I am both shocked and saddened that nobody in the SEC likes us.

What do you mean? LSU fans talk about us all the time. I mean 24 seven, they start dozens of threads every day about us, they must like us right?

I'm perfectly fine with being hated. I visited Huntsville for work the other day, and the glares I got for my A&M hat when out for dinner were priceless. Screw them all

I wouldnt be shocked if at least 1/4 of those stooges are sip socks stirring the pot. Frick the entire SEC and the two chumps following daddy.

#1: 100% disagree. He didn’t say “schools like A&M are using NIL more effectively than we are” or even just make a generic comment like “some schools we play against are buying players” which everybody would have known he was talking about us but didn’t actually say it. No, he directly said “A&M bought their class” those are fighting words, no matter which way you want to look at it.

2# it does sound like they clashed as HC and OC at LSU, but up to this point they had a seemingly civil relationship. That looks to be a thing of the past. “Unhinged”? Jimbo is just passionate. Every other school out there knows if your program was specifically called out/attacked like ours was, you’d want your head coach to step up to the plate and vigorously defend it. Put yourself in our shoes and tell me you wouldn’t want Kelly to go scorched earth on whoever called your program out.

3#: Yes, college football is changing rapidly, so are lots of other things. You either adapt, or die (metaphorically). Of course saban doesn’t like it, anything that threatens his reign at the top scares him and he doesn’t like it. He will probably learn to use it like everyone else and get over it (just as he did when he complained about hurry up offenses a decade ago and then changed his offense scheme to be a lot more uptempo).

4# yes, it will always take development and good coaching/strategy. Saban will be fine because they develop players well in addition to recruiting well. We will see if Jimbo is worth his price tag and can develop these guys, history says he can do it, we will see if he can do it consistently here with all the resources we’ve given him.

The thing is though, it was said as a pitch to donors. He was essentially saying “I need your help to do what A&M is doing or they’re going to pass us”.

The part where he says we bought our class is being used without the context. It was still really dumb to say but it was him trying to urge them to get on it so he can keep winning.

Bill Burr started his Anything Better podcast with the Jimbo audio. About 5 minutes in

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Someone had a thread a day or two ago about "are the aggies here representative of the entire fanbase" to which I replied, is any fanbase on the rant accurately represented?

The rant is mostly trolling and just trying to make fun of each other, with some serious hate mixed in, but fortunatly not much. Dont get me wrong, there are several posters that you can tell absoluetly hate us and have some sort of major issue with us, but they are few and far between.

I dont think the rant is very indicative of any fanbase because you only have the most diehard & rabbid fans that live for sports posting, whereas the casual population is much more relaxed about it all. The people on that board live and die by college football/sports.

Basically all that to say, I wouldnt take the rant very seriously. Yes, there are some legit weird posters that have it out for all things A&M, but most of the ones that sh*t post a lot about us are just trolling and dont seriously hate us.