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re: Comparing conferences: A different look
Posted on 8/4/15 at 1:28 pm to Arksulli
Posted on 8/4/15 at 1:28 pm to Arksulli
I agree, based on history and the in-state bias. No reason to believe A&M will reach the next level until we see something some drastic changes or wild success.
From the beginning up until the 1930's and 40's TCU and A&M were the best programs in the State. A&M did pretty well with Bear Bryant, but the continual knock on A&M from the 60's on was the compulsory military-style education (corps), no co-eds, and lack of university status. Also, enter Darrel Royal in 1957, which is, coincedentally (or not) the same year Bear went home to the mama and fricking gumps. 30 years of grossly overshadowed mediocrety ensued.
A&M got better in the 80's and 90's, after having become a university, ditching the compulsory military education, allowing women, and getting a better shot at talent with scholarship limits. For some reason (we all know), however, A&M is still viewed by most in the prizm of 1957-1975. (The overwhelmingly bias media in Texas continues to perpetuate that view). Even though A&M is not even close to the same institution. But frickers gonna fricker cuz they are stupid and have an agenda. Moving to the SEC has help stymie the obvious slant. Local meadia can't exclusively control the narrative and it pisses them off.
With the ever-constant and unchanging media slant in Texas, to get to the next level, we must impress the hell out of the national media on a yearly basis to the point where the local media is ignored. We can't just win an NC and boom, top program. We need Bama-like Dynasty NCs to overcome the burnt orange slant. Maybe a decade of longhorn marginalization will change the slat, but if we wander in mediocrity for another decade and the fricking longhorns make some extreme institutional changes, we have no chance. Our preception burden is greater than any other institution in the SEC because of the local pooh-flinging media idiots. The SEC has offered an opportunity to break through, but it will take multiple levels of hardware.
Sadly, I am more hopeful than optimistic.
From the beginning up until the 1930's and 40's TCU and A&M were the best programs in the State. A&M did pretty well with Bear Bryant, but the continual knock on A&M from the 60's on was the compulsory military-style education (corps), no co-eds, and lack of university status. Also, enter Darrel Royal in 1957, which is, coincedentally (or not) the same year Bear went home to the mama and fricking gumps. 30 years of grossly overshadowed mediocrety ensued.
A&M got better in the 80's and 90's, after having become a university, ditching the compulsory military education, allowing women, and getting a better shot at talent with scholarship limits. For some reason (we all know), however, A&M is still viewed by most in the prizm of 1957-1975. (The overwhelmingly bias media in Texas continues to perpetuate that view). Even though A&M is not even close to the same institution. But frickers gonna fricker cuz they are stupid and have an agenda. Moving to the SEC has help stymie the obvious slant. Local meadia can't exclusively control the narrative and it pisses them off.
With the ever-constant and unchanging media slant in Texas, to get to the next level, we must impress the hell out of the national media on a yearly basis to the point where the local media is ignored. We can't just win an NC and boom, top program. We need Bama-like Dynasty NCs to overcome the burnt orange slant. Maybe a decade of longhorn marginalization will change the slat, but if we wander in mediocrity for another decade and the fricking longhorns make some extreme institutional changes, we have no chance. Our preception burden is greater than any other institution in the SEC because of the local pooh-flinging media idiots. The SEC has offered an opportunity to break through, but it will take multiple levels of hardware.
Sadly, I am more hopeful than optimistic.
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Posted on 8/4/15 at 5:02 pm to KaiserSoze99
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Sadly, I am more hopeful than optimistic.
Let us be honest here... the Aggies are where Arkansas is.
We both need to mine the state of Texas. We both grind our teeth over the fact that a 10 win season looks like a 6 win season for that school in Austin.
That having been said... Arkansas and Texas A&M try harder. No, I am not moving the Aggies into the perennial contenders range... I am not moving Arkansas there either.
What I am saying is that Arkansas and Texas A&M aren't lazy. We know we have to win and win big. Both schools recruit like mad.
We are not the fortunate sons. What we get, the bowls, the recruits, the wins, we have to earn.
If either school wins a Natty they earned it. We have to work for it. Not just for a year, but two or three years in a row.
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