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3 minutes ago, Elmer_Fudd said:

Which portal addition so far even looks like a guy that can give a solid contribution?  The Florida EDGE maybe?  Mario Craver?  Everyone else looks like a JAG.

Our two position portal takes have much more production/playing experience than anybody they've brought in.

They need a lot of help on the DL. Those jags from last night + portal additions are a major downgrade from Turner, Scourton, and Stewart. That is going to have a huge impact on their season next year. 

 

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57 minutes ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

Any chance Elko spends some time with Dan Campbell this offseason? His first season in Detroit was obviously much rougher but did have a few similarities as far as not being able to get over the hump…

I think you're probably referencing Dan's second year in Detroit. Interestingly enough, I've floated the idea to both coaches and would love to facilitate the two sitting down during the off-season.

Looch to facilitate an aggy meeting of the minds!

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Thank you, @Longhornfrenzy, as always.

Now William Liucci speaks of the situation. He refers to Coach Culture as a dude.

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William Starfucker wants to get chummy with Elko or at least appear to be chummy with Head Coach Belch. In case he is reading the column, William butters up his soon-to-be close personal friend (who likes butter a lot!) with a ringing endorsement at this very dark hour.

 

Now, William on winning:

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  1. No shit, Bill.
  2. Who are you quoting and what does in the moment momentum mean? How does it differ from regular momentum?
  3. So it is with all forms of momentum.
  4. One imagines the country with mouths agape and eyes filled with excited admiration of the giant awakening. Everyone would be talking about A&M. "How did a dog ass team like that get to the SEC championship game? They need to take a look at their selection process."
  5. Tangible momentum? William doesn't understand either word, apparently. It's right up there with NIL on the list of things Aggies don't understand.
  6. No shit, Bill.

 

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Gonna be a big jump for the team and players currently on the roster. But, you gotta hit the portal hard because of all the shitty players we have.

 

Here's an interesting rumination on the separation of culture and good football:

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Um, what's the proof of a good culture? I'm no football genius, but playing disciplined football might be an indicator. Elko said the same thing in his post game remarks. The culture is in, so good football is next.

Everybody over there said the new culture had taken hold in the summer (Looky! We have all the players at practice today!) The players said so, too. They still played pretty shitty football. I think the grasp of culture over there is similar to their grasp of NIL and momentum.

 

Here's a terrific idea!

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I'm sure they're both grateful to you, William. 

You know, Coach Elko, maybe you could talk to my close personal friend Dave Campbell. Might do you good and drive away some of the sadness.

I assume you mean Dan Campbell. Sure, (urp) I'll get right on that.

Hi Coach Campbell, it's Loochi.

(long, long silence)

Billy Liucci.

(long, long silence)

You the asshole that my girl has been dating that's always asking for a sideline pass? Listen, Bub-

No! Billy Li-uuu-cci. Owner and Editor and Proprietor of TexAgs.

O God, what do you want?

I was thinking you and Coach Elko could get together to talk about his rough season.

That's a result of thinking?

Yessir. I'll facilitate the meeting if you like. My mom's house would work perfectly.

I'll put you on the line with my personal assistant.

(dial tone) 

Hmmm. Must have messed up the transfer.

 

This whole idea reminded me of how TexAgs produced a number of posts suggesting Calzeda be hosted at a BBQ by Aggie fathers and distinguished corps guys who would buck him up and give him tips on manly manfulness.

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50 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Dan Campbell is the only guy that could fix them. Thank goodness he’s entrenched as a successful NFL HC, and he’ll likely never have to take a step back in his career. 

Eh, NFL coaching and NCAA coaching are entirely different animals. Pure coach versus total program manager.

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53 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Dan Campbell is the only guy that could fix them. Thank goodness he’s entrenched as a successful NFL HC, and he’ll likely never have to take a step back in his career. 

I have as much college coaching experience as Dan Campbell.

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23 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Their DBs are horrible as you saw last night. This is called desperation. 

Add Denver Harris to make the horrible DB "better".

Bond strategy.  Cotton. Let's see how this plays out. 

Sucked at aggy, sucked at LSU, sucked at UTSA, and how will hopefully come full circle ans continue his toxic behavior. I'm sure Ellk will whip in to shape in no time. Until he portals out in the spring windows to land at Alabama A$M only to go undrafted and out of football immediately. 

What's his backup plan? Go the Ksndall Jones,

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4 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Dan Campbell is the only guy that could fix them. Thank goodness he’s entrenched as a successful NFL HC, and he’ll likely never have to take a step back in his career. 

Wasn't the rumor that they thought he would come running when they fired Jimbo?

