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  1. Billy Liucci With the revenue sharing model, now everyone will be competitive with the money. The only thing I'll say about Texas right now is I don’t think they should’ve paid that much for Felix Ojo‍. For that amount, I don’t know what these other guys got. I would’ve never recruited him. I won't say A&M never did, but they were going over Zaden Krempin‍ and John Turntine‍. You could say the Aggies got Krempin and Samuel Roseborough,‍ who have just as much of a chance to be successful college players. Same with Turntime. Here’s where Texas fans are going right now. They eye the NIL deals getting turned down by Deloitte. They think they’re doing nothing in the grey and everyone else is in the grey and that all these recruits will decommit. The deals being turned down in those things will affect the players on campus. The players on the roster. Some of these recruits that you think will decommit will get to their schools and not get what they thought. If you say man, that portal is going to be insane in another year or two, then I'd agree with you. Let’s not do this thing that A&M isn’t losing Brown over money. That A&M didn’t lose Boobie Feaster‍ over money. They could have gotten more at those other schools. They didn’t lose them over money. Texas isn’t losing people over money. What they're doing is their threshold for any individual player is different than the A&M, USC, Alabama, Houston, Texas Tech and Baylor. You mention Tilman Fertitta. This has nothing to do with Cody Campbell. These guys can take it to the other level, but when you talk about Baylor, Texas Tech, Houston, Virginia, Kansas and Arizona, they don’t have this crazy alumni base. Fertitta and Houston basketball alumni are different. Now, they have $14-17 million to spend that they didn’t have. Can they do an 85-man roster that competes with LSU, Florida, Georgia and Michigan? No. Can they do that for one player? Yes. A handful of players? Yes. With the Cody Campbell money. Texas Tech can fight. What they’ve done is they went all in on what I thought was not that impressive of a portal haul. I think it's impressive for them, but they’re playing in the Big 12. I like what Tech is doing. I think Tech understands Tech. Like softball, “Why would you pay that money?” Look at the spotlight it got them. Why would you pay that money for Ojo? Personally, I’d buy two linemen for that. When I first saw that number, I thought you could get three five stars for that money. Now, you see the reality of a little under eight a year guaranteed. You could’ve got two for the price of one. I think Mike Elko would do that. I think Steve Sarkisian would do that, but that’s Texas Tech. The pop they got from beating out Texas for Ojo is worth it for them.
  2. Liucci is an idiot This is interesting. Kyle Field is ranked at No. 11. I understand these stadium rankings, and you are never the person ranking them. The stadium rankings are always weird, and I don't get worked up, but with Oklahoma, I did, and I don't think that place is loud or intimidating. When I look at these rankings, it doesn't bother me because how do you rank atmosphere, intimidation factor, how loud it is, their success rate... Do you combine them? I've been all over the SEC, and people come visit 10 games with me, and all over sports, whether it's MLB, music, pro entertainment, NFL, NBA, people that have never been to Kyle Field and never been to college football. Kyle Field is as unique, loud and daunting as any place in college football. The problem is when you tank these when you aren't winning as much... You're not ranking Kyle Field and the 12th Man. It's the success at home. How much of that atmosphere affects the other team? That's how it goes. When people say, “They aren't winning at Kyle Field.” That sounds like Longhorn logic. They've won massive games over the years, not enough though and lesser teams like Mississippi State and Appalachian State. The truth is, A&M hasn't been a top 20 program in the last 25 years. Based on their success on the field, they would not be in the top 20. I'm of the opinion they should be there, but we haven't seen it. When you're that, you get upset by overwhelming advantage on the field. If you look at the number of upset wins A&M has had since joining the SEC, it's impressive against the teams we've played. It's the truth. We are one and whatever against Alabama, but every Alabama team is always better. If you look at the last few big games, A&M tends to win. A&M beat LSU four straight times at home, and three times they were in the top 10. A&M beat No. 1 Florida, No. 1 Alabama and came close to No. 2 Clemson, which won the national title. They beat No. 11 Auburn and another highly ranked Auburn team. There have been some