re: TAMU will target Dabo Swinney if season goes South.

A couple of things.

1. It's Board of Regents, not Board of Trustees.

2. Texas Monthly is not "the media". It's one shitty outlet, and in this case one shitty writer.

3. A&M's decision makers almost always require one catastrophic or galvanizing event in order to make any moves when it comes to the coaching front. In 2002, it was Robert Gates giving the middle finger to the establishment and firing Slocum. In 2007, it was the Franchione VIP Newsletter fiasco that was used as cover for his firing. In 2011, it was the multiple collapses in losses culminating with the 2011 Texas game that got Sherman fired. In each case, the decision was made early in the season but the action wasn't taken until later in order to give the coach the opportunity to pull a Herman Boone from Remember the Titans and get himself out of it. Two more examples: Slocum probably isn't fired after the 2002 season if he didn't follow up the Oklahoma win with a loss to 5-7 Missouri and a blowout loss to Texas. Slocum probably is fired after the 1997 or 1998 season if he had another year like 1996.