Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread

[RomaVicta 29,927]

Um...you've had numerous highly ranked classes. You constantly talk about having the talent to win it all. You're obsessed with your #4 in the country talent rating. 

Maybe there's something to paying attention to character. Same guy:

First sentence contradicts his earlier point. Hi-lighted portion is the kind of specious argument one expects on Texags. The only alternative to obsessively going after the top class without regard for character or roster balance is to abandon high-ranked players altogether. 

And maybe get past the Mississippi schools, Tennessee, App State, and a shitty Miami team before setting your sites on Georgia or Alabama. Or us.

[Chips O'Toole 1,325]

"Hard to believe.  So I won't believe it."  should make its way into a thread title at some point.  Holy shit, it might actually be too on the nose.

[linux 1,660]

50 minutes ago, Chips O'Toole said:

"Hard to believe.  So I won't believe it."  should make its way into a thread title at some point.  Holy shit, it might actually be too on the nose.

Yeah for sure.

Also having the all hat #1 class paints a target on your back that everyone from Feshwater to Saban salivates over.

If you are creating an unbalanced roster with 20 DL. The rest of the 5 stars transfer. And some players are locker room cancers. Then yeah give me any Sark class any day.

[JesusSweatDuck 17,781]

[Vertigo 20,290]

4 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

BOMC is alive and well. Wait until the find out that Brent Z is on our payroll. 

[Scholz 11,944]

Of course those complete ignoramuses don’t read.

[Tex Pete 20,372]

9 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

 

Q: Has Texas A&M won anything in football?

A: Once. In 1939. My great-grandpappy told me about it when I was a little boy.

Q: That's it?

A: Yes. The t-sippers always write negative articles belittling all our athletic prowess.

Q: What athletic prowess?

A: We signed the number 1 class of all time in 2022. Those bastard sportswriters are always holding us down.

[Park Gothic 5,045]

15 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

"...to character assassinate any success that A&M would have in athletics."

1) Literally what success would that be?

2) Why would we need to use papers to diminish any kind of Aggie success when they already do a masterful job of that themselves?

3) Why the fuck would we use papers? What year do they think it?

4) Great and totally appropriate use of the phrase "character assassinate" and not all weird. You englished real good in that post. 

Edited November 29, 2023 by Park Gothic
5) Our shenanigans are cheeky and fun. Their shenanigans are cruel and tragic.

[UncleSonny 6,572]

5 minutes ago, Park Gothic said:

"...to character assassinate any success that A&M would have in athletics."

1) Literally what success would that be?

2) Why would we need to use papers to diminish any kind of Aggie success when they already do a masterful job of that themselves?

3) Why the fuck would we use papers? What year do they think it?

4) Great and totally appropriate use of the phrase "character assassinate" and not all weird. You englished real good in that post. 

I don’t know man, recently the Ags found entire national and conference championships that the media didn’t even report at the time. Pretty suspicious. Think of what else they must be covering up!

[PTINS 3,472]

26 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

 

"Hopefully any lessons learned since our move to the SEC in media relations will help mitigate it a bit ..."

Given the clusterf*ck w/ Stoops, the sneaking out at Duke in the middle of the night, the "welcoming" at the airport (prisoner exchanges have more excitement), and the news conference/pep rally, it doesn't appear they've learned that much. 

[closetojumping 62,741]

15 minutes ago, PTINS said:

"Hopefully any lessons learned since our move to the SEC in media relations will help mitigate it a bit ..."

Given the clusterf*ck w/ Stoops, the sneaking out at Duke in the middle of the night, the "welcoming" at the airport (prisoner exchanges have more excitement), and the news conference/pep rally, it doesn't appear they've learned that much. 

Right. Hell, two years ago they embarrassed themselves nationally with both the UT/OU news/"gentleman's agreement" and then Fisher's bragging about NIL then claiming they had none and going after Nick Saban on live tv. They never learn and they'll continue to pull the bookshelf on themselves accordingly.

[Liquor and Poker 3,659]

17 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Right. Hell, two years ago they embarrassed themselves nationally with both the UT/OU news/"gentleman's agreement" and then Fisher's bragging about NIL then claiming they had none and going after Nick Saban on live tv. They never learn and they'll continue to pull the bookshelf on themselves accordingly.

Learning those lessons would require them to fundamentally change their nature.  That stuff is literally who they are.