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4 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Dan Campbell is the only guy that could fix them. Thank goodness he’s entrenched as a successful NFL HC, and he’ll likely never have to take a step back in his career. 

When you say fix them do you mean 9-3 or do you mean they get female cheerleaders. Aggy would have to admit being broken so he could fix them and that ain’t happening anytime soon. 

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16 hours ago, texifornia said:

Eh, NFL coaching and NCAA coaching are entirely different animals. Pure coach versus total program manager.

Watch this space with Stanford, I posted about it a bit on the general football board.  They’ve hired Drew Luck as head of football operations with the HC reporting to him. I think it’s an interesting move and am sure other P5 schools are watching.  With NIL and the portal, roster and budget management are now such a huge part of the game, it’s right for someone with a moneyball mentality to come in and let the HC just do Xs and Os and some of the happy side of recruiting. 
 

The experiment could be a dead end but trying it out was inevitable. 

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Liucci 


Segment 1 (00:00:00 - 09:20:19)

I am not happy with the way things finished. No one should be. If the people in the building across the street weren't really disappointed by it, then it's the wrong coaches and players. I don't believe that is the case. They were working yesterday because they know it is not good enough.
 

I don't expect anyone to be happy about it. Where I draw my personal line is if you are going to be an ass, then I will take you being an ass and raise you the biggest jerk you have ever seen. I treat people well, but I treat you how you treat me. People in real life are nice. People on a site, whether on TexAgs or any website, become an outlet for this inner jackass. I have no time for those people. It's a very small but very loud percentage.
 

The normal sports fan is pissed about the way the season went. I am, too. It's different covering the team, but for all the people who flew out to South Carolina, Auburn or Vegas or paid top dollar to watch A&M-Texas, it's very disappointing. It's frustrating. If you want to get angry about it, I get it. A lot of people devote a lot of time, resources and energy towards helping the program win. I get all of that.
 

Where I draw my line is when you don't have the right to expect people to not say, "I don't want to hear that." If you don't want to hear anything positive, don't listen to it. If it's not negative enough for you, I don't know what to tell you. The way to go here is to be calm, rational and honest, but see the big picture and be fair about it.
 

For the people who get mad about someone not being angry enough, listen to the words and conversation. If that is not enough for you, then don't listen. We are being more than fair and plenty critical.
 

There are things to be optimistic about. If you want to say you don't want to go there yet and be hopeful... Look, you got some nice wide receivers they are adding from the portal, and they are keeping key players with NIL. They are doing a great job with player retention. They signed a top-10 2025 class. They are doing nice things in the portal, and if they can finish off the defensive line, you feel really good. I wonder if there is room for another linebacker or defensive back. I would find myself another Scooby Williams-type.
 

At times, I saw enough from the offense where you go, "I need to see it to believe it, and I am not going to buy in." I get that. To look at it logically and not expect a noticeable improvement in year one to year two, I think you are letting your anger get in the way. The personnel and the quarterback are plugged into where we are now and what he should be next year. If that is not for you, that's fine, but don't crap on anybody that frankly is trying to look ahead and see where the team should be better. There are plenty of reasons to say this thing should certainly work, and it is fair to say.
 

If you guys don't think I am frustrated, or Nuño isn’t, or people at A&M aren’t, everybody is. It is what it is. There are a lot of college programs sitting in this position right now. A&M is in a unique position in that a lot is poured into this. It's year one of a head coach. There were ups and downs, and the downs were at the end of the season.

Segment 2 (09:20:20 - 16:29:10)

Everybody wants to be right. People will magically forget when they are wrong and tell you when they are right.
 

2021 was the early time people were getting on Jimbo Fisher. A year after that was an 8-4 season with a win over Alabama with a backup QB. Who would have known you would continue to have backup QBs with a bad offensive line? You didn't know that after 2021. You guessed right if you were out on Fisher after 2021. You probably guessed a lot of things wrong, too. I am wrong, too. But I am right a lot, and angry fans will never point that out.
 

All of this is fine if you are not a jackass. If you run a Twitter account and are A&M-related and want to take a shot at us, I will not engage with that. I am not giving you a platform. If you are a site I don't respect, and most of them I do, but there are a couple that like to take shots at us. The door is right there. We don't do that on social media. We can have a conversation. It’s a failed effort if you try and bait me.

Segment 3 (16:29:11 - 31:03:27)

In Dan Campbell's first year with the Lions, they were 3-13. It doesn't happen overnight for a lot of people. Both things can be true. In its totality in year one, for any first-year coach, you can go down the list of things they did accomplish. All of you know it, and you choose to acknowledge it, or you don't. There is a reality of how you finished, and it should be. It dulls the enthusiasm. I am not just a fan, but I am a fan. I am a fan of the Astros.
 

