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Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:13 am to CGSC Lobotomy
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:13 am to CGSC Lobotomy
At least Diesch is filling out?
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Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:15 am to Nguyening
So who are we trotting out for the DE two deep? Ron Cooper better put our db's through hell this spring, bc this fall is going to be rough.
Posted on 3/2/17 at 8:15 am to Captain Crown
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How much of a shot does Kellen Mond have at starting?
Less now that Starkel suddenly underwent a transformation from boy to man. Seriously, the guy has metamorphosed physically since he came here. What was a skinny dorky looking kid has become a much stouter and mature looking young man. I think Mond would benefit GREATLY from a redshirt season, I just didn't previously think it was possible, before I saw Stark-man the other day. My money is on Starkel starting, Hoobastank as the backup and Mond getting a much needed shirt.
This post was edited on 3/2/17 at 8:18 am
Posted on 3/3/17 at 6:48 pm to Cooter Davenport
Honestly, after 2012, I thought you guys were going to dominate this league.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 12:38 am to Cooter Davenport
I do remember Trent Dilfer being really high on Starkel after Elite 11. LINK
It would be a hell of a story if the seemingly forgotten QB on our roster ended up being one to take the job and run with it.
It would be a hell of a story if the seemingly forgotten QB on our roster ended up being one to take the job and run with it.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 6:27 am to Dr RC
Hooba: low ceiling. Great guy, glad he's around to be a backup, but we've seen him play and his ceiling is low.
Mond: lots of potential. Not slamming the guy, the potential is there, but he needs "finishing school". He's got work to do in the passing game and would benefit from easing into the speed of college football. I think he's a dude whose progression as a player we could permanently stunt by throwing him to the wolves right away.
Starkel: underrated due to an injury that limited his action Sr year and because he played for a small private school that played no one. He said this himself in an interview. He blew up the competition at Elite 11 as a skinny teenager. Since coming to A&M, he's really filled out and is a big, grown looking guy now.
Mond: lots of potential. Not slamming the guy, the potential is there, but he needs "finishing school". He's got work to do in the passing game and would benefit from easing into the speed of college football. I think he's a dude whose progression as a player we could permanently stunt by throwing him to the wolves right away.
Starkel: underrated due to an injury that limited his action Sr year and because he played for a small private school that played no one. He said this himself in an interview. He blew up the competition at Elite 11 as a skinny teenager. Since coming to A&M, he's really filled out and is a big, grown looking guy now.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 9:51 am to Nguyening
Do we even have four scholarship DEs this spring since Lockhart transferred? Qualen, JJ, Madubuike, who am I forgetting?
This post was edited on 3/4/17 at 9:52 am
Posted on 3/4/17 at 9:54 am to Iosh
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Do we even have four scholarship DEs this spring since Lockhart transferred? Qualen, JJ, Madubuike, who am I forgetting?
Three.
Cunningham, Johnson, and Durham. Madubuike is over 290 now and is playing inside.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:20 am to Cooter Davenport
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I put watching A&M play football on the same level of importance as watching Gold Rush or The Curse of Oak Island.
A&M has as much chance of winning something meaningful in football as they do of finding something in the Money Pit. It's exactly like watching that dude Todd on Gold Rush when you watch Aggie Football, a glimmer of hope is followed by epic disappointment.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:42 am to WhiskerBiscuitSlayer
Posted on 3/4/17 at 9:27 pm to Projectpat
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It's not that there's no energy, it's that all the energy is devoted to melting.
The energy hasn't been this low around the program since the 2009 offseason after Sherman's 4-8 year. This coming season is largely viewed as a throwaway that we'll have to endure to get to an inevitable conclusion.
It's amazing how far we've fallen since the 2014 season opener.
Posted on 3/4/17 at 10:41 pm to Roger Klarvin
Posted on 3/5/17 at 7:05 pm to WhiskerBiscuitSlayer
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A&M has as much chance of winning something meaningful in football as they do of finding something in the Money Pit.
They should have the Oak Island narrator do A&M football. He wouldn't even have to change up his verbiage much.
"A defensive stop? At A&M? Could it be?"
Posted on 3/6/17 at 8:27 am to KSCC
So from last Wednesday, 3/1 Presser
Sumlin says "...by the fall we'll be at I think 16 DBs." I count 19 scholarship guys on the roster now. I'd expect some of our need attrition to come from here.
Pure speculation on my part:
Vic Davis
DCS
have played their last in Maroon and White. Curious to see if I'm right.
Sumlin says "...by the fall we'll be at I think 16 DBs." I count 19 scholarship guys on the roster now. I'd expect some of our need attrition to come from here.
