What is A&M's ceiling and floor next year and thoughts moving forward?

The A&M campaign since joining the SEC has been a failure.

Sumlin's seat has to be somewhat hot by now.

There's a thread on our board about it. Just skim through it

I'm sorry my thread perturbs you.

I genuinely am curious what folks, TAMU fans included, think. I only mention this because I feel like expectations have been tempered.

I'll give the thread you mentioned a peek and then potentially could edit my thread to only include non Aggies.

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I anticipate, we'll be 6-6

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If the fans are anticipating 6-6 its time for Sumlin to roll out.

Thats kind of sad for year 5.

Ceiling 10-2 with a floor of 7-5 in my honest opinion.

I truly think that it isn't fair to base anything off of 2012 success. The offseason before, pundits said we wouldn't win 2 games in SEC play and would be cellar dwellers. We changed their tune and haven't lived up to it since. Why?

The SECw is damned good and the East is roaring back as well. We were NOT ready for SEC play and masked our weaknesses with a generational talent in Johnny and a freak of nature in Mike Evans.

It wasn't sustainable and their were plenty of Aggys who have had reasonable expectations every year since then. However, we HAVE gotten better in the trenches, we made a hire necessary to see a LB unit even hit the field, and will field one of the best secondaries in the division.

Our QB room has been a NIGHTMARE since Johnny left, and more than likely was a nightmare while he was here too. Again, it was masked. Sumlin now has a QB who will be 'managing' with a smile on his face, instead of bitching at the first sign of adversity like Trill, Kyle, and Kyler.

Again, QB is about expectations. We are not expecting Knight to be Bama form all year. He's proven he can't play at that level with consistency. HOWEVER, he has weapons all around him and a defense that can win him 24-20 games. We have not been able to say that since joining the conference.

I know it easy to pick on the roller coaster of the aggy seasons, but we are making the changes necessary to be a competitive SEC team and not a gimmicky one. I think a lot of people will find that out this year.


Edit: just wanted to add my prediction of 9-3. I think 10-2 is unlikely but possible, 7-5 is unlikely but possible, and 8-4 is right up there with 9-3 in terms of probability.

One of the Texags mods posted this, and I tend to agree with it.
7-5 or worse and Sumlin is gone.
8-4 is an unknown middle ground (and most common A&M fan prediction).
9-3 or better and Sumlin is safe and fans are mostly satisfied.

I agree with your expectations and think that's completely and utterly fair and reasonable given your talent pool to recruit from and resources

I've also been pretty blatant in my thoughts that TAMU is loyal to a fault and should have already moved on from Sumlin

I think he is borderline toxic and TAMU has too much potential to not have a tier 1 head coach

There's entitled and then there's earned it

TAMU hasn't earned it, but UT has. IMO of course. But UT is the second winningest all time program in the conference.

Tenner just made some risky hires that didn't work out

Ceiling 10-2. Floor 7-5.

Sumlin is the only place left for a finger to point. Talent is in place, and proven Coordinators are in place. 10 will get recruiting going again, and make me feel much more comfortable with Sumlin leading the way. 7 isn't good enough.

I suppose 8/9 wins will depend on the fashion of the losses.

ETA: My prediction was 9-3