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Somebody please explain the mindset of A&M fans and administration.

Posted on 11/14/23 at 12:50 pm
Posted by Slippy
Across the rivah
Member since Aug 2005
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Posted on 11/14/23 at 12:50 pm
Desperation is a stinky cologne.

Is that it though? Are they just so desperate for a relevant football program that they would do literally anything to get it? $100 million for the outgoing coach, $100 million for the new one? Biggest player payroll in college football? Is there a limit? Maybe not?

It's a game played by teenagers.
Posted by 1BIGTigerFan
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Posted on 11/14/23 at 12:52 pm to
Best thread of the day.
Posted by LawTiger38
Member since Nov 2023
117 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 12:55 pm to
For a bunch of people that pretend to have better lives to deflect from the fact their athletic program sucks they sure do crave relevancy. Makes you wonder if they really are that rich and really do have such great lives
Posted by Jster15
Member since Aug 2019
2983 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 12:59 pm to
Hilarious post from a LSU hypocrite. Let’s see, hmmm, you’re currently on the books for what $117,000,000 for Obregon and Kelly at your poor little school? And we only owe Jimbo about $75,000,000? Bet we hire a new coach snd still come under that. We dont have Scott Woodward squandering money away anymore, you do.
Posted by Beessnax
Member since Nov 2015
10768 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 1:02 pm to
A&M has always acted like new money.
Posted by Lucado
Member since Nov 2023
3497 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 1:06 pm to
quote:

Desperation is a stinky cologne.



It's absolutely desperation. They're terrified with Texas and OU about to join the conference. That's what the timing is all about.
Posted by Dragonbutt
OK
Member since Feb 2017
287 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 1:08 pm to
Yeah but at least those coaches won something unlike bimbo.
Posted by Farmer1906
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Apr 2009
51791 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 1:08 pm to
quote:

Are they just so desperate for a relevant football program that they would do literally anything to get it? $100 million for the outgoing coach, $100 million for the new one? Biggest player payroll in college football? Is there a limit? Maybe not?



Yes. We're desperate to win and win big. That aint a bad thing.
Posted by SouthernInsanity
Shadows of Death Valley
Member since Nov 2012
25257 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 1:12 pm to
quote:

Let’s see, hmmm, you’re currently on the books for what $117,000,000 for Obregon and Kelly at your poor little school? And we only owe Jimbo about $75,000,000?


Well... 2 out of the 3 names mentioned are getting paid NOT to coach. So which 1 of those 2 coaches are getting paid more NOT to coach??
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
53776 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 1:13 pm to
they thought they one upped Texas by moving to SEC and Manziel won the Heisman and they hired Fisher

Than it all started to fall apart

Fisher hasn't been any better than Sumlin
Texas enters the SEC and steals the limelight from Aggie
Texas hires Sark and Aggies will get Longhorns in College Station next season and once they lose that game it will be next to impossible to escape the Longhorn shadow
Posted by PerrillouxToTexas
Member since Sep 2022
7116 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 1:16 pm to
quote:

Yes. We're desperate to win and win big. That aint a bad thing.


Auburn is desperate to win and win big. TAMU is desperate to prove they aren't little brother.

That's why they succeed every now and then, while you never do.
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
23398 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 1:45 pm to
quote:

Somebody please explain the mindset of A&M fans


I think you are on to something. Just after the BOR meeting last week they did a conference call for all alums and supporters of Texas A&M. I think there were over 2,400,000 on the conference call. Everyone had a chance to give their opinion.

The consensus among all fans is we are desperate. We took a vote. Gave the BOR and Bjork the marching orders.

Fan desperation... you nailed it sport. We make the calls.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
100226 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 2:17 pm to
quote:

Somebody please explain the mindset of A&M fans and administration.


The same mindset of those that think inner city schools fail because of lack of funding so they throw more taxpayer money at it yet the schools never get any better.
Posted by Aggie in TN
Franklin TN
Member since Jun 2022
2914 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 2:21 pm to
We are that rich.

And I have a great life.

I come in here to troll the poors and discuss sports. But that only happens in 1 of 10 threads.

The other 9 of 10 are started by LSU fans complaining about another team rather than focusing on their own problems like their defense, BKs identical contract to Jimbos, or what they are going to do when Daniels leaves for the draft.
Posted by Aggie in TN
Franklin TN
Member since Jun 2022
2914 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 2:21 pm to
Wait, you were in that call too?
Posted by Jimmy Montrose
Lake Highlands
Member since Aug 2021
1414 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 2:22 pm to
Not hard. They didn't see JF winning in the long term. Or likely medium term.

If I were an Aggie fan I'd be a bit embarrassed about how much they paid him and will pay him, but pretty happy that a change is going to come.

There is an upside to starting fresh.
Posted by Radio One
On the banks of the Wabash
Member since Sep 2023
5718 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 2:25 pm to
quote:

We are that rich. And I have a great life.

Of course you are, and you do.
Posted by cramps
Member since Oct 2012
2467 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 2:27 pm to
Yep. The change had to be made or else risk being in the same position next year in a new era of the SEC.

The only people who deserve to hear Aggies eat crow are FSU fans because they were right about Jimbo from the jump due to experience with him and predicted everything that happened.
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
23398 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 2:39 pm to
Yes, I was the guy that coughed.

Damn us fans and our mindsets.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
37437 posts
Posted on 11/14/23 at 3:09 pm to
quote:

Hilarious post from a LSU hypocrite. Let’s see, hmmm, you’re currently on the books for what $117,000,000 for Obregon and Kelly at your poor little school? And we only owe Jimbo about $75,000,000?
What an odd comparison.
O won a NC and we’re paying $3M this year, $2.5 next year and $2.3M for the final year in 2025.

Jimbo didn’t win shite and ATM paying $75M not to coach

Another sad point (assuming math is correct) is since 2017, ATM paid Jimbo about $50M.

I mean
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