I don't know why I'm indulging you with a serious answer, but there are a couple reasons why Tell me about A&M is the largest thread in the Football subforum. The first is that instances of aggy stupidity occur very frequently in ways that both bewilder and amuse us. The second is that aggy reads this board and reacts to it elsewhere in often laughable ways. Our sewer dwellers (a term of endearment, I swear) find those reactions and post them here for us to laugh at and the cycle continues. The third is we prefer to keep all but the most newsworthy A&M info in there and avoid separate threads.
You have to be a moron to believe this. They have 4 guaranteed wins against Texas State, Lamar, UTSA, and Pig. They have a game against a neutered Ole Miss and Miss State at home. Both should be wins. They're already at 6. Auburn is normally due for one of their nonsense miracle runs about now but I wouldn't be surprised if they suck again and Gus will finally fail to do a magic act to save his job. That's 7. SCAR could be decent but with the talent disparity, A&M should have the edge. Either that or they could steal one of the four very difficult games they have. The road to seven is easy, eight is my expectation and nine wouldn't not surprise me with their schedule. While it is very top heavy and would give most teams 2-4 losses the bottom is easy as shit. If they don't get to 8 after bowl season lol @ Jimbo
Imo take a shot at UT. The difference between UT and A&M is very big. No clue what engineering he's doing, but I'm assuming ECE if he's having trouble getting in with a perfect GPA and a 1500 SAT. I know most of the elite companies don't seriously recruit undergrads at A&M. Most companies will hire a couple masters or PhDs from there but at every elite internship I know, there are almost no A&M undergrad students and where there are some they are dwarfed by the number of Longhorns. Naturally the same pattern continues into full time new grad employment. The network only helps at companies with poor hiring standards that allow nepotism to take place. Like no good company lets one dude make a hiring decision after two hours of talking about A&M or whatever their story is about how great it is.
I mean I'm not assuming we win it by default. What I'm saying is that a good candidate can win it without being born there or having a specific personal connection if they can speak well and/or have decent policies that get people excited.
We don't need some dude to pander to the Midwest. We were literally what like 60k votes away from the Presidency with Hillary Clinton as the candidate after getting swiftboated by the Russians. We can win them with a decent candidate not from that area.
Speaking of which, when will we partner with Stance? I have a couple of nice socks off theirs that I really love. If we could get it in Supima Cotton or Butter Blend (fabrics for those who can't tell) that'd be great.
I was really worried going into it because I feel threading the needle between being pandering while trying to be engaging and relatable can be very difficult for old dudes in administration but thankfully these guys knew exactly what to do: treat football fans who happen to be women as football fans and talk to them like they're intelligent adults. A&M failed miserably to do that. In fact, they went one step worse. Instead of doing the normal faux pas of pandering by failing to treat them as adults or by over-pinkifying shit or by trying to relate shit to things they think women like in some sort of cringy manner, they went to sexual innuendo.
It was an extension after going 3-9. The extension lowered the buyout which is the death sentence, especially when it coincides with the "we have full confidence in X" line.
This. Extension plus killing the buyout is the sign a coach is getting fired the next year if he doesn't produce. Granted for Illinois that just means bowling probably, but can Lovie do that? Probably not. Even if he can, the fact that those are your goals is pretty pathetic