It's our own fault. We should have kept playing the ags on Turkey Day. A UT/atm game this year, would probably be one of the most anticipated games of the season. But we decided to punish them instead. We wound up hurting ourselves more. The ags landed on their feet. Just another stupid decision by DeLoss.
Please, go away, the truth hurts and pull something out of your ***.........it was just a few years ago when Jarrod Jackson, I think that was his name and you guys were yelling and screaming before the season about how you are winning the national championship, he had a bum shoulder and you finished what 6-6 and in the Shreveport Bowl? AM will lose at least 4 games if not more this year. JF leaves, Sumlin leaves and Aggies is back to sub .500 football. Do you really think it is Aggie football or Kevin Sumlin? Hell your dumb asses will probably hire Dennis Fanchoine away from Texas State because he wins 6 games in San Marcos.
I think it might be wise for the Aggies to go look back at JFF''s detailed stats last year. You may want to reconsider the likelihood to stay anywhere near the 2012-13 status (still never near a MNC contender). Rushing: 1,410 yds / 7 yd avg / 21 TD's Passing: 3,706 yds / 68% / 26 TD's / 9 INT's / 155 QB Rating Take a look where each of those ranked nationally. You don't lose that at QB and stay near that par. Even an anomaly like Colt lost 3 his first year replacing Vince. And yes, Colt was special, his QB rating was 8th nationally at 162 (higher than 2012 JFF). Even a pretty good QB would not be in the same stratosphere as JFF, and it will be very noticeable. FYI, you travel to South Carolina first game with JFF's first replacement still a virgin.
hilarious, aggy is already touting the sucess of their 100 year decision based on 1 year of results... what makes aggy think they will compete in the sec long term when they went 15-30 versus Tech, Texas and OU in the Big 12...
Put Johnny Canadian League Football with his 2012 stats in the 2008 Heisman race and he MAY come it third in voting. More likely 5th or 6th. Either way, it would be behind Oklahoma and Texas, just like A&M would have been last year if they remained in the Big XII.
Last year was a week year for the Heisman, 2008 he would have had no chance, hell looking at the past 10 years or so, he doesn't win it.
I'm not sure if Roger was acutally on this board when A&M moved but there were tons of posters, including me who said that A&M would have immediate success. Why? Because a good Big 12 team with their Big 12 / Conference USA coach should have no trouble competing in the SEC. And they didn't. As for being in A&M's shadow. That's a bit misleading. It's like saying Michigan is in Michigan State's shadow after a season here or a season there were the Spartans outperform them. Even in those pockets of time no serious person thinks Michigan State holds a candle to Michigan in terms of prestige. The same thing applies here. A&M's success is hard to sustain. I'm not sure if that's due to perceptions or the reality of College Station or the Milk Men.
Zona_Horn has explained everything I've come to think about SEC scheduling, including the strategy to maximize no more than two losses of the competitive teams, as last years three 1-loss and three 2-loss teams so well demonstrated. And may explain the "Sly" move to go to 14 teams. Is it possible A&M saw this scheduling tactic ahead of time, and the uproar over LHN was just a smoke screen? That the knew and were promised by their "Sly" commissioner that they 'd actually face an easier schedule in the SEC, while perception would never see it because of the myth. Additions of aggie and mizziou therefore enabling to pad that kind of scheduling even more for the already-elite programs. I can tell you this, no one on the SEC wants to play in the Big12. And a program that just ran away as fast as they could is 90 miles to the East.
If the SEC is anything like last year, 4 is about the most number of games A&M could possibly lose as long as they are a decent win, because the top half of the SEC was undefeated against the bottom half.
Yes, I know a&m beat Oklahoma. But what I said in my first post was: 'If A&M was in the Big XII last year, without the hype, without the excitement, without the media BS, without the need to prove everyone wrong they would have ended up like they always did. 8-4." I believe if a&m stayed, nothing would change and they would be behind Oklahoma and Texas, as always.
It is funny that aggie looked to have the world by the balls (by aggie standards) and Lil Johnny showed them that they were just jerking off, which is, also, an aggie standard.
Outside shot.... 2013 opening game.... TCU beats LSU. Think they play at BR. If so, notch on the belt for this side of the equation. 2014. No JF. By Thanksgiving, a&m 7-4 / 8-3. Maybe. 6-5? Horns, TCU both highly ranked. Put down that remote. No need.
If devonte fields plays I don't think it's a stretch at all to say that tcu stands a very good chance to beat LSU. LSUs offense is a huge question mark with a new oc.
The ATM v LSU game could be called the Deloss Dodds Bowl and they can show highlights on the LHN. The reference to recruits watching this game is correct. 7pm on Thanksgiving night: LSU vs A&M on ESPN or UT vs TCU/Tech/Baylor on FS1 Unless UT is ranked #1..... all sports fans are watching the better game on ESPN. Texas should be playing A&M every Thanksgiving no matter which conferences the teams are in.
Why are the "dominant" SEC teams always watching nervously on the edge of the couch in late November needling a few teams to lose for them to back their way in, again?