[WinningIsHard 4,044]

Aggy reminds me of clark griswold walking in the attic and hitting himself in the face with those boards. He doesn't learn his lesson and sits down on the damn attic door to watch that old tape. We are currently witnessing aggy sitting on that attic door, and mean ole Texas is fiddin to pull the rope on that attic door. 

[Redneck Mutha 7,994]

"Learnin'" in aggy vernacular means "Doing the same thing over and over because from the outside looking in you don't know anything ya stupid sip.  Also, turdition.  Whoop!"

[nnm 36,419]

42 minutes ago, WinningIsHard said:

Aggy reminds me of clark griswold walking in the attic and hitting himself in the face with those boards. He doesn't learn his lesson and sits down on the damn attic door to watch that old tape. We are currently witnessing aggy sitting on that attic door, and mean ole Texas is fiddin to pull the rope on that attic door. 

*finna

[SydneyCarton 48,108]

2 hours ago, Scholz said:

Of course those complete ignoramuses don’t read.

My favorite part is that they say print media is dead, then go on to talk about internet and news, while generally ignoring the fact that pretty much every "print" media also posts all the articles and opinions online, interact through social media, article comments, etc. But yeah, The Houston Chronicle is print media, so it's dead. Fucking morons. 

[cafe society 2,871]

1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

My favorite part is that they say print media is dead, then go on to talk about internet and news, while generally ignoring the fact that pretty much every "print" media also posts all the articles and opinions online, interact through social media, article comments, etc. But yeah, The Houston Chronicle is print media, so it's dead. Fucking morons. 

Just the concept of them bemoaning the state of modern journalism teems with irony.

[RomaVicta 29,927]

1 minute ago, cafe society said:

Just the concept of them bemoaning the state of modern journalism teems with irony.

It's way too subtle for them to get it, but the funniest part to me is that they want a journalism school so they can train Aggie propagandists. 

Journalism is dead! Let's revive it by sending out homers!

[RomaVicta 29,927]

Over on Texags

Ross Bjork recaps search that resulted in Texas A&M landing Mike Elko

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Look at baseball and women's basketball. From a profile standpoint, hiring a football coach was similar. We wanted a high-profile sitting head coach.

Joni Taylor¹ and Jim Schlossnagle² did not have to leave their positions. Mike Elko³ did not have to leave Duke. All the coaches we talked to didn't have to leave, but they wanted to talk to Texas A&M. With the exception of Jamie Morrison and Brian Kortan, the head coaches we have hired have all been sitting head coaches.

It's a testament to A&M. You can have the best AD in the world, but you have to have the infrastructure that is Texas A&M. It's my job to package it and recruit coaches to come to A&M.

Let's take a look at Bjork and A&M's uncanny ability to hire three high level coaches.

¹  (Joni Taylor) She joined the University of Georgia staff in 2011, spending one season as an assistant coach, before being promoted to associate head coach. In April 2015, Coach Landers announced his retirement and gave full support for Taylor to replace him. She became only the second full-time head coach in program history.[1][2]

Taylor coached her team to a 21–10 record in her inaugural year, including five wins against ranked opponents and an invitation to the NCAA tournament, which earned her the Spalding Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach of the Year award.[3]

² (Jim Schlossnagle) He then served as the head coach of the UNLV Rebels (2002–2003) and the TCU Horned Frogs (2004–2021).

Schlossnagle has been named a National Coach of the Year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association in 2010 and by Baseball America in 2016, and he has won 8 conference Coach of the Year awards in his 16-year head coaching career.^[1]

³ (MIke Elko) On December 13, 2021, Elko was announced as head coach at Duke.^[8] In his first season, the Blue Devils went 9–4 with a win in the Military Bowl. In 2023, Duke began the season with an upset 28–7 win over Clemson, and finished the regular season 7–5.

Pretty much all equal in terms of being sitting head coaches. As Bjork says, "It's a testament to A&M." I bet he thought this was really sharp, top drawer, and brilliant.

Oh, there's more. We all saw this coming:

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Elko was at the top of our list from the beginning. We wanted to have several conversations with him. We talked about staff names. We talked timeline. That second convo, we knew he was ready, and his vision matched up.

Bjork is really full of himself:

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I said from the beginning that this is not an 8-4 job. Does someone have the chops to do this job? We made a big decision to make a change, so with that comes a lot of pressure. Are they ready for that? All of those things go into it. Did we get it right? The reactions of players, recruiting, donors, fans and coaches matter.

Contrary to all appearances and accounts, he's absolutely correct.

