re: Would Jimbo try to fight this dude?

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Aggies on this board have been trolling the hell out of folks over NIL in response to all of the garbage posts that we are paying recruits millions. Every rational discussion gets derailed almost immediately and the only narrative is "Aggy is payin' players a gazillion dollars! It's the only reason any 'cruit would every want to go to College Station with the milk men! 8-4! 1939!"

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I don't think you guys are paying millions and I don't think your class was completely due to NIL but it was baffling that Jimbo had a meltdown when it was suggested that NIL was at least a factor.

Obviously LSU and Texas being down plus a banner year for Houston area recruiting had some affect as well.

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You are correct. Great recruiting staff. Other regional powers in turmoil. Ambiguous payment structure. Who knows. I hope we win. What are we here for?

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33k posts in two years

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30k about their daddy A&M

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who would you say is being untruthful, Jimbo or the Aggie fans?

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I would say Jimbo knows he is just as dirty as everyone else and vise versa. Which is why he’s pissed at the hypocrisy of it all. I think he’s being mildly untruthful, because the figure isn’t 30 million but it’s definitely in the millions. He may or may not know how much this class costed the boosters. He may not want to know.

I would say less than 1% of Aggie posters know what the actual frick they’re talking about. None of us really know what goes on behind the scenes. I do know that as a collective the Aggie network has a lot of horsepower to make things happen quickly and they are thirsty as frick for a championship. The whole NIL thing busted the can of worms wide open and a lot of rich Aggie boosters have been licking their chops waiting for a moment like this.

Cliff notes: who the frick actually knows?

Edit: Jimbo learned to recruit from Saban. He learned from Bobby Bowden. He knows how the sausage is made and it ain’t pretty. I think he went to A&M and saw that it was amateur hour. Probably brought us up to a competitive level but not outright breaking the rules. We had some top 10, top 5 classes. Then NIL came along and he realized he had struck gold being at one of the richest universities when NIL was legalized. Then all of a sudden this “bend the rules but don’t break them” shite is out the window and it’s open season with an unlimited checkbook. Probably just point out the recruit you want and the boosters pay the man.

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Upvote for the honesty

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I'll add one as well

Aggies are fricked.

At least this Guy admits it! Can respect that. Jimbo standing there saying it was his staff recruiting not NIL is totally laughable. That 30 million spent on recruits is starting to look more and more believable though.

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“The golden age of A&M football”

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A&M has never won an orange bowl and had a good recruiting class? This is historical for the program? That’s insane.

If they must make you choose a side in the lone star state I choose The longhorns. At least they are a real blue blood and have the historical right to be arrogant. The melt will be of epic proportions when Texas somehow still finds a way to be superior to Aggie.