Texas A&M, are they delusional?
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Good grief. Another made up narrative. Sumlin is on the hot seat for exactly one reason....he's a .500 coach in conference for the past 4 years. That's obviously not good enough for A&M regardless of his color.
Agree!
Dude , that place is different
Bet that.
Google A&M jokes there’s a reason why they are what they.
It’s not for everybody; and it’s not a historic FB destination.
Boudreaux was sitting in the City Bar in Maurice, Louisiana, one Saturday night, and had several beers under his belt. After a while, he looked at the guy sitting next to him, and asked him, "Hey, you wanna hear a good Aggie joke, you?"
The big guy replied, "Let me tell you something. I'm an oil field roughneck, I weigh 270 pounds, and I don't like Cajuns. My buddy here is a pro football player, weighs 300 pounds, and he doesn't like Cajuns either. His friend on his other side is a professional wrestler, weighs 320 pounds, always has a chip on his shoulder, and he likes Cajuns even less than we do, and we are all Aggies. Do you really want to tell us an Aggie joke?"
Boudreau, all 150 pounds of Cajun attitude, told him, "Mais, I guess not. After all I don't want have to explain it three times!
The big guy replied, "Let me tell you something. I'm an oil field roughneck, I weigh 270 pounds, and I don't like Cajuns. My buddy here is a pro football player, weighs 300 pounds, and he doesn't like Cajuns either. His friend on his other side is a professional wrestler, weighs 320 pounds, always has a chip on his shoulder, and he likes Cajuns even less than we do, and we are all Aggies. Do you really want to tell us an Aggie joke?"
Boudreau, all 150 pounds of Cajun attitude, told him, "Mais, I guess not. After all I don't want have to explain it three times!
You are right, he did institute the 12th man concept at A&M and won 3 conference championships in a row.
He has underachieved. He has had 1 year meeting expectations and it was entirely with someone else's players. Since that first year with Johnny Football he has finished 4th, 5th, 6th, 4th, and 5th in his division. He will end his career with 5+ losses in 4 straight years. They have been an average P5 team winning 8 games a year. That is not acceptable at Texas A&M.
I'd love to have Sumlin and be fine with those results here, but it doesn't cut it at A&M.
I'd love to have Sumlin and be fine with those results here, but it doesn't cut it at A&M.
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There isn't much of anything within 100 miles of Tallahassee, though some good talent has come out of the city itself.
If he wants to win another NC, he will stay at FSU.
SEC west is brutal with Bama, Auburn, LSU being top tiered talent and Arkansas, Miss State and Mississippi all capable of getting you on a good day for them. Two crossover games into the SEC east.
In the ACC, FSU has Clemson, Lousiville and NC State.
I doubt that either Louisiville or N. C. State will be good for the long haul.
Thus, beat Clemson and win the ACC championship game have a reasonably good shot at the playoffs.
If he wants the easiest path, then he would go to Nebraska. The Big 10 West is a breeze, you have the Big 10 hype machine behind you, and then just win the Big 10 Championship game.
You can't recruit there. If you want to be Wisconsin and be a good program, who clearly has no chance to actually win the NC, then sure, but he is in a better situation at FSU with little true competition outside of Clemson and Miami.
I don’t think he’s just talking about race, they almost literally look like brothers.
The problem for “sleeping giants” is that there are already other giants in that conference who haven’t been sleeping. The big boys in the SEC aren’t about to roll-over and let aTm take over.
Brohm would be a downgrade over Petrino. Sumlin would be an upgrade over Brohn.
The musical chairs in college football is a disgrace.
The musical chairs in college football is a disgrace.
Did somebody really say there is no difference between Sumlin and Fischer?
Sumlin is horrible. Somehow he convinced the country he was this great offensive mind. But if you look at his history as a coach, he has like one year of calling plays. He was always the WR coach, or the "co" coordinator they call the really good recruiter they dont' want to get away. He then realized you hire the Mike Leach or Art Briles coaching tree, which allowed him to put up lots of points.
But he himself has never done anything in any real coordinating role, unlike Jimbo. The only good season he has had was: 1. with a Mike Leach disciple calling the plays, and 2. with a generational talent and Heisman trophy winner at QB.
Sumlin is horrible. Somehow he convinced the country he was this great offensive mind. But if you look at his history as a coach, he has like one year of calling plays. He was always the WR coach, or the "co" coordinator they call the really good recruiter they dont' want to get away. He then realized you hire the Mike Leach or Art Briles coaching tree, which allowed him to put up lots of points.
But he himself has never done anything in any real coordinating role, unlike Jimbo. The only good season he has had was: 1. with a Mike Leach disciple calling the plays, and 2. with a generational talent and Heisman trophy winner at QB.
They have always been, and will always be, the in-state red-headed stepchild to Texas.
Really?? Why? How? He has had almost as good of recruiting classes as Alabama and Ohio State. I can win 10 games coaching FSU's talent.
I’m not just talking about sports or football. I’m talking about as institutions.
But since you mentioned it, Texas dominated the all-time series 76–37–5. Jackie’s run at A&M was a blip on the radar.
That’s a bingo
Texas University dominates that place in the Lone Star.
As for football prior to Jackie it wasn’t much, save for a couple teams Bear coached. All the money and expectations aside, A&M is not that easy at which to win.
But it does have one heck of a band.
At FSU, Jimbo is going to make staff changes as FSU is going to give him more money for assistants. That fan that was yelling at Jimbo about a month ago was right, staff changes are going to happen.
A&M can go out and spend a boatload of money. That said, they're no different than most college teams that just field a good but not great team most years. They have the lure of the SEC now but still, FSU to TAMU is a pretty sizeable demotion. Unless they are trying to force Jimbo out or the money is millions upon millions more I have no idea why he would even consider that job.
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