PHLaggie

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I genuinely, honestly, truly, sincerely think God has some kind of beef with the Texas A&M University athletics department.

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'God' helps those who help themselves.

The bedshitters running my alma mater's athletics department wouldn't know "excellence" if it hit them in their heads and smacked them on their asses.

Complete amateurs, but with access to huge budgets. The big moneyed Aggies who donate their millions are fools, obviously. Or are happy to dump good money after bad. I'm not a millionaire, granted, so I wouldn't know. But I know the "good old boy network" that's the Aggie bubble. It's not good.

Letting your winningest baseball coach walk-- that too to your ideologically hated in-state rival-- was not good, really bad, sort of thinking that gets you into the status quo.

The women's basketball team and program are moribund. That's after the previous guy (Gary Blair) won the program's first national championship, then was allowed to kind of plateau out (that happens to championship winning programs, i get it-- just look at Old Yella Teeth at Asstin), but then worse-- the program keys were handed to a coach who didn't show greatness at her previous stop and has shown nothing but dumpiness in her present stop, but nobody could be bothered. Instead, Vic Schaeffer was allowed to first to go Miss St (ok, granted) and then to Asstin, when it was abundantly clear that the Blair was going to be hanging up and needed proper administrative oversight to make it happen. Now, Shaeffer has Asstin winning more than losing, by a fair margin, the least that I can say.

The men's basketball coaching change is going to be "interesting" to see. Early returns on the recruiting trail don't seem promising, but I'm open minded and willing to be persuaded.

The softball shite, OTOH, happens. Ball bounces the wrong way. There's always a first for everything-- and this happened to be A&M's turn. So long as the program doesn't skid, fans should happily take their lumps. But win something, damn it.

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Wasn't this known a couple of months ago?

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Yes. The news was known even in Philly, to those of us who follow along. Perhaps Phillytiger9 has slow internet connection :rotflmao:

I guess you could say Michael Earley was a bit...early... in getting this head coach gig.

I don't blame the players, I blame the shittastic Aggie Athletics Dept and moneyed powers that be who are all cucks.

Schloss's grave mistake: thinking and talking and acting like A&M will tolerate, beyond a certain point, new ways of thinking, doing, acting. Instead of fostering excellence, A&M drives it away!

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"But Schlossnagle isn't afraid to try to jolt the Aggies into a new era, either. Take, for instance, his decision to invite the championship-caliber Aggie Dance Team to perform at baseball games since the all-male Yell Leaders roam the sidelines at Kyle Field.

"They don't get to dance at football games, which I think is idiotic," Schlossnagle said. "That's just old Aggie thinking. ... The first year, with some people you would have thought I changed the school colors to burnt orange. The repercussions were the craziest thing I've ever experienced."

If it improves the game-day experience, Schlossnagle isn't afraid to take the heat. And he'd prefer it if the music was loud. And current.

"Traditions are awesome, but traditional thinking is not awesome," he said. "We've worked hard to try and find that blend of honoring A&M and everything that it is and its core traditions. But at the same time, we're making our game and our program attractive to a 15-year-old because that's who we're recruiting."

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https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/40239132/texas-baseball-national-powerhouse-grand-expensive-vision

Schloss wants A&M baseball to be a national powerhouse

I can almost guarantee that Schloss will do alright in Austin and even if he doesn't win more there (because, after all, baseball gods are fickle), he will most certainly keep that program high and likely higher ranked than A&M's. And that's no slam on Michael Earley and the rest of the coaches A&M ended up with-- they just don't have the same track record that Schloss has, and so until they show me they can win, I'm assuming they won't outdo Schloss's record at A&M. Happy to be proven wrong. It's also why most sane programs and their fans loathe to lose their best coach and that too, to their in-state rival program. It's one thing to put up a brave face about it but then to belittle that guy and his new program, that's just asinine.

Good thing Oklahoma got rid of its weak beer law (beer in OK used to have a legal alcohol limit of 3.2% abv until a few years ago)

Noah Thomas just put his name in the portal.

I guess A&M is going to lose the tall and wide bodied but slower possession receivers and TEs and gain faster runners to stretch the field. Not expected Thomas to go though, considering he was the leading target. Sometimes the best recruiting job is to keep the talent you already have.

This feels like a Marcel Reed backup plan and not a real threat to the starter. That's a head scratcher. The coaches must really think they can get multiple playmaking out of Reed and not be very predictable and one dimensional.

And having taken 2 other "prospects" in the freshman class, that QB room is packed but it feels mostly bread, no meat/potatoes. Happy to be proven extremely wrong by one or more of the dudes in that QB room.

I want Duke to duke it out on Jan 2nd and win the Gator Bowl. Anything to get under Lane Kiffin's skin, that insufferable dude. :rotflmao:

Cut the bait on Bateman. Sean "chaos" Spencer too. I'd keep TJ-E primarily because he's a redass Ag and has worked with studs, but hopefully he is actually a good on field coach to the guys.

Elko better get help on the D. And get a good clear picture on how the O is going to pan out. If he keeps the same guys and same schemes, that's on him. He's a smart guy though, so hopefully he doesn't get into the typical "coach think" boneheadedness of being too stubborn rather than let the priors change his mind.

He was trending for A&M per On3 even as late as yesterday. Good for Mizzou to come out of nowhere and get him.

A&M has plenty of pieces still all along the DL; development is where it's at now.