re: Texas hired Stark because Jimbo is winning

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I apparently thought more of Sumlin's recruits than most aggies. I didn't think the cupboard was bare when Jimbo got there.

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Cupboard wasn't bare, but it was undeveloped. Sumlim was a pretty good recruiter, landed top 15-20 level classes, but his coaching staff was awful at development. Whatever talent a player had coming in, is generally about where they stayed.

Sumlin was always looking for a talented new recruit to upgrade a position rather than making his current starters better. That's why we were always "young". Coaches just kept trying to plug in new hot shot underclassmen in hopes they would be game changers. When they weren't they just got replaced with the next new recruit and the cycle continued.

That's what Jimbo inherited. Not a bare cupboard, but a roster of pretty good, but raw, players who were thrown into starting roles too early, and then replaced by the next guy getting thrown into a starting role too early. Which is a mess of its own.