re: Aggies: was it worth it?

The fact is that we will use the portal a lot more. Less risk involved to do so ... I think you see A&M drop back into the teens with the incoming recruiting class, and more focus on proven players out of the portal.

Kiffin has done pretty well with that approach. I think Elko will do the same since we basically hired a GM and brought over the entire recruiting staff from Duke.

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This is how Aggies miss the point. SEC is tough, you'all have competed and faired well at times. The pretentiousness that its somehow inevitable that A&M is destined for greatness is why people laugh at you. Not saying it’s impossible but stop it with the idea you guys have significant advantages over 80% of the other programs in the conference. You don’t

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Seems you don’t get it. It’s not pretentious to strive to be better. We aren’t cranking out 10-2 seasons year after year crying it isn’t good enough. By your logic the Rangers shouldn’t have signed Semien and Seager because they’d never won anything and it was “pretentious” to strive for more. Idiotic logic.

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you'all have competed and faired well at times

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The man was not the offensive guru he was reported to be. His offense was pedestrian at best and required extraordinary play from incredibly talented athletes too succeed (see Achane). He refused to hire a special teams coach. He refused to let go of the reins of the offense. He was actually not good at developing QB’s. He peaked with Mond and, due to his mismanagement of OL development, was well on his way to ruining Weigman.

I said before that we would have some attrition from this. Of course we will. But we were going nowhere and if you aren’t progressing, particularly in this current environment, you get left in the dust quickly.

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It had everything to do with the Longhorns.

If they lose next year, the narrative is well what did you expect with a new coaching in breaking in his system and getting his players into the program.

If they fired Jimbo after he lost to the Longhorns then the narrative is that UT ended the Aggie coach.

One is better than the other for public perception

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All of this is true, and to add to it the aggy AD made a bfd out of insisting the first game be at their house in spite of the fact Collie Station was also where we had our last game against them..Sankey threw them a bone on that one. Of course by doing so they unwittingly made that a must win game..and now they have an excuse for coming up short. (I could have made a Jimbo joke with that last part, but nah)

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With meh power comes meh responsibility. Jimbo was right in line with everyone else. Remember bear Bryant could only pull off a .610 winning percentage there. Jimbos was .640

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Bryant did have an undefeated season in ‘56

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So we shouldn’t want to win? Got it.

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I never said that, everyone should strive to be better. The criticism was for a lot of Aggies that have the attitude they inevitably will dominate because they have “unlimited resources”, and that is simply a lie.

To prove my point here are just a few examples of the top of my head: why are so many top level players leaving, why is isn’t Denbrock your HC, why isn’t Woodward your AD, why didn’t you just took Saban or Smart as HC and double their salaries?

The answer is you don’t have enough money to just bully everyone else like people make it sound.

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The fact is that we will use the portal a lot more. Less risk involved to do so ... I think you see A&M drop back into the teens with the incoming recruiting class, and more focus on proven players out of the portal.

Kiffin has done pretty well with that approach. I think Elko will do the same since we basically hired a GM and brought over the entire recruiting staff from Duke.

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Duke didn't really dip in the portal much, they took 8 players in Elko's first year and 9 last year.

Kiffin took 23 last year alone.

I see a lot of misconceptions related to the portal from Aggies lately, mostly that they're going to get a ton of "proven players" there, it just doesn't work like that.

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Trying to compare something that happened over 65 years ago to something that is happening today is completely ignorant. Interesting that you left off the part about Bear Bryant having an undefeated season, winning the southwest conference and having a Heisman Trophy winner while he was coaching at A&M.

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But, but you just did what you first said was “ignorant.” plus the fact y’all love to brag about your one and only national championship over 80 years ago.

poor aggies

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Aggies: was it worth it? by ColoradoAgA&M will be better coached going forward. Let’s see how it goes

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We’ve heard that before.

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but I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that any Aggies are bragging about that NC.

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You brag about everyone the supposed 12th man is mentioned. After all the 12th man was never even mentioned until just before the 39 championship game. When anm hired a writer to write an inspirational story about the Dixie Classic. What came outta of it was your 21th man dwindled down to 12th.

poor aggies