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1 minute ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Why do people keep saying "App State shocked A&M".......

They're the better team and I would pick them to win if they played again. Did people not watch the game? This wasn't some fluke. App State dominated the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. 

“A cultural bias that impedes risk identification.”

Give Jimbo a raise and extension, and lock him up (fully guaranteed) through 2031. 

When he hasn’t even put two consecutive seasons together with a winning record in conference play. 

Sounds like a brilliant strategy. What could possibly go wrong? Where is the risk in that strategy? 

Whoop! 

 

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A&M paid App State $1.5 million to come to College Station. Add that to the $9 million Jimbo Fisher is being paid not to develop a quarterback, and that's a lot of cash without much return on investment. Aggies boosters are going to have to think twice before ordering the 82-ounce ribeye at breakfast Sunday.

 

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47 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

It's a good thing that Pyle Field is so intimidating.  Otherwise Appalachian State might have put a real beat down on aggy.

When the “letter from an App State fan” materializes, talking about how awesome the Kyle Field environment is and how wonderfully spectacular aggys are, please post it. 

I’m also looking forward to the letter by the aggy fan saying how happy he is that App State won because they wanted the win more and they deserved the win more than A&M. 

You know, normal ordinary love letters that football fans write to opposing fan bases every post-game Monday morning. 

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Aggy tears should be awesome right now but when I read:

The Jimbo contract is stupid

Jimbo had bad OL at Florida State

Purdue is our peer

We will never be good

Our receivers can't get open because Jimbo's system sucks

All that stuff sounds like things we have been telling them for years. Aggy tears are best when they are crying about life being unfair but still delusional. Right now they are just a totally defeated bunch. Don't get me wrong still getting high, the problem this time is that they are putting out a low grade tear product. Now they even suck at what they do best.

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Next step will be fire the OC and look for young innovative OC. But in the end it won’t work because a good coach would have known from the start what kind of OC he needed to be successful.

When I heard Darrell Dickey, 90’s North Texas head coach, was going to be Jimbo’s OC, this whole outdated, predictable offense was well, predictable.

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38 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

King will be benched. Johnson will play. They might beat Miami with Johnson. Roller Coaster reset. Weigman will be starting by November. 

Jimbo’s gonna have hella problems with the ETX coaching mafia if he benches King. 

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They should have let the App State players party at Northgate and mingle with the aggy fans. I'm sure "the finest fans in all of college football™" would have shown them real "aggy hospitality."

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"After pulling a historic upset at No. 6 Texas A&M on Saturday, the Appalachian State football team didn't get to celebrate back home in Boone, North Carolina.

Mechanical issues with the team charter forced the Appalachian State team to spend the night at the hotel where they'd slept the previous night in College Station, a team spokesperson told ESPN. With the hotel sold out, the team spread out in various hallways, conference rooms and the lobby area.

The team spent about three hours on Saturday night at the airport before returning to the hotel around midnight. They had an unofficial 3:30 a.m. wake-up before returning to the airport, where they boarded a flight at 4:30 a.m.

The team flew to Charlotte on Sunday morning. They landed around 8:30 a.m., and the five team buses were expected to get to Boone, which is about two hours away, around 11 a.m."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34570289/travel-woes-force-appalachian-state-stay-night-college-station-upset-win-texas-am

 

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I understand King is the kid of a coach, and recruiting will suffer if he is benched, but at what point is recruiting going to suffer more if you only win one or two games a season?   I would suspect the damage done in recruiting by losing to App State is worse than pissing off the ETx coaching mafia...  

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18 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

They should have let the App State players party at Northgate and mingle with the aggy fans. I'm sure "the finest fans in all of college football™" would have shown them real "aggy hospitality."

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"After pulling a historic upset at No. 6 Texas A&M on Saturday, the Appalachian State football team didn't get to celebrate back home in Boone, North Carolina.

Mechanical issues with the team charter forced the Appalachian State team to spend the night at the hotel where they'd slept the previous night in College Station, a team spokesperson told ESPN. With the hotel sold out, the team spread out in various hallways, conference rooms and the lobby area.

The team spent about three hours on Saturday night at the airport before returning to the hotel around midnight. They had an unofficial 3:30 a.m. wake-up before returning to the airport, where they boarded a flight at 4:30 a.m.

