of some good old fashioned TX v. LA hate. This Cotton Bowl is gonna get a lot of publicity and will show a few of the younger fans just what this old rivalry used to mean. There's a ton of history and tradition between our two schools.

Finally, even if you hate us, that means that you're giving Les and co a chance to beat a COY in the bowl game, which can only do you all good.

Do it.
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You realize that A&M has a very good defense, too... and their kicker is as good, or better, than Jasper.


Hah, you're right on the first, but the 2nd is laughable. Our FG kicker is not very good. And wait until you see our punters...
How's the LSU OL? Von is literally about the best past rusher in the NCAA this year, so if you all are weak there, he will wreck your passing game singlehandedly
We've been in football purgatory for the better part of a decade, but this is a good team. All 3 of our losses are to top 15 teams and we beat another two top 15 teams.

Also, yall are ranked 10 in the BCS and we're 17. That's not a huge gap (especially considering the polls are a crapshoot anyway). Also, it could be worse. Look at #8 OU vs. RV UConn
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Bo Pelini hates LSU


I wouldn't take it personally. As far as I can tell, he hates everybody and thinks the entire world is out to get him
Bo rated his team #8. What a joke :lol: They lost to 5-7 Texas, at home, after 10 straight months of trash talk.

That's pathetic.