re: Kevin Sumlin

Yeah there's a facet of TAMU fans who want to act like Sumlin was the wrong hire all along, and revel in his post-A&M struggles. I don't agree with those types. Kevin Sumlin was absolutely the right hire at the time for thr conference switch, and brought swagger/confidence/whatever you want to call it to a program that otherwise could easily have gotten in over its head QUICKLY coming into the SEC. Sherman wouldn't have done that. A guy of Jimbo's caliber wasn't coming at that time. So it had to be someone like Sumlin who had an irrational confidence that the program frankly fed off for a few years.

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I have only animosity towards him for 1 thing, UCLA

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I'd already made peace with him being gone at that point, I think. The State loss in Starkville when we were ranked #4 is what broke me RE: him coaching us. At that point, I knew he had nothing left to give. UCLA was just icing on that cake.