Some of you would love a show where we went crazy. It would get tiresome. The fans that want to crap on everything forever, it gets tiresome. Fans that want to be pissed watching A&M lose its fourth Power 4 game in a row, I get it. Everybody is mad.
 

I get the anger, frustration and disappointment. I am not going to tell anyone that they shouldn't feel that way. The overwhelming majority appreciates our words and the show. I don't care if you don't like it. 8-5 in year one is not bad. Not good, but not bad. Better than a lot of teams historically around this league. People don't want to hear that now, but you know it's true. You were 8-5, but two of the wins were against top-10 teams. "But it was Missouri and LSU." That's not how we do it. 8-5 with four wins over teams with winning records. In the last three years combined, A&M won four games against SEC teams with winning records. This year, A&M beat Missouri, LSU, Florida and Arkansas. This is not a parade thing. The point is that there was an improvement in this program. The problem is the end of the season didn't make it feel like it. The reality is they lost two games basically on a play. They should’ve beat USC. They should have beaten Auburn. You should have won them.
 

A&M is not "a lot more talented" than South Carolina. It's probably even. They are not "a lot more talented" than Auburn. It's probably even. They are not "a lot more talented" than Florida. Florida couldn't get it figured out. They are getting pillaged in the portal. You look at A&M and see the defensive line talent then you look around and go, "Where are the NFL Draft picks?" They will be young guys. Guys like Chase Bisontis and Le'Veon Moss, but where were they outside of the defensive line and say, "That's a lay-down NFL guy”?
 

You should have beat Auburn and USC. That's why you are frustrated. You know they should have been able to get a yard in three tries against Texas. You know that game should have been 17-14 with six or so minutes left. Then you put real pressure on that offense and Quinn Ewers. You get the 100,000 people that came to your stadium to root you on and be a real factor. You know those those things should have happened. That's why you are discouraged.
 

It doesn't mean throwing the whole thing in the dumpster. It doesn't mean no one can have any optimism moving forward. Any player can go into the portal and make more money than they make on their current team. There will come a point where Texas, in the playoff run, will have conversations about whether they should keep a player because he is asking for "this." If the answer is "no," if they leave, they will probably get paid more than they would've gotten to stay at Texas.
 

These guys that are staying, it’s not because of money. They could get paid anywhere. They are staying because they have optimism about where it’s heading. The recruits and portal commits have optimism. It's not a guarantee that this passing game will explode. Marcel Reed has to continue to develop, which, by the way, I thought he played a lot better. He has a ways to go. He was a freshman.
 

These receivers have a lot of confidence in this passing game and quarterback moving forward.
 

It's not unacceptable to talk about the future. You can do both and say, that sucked. But you can say the year was not a disaster, and it was a solid first season. Year two, to me, is the hardest one because the expectation is to make a jump. This team needs to figure out a way to win nine games. Go win a bowl game and be 10-3 next year. You look at the schedule, and it will be hard to do. NIL, you are up there. The expectation is to make a significant jump in year two with what I think is a harder schedule and three defensive linemen that went to the NFL

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7 minutes ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

You should have beat Auburn and USC. That's why you are frustrated. You know they should have been able to get a yard in three tries against Texas. You know that game should have been 17-14 with six or so minutes left. Then you put real pressure on that offense and Quinn Ewers. You get the 100,000 people that came to your stadium to root you on and be a real factor. You know those those things should have happened. That's

So why “should” any of those things happened?

and if they “should” have happened but didn’t, why isn’t that an indictment on the team and coaches?

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35 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

So why “should” any of those things happened?

and if they “should” have happened but didn’t, why isn’t that an indictment on the team and coaches?

You’re doing it all wrong. It’s like this:

“We should’ve made those field goals and won the SEC Championship.”

Then, “That was our SEC Championship, or should’ve been.”

Then, “2024, our SEC Championship year...”

See how it works? 

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1 hour ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

This team needs to figure out a way to win nine games. Go win a bowl game and be 10-3 next year.

Set the expectation at 10 wins, despite the fact that TAMU has won 10 games in a season once in the last 25 years, and a total of 12 times in the 130 years of TAMU football. Never change, Liucci.

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2 hours ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

Liucci 


Segment 1 (00:00:00 - 09:20:19)

I am not happy with the way things finished. No one should be. If the people in the building across the street weren't really disappointed by it, then it's the wrong coaches and players. I don't believe that is the case. They were working yesterday because they know it is not good enough.
 

