Randolph Duke

As expected, the ags are crying about "being robbed" when the officials didn't call a fumble on the punt return at the end of the game. I say "as expected" because aggys never take responsibility for their own fuckups. Never. "Always a victim" should be their school motto, replacing "quantity over quality." Re-watch the last few minutes of the game. In particular, re=watch the 3rd and 2 choice of having a right-handed QB roll left to deliver a pass to the TE who was six feet behind the line to gain. Bad play call, bad execution by the TE who didn't even set up at the line to gain. But Jimbo bears no responsibility for that brain fart. Get the first down, game over. (Notice in Preston's earlier TD run, they also threw short of the line to gain, but got away with it that time. I guess throwing short of the line to gain on 3rd down is what "elite" coaches do.) Watch the coverage on 4th and 7 for LSU. If they play defense on that one play, game over. But Elko bears no responsibility for that brain fart. Stop LSU there, game over. On the play when Jenkinks caught the 31 yd pass that moved the ball into A&M territory, notice it was Leon who wasn't there to cover the receiver. Our old friend Leon. Notice on the game winning score, Leon shows up eventually. After the receiver crosses the goal line. What angle was Leon taking on that play? On the last play of the game, Calzada goes down with time still on the clock and A&M still having one time out. But the ags were "robbed." Not a thing the ags did contributed to their defeat. lol. The ags live in an amazing world. Amazing on so many levels.

Feb 28, 2018: "When you listen to Jimbo talk, you know he can already taste it," Sharp told the Chronicle on Wednesday evening of why he gave Fisher the mythical plaque. "He is driven." https://www.chron.com/sports/aggies/article/Texas-A-M-chancellor-John-Sharp-gives-coach-Jimbo-12717985.php Jimbo Fisher isn't shying away from the championship-or-bust pressure at Texas A&M. "The timeline is now," he said of bringing a title to College Station. "You want to win immediately." https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24113399/jimbo-fisher-ready-win-immediately-texas-am?device=featurephone Whether or not he lives up to his massive deal remains to be seen, but the Aggies will need to see some major improvements in the next few years to keep the good feelings going. https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/tamu-football/regrets-jimbo-fishers-10-year-deal-chancellor-jokes-wanted-longer/

"on the precipice"

Olin is pure aggy. Those stupid rubes lap up everything he writes.

This is one of those rare days I wish I had more friends who are aggy fans. I can't wait to see next year's aggy cup commemorating this game. I'm voting for this:

Hey ags, suck my dick.

Project 100,000. Google it. It was good enough for John Sharp in the 1960s, it is good enough for aggys today.

Poor Olin thought what they were oozing was confidence.

aggys in general don't understand that they don't think the same way other people think. It's a cultural problem of theirs. Remember when they were convinced every 18 year-old urban kid's ultimate vehicle was a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck and Texas was exploiting this to induce recruits to play football at UT? Very few aggys could imagine how anyone could covet a vehicle other than a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck or how an opportunity to obtain a 3/4-ton Ford farm truck would be life changing. Needless to say, I could go on (seemingly forever) about the subject, but I think the point is understood. I have no doubt Liucci read what Sark said and immediately leapt to the conclusion Sark was throwing shade at A&M, oblivious to the fact Sark has far more important problems to deal with right now than Texas A&M. I'm pretty sure Sark has already figured out Texas A&M's core problem is their freak show of a culture, and that moving forward A&M will be no more successful in their endeavors than they have been over the past 127 years. Sark doesn't need to throw shade at A&M or Jimbo. I'm pretty sure Sark is as convinced as most of the college football world that A&M and Jimbo is a slow motion train wreck whose eventual fate is quite easy to predict.

Sark has to know he is in no position to be throwing shade at anyone. He just lost to fucking Kansas and is about to finish the season 0-7. If he is throwing shade at A&M, he's dumber than I have thought him to be.

Total Enrollment (Fall 2021): 73,284 Project 100,000 is alive and well on the Texas A&M campus. It pretty much defines what it means to be an aggy.

Unless changes are made in who is involved with choosing the head football coach, firing Sark does nothing. The process that lead to Sarkisian’s hiring resulted in abysmal failure. Firing Sark and allowing the same process to provide a replacement coach will end in abysmal failure. The heart of the problem is cronie politics lead to people being appointed to places of high leadership who are incapable of admitting they screwed up. The screwups are going to get far worse before they get any better. The incompetent(s) bought and paid for the position they were appointed to and as long as the campaign donation checks continue to clear the bank, the one person who could make the necessary leadership changes cares if the UT football team even exists. Just wait until the Sarkisian-caliber screwups start showing up on the academic side. Just a matter of time.

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The best thing for the team, the university, and the student-athletes would be for Eltife, Hartzell, and Del Conte today to admit the hiring of Sarkisian was a colossal mistake. If those three were the right people to be in the positions they occupy, Eltife would recuse himself from all operational aspects of UT athletics and Del Conte would be charged with hiring a new coach. Never. Gonna. Happen. They will double down on their support of Sarkisian and refuse to admit their mistake. The administrators will support a narrative where the accountability for the failure of the team will be placed squarely upon the athletes. No administrator will be held accountable in any way for this situation. How things actually went wrong will never be discussed It’s the way dysfunctional organizations operate.