Also, I don't think he gets the concept of having chops. I think he thinks it's the same thing as cojones. That is if he knows what cojones refers to.

Edited November 30, 2023 by RomaVicta

[JesusSweatDuck 17,781]

[JesusSweatDuck 17,781]

Sorry, these are out of order but I'm too lazy to edit

[Tex Pete 20,372]

I remember a bigger FU to aggy as they ran away from mean old Texas. 
 

[Junior Bonner 6,257]

31 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

I remember a bigger FU to aggy as they ran away from mean old Texas. 
 

Case McCoy made his bones with that game

[HtownHorn 14,704]

Man, every week aggy has been saying this is the team to take them down. This 2nd half of the season must have been the most miserable for them since 2009.

[JesusSweatDuck 17,781]

12 minutes ago, Junior Bonner said:

Case McCoy made his bones with that game

I thought he did that while holding a camcorder

[Carl Spackler 3,485]

16 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

 . . . we knew he was ready and his vision matched up.

[Orange&White 5,528]

1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:

Man, every week aggy has been saying this is the team to take them down. This 2nd half of the season must have been the most miserable for them since 2009.

Exactly.

Before the season, they had Texas losing to: Kansas State, Kansas, Baylor, Oklahoma, Alabama, TCU and ISU.

[Nivek 16,944]

But you have to understand when Texas played those teams they were the worst ever versions of themselves. Even the one knocking on the door of the playoff with , checks notes, the same fucking QB.

[RomaVicta 29,927]

Yea, it's been a pretty rough year for tu and those sippies. 

If we don't make the playoff, I guess the whole season will have been a failure. And we hoped not to be an 8-4 program. Really sad.

Ha ha ha! Sippies all pissed off and crying while we're in our expensive facilities with Cap'n Elko!

 

I so hate it when they call us sippies.

 

[nnm 36,419]

4 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

Yea, it's been a pretty rough year for tu and those sippies. 

If we don't make the playoff, I guess the whole season will have been a failure. And we hoped not to be an 8-4 program. Really sad.

Ha ha ha! Sippies all pissed off and crying while we're in our expensive facilities with Cap'n Elko!

 

I so hate it when they call us sippies.

 

I am not a UT alum or fan, but the “tsip” thing pisses me off. It comes from their false military institution image, that they were off fighting wars while UT students were sipping tea. 

600+ former Longhorns, including two dozen active Longhorn athletes, were killed during WWII. Every other school in the nation had students, faculty, and staff that died for their country in WWII. To derisively refer to UT, or anyone else, as tsips, spits on the grave of those that died.  The blood of aggy spilled in WWII is not more or less heroic than any other American. 

It’s stolen valor. And it’s disgusting. 

[Junior Bonner 6,257]

I don't give a shit what those inbred weirdos call us. 

 

Just saying...

[SydneyCarton 48,108]

11 minutes ago, nnm said:

I am not a UT alum or fan, but the “tsip” thing pisses me off. It comes from their false military institution image, that they were off fighting wars while UT students were sipping tea. 

600+ former Longhorns, including two dozen active Longhorn athletes, were killed during WWII. Every other school in the nation had students, faculty, and staff that died for their country in WWII. To derisively refer to UT, or anyone else, as tsips, spits on the grave of those that died.  The blood of aggy spilled in WWII is not more or less heroic than any other American. 

It’s stolen valor. And it’s disgusting. 

Stolen Valor is one the main tenets of their worldview, dude. 

[Nivek 16,944]

2 hours ago, nnm said:

I am not a UT alum or fan, but the “tsip” thing pisses me off. It comes from their false military institution image, that they were off fighting wars while UT students were sipping tea. 

600+ former Longhorns, including two dozen active Longhorn athletes, were killed during WWII. Every other school in the nation had students, faculty, and staff that died for their country in WWII. To derisively refer to UT, or anyone else, as tsips, spits on the grave of those that died.  The blood of aggy spilled in WWII is not more or less heroic than any other American. 

It’s stolen valor. And it’s disgusting. 

We have a stadium that is dedicated to all Texans who served in WWI.  It was later expanded to be a memorial for all wars, and narrowed to Alumni.   Their stadium is to accommodate dead dogs.  Everything about them is fraudulent, from their identity, their place in the world, and even their performance.  They once recorded a spring game as a victory on the season.   They put up banners for championships they never won, for games they were never in.    

