Texas Gentleman

Two fundamental reasons.

1) Sarge is right that TexAgs is pretty much the biggest college message board site in the country. They’ve even licensed out their forum code and you can find it on several other sites now too (it’s under F5 Sports Media LLC). So this board is always gonna live in TexAgs’s shadow.

2) Studies have shown the younger generations don’t use message boards as much, it’s more of a millennials and older generations thing. They’d rather spend time on social media. So you don’t have as many new potential users signing up, all the established people just stay where they’re at (likely TexAgs).


Beyond that, this is a primarily sports website and let’s look at the three big men’s sports for A&M this past year. Football collapses after a 7-1 start and loses a crappy bowl game. Basketball had a good main season but fizzled out quickly in March madness and had the coach leave. Baseball had a historic plummet from #1 spot pretty much from the start of the season…. What is there to talk about that’s fun or at least interesting right now?

Finally speaking for myself, as I’ve gotten older I’ve found that sports just don’t get as much of my attention any more. I’m more focused on family and career right now. Sure I’d be excited if the Ags won a football natty, but you know what, I’d go right back to work the next day and it wouldn’t change my life one bit. Realizing that has made me care less about who does what on any sports field. Well, that and all this NIL/Portal BS.

I like what Elko has pulled so far in the portal. WR and DB were by far our biggest needs so nice to see that get addressed, still wouldn’t mind seeing another DB and hope we can sign a OL or two as well to build up depth.

I see we’ve hit peak offseason thread material already. Would think the longhorns have something a little more important in front of them to focus on, but I guess not.

Yep, sadly not surprising with all the transferring now. Lower tier bowls are gonna be left behind and wouldn’t be shocking to see several eventually canceled/discontinued.

And as another side note, dont know if it was discussed here at the time of Mack Brown’s firing, but Max Johnson is probably the first, and only player in NCAA history to play for 3 national championship winning coaches, who all got fired while he was playing under them. (Orgeron, Jimbo, & Mack). Thought that was a wild stat.

Kiffin isn’t wrong, but it’s funny to watch him spend a ton of money on portal guys buying a team, and still not be likely to make the playoffs. Maybe a little less time on twitter and more time spent coaching/game planning and it might be a different story.

It’s just part of the trolling that goes on the rant, they get act all outraged and surprised by it when there’s probably 2-3 threads about it every big game we play and lose, shockingly it doesn’t get brought up as much when we win.

Connor now in too, no surprise. I’m really interested to see where he ends up and how he does.

Agreed that anybody paying close attention knew our offense was a liability this season. Just as easily as we put up 40+ on Mizzou, we put up 13 against an overrated ND that was struggling at the beginning of the season.

Disagree about being out coached. After teams saw we were switching to Marcel, we had no counter to them focusing on stopping the run/zone read and forcing him into being more of a passer.

I’m not as bothered by the loss to the longhorns as I am bothered by the 1-3 record in November (0-3 in conference) when we had firm control over our own destiny up to that point.

A&M has never been able to handle success in recent years, we are much better at being the underdog and surprise teams (see bama game 2021, LSU 2022, etc.). It’s different when you’re ranked in the top 15 and getting the best game from your opponents week in and week out because they all want to knock off a ranked team. I want to see that change.

I don’t think I’m a fan of Klein’s play calling. We get too predictable at times and he didn’t switch anything up when our feature running back and starting left guard both went down. And it showed, big time.

We’re great at traditions, not so much at winning yet….

Hope all the visitors had a good time before and during the game, I was at a few tailgates and it was crazy how many people were there. Made the tailgating for the LSU game earlier this year look like child’s play and that was a big night game vs a ranked opponent.