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Murray Crimmus

Well…doesn’t look good. But they didn’t ask me, and if they had, I wouldn’t have had a suggestion. See what happens I guess.

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Without reading the original post and responding to the question at face value, while ignoring the childish drivel in the comments, A&M has suffered from a multitude of problems. We have hired great coaches, but failed to keep them for a number of reasons. Either more prestigious programs come calling, or they get caught up in scandal (perhaps due to administrative pressure or just bad decision making). There have been some bust hires as well, but that can be said of any program, even Alabama and Ohio state.

We didn’t keep up with the arms race in facilities in the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s especially, which cost us heavily.

Once the money really started flowing, the people who were giving a lot of it were allowed to influence decision making too heavily I would surmise, which they should have been kept out of. Tough to do to your bankroll I guess. But such is the culture of ultra conservative baby boomer oil billionaires. They don’t like to be left out. So if there’s a culture problem, it lies with the donors. Not the student body.

Fisher did a good job of instilling a “just another game. Just another opponent, 1-0 each week” philosophy. Better than any other coach in my time. Gone were the big blowout losses after a big win, frequent hangovers, and generally volatile performance differences from week to week. He created a degree of consistency we haven’t seen in decades. I hope that continues.

I refuse to believe recruits care at all about student body traditions, or the corps. I realize this website and a lot of media and advertising like to kind of highlight that part of the university, but it is minuscule in comparison to the overall student body population. Players are unlikely to ever encounter or experience much of anything related to it. That stuff is just what idiots online like to make fun of.

Recruits are more concerned with getting paid (now), is the coach going to put them into the best position to get into the NFL (maximizing play time, improving and showing off their skill set), and (if they’re smart) getting a good education. If their concern is the night life or pulling wool, they’ll likely be a liability in short order anyway.

Long time ago but John David Crow won the heisman for A&M back in ‘57. Counts. Make it 2

Petrino was a fall guy and everyone knew it from his opening interview this summer and when the same vanilla offense marched out onto the field every week. It’s not anyone’s way but Jimbo’s. Petrino took a paycheck to buy Jimbo another year. It worked.

All the alters, minors, troglodytes, and extra-chromosome-sporting posters on here will have a field day with this…but honestly, it is a perfectly reasonable and competitively written contract that I’d expect to see at any notable power 5 school who could afford it and wants to be competitive. It has a great base rate and heavy incentives. I see nothing wrong with it and if any of your schools posted such an agreement, I’d say exactly the same.

Elko is newer than Stoops. It’s anyone’s guess as to if he will end up being better. I won’t make any predictions. All I can do is watch. Stoops has been a head coach for many years now. Elko is still green.

Either stoops is a late bloomer, or he has peaked a couple years ago and what you’re seeing now is what you’ll see infinitum.

Elko is still an unknown. Perhaps his peak will mirror Stoops, perhaps it’ll mirror Smart’s. Or maybe Mike Gundy? Who knows. Can’t say he’s better, worst, or equal though. Just because they kind of look alike and both wear the same shade of blue. They’re different people, at different points in their career.

I see the point you are attempting, but you have a few glaring lapses in logic and broken general persuasive rules of engagement, this whole post should be disregarded.

Jumping out as most likely to me would be the Arkansas/Mizzou game. Second would be the FLA/FSU game.

I would call those my pick for most likely to be upset. If I were to bet on either I’d bet with the favorite.