While there may be practical limitations on restricting BMDs and regents from overly-involving themselves with various aspects of UT athletics, the problem is those BMD and Regents who forcefully "lead" the athletics program in the wrong direction are too often never held accountable for their mistakes. We know their mistakes are never openly discussed. In fact, efforts are made to protect them from criticism and accountability and to maintain their ability to continue to over-involve them in places they have shown little, if any, skill or acumen. As long as the ego-driven personal interests of certain BMDs and Regents are placed above the interests of the student-athletes, UT athletics will continue perform below potential. The politically ambitions governor continues to nominate regents who place their personal interests above those of the students and student-athletes. The university administrators place their own personal financial interests and career ambitions above the interests of the students and the student-athletes. The students and student-athletes understand "excellence" and "accountability" are empty words on the 40 Acres. It's one big leadership void.

Eltife needs to spend less time involved with UT football.

"A cultural bias. which impedes risk identification"

Thank you. I’ve lost patience trying to explain why some issues cant be surmised, discussed, or resolved in 140 characters or less.

Have you been paying attention to UT football this season? You don’t think the product Sark has delivered sucks? I sure do and I’m certainly not denying it. News flash, amigo - it’s going to get a lot worse before it ever gets any better. That much should be obvious. I have zero confidence in Steve Sarkisian. Zero. Highly problematic is the fact the regent who insisted he knew what he was going when he had Herman fired and who largely is responsible for the Sarkisian debacle will never be held accountable for his incompetence and will be given every opportunity to screw up the next hiring, also. That’s one of the major problems with UT football. Im not sure how you interpret this sentiment as my lying about what I said. How anyone could not have understood after the OU game that UT football is lousy. It deserves laughter, ridicule, and mockery. Sarkisian is way in over his head, the program has incompetence at the highest levels, and I can find no reason why anyone who understands the game of college football expects anything other than a complete shitshow for the foreseeable future. How you interpret my opinion as a complete excoriation of the program that I am certainly not walking away from mystifies me. Now, enough about Texas football. There are reasons to believe other school sports can deliver a quality live sports entertainment product. I have completely separated myself from UT football other than to laugh at the incompetence and to shake my head at how educated people can’t see how bad the product Sarkisian has delivered is.

We are seeing the greatest period in both the history of aggy football and also in aggy athletics as a whole. Not a single aggy men's program won a NCAA national title until their golf team in 2009 (correct me if I got the year wrong). The school only has 13 NCAA national titles in total and all but one or two have come over the past 15 years. As for the aggy football team, by all objectives measures, Kevin Sumlin would be their greatest coach ever. Heisman Trophy, first top-5 finish in well over half a century, first coach in program history to win three consecutive bowl games. These are high times for aggy football. Yet, not a single team of the greatest era in aggy program history would even be remotely considered for that top-200 list. In fact even through the greatest period in program history, it has been over 20 years since aggy football scratched out a winning record in conference play two years in a row. Myles Garrett, possibly the greatest aggy d-lineman in program history never played on a team with a winning record in conference play, let alone competed for anything of significance. The greatest era in aggy program history and not ever in contention to win a single conference title. That amazes me. One of the things that amazes me about aggy athletics is how aggy doesn't have an NCAA gun sport program. Only knowing how fucked aggy is as an institution makes the fact A&M doesn't compete in NCAA gun sports understandable.

We should claim the four that have been awarded by contemporaneous nationally recognized pollsters. The issue with aggy claiming their "retroactive championships" is the Billingsley Report fails to take into account the game of college football wasn't a national sport at the time of the claimed championships. The S!E!C! wasn't founded until 1933. Its founding helped standardize the rules of the game. When teams play only regional opponents and play under rules that differ between regions, there is not legitimate way to compare teams from various regions. Remember, during the seasons aggy claims their "retroactive national championships," the Southwest Conference didn't allow post-season play, which is why aggy had to decline the challenge from Tennessee as explained in the clip below. Only after college football became a national sport could a national champion be crowned. Except in College Station, those fucks are so deep in "fairy tale greatness" they have no clue about the actual facts surrounding their claimed championships. By the way, has anyone else noticed how suddenly no one is writing letters about being a visiting fan to Kyle Field and experiencing a magical epiphany of what superior human beings aggys supposedly are? Isn't it odd that all of a sudden those "spontaneous and legitimate" letters are no longer written by anyone when individuals from every corner of the nation were writing them not long ago. lol.

Clay Travis' laughable premise that SECN revenues would make second-tier programs such as Mississippi St or aggy financial powerhouses with operating revenues greater than Notre Dame, Texas, etc is something that could only be believed by ignorant rubes. Which is why aggys swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. The entire "aggy athletics is a financial powerhouse" fairy tale was driven by their capital campaign, not by operating revenues. Most aggys were never taught how to read a balance sheet, so they have no idea how capital contributions and operating revenues differ. Fuck them. It's not as if balance sheets are the only things aggys were never taught about. As for "aggy national relevance," attached is a link to the Billingsley Report's top 200 teams of all time. Quoting the report, "This list is compiled from all 13,793 teams who have been ranked since 1869, not just National Champions." https://enc.cfrc.com/archives/Top_200_2020.htm Whatever one thinks of the Billingsley Report, I mention it because it is the source of aggy's magically produced "retroactive national championships." If aggy wants to tout the value of the Billingsley report in determining "retroactive national championships," let them also tout the Billingsley Report's top 200 teams of all time. Not a single team in aggy football history qualified for Billingsley Report's top 200 teams of all times. That pretty much clarifies where A&M football stands in the world of college football. Their "greatness" simply doesn't move the needle. Not "Johnny Football," not King Gill, not John David Crow. Not the "Wrecking Crew," not any team. In the history of their program. Notice the teams listed. Then notice the teams that are listed repeatedly. Those are the programs that built the sport of college football. Those are the top-tier teams in the sport.