re: "College football's top 24 jobs" according to ESPN and fellow coaches..

In the end it is what you do with those resources and can your team/staff utilize them to make the program a top tier program year in and year out. These resources have been around for a while but yet aTm seems to mismanage those resources. The potential is there.

In regards to the lottery I used the analogy because many of the aggie fans, especially on here, seem somewhat entitled by what they bring to the table. Teams considered storied are because they earned that place over time. Teams will cycle through with success and we will see teams like Miami, Oregon, etc. rotate to the top with the more traditional powers. But yet you compare yourself to those teams when aTm has yet been in that position. Joining the SEC did not elevate your program to a station of equality among the more storied programs.

In regards to the hate, if there really is that, it had nothing to do with expansion. Most SEC fans that were not happy about it felt aTm was a backup plan. Most boards when expansion was being talked about were hoping for Texas and Oklahoma, not aTm or Missouri. Most were disappointed because they felt like we took whoever we could to move to 14 teams and it added no value. It seems we may have jumped the gun on Mizzou since they have won the east the past 2 years, but the outlook so far for aTm does not bode well.