Edited December 1, 2023 by Nivek

[ousux 5,597]

Yea, it's been a pretty rough year for tu and those sippies. 
If we don't make the playoff, I guess the whole season will have been a failure. And we hoped not to be an 8-4 program. Really sad.

Ha ha ha! Sippies all pissed off and crying while we're in our expensive facilities with Cap'n Elko!

 
I so hate it when they call us sippies.
 

Hate it? It just makes them look weird to the world...as if they need any more help with that.

[MAGS® 400]

25 minutes ago, nnm said:

I am not a UT alum or fan, but the “tsip” thing pisses me off. It comes from their false military institution image, that they were off fighting wars while UT students were sipping tea. 

600+ former Longhorns, including two dozen active Longhorn athletes, were killed during WWII. Every other school in the nation had students, faculty, and staff that died for their country in WWII. To derisively refer to UT, or anyone else, as tsips, spits on the grave of those that died.  The blood of aggy spilled in WWII is not more or less heroic than any other American. 

It’s stolen valor. And it’s disgusting. 

I once had a aggy tell me I wasn't in the real Corps since i wasn't in the aggy corps...  Shit you not...  They valued the aggy corps over the Marine Corps.. I just laughed it off cause they are delusional in their beliefs.   

[Deej 76,818]

1 hour ago, nnm said:

I am not a UT alum or fan, but the “tsip” thing pisses me off. It comes from their false military institution image, that they were off fighting wars while UT students were sipping tea. 

600+ former Longhorns, including two dozen active Longhorn athletes, were killed during WWII. Every other school in the nation had students, faculty, and staff that died for their country in WWII. To derisively refer to UT, or anyone else, as tsips, spits on the grave of those that died.  The blood of aggy spilled in WWII is not more or less heroic than any other American. 

It’s stolen valor. And it’s disgusting. 

I'm not so sure enough aggy blood was spilled. 

[linux 1,660]

Aggie fought for the Waffen SS. So yeah they spilled a lot of blood

[Gil Bang 25,964]

On 11/26/2023 at 4:24 PM, sunset87 said:

Nah, that’s just classic Aggie. They are all about the nicknames. They probably have them for their turds.

We had "The Chief" and "The Marine" on the coaching side.  

Too many on the players side to count.   Mark "The Rifle" Farris is my personal favorite.

[Frank Drebin 5,643]

1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

We had "The Chief" and "The Marine" on the coaching side.  

Too many on the players side to count.   Mark "The Rifle" Farris is my personal favorite.

I am partial to "War" Sean Weston

[Gil Bang 25,964]

2 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

I am partial to "War" Sean Weston

Don't forget Derek "The" Farmer

[nnm 36,419]

1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

We had "The Chief" and "The Marine" on the coaching side.  

Too many on the players side to count.   Mark "The Rifle" Farris is my personal favorite.

OFN

[satyanash 14,526]

On 11/29/2023 at 1:56 PM, Park Gothic said:

"...to character assassinate any success that A&M would have in athletics."

1) Literally what success would that be?

2) Why would we need to use papers to diminish any kind of Aggie success when they already do a masterful job of that themselves?

3) Why the fuck would we use papers? What year do they think it?

4) Great and totally appropriate use of the phrase "character assassinate" and not all weird. You englished real good in that post. 

Hilarious that A&M fans are whining about media bias, when they have sops like Richard Justice churning out pro-Aggie pablum over at the Texas Monthly.

 

[texifornia 56,985]

6 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Hilarious that A&M fans are whining about media bias, when they have sops like Richard Justice churning out pro-Aggie pablum over at the Texas Monthly.

 

The editors of Pravda in the 50s would probably tell him to throttle it back a bit. Fucking yikes.

[Viper 12,109]

17 minutes ago, satyanash said:

Hilarious that A&M fans are whining about media bias, when they have sops like Richard Justice churning out pro-Aggie pablum over at the Texas Monthly.

 

You mean Texas Ex sop Richard Justice? 

[Elmer_Fudd 22,265]

[Radical Larry 28,634]

Never get high off your own supply. 

[TotallyLegit 3,053]

2 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

From 100 year plans to 1 year plans...

[texifornia 56,985]

5 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

Tarp is still basking in the sweet relief of his hateboner for Jimbo finally getting satisfied.

[Chips O'Toole 1,325]

They still think the '22 class contains all the raw materials for a championship run, and they just needed to hire someone to keep it together and get a new OL coach. Oh and 2-3 championship-level OL in the portal which should be super achievable or whatever. 

[Scholz 11,944]

11 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said: