It’s some sort of anomaly in the realm of social physics. How can the aggies always be, at the same time, so predictable and also so stunning. We know it’s coming, and it is still amazing.
They immediately abandoned the whole notion of correcting their culture issues when it became clear that going for mediocre character guys wasn’t going to yield 1+1=3 results. More like 1+1=1.25 results.
So fuck that, let’s load up on as many shitheads and big time busts as we can, and convince ourselves that we, and we aggies alone, can fix each and every one of them. Farmers fight!!
Holy shit. The College Station culture of adulation ahead of achievement is a poison for athletes arriving there who already believe their own hype.
We know how this works all too well. It’s been a problem many times in many sports at Texas. Thank goodness it isn’t one now, really with any program. All anyone has to do is look east by an hour and half to be reminded of how cancerous that kind of shit can be.