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If my drivel gets under your skin, it's not mindless.

Sad.

I'll refrain from name-calling, as you will always get the final word anyway.

Anyway, biggest game of week 0 coming up with Northwestern playing Nebraska in Ireland.  I'm interested to see how Thompson does for the Huskers.  I thought he did a decent job at Texas and didn't have a lot to work with.  He was classy and I hope he does well in Lincoln.

Well, yeah.  Sooners hired Gibbs, Schenlly, and Blake.  The ags hired Franchione, Sherman, Sumlin, and Fisher.  Alabama hired Dubose, Franchione, Price, and Shula.

Bad Leadership in all those cases?  Or bad luck?  Was anyone TRYING to hire bad coaches?

You're a smart guy but you never fail to crack me up when you go into neanderthal Sooner-mode.  It's like the very mention of Texas makes you shut down your brain.

Interesting that you listed Fisher on that list of failures. I get it, he really hasn’t proved much, but it seems kinda early to link him with the likes of Sherman and Franchione. Fran was absolutely horrible. Sherman was decent at times and horrible at others. 

I know A&M wasn’t very memorable under Sherman but he seemed to be a very decent person who was highly thought of. Came close to winning the Big 12 south in 2010 except that he was blind to the fact that our star QB had some kind of lingering injury and simply was not the same passer. Once he started Tannehill ( still an NFL starter to this day ) we played much better beating OU and Texas to close the season but OU won based on tie breaker rules and the stupid BCS point system. I still can’t make h/t of 2011, we gave away so many late lead games it is just crazy. He could not adapt to the college game. 

Sumlin really wasn’t that bad, he did really well with Sherman’s recruits. I still don’t know wtf happened to the whole Kyler / Kyle Allen situation. I’d bet his 5 year record is on par with Fishers. That whole UCLA debacle on top of a few years of 8-4 doomed him. 

That 2020 Fisher team was really good. It’s a shame that we were left out of the playoff, but when you’re a non-helmet it’s hard to get over that hump. A little bit of luck here or there and it could have been similar to the 2 loss LSU team from 2007. 

I’d be interested in your opinion. 

Mine is that A&M is a very tough place to win big. We have the potential, but for various reasons always seem to come up just short.  

Fisher has been recruiting very well, but we have not had the QB required to get us there. I. Hopeful that we can take the next step, challenge Bama for the SEC-W. Maybe play close, have a 10 or 11 win season, and a nice bowl win. 

A team can hit lightning of course, win every close game by a smidge almost by chance and get to the Dance ... but there if they aren't competitive, well, ask ND.