re: What are your expectations for the program?

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I want to win them all but it doesn't sting more when we lose at home.

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That's because you've never experienced a year or multiple years in which A&M was unbeatable at home.

If you didn't know, there were serious talks about firing R.C. Slocum in 1996 because he lost 3 home games that season, which was UNHEARD OF from 1985 - 1995. Kyle Field had become such a difficult place to win that opponents almost always assumed a loss when they saw "at A&M" on their schedule.

Kyle Field was a place where A&M simply DID NOT LOSE. This also explains Slocum's mediocre to poor record in road, neutral, and bowl games.

One of the main reasons Slocum was fired in 2002 is because he went 3-4 at home.

Losing at home should NEVER be acceptable.

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I'm going to be way more upset when we lose to Ole Miss on the road than when we lose to Alabama at home this year.

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Remember when it was basically a certainty that, if you played at Tiger Stadium at night you were going to lose? It needs to be that way at Kyle again.

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If you didn't know, there were serious talks about firing R.C. Slocum in 1996 because he lost 3 home games that season,

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That is not why he was nearly fired at all. It was b/c he had an affair with his secretary (who he eventually married FWIW). When his wife found out she came to a practice and dumped his shite out on the field causing a huge scene.

A&M was undefeated at home exactly 8 times before RC became HC. He did it 8 times in 14 seasons w/5 of those coming in his first 7 years before the '96 season.

Going into the '96 season he was 68-15-2 w/3 conference titles (would have been 4 had the team not been on probation in '94) w/no finish worse than 2nd in the SWC. Had the affair been with a person who wasn't his subordinate he would have never been in trouble. Period.

Yes. He was never going to get canned for a single 6-6 year after all the success he had up to that point.

He had to deal with a faction of butthurt boosters who were mad about losing total access post Jackie and that was their first major opening to try and oust him. Those idiots damn near fricked the program w/their insistence on flagrant cheating and they never liked that he didn't want them around b/c of it.

Hell, we lost a chance at a national title b/c they were too stupid cover their asses and got Greg Hill and 3 other players suspended for the Cotton Bowl the year we went 12-0. It didn't help that the d-bags running the Cotton opted for #5 Notre Dame instead of higher ranked #3 FSU b/c they wanted bigger tv ratings but losing the most important player on offense ended our chances before the game even started.

Auburn is pretty much what I think we can be in the SEC. I don't think that's a ridiculous expectation

I think this is a good comp. I would like to think we could be a bit more consistent. They throw in 3-5 win seasons every now and then. I think over the long run I expect our ability to compete for conference titles to be slightly higher, but for now Saban is at Bama and that lowers the frequency I expect by a little bit

The reality is that my expectations for our program are a fantasy when compared to reality. I expect us to win 9+ games a year, and compete for the SEC title 2/5 years.

Reality is that we are a very average program historically, and a 10 win season is a once in a decade accomplishment, while a conference championship is also a once in a generation occurance.

Throw out the late 80s and the early 90s, they aren't indicative of our program and are not realistic comparisons.

I don't even think paying players is a moral issue. We need a bagmen overhaul too

We did have it and his name was Jackie Sherill. We were chickenshit to let him go when tu used their puppet, the DMN, to bring the heat. We weren't doing anything they weren't doing and they know it.

We should have told the NCAA to kiss our arse, we are keeping our coach. That was our chance, and we were pussies.