I don't expect anyone to be happy about it. Where I draw my personal line is if you are going to be an ass, then I will take you being an ass and raise you the biggest jerk you have ever seen. I treat people well, but I treat you how you treat me. People in real life are nice. People on a site, whether on TexAgs or any website, become an outlet for this inner jackass. I have no time for those people. It's a very small but very loud percentage.
 

The normal sports fan is pissed about the way the season went. I am, too. It's different covering the team, but for all the people who flew out to South Carolina, Auburn or Vegas or paid top dollar to watch A&M-Texas, it's very disappointing. It's frustrating. If you want to get angry about it, I get it. A lot of people devote a lot of time, resources and energy towards helping the program win. I get all of that.
 

Where I draw my line is when you don't have the right to expect people to not say, "I don't want to hear that." If you don't want to hear anything positive, don't listen to it. If it's not negative enough for you, I don't know what to tell you. The way to go here is to be calm, rational and honest, but see the big picture and be fair about it.
 

For the people who get mad about someone not being angry enough, listen to the words and conversation. If that is not enough for you, then don't listen. We are being more than fair and plenty critical.
 

There are things to be optimistic about. If you want to say you don't want to go there yet and be hopeful... Look, you got some nice wide receivers they are adding from the portal, and they are keeping key players with NIL. They are doing a great job with player retention. They signed a top-10 2025 class. They are doing nice things in the portal, and if they can finish off the defensive line, you feel really good. I wonder if there is room for another linebacker or defensive back. I would find myself another Scooby Williams-type.
 

At times, I saw enough from the offense where you go, "I need to see it to believe it, and I am not going to buy in." I get that. To look at it logically and not expect a noticeable improvement in year one to year two, I think you are letting your anger get in the way. The personnel and the quarterback are plugged into where we are now and what he should be next year. If that is not for you, that's fine, but don't crap on anybody that frankly is trying to look ahead and see where the team should be better. There are plenty of reasons to say this thing should certainly work, and it is fair to say.
 

If you guys don't think I am frustrated, or Nuño isn’t, or people at A&M aren’t, everybody is. It is what it is. There are a lot of college programs sitting in this position right now. A&M is in a unique position in that a lot is poured into this. It's year one of a head coach. There were ups and downs, and the downs were at the end of the season.

Segment 2 (09:20:20 - 16:29:10)

Everybody wants to be right. People will magically forget when they are wrong and tell you when they are right.
 

2021 was the early time people were getting on Jimbo Fisher. A year after that was an 8-4 season with a win over Alabama with a backup QB. Who would have known you would continue to have backup QBs with a bad offensive line? You didn't know that after 2021. You guessed right if you were out on Fisher after 2021. You probably guessed a lot of things wrong, too. I am wrong, too. But I am right a lot, and angry fans will never point that out.
 

All of this is fine if you are not a jackass. If you run a Twitter account and are A&M-related and want to take a shot at us, I will not engage with that. I am not giving you a platform. If you are a site I don't respect, and most of them I do, but there are a couple that like to take shots at us. The door is right there. We don't do that on social media. We can have a conversation. It’s a failed effort if you try and bait me.

Segment 3 (16:29:11 - 31:03:27)

In Dan Campbell's first year with the Lions, they were 3-13. It doesn't happen overnight for a lot of people. Both things can be true. In its totality in year one, for any first-year coach, you can go down the list of things they did accomplish. All of you know it, and you choose to acknowledge it, or you don't. There is a reality of how you finished, and it should be. It dulls the enthusiasm. I am not just a fan, but I am a fan. I am a fan of the Astros.
 

Some of you would love a show where we went crazy. It would get tiresome. The fans that want to crap on everything forever, it gets tiresome. Fans that want to be pissed watching A&M lose its fourth Power 4 game in a row, I get it. Everybody is mad.
 

I get the anger, frustration and disappointment. I am not going to tell anyone that they shouldn't feel that way. The overwhelming majority appreciates our words and the show. I don't care if you don't like it. 8-5 in year one is not bad. Not good, but not bad. Better than a lot of teams historically around this league. People don't want to hear that now, but you know it's true. You were 8-5, but two of the wins were against top-10 teams. "But it was Missouri and LSU." That's not how we do it. 8-5 with four wins over teams with winning records. In the last three years combined, A&M won four games against SEC teams with winning records. This year, A&M beat Missouri, LSU, Florida and Arkansas. This is not a parade thing. The point is that there was an improvement in this program. The problem is the end of the season didn't make it feel like it. The reality is they lost two games basically on a play. They should’ve beat USC. They