Y'all are a top 15 job, but that doesn't mean elite coaches come running after your job. Florida is probably a top 10 job and settled for McElwain, Texas is a top 5 job and ended up with Charlie Strong. Not everybody is lucky enough to end up getting Meyer and Harbaugh.

I don't want to get y'all of topic in a recruiting thread so I apologize for that and I'll try to make this relevant. Sumlin is recruiting better than any other coach in A&M's history, and if Chavis can turn the defense around he'll have no problems getting guys on the defensive side of the ball. I think Malik, Kris, and Holton all probably would have gone to A&M if your defense was more proven.

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Posted by Mirthomatic

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Posted on 7/14/15 at 3:41 pm to Dawgsontop34

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Y'all are a top 15 job, but that doesn't mean elite coaches come running after your job. Florida is probably a top 10 job and settled for McElwain, Texas is a top 5 job and ended up with Charlie Strong. Not everybody is lucky enough to end up getting Meyer and Harbaugh.

Texas in the SEC would be a top 5 job, easy. Texas in the B12 w/ A&M in the SEC instead is not a top 5 job. The horns are still somewhat resistant to this new reality, but the Sooners have almost to a man come around to the view that the B12 is like an anchor to their program.

Based on facilities, recruiting grounds, conference affiliation, and the financial support A&M is willing to give, I think A&M is comfortably top-10.

That said, it's still very hard to lure great coaches away from a school where they've already established success. We aren't going to pull Saban from Alabama, or Meyer from OSU. And we're not going to get guys like Patterson from TCU or Snyder from KSU (those guys are just lifers at those programs)

But I am confident that any coach who was actually willing to move to another job would have us as a top destination.

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