re: Offense wins games, Defense wins championships

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What Slocum also did was put his best athletes on the defensive side of the ball.

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Which again comes down to how attractive you are to recruits. ESPECIALLY in today's recruiting world.

Nick Saban has the cache to tell a five star WR that he will play LB for him and still get that five star to sign. If Sumlin told one of those ego-maniac five star offensive recruits they were going on defense then he simply wouldn't sign with us. And if we just did it after he signed he would bitch about it on social media ensuring we don't get future elite WRs. The RC system is broken, never again to be repaired (unless we ever have a Nick Saban).

Brandon Williams is a rare case of forced humility. He was a five star RB but with the worst offer list you have ever seen a five star have. He couldn't make it somehow at OU and then had to transfer here. Then he couldn't get the starting job here and had to ride the pine. Converting to defense was his last hope of playing in the NFL, a dream I am sure the 18 year old him thought was a slam dunk.

We can't wait around for these kids like Kyler to go through a humility gauntlet just so they will be the team players we need them to be senior year. Hell a kid like Kyler simply won't stick around to take that medicine. The grass is always greener.

The solution is simple: either we pay elite players to come to A&M in position like Ole Miss or we lower our expectations. I think the last couple of years showed us our ceiling in the SEC when neither our coaching nor our talent is best in the league.