The team flew to Charlotte on Sunday morning. They landed around 8:30 a.m., and the five team buses were expected to get to Boone, which is about two hours away, around 11 a.m."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34570289/travel-woes-force-appalachian-state-stay-night-college-station-upset-win-texas-am

 

Did they get any breakfast?

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Dan Wolken: Jimbo Fisher continues to rob Texas A&M in broad daylight

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Texas A&M’s mistake wasn’t hiring Jimbo Fisher. If you’re a historically underachieving program with unlimited resources and have the chance to bring in a national championship-winning coach, of course you do it. Even at the ridiculous price tag – initially 10 years, $75 million – it’s worth a try.

The problem is what happened right before the 2021 season kicked off when Texas A&M administrators got so intoxicated by one small whiff of success they decided to restart the contract window, only this time at $9 million annually and increasing by $100,000 every year. That not only keeps Fisher under contract through the 2031 season, it essentially makes him untouchable for most of this decade.

And based on what? A 9-1 season during the 2020 COVID year that might have been a complete fluke? Some highly-ranked recruiting classes? The supposed threat of LSU being interested if its job came open at the end of the 2021 season?

Fisher’s contract is exactly what’s wrong with college football these days: Too much money being spent on mediocre coaching rather than the players, agents being able to bully athletic directors and presidents who lack the confidence and negotiating savvy to say no to unearned extensions and desperate boosters who get hoodwinked by the idea that only one person in the whole world is capable of winning football games for them.

But maybe now it's becoming clearer at Texas A&M. The Jimbo Fisher era, at this point in time, has been a little more than a legal heist in plain daylight. It’s a complete flop – unable to produce results appreciably better than other Texas A&M coaches before him while also failing to be remotely entertaining.

Fisher had the luxury for a little while of blaming his predecessor, Kevin Sumlin, for lackluster results. But by the time you get to Year 5, you’re not rebuilding anymore. The program is supposed to be humming by now. Instead, Texas A&M looks to be once again in the muck of mediocrity after a 17-14 loss at home to Appalachian State.

These things shouldn’t be happening anymore at Texas A&M, given the massive amount of investment and support Fisher has had from the administration and fan base. There are a lot of coaches you could hire for half the price to go 8-4 at Texas A&M, but they hired Fisher to compete for national titles. There are no excuses for not checking that box by now.

There is, of course, still hope that it can happen. However Texas A&M pulled it off, whatever machinations in the name, image and likeness world helped get it done, the Aggies' freshman class was No. 1 in the recruiting rankings this past year with eight five-star prospects. That should guarantee a certain level of baseline success in the next couple years.

But at some point for any fan base, the promises of what could happen in the future do not outweigh the reality of what they’re seeing on the field. And save for two seasons at Florida State when Fisher had Jameis Winston playing quarterback and one of the most talented rosters in the history of college football, he’s a three- or four-loss coach. It’s not a small sample size, either, but it’s what A&M has signed up for – to the tune of more than $100 million by the time it’s all said and done.

That’s why the Aggies are No. 1 in this week’s Misery Index, a weekly measurement of which fan bases are feeling the most angst about the state of their favorite program.

 

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1 hour ago, Randolph Duke said:

They should have let the App State players party at Northgate and mingle with the aggy fans. I'm sure "the finest fans in all of college football™" would have shown them real "aggy hospitality."

lol

"After pulling a historic upset at No. 6 Texas A&M on Saturday, the Appalachian State football team didn't get to celebrate back home in Boone, North Carolina.

Mechanical issues with the team charter forced the Appalachian State team to spend the night at the hotel where they'd slept the previous night in College Station, a team spokesperson told ESPN. With the hotel sold out, the team spread out in various hallways, conference rooms and the lobby area.

The team spent about three hours on Saturday night at the airport before returning to the hotel around midnight. They had an unofficial 3:30 a.m. wake-up before returning to the airport, where they boarded a flight at 4:30 a.m.

The team flew to Charlotte on Sunday morning. They landed around 8:30 a.m., and the five team buses were expected to get to Boone, which is about two hours away, around 11 a.m."

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34570289/travel-woes-force-appalachian-state-stay-night-college-station-upset-win-texas-am

 

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