re: Kohl Stewart

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That’s CGSC’s thing

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I think of Lobot as Lobot, with his brain wired directly into years of obscure stats about Aggie volleyball and softball performance.

I don't know why you are so amused by this. Whether or not he's the right fit, if Jimbo Fisher fails at A&M, it will hurt Aggie football for a LONG time. Right or wrong, the narrative will become "Nobody can win at Texas A&M."

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I'm amused by it b/c the entire process of getting Jimbo has been the exact same one that has caused us to hire the wrong coach over and over yet NOBODY here wanted to admit it. They picked one guy and laser focused on him w/o truly bothering to look at anyone else. It's the same story for Fran, for Sherman, for Sumlin.

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The difference is they laser focused on a top 5 coach and not an NFL reject or G5 winner.

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If Jimbo had been hired through a normal process where other candidates were actually looked at and didn't have the dumbest deal A&M has ever put to paper I wouldn't be laughing at this so hard.

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So we needed to interview Chad Morris and Dan Mullen to get your approval of Fisher?

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It's not like I want us to suck. I don't enjoy sitting in the sun all day watching our team get beat.

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I am not sure your annoying internet persona has anything to do with this.

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I simply have yet to see anything from the admin or Jimbo that shows things are going to trend up. I do not care what he did at FSU w/Jameis when he wasn't able to sustain it.

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He's been here a month and he doesn't have a top 10 class so, again, you don't approve. But you also want to ignore past success because... IDK it doesn't fit your view.

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There is only one HC in all of football that is deserving of a 10 year deal and he is in Tuscaloosa. Urban is the only other guy that comes close and his burnout at Florida would be enough for me to just pay him more for a shorter deal.

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It's fair not to like that kind of commitment. It comes with a shite ton of risk. I would prefer a 1-year deal we can renew yearly, but it doesn't work like that. If we wanted a top 5 coach then we had to pull out all the stops. I see that as a commitment to winning.

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The difference is they laser focused on a top 5 coach and not an NFL reject or G5 winner.

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When was the last time he was a top 5 coach? He hasn't won his own division since 2014 and that season they barely skated by and were finally blown out in embarrassing fashion to end it. He final year at FSU he was 5-6 before getting forced out. I'm sorry but if your team is 5-6 when you are in year 8 at your school you are no longer a top 5 coach.

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So we needed to interview Chad Morris and Dan Mullen to get your approval of Fisher?

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Somebody, anybody. Just get a few other guys in there to hear what they have to say. They didn't make Jimbo work for the job even a little bit. Tunnel vision fails the vast majority of the time. Period. When will our admin stop with the tunnel vision?

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I am not sure your annoying internet persona has anything to do with this.

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I want our team to win. I'm sorry it annoys you that at least one person thinks we might have made a mistake.

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He's been here a month and he doesn't have a top 10 class so, again, you don't approve. But you also want to ignore past success because... IDK it doesn't fit your view.

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No, I'm ignoring past success b/c it hasn't happened for at least 3 seasons in a division that is not as hard as ours. What he did at FSU means dick b/c he is not at FSU anymore. He is at A&M. Winning at A&M in the SECW is harder than winning at FSU in the ACC Atlantic. Again, he gets no credit for things he did elsewhere. That's in the past. I want to see him do it here. He is not off to a good start. I'm sorry it bothers you that one single person here isn't willing to drown themselves in koolaid for once.

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It's fair not to like that kind of commitment. It comes with a shite ton of risk. I would prefer a 1-year deal we can renew yearly, but it doesn't work like that. If we wanted a top 5 coach then we had to pull out all the stops. I see that as a commitment to winning.

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It's totally fair to not like it. It's a 10 year deal. Guaranteed. I'm sorry but no coach other than Saban deserves that. Period. If we are willing to throw out insane shite like that we should have gone for it all and thrown even more money at Saban.

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I'm amused by it b/c the entire process of getting Jimbo has been the exact same one that has caused us to hire the wrong coach over and over yet NOBODY here wanted to admit it. They picked one guy and laser focused on him w/o truly bothering to look at anyone else. It's the same story for Fran, for Sherman, for Sumlin.
holy frick you are still latching on to this

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Months ago I posted a scientific study that showed the ineffectiveness of the traditional job interview in predicting job performance. The most effective indicator is prior job performance (like winning a NC for example). It was the old, punch em in the face with facts approach.

Several other posters have address the absurdity of this position as well. He hasn't addressed any of the critiques of the position directly. Which means he isn't engaging in conversation, he is just playing a character. Since then, I have ignored all of his posts.

Did you sit in Woodward’s office and do the hiring process with him? How do you know we didn’t consider anybody else? Just because billy Liucci probably used one of his catch phrases like “and Woodward got his guy that he wanted from day one” doesn’t mean other people didn’t get considered. In all reality they likely looked around at the CFB landscape, made a few “feeler calls” to gauge interest and went from there.

From my recollection Florida went out and hired Dan mullen, and didn’t consider anyone else. Same with Florida st getting the Oregon guy. Nebraska went straight after Scott Frost. So we aren’t the only ones who zeroed in on our top target. If we had the same AD and president and other important people across all these HC hires, I would agree we might have a systemic problem. But the same guys who hired Fran are not who hired Jimbo. We might have some of the same big money donors, but that’s it.

And nobody said you have to be a koolaid chugger right off the bat, I certainly don’t think we are guaranteed championships just because we hired Jimbo. But damn, give the guy a chance and have a little excitement. It’s far better than what we would’ve looked like heading into another season with Sumlin at the helm.

So we should have hired someone with less qualifications??



What are you exactly whining about? Jimbo, on paper, had a better resume than any of the other rumored candidates. Also, how do you know other guys weren't interviewed?

I'm not really high on the Jimbo hire, but to say there were better candidates out there is asinine. Personally, I would have gone after an up and comer, but we all know that is a higher risk than Jimbo.

You're terrible at this. You should let CGSC teach you how to do this.

CGSC will blow you away with data. Now the data might only correlate and have no causation, but the effort is always there.

What’s really starting to bug me about Dr Rc is the trolling of the recruiting process, because he’s not wrong that a lot of us here expected/hoped for some sort of bump. Obviously this cycle isn’t over, and the new staff hasn’t had long, but it’s not looking great.

The problem, and what’s starting to annoy me is that it seems like he’s actively rooting for the staff to miss on targets, and if there’s anything that’s certain about jimbo and his staff is that most are proven when it comes to recruiting. So if they aren’t able to pull in a big time class for 2019 that tells me that it’s a Texas A&M perception problem, and not a Jimbo Fisher & Co. problem, and I think this is what I fear the most.