Depending on what you mean by "near term", neither do I. Not much, at least.

You have to remember A&M really is the Twilight Zone of college football. You hear people talk about our potential and our resources so much because it's true. And it's not even a subject for argument, many of these advantages can easily be quantitatively proven. For example, ticket prices, TV ratings, athletic facilities, recruiting hotbed, etc. A&M is near the top in all these things yet we find a way to underachieve (save 1 or 2 years) year in and year out.

But even though we have done such a horrible of translating our advantages onto the field, that doesn't mean the opportunity still isn't there for us if we can find a coach that doesn't do so many god damn things to beat himself.

But one very promising thing is the current state of recruiting. We have the #6 class right now and if you think that's some sort of anomaly due to excitement from our first year in the SEC you're going to be disappointed. It's going to continue. Being the only SEC school in the state of Texas is going to guarantee a lot of that recruiting success by itself.

And I bring up recruiting because our class right now is better than all but one school in the West according to Rivals. Am I saying this means something big for the short-term? No. But let's be blunt, the thing that effects your on-field performance more than any other metric is the actual players that you bring in. I don't think any rational person can disagree with that. So basic logic would tell us that if A&M consistently recruits in the top 10 to 15 every year, they should consistently BE a top 10 to 15 team. Same logic that applies to every other school.

So if we bring in the top notch players like LSU/Bama/Florida does, yet we don't see near the success, it has to be coaching, right? That's why you hear so many A&M fans (and fans of other schools for that matter) say A&M is only a good coach away. Like LSU was with Saban and Florida was with Spurier. It's simply the most logical conclusion given the facts.

This post was edited on 7/31/12 at 10:26 am

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Posted by 14&Counting

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Member since Jul 2012

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Posted on 7/31/12 at 10:28 am to FincAg11

Mack Brown and Texas has inked Top 5 clasees forever....and it hasn't translated very well onto the field with the exception of 2005 it really hasn't added up to much.... and we saw what happened when their pass happy, soft D playing asses met a real SEC team....

Look I think Aggie has potential.....hell Auburn has potential....but gutting out week after week in places like Bryant Denny, Tiger Stadium, Jordan-Hare is going to be a much different deal than what ya'll have been used to

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Posted by engie

Member since Jan 2012

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Posted on 7/31/12 at 11:59 am to FincAg11

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And I bring up recruiting because our class right now is better than all but one school in the West according to Rivals.

Your class looks very good, don't get me wrong...

but that is a very bad/inaccurate way of looking at recruiting. Your class is almost full, and it has little room to improve between now and Feb. It is not the second best in the west right now. It's just the fullest. This will change between now and NSD.

Let's look at average stars:
(Rivals)
2013
1) LSU #5
2) Florida #7
3) Alabama #9
4) Georgia #11
5) Auburn #15
6) Texas A&M #18
7) MSU #19
8) Mizzou #23
9) USCe #24
10) Vandy #27
11) Tenn #28
12) Arky #33
13) Ole Miss #34

This is a more accurate representation of where your likely to finish the year, which is still a good class, but it is not "top 5, about to compete with Bama and LSU" good. Your setting yourself up for major disappointment if that's how your looking at it.

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