nice home wins. I don't count Josh Rosen and UCLA, but when you come in here in a big setting, and you leave the Appalachian State jokes aside, that does, and probably takes away from the talk about home-field advantage. Miami won 50 games in a row and broke a record against Oklahoma in the Barry Switzer era. Those teams are great. If you're ranking how loud it is during big games and excitement, Kyle Field is up there. If I'm ranking the SEC outside A&M, Knoxville is No. 1, and LSU is No. 2. Knoxville during the day was better. Alabama is outside the top five, it's underrated, and people act like it's not a tremendous atmosphere. The problem is that the games I saw were at 2 p.m., and there wasn't much excitement. In 2012, in the fourth quarter, Johnny Manziel and A&M held off A.J. McCarron. The Haynes King 2022 was a great game. I've been to two games at The Swamp, and it's good, but Florida has not had elite years in the last 10. They had a couple under Dan Mullen, and A&M had one, and Florida had two. One year, I went to Florida vs. A&M, and the night game was fun. Texas’s game day, and I haven't been in a long time, but people who don’t understand that there will come a day where I'll go to maybe neutral, but I like to go in our bye weeks. I want to go see Texas vs. Oklahoma, but just watching it and here's what I know, the Longhorns will tell you our atmosphere hasn't been that good and not what it should be. There are usually more talented teams at home, but in the last few years, the people who say they've done great things there, and say, “It's gotten better.” Those are the people I believe. Look who they are getting at DKR. I don't care about rankings by their name, how much did Aggies really care? That was Rosen calling out the 12th man. Brady Cook did it last season, not smart to do. In Austin, they were playing Baylor, Kansas State, Kansas, even Oklahoma State, a rival of Texas and beat them under Mike Gundy. It's so much different with the powerhouse teams, they get Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and the Aggies. Think about the last three years when they went to Alabama, Georgia and A&M. They got Florida, and they go, “Oh, it's not great, but look at the history they have.” That's one of the benefits they will get. I tried to tell Texas and Oklahoma fans I've been in the Big 12. It had Bob Stoops, Mike Leach, Matt Brown and Bill Snyder. That league was up. It still doesn't come close to the atmosphere, what you see year in year out now. I knew the first year A&M played in the SEC, and the first game was Florida at Kyle Field, and LSU came that season, and you went to Bryant-Denny Stadium and all those great places. It is awesome. In Starkville, it's a college football environment. It's one of the worst stadiums, but there's an atmosphere. It's going to bring up the environments in Austin and Oklahoma. Moreso, if Texas enters a game thinking they can beat Alabama or Georgia, they have all season to think about it. It's interesting because I do think there's a week offseason to think about it. Florida, South Carolina and Auburn are all massive games, but my point is none of those teams are rivals, and I'm circling this the whole offseason like Notre Dame or when Texas was coming. I go, “Oh, that's at least two ranked football teams, Auburn TBD, South Carolina with a potential Heisman candidate in LaNorris Sellers and Florida with a Heisman candidate with DJ Lagway.” A&M will play at Notre Dame, Auburn at home, at Arkansas and home vs. Mississippi State. You look at the first three games Florida plays before A&M, they play at LSU, at Miami and host Texas. They got a tougher road start, maybe. Do we know Auburn is not going to be as good as Miami this year? For Payton Thorne, I don't hate him, but they lost to such a bad quarterback last year. The year before, Thorne got benched, and Robby Ashford beat A&M. So, do we know Auburn will be better than Miami? Notre Dame and Texas are very comparable. Texas fans think they are above hearing that. One of those teams went to the national championship, beating Indiana, Georgia and Penn State. Segment 2 (20:05
  3. Hell yeah 🤘🏼🤘🏼
  4. Three Things: Aggies reel in four commits, still cooking in June & more By Jason Howell 1. What a week Saturday, June 14 - ATH Kaeden Johnson‍, Missouri City (TX) Fort Bend Marshall Monday, June 16 - OL Samuel Roseborough‍, Clearwater (FL) Tuesday, June 17 - RB KJ Edwards‍ , Carthage (TX) Thursday, June 19 - ATH Brandon Arrington‍, Spring Valley (CA) Mount Miguel ...and still cooking... 2. Here’s some thoughts Remember when Jamarion Carlton‍ “canceled” his visit and Paris Melvin Jr‍ changed his final OV weekend from Texas A&M to Texas…. Boy, last week sure feels like another lifetime. That prediction of a top 4-8 class sure looks well within reach right now, too. Shoot, it may have been too conservative. Sure, you don't want to start celebrating too early. There’s still a long way to go before Signing Day, but even the biggest doubters have to be impressed right now. It also looks like the Aggies are heading for a strong group of in-state standouts in this class. I’ve been saying I expect the class to have a strong Texas flavor, and I’ve been predicting double-digit Texans in the class. With five currently committed, I feel pretty good about the Aggies hitting that mark. I heard some snickering when Mike Elko said, “Kids still get recruited off relationships and feeling. It's such a misnomer that all of the recruits out there are looking for top dollar.” It’s really not that hard to believe. When the numbers are similar, it’s going to come down to other things like relationships, development, facilities, playing time, etc. 3. Thoughts going into the final June OV weekend Buckle up for another fun one... Five commits, some top targets on the offensive and defensive lines and a dynamic athlete... Yep, it’s a pretty big weekend for the Aggies. Over/under for commitments over the weekend from this weekend’s visitors, let’s go with 1.5. The Aggies have some momentum. I can see one, maybe two, this weekend, and more than that wouldn’t be a complete shock. However, I will go with 1.5 as the line, and my prediction is one
  5. The fat bastard loves to hear himself talk Key notes from Billy Liucci To land KJ Edwards‍, this was one that surprised us yesterday in terms of when it happened. I don’t think we woke up yesterday expecting an Edwards announcement. I’m not positive Mike Elko woke up expecting it. What they did know is that A&M was way more in the mix for Edwards than people thought, and they were really sitting in a good position for him for a while. Even when Jonathan Hatton Jr‍ committed, you felt like they could end up getting both of those guys because there was a need for more than one. The two seemed like they fit in terms of style. Texas did a lot, and LSU did a lot to convince the people covering them and both of those fan bases that they were the teams to beat. I’m reading some of the Texas stuff saying A&M made a late push, but A&M has been there through the entire process. I think LSU and Texas underestimated A&M as a possibility. They load up at a position to the point where you think they can’t take another one, then they do. I remember Mack Brown. There was a certain player A&M was going to fight Texas for. It was a one-sided beatdown, and Brown was just grabbing all of these offensive linemen. Then you assume the seventh guy, A&M should get, then Texas went and got him. When you’re elite, you can get the two unquestioned best running backs in Texas. Trooper Taylor is an elite recruiter. He always has been his whole career. That’s a unique name. Anyone from any Texas college has heard of Taylor for years. He is an ace on this staff. I love the way Adam Cushing recruits for what they’re looking for. He has more tricks up his sleeve coming up. I think we are realizing why Holmon Wiggins was hired as the receiver coach at Alabama before A&M. I’m talking about the offensive side of the ball. I think Elko has a really good recruiting staff on that side of the ball. We’ll talk about Brandon Arrington‍ in a second because Jordan Peterson is starting to make a real name for himself. I do think part of it is when it’s national and coast to coast, the days of pulling up the “Texas Top 10” and seeing who gets the most off this list of A&M, Texas or Oklahoma are gone. Then, you started seeing more of them go out of state, and now, A&M is going to start adding Texas kids a lot more frequently in the next run of commits. When you look at some of these guys. I think a lot of it with national recruits, like Arrington, who is announcing tomorrow, everyone is gassed up to see who wins out on him of A&M and Oregon. Some of these lesser-known national guys, particularly ones that A&M gets on campus and gets commits from early, the fans haven’t gotten emotionally invested in. I think the Aggies have an excellent shot with Tristian Givens‍. My point is when Jamarion Carlton‍ from Temple visits Texas, and the Aggies cancel their visit... Instead of melting down and panicking on the message boards about a coaching staff that’s putting together a top-five class, if not higher, maybe take a second and see where he ranks nationally with the other guys A&M is trying to get. It’s the same thing with this WR/DB in Cypress, Paris Melvin Jr‍. He flips out his A&M visit for Texas, and people melt down. I don’t know what kind of take he was at that point. If you’re going to go that negative on something, you have to be that much more positive when they get Samuel Roseborough‍ over Texas a week after his official visit there. You can be negative, but match that energy by being positive and giving credit when there’s good. People talk about Maroon-colored glasses. Whatever the opposite is, take them off and throw them away. Start enjoying the good. They landed Edwards, an elite football player, a game-changing back. He is a game breaker, and if he weren’t running in Maroon & White, he’d be in Purple & Gold or Burnt Orange. Everybody is excited about him, but you should’ve been excited about Roseborough. You should be excited about Arrington and Camren Hamiel‍. Get up to speed with what is actually happening with this stuff. We’re talking about landing a five-star running back, and more of the comments from Aggie fans are that, “We’ve seen this before, and we’ll go 8-4 anyway.” If that’s your mindset, I don’t understand why you follow it. You’re allowed to enjoy it and have the common sense to understand they have to develop him and keep him on campus. But you can also see it’s a completely different coaching staff, and that 2022 recruiting class was an outlier. The top five recruiting classes typically win you football games. Just because it backfired once doesn’t mean you don’t want to be there. It’s almost like they’d rather not get the good players and have them magically turn up. You have to know how much money Texas is throwing around in NIL money. Texas Tech openly brags about it. A&M would rather it not be openly advertised. I wish fans would understand A&M is doing well on the NIL front, and you could always do better, but that’s part of why they don’t want those numbers out. Sometimes it’s just good old-fashioned recruiting. It’s a guy like Taylor, and there’s still recruiting that has to be done because everyone is offering NIL money and more this year than they ever have. I’ve reached out directly to sources out west about Arrington that feel like that has been trending significantly A&M’s way the last few days. One of those situations where you’re 24 hours from the finish line. You have reasons to feel good about it, but you know it’s not across the finish line. Even last year in that cornerback class, I think part of it is not just that Peterson is an Aggie, it’s that he came from Kansas. I go back to a guy Kevin Sumlin told me he was going to hire. It was David Beaty. He did an amazing job recruiting wide receivers to A&M while he was here. Really putting A&M back on the map in DFW, where they had been a non-factor for several years prior. Whether it was Mike Sherman or Dennis Franchione, it was a problem. Oklahoma was rolling the way they were. Beaty really turned it around. He was at Kansas at the time. He had gone from high school to Rice to Kansas. Peterson got his first job at Fresno with Tim DeRuyter when he got the head job. I know when Elko hired him, part of it was that he had a reputation for recruiting lights out at Kansas. He brought some real talent there that ended up in the NFL. The question was if he could translate it to A&M. I think Elko made the right call because he’s just a great recruiter. Everybody talks about Jeff Banks as one of the best recruiters in the country. I mention him because he was at A&M, but he got hired by Nick Saban. Then he left for Texas. But when he got to A&M, nobody gave a damn about him because everyone was worried about losing Brian Polian because he had a name at Stanford before. Then you hire a former punter from UTEP who didn’t have a name at all to the A&M fanbase. I think Peterson is quietly kicking ass on the trail right now. I always prefer when coaches make a name for themselves somewhere else first. That carries more weight to me. Real quick, Edwards again. A&M has a couple of spectacular skill players committed in this class. There’s more, but Aaron Gregory‍, Edwards and Hatton... Those guys are potential game changers. Edwards is electric. You watch that tape. He had 11-something yards per carry. We talked yesterday about what will set A&M up. The one box I don’t know if they’ll have checked is whether they'll have skill players who will be top five at their position in the conference. There are dynamic players all across the field on any team in the SEC. Edwards absolutely has that juice. I could think about six guys off the top of my head that I absolutely think they are going to land, and I’m probably forgetting one. I think the Edwards addition is going to set off a little run here. I could see them landing three guys who are borderline five-star players between now and then. That’s not factoring in Lamar Brown‍ or Tristen Keys‍, who A&M is now in the mix for. Jase Mathews‍, too. I think there will be another player or two that they see add that people weren’t really expecting
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