Pure speculation on my part:
Vic Davis
DCS
have played their last in Maroon and White. Curious to see if I'm right.
This post was edited on 3/6/17 at 8:28 am
Posted on 3/6/17 at 3:57 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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This place is depressing AF these days.
I know, but I don't really blame anyone. I'll watch every game next year I can, but my interest is at all time lows. I just don't think the program is headed in the right direction and I don't think Sumlin knows how to make it better. Once we've lost the first game we shouldn't have, I might check out completely. And for all we know that might be UCLA.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 4:12 pm to KSCC
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I count 19 scholarship guys on the roster now. I'd expect some of our need attrition to come from here.
Nick Harvey
Priest Willis
Armani Watts
Donovan Wilson
Larry Pryor
Roney Elam
Charles Oliver
Ikenna Okeke
Moses Reynolds
Clifford Chattman
Travon Fuller
Keldrick Carper
Kemah Siverand
Noel Ellis
Deshawn Capers-Smith
Victor Davis
Those are all currently listed on the roster and that makes 16.
Adding the ones who haven't enrolled yet:
Derrick Tucker
Myles Jones
Devin Morris
Debione Renfro
Makes 20.
If you attrit Capers-Smith, Ellis (who I thought was retired), and Davis you still get 17.
This post was edited on 3/6/17 at 4:16 pm
Posted on 3/6/17 at 4:47 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
Reynolds has moved to WR - Sumlin said so plainly.
Siverand I'm not so sure about. Had heard he was moving from WR to DB, but then thought I saw a pic of him in maroon (offense practice jersey). Who knows.
Ellis I have a feeling you're right - but haven't seen anything official.
On the offensive side, saw a Texags pic of Jamal Jeffery at practice a few days ago. Thought he was a goner.
Siverand I'm not so sure about. Had heard he was moving from WR to DB, but then thought I saw a pic of him in maroon (offense practice jersey). Who knows.
Ellis I have a feeling you're right - but haven't seen anything official.
On the offensive side, saw a Texags pic of Jamal Jeffery at practice a few days ago. Thought he was a goner.
Posted on 3/6/17 at 10:05 pm to TeLeFaWx
Honestly I think we'll beat UCLA. If Sumlin is good at anything it's having his teams ready for week one better than most coaches. We looked very sharp in tough openers in 2014, 2015 and for 3.5 quarters in 2016. Even the loss against UF in 2012 was a game we played well in against a team that went 11-1.
And frankly as low as my expectations are I expect to start 5-0 again. Our next two are gimmees, Sumlin owns Bielema for whatever reason and we are just A LOT more talented than USC and it's at home.
Then we'll lose to Bama and Sumlin will have one last chance to prove he's not what everyone now thinks he is. We could easily go 2-4 in the home stretch.
IMO, we'll lose to UF, then win the next two and then Jarrett Stidham comes into Kyle Field and just obliterates us to seal Sumlin's fate. I expect to lose that game by 30 because it would just perfectly sum up his mismanagement as a coach. We lose the last two to finish 7-5 and Sumlin is finally out.
And frankly as low as my expectations are I expect to start 5-0 again. Our next two are gimmees, Sumlin owns Bielema for whatever reason and we are just A LOT more talented than USC and it's at home.
Then we'll lose to Bama and Sumlin will have one last chance to prove he's not what everyone now thinks he is. We could easily go 2-4 in the home stretch.
IMO, we'll lose to UF, then win the next two and then Jarrett Stidham comes into Kyle Field and just obliterates us to seal Sumlin's fate. I expect to lose that game by 30 because it would just perfectly sum up his mismanagement as a coach. We lose the last two to finish 7-5 and Sumlin is finally out.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 8:38 am to Roger Klarvin
I think it's unrealistic to think that we won't lose at least one of UCLA/Arkansas/SoCar. Our luck has to run out sooner or later vs Arkansas. So that puts us at best 4-1.
Bama L
Florida (one week after in the Swamp) L
4-3 at that point he's pretty much cooked, right?
Now if we're all wrong and we come out firing, it means that they have an ace in their hand with Starkel. No idea if it will play out this way, but Sumlin/Mazzone clearly picked Starkel over Stidham knowing their jobs were on the line.
Bama L
Florida (one week after in the Swamp) L
4-3 at that point he's pretty much cooked, right?
Now if we're all wrong and we come out firing, it means that they have an ace in their hand with Starkel. No idea if it will play out this way, but Sumlin/Mazzone clearly picked Starkel over Stidham knowing their jobs were on the line.
Posted on 3/7/17 at 12:09 pm to Roger Klarvin
Let's be honest: The 2016 UCLA game should have ended 24-9 or worse were it not for two horribly blown plays by the defense.
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