Mostly here to lurk. Real talk from an A&M fan. No beating around the bush, this was getting our heart ripped out of our chest. It sucks. Looking at the way the press conference was handled and the timing of the Pierce firing and rumor literally as our team is playing for it all, I'm not sure how y'all can spin that as anything other than, at minimum, could have been handled better and more professionally, but hey, at least y'all got to own the aggys and drink our tears.
Looking ahead, the cupboard is probably going to be bare next year. That said, we have money, we NIL resources, and we GAF about college athletics. We'll be back in Omaha within the decade if not sooner, given how the new rules will make it easier to quickly buy our own mercenaries.
And zooming out, if your squad next year is 100% of our coaches and 40% of our players wearing burnt orange instead of maroon, I don't see how that's good for the long term health of college sports. That's much bigger than an A&M/UT issue. But buying out most of your rivals makes caring about connections that the players have to their universities much more tenuous, and now we're absolutely watching a minor league with no salary cap or rules. Why watch watch the minor leagues when someone can watch the pros instead?