Would an OU or A&M win be more detrimental to Texas in the short term (as if we need any help there)? My first thought is an A&M win would build them up more and therefore bring down Ut even more.
How many guys have decommitted from UT and gone to A&M this year? Yea, 0. How many are transferring? Yea, 0. We rarely recruit the same guys. A&M rising hurts OU much more then it hurts us. Norman/Collie Station are about the same. Neither is anything like Austin. Look at the guys that A&M has as commits year in year out and hardly any have a UT offer. We need to win because I hate losing, but recruiting is the least of the reasons. We win the recruiting wars, just not the friggin games.
Mr Wadster, I'd like to introduce you to Mr Seals-Jones, formerly committed to The University of Texas, and now committed to The Cow College of Texas. That would be the same Ricky Seals-Jones, who is second cousins with Eric Dickerson, who hates said Cow College. Rumor has it that RSJ may be a retty good football player.
Sabre, let me fix it for you. Mr Wadster, I'd like to introduce you to Mr Perilloux, formerly committed to The University of Texas, who committed to The Cow College of Louisiana. Rumor has it that RP was supposed to be a pretty good football player.
Wait, wait....do you mean that the VALERO Alamo Bowl is less prestigious that the Cotton Bowl? .....Really ? How can that be ? The Cotton Bowl is where we get *** raped by Stoops and the Alamo Bowl is like the Holiday Bowl except you take a bus instead of a plane and you play in San Antonio instead of San Diego.....but those cities are both "San" aren't they? and can you tell the difference at night in December, without the Ocean in the background? I don't think so.......
I think an A&M win hurts more. I believe Texas fans can more easily tolerate a superior OU team. They have more conf titles, national titles, and a much more decorated history than A&M. We see them as more of an equal. We recruit the same players chase the same goals. However, A&M is looked at as our stupid little brother. When they are better (like right now and the foreseeable future) it is embassaring, insulting and downright degrading. They normally get recruits that are supposed to be a notch or 2 lower than ours and seem happy with a conf title every now and then and moral victories. But only good thing about A&M winning is that it may put pressure on Belmont to make some changes. Because if we don't, our stupid little brother will be laughing at us for a while.
I agree mostly with Trinity Ags note that IF atm consistently wins more than UT, then the recruiting advantage will swing to them. Wins and status, media coverage, bigger bowl games, plus they play in Texas, will mean big gains in recruiting and prestige for the ag football future. BTW, Johnny Football's Heisman has already given atm a media boost that is priceless. Plus Sumlin. He is the real deal.
Let's see what happens next year before you give Sumlin the coach of the century award. Without Manziel being able to make something out of a few broken plays, their season is a disaster.
Huh? So outside of playing the game, our season would have been different? Maybe we should discredit the 2005 MNC because Vince appears to run and score on a pass play.
I agree with Mr. Fiesta. A couple of broken plays against Alabama and this guy is Mr. Football. Next year when that Linebacker stays home and Manziel does the 180 and rolls right into said Linebacker, then let's talk. Two All American or First Round Picks at tackle, both Juniors, wait for the crying in College Station when they announce they are going pro. Why out of no where are there Aggies all over this board are they trying to one up us or something. The Heisman has been irrelevant since at least 2005. It was proved in the National Championship game.
anyone here remember the mid 80s thru the early 90s? anm recruited the same kids we did, kicked our *** on signing day, then did it again in November. Their down period seems ot be over for now. They're on the rise. To say they're insignificant to us in recruiting wars is to put your head in the sand. Bets thing we can do is make a positive change in leadership, and develop what we recruit. Put a better team on the field. Until then we're just whistling dixie
I remember the mid 80's very well. I also remember a certain coach being at Aggy from 1982-88 named Sherrill. What ever happened to that guy? It seemed he got Aggy into some difficulty then left. How could an OU victory in the Cotton Bowl hurt us any more that what happened at the real Cotton Bowl last October?
RSJ decommitted long before A&M blossomed so please with the "Mr Wadster" crap. That decision was between aggs and LSU. Mack cooled on him long ago. I won't go into the reasons, but they are well known on the recruiting board. To say we lost that one head to head is not true. Those decisions were separated by several months. And yes, I'm well aware of Mack offering the guys he thinks will commit, but we control our destiny over recruiting regardless of what the aggs do. If we win, we'll recruit fine. If we don't, we will suffer some long term. Last years class was top notch in spite of 2 down years. This class was going to be small regardless. I'm much more concerned with what we do on the coaching staff at this point.
