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re: Why would any head coach move to Aggieland?
Posted on 6/6/19 at 12:44 pm to cardboardboxer
Posted on 6/6/19 at 12:44 pm to cardboardboxer
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Or maybe, just maybe, a SEC-powered A&M is a different program than it was before.
It that was true, Sumlin wouldn't have been fired. No one is buying the narrative that A&M is anything different in the SEC than it was in the Big 12 until y'all win some hardware.
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Posted on 6/6/19 at 1:33 pm to ibldprplgld
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It that was true, Sumlin wouldn't have been fired.
You have that reversed. In the Big 12 era the level of production Sumlin had would have gotten him a raise. He did such a better job in the W/L column than the two guys before him.
The difference is when we went to the SEC we raised our expectations for our program, and those raised expectations means that what Sumlin was doing wasn't good enough.
You are correct to be skeptical that us raising our expectations will raise the quality of our program until it actually produces more results, but at the same time its dishonest to say that a Big 12 A&M in a rundown stadium, swimming in debt, and with fringe top 20 recruiting classes is the same as a SEC A&M with a new 100k+ stadium, swimming in money, with consistent recruiting classes around or in the top 10.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 1:36 pm to ibldprplgld
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It that was true, Sumlin wouldn't have been fired.
I'm sure LSU would have retained a coach who drove off his starting and backup quarterbacks 6 days apart in year 4, or a coach who lost a game when leading 44-10 with 18 minutes left in year 6, or a coach who had this progression:
Year 1: 11-2 (bowl win)
Year 2: 9-4 (bowl win)
Year 3: 8-5 (bowl win, began season 5-0)
Year 4: 8-5 (bowl loss, began season 5-0)
Year 5: 8-5 (bowl loss, began season 6-0)
Year 6: 7-5
This post was edited on 6/6/19 at 1:37 pm
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