This is a new one and my new favorite. “Elko can’t turn over the roster in 1 season. It takes time and years.”
One of the main reasons Elko was hired (other than the fact that he was their 10th choice and stoops got Liucchied) was to maintain the 2022 roster. That was the driving behind firing Jimbo, naming the DL coach as interim, and hiring Elko, who was part of recruiting those guys. They had to keep that class.
I think there were even a few Elko quotes at the time of his hiring that were something to the effect that Aggie fans didn’t have to wait—they had the pieces now to compete. Shoot, we’ve heard the nonstop narrative (untrue) that they have the 4th best roster in all of CFB.
Now the narrative is “look at Sark—it took him time to build a roster from his 5-7 opening season.” That has the added benefit of proving that TAMU is better than those durn sips—8-4 is so much better than 5-7.
And now some are entering the full “our roster needs to be turned over” stage in their apologetics. It’s glorious.