re: Coaching question for A&M fans

Last year was just shear agony. One other stat just for fun, A&M was favored in 12 of 13 games last year. The only game we were underdogs was OU.

The toughest thing about it was Sherm is a fantastic person who absolutely "got" A&M. He loved the military tradition and even went to Iraq to meet with Aggie soldiers. He was all class and refused to negative recruit. He was the rare highly successful NFL coach that simply loved teaching kids and the college game, especially A&M. You wanted him to be successful which made it that much harder. By comparison everyone wanted to put a bullet in Fran and RC divided Aggies like few things ever have.

It's impossible to know if he keeps his job without the Texas loss. Odds are he would have gotten one more shot just because the feeling was he would be a good transitional figure. That Texas game though was the unforgivable sin. I can't even talk about it it gets me so angry. I went out and bought a new deer rifle the next day so I could just think about shooting something instead of that game. There was simply a large portion of the A&M fan base that would never have been able to look past it. Besides all of that, A&M has a lot of pent up angst from a decade of not only mediocre football but an attitude that it was somehow becoming acceptable.

Either way, it is pretty clear so far that Sumlin is what we need right now. He must win but at this point he has done everything else from recruiting to improving S&C to buying in to the SEC to being a fantastic public image of the program. We will just have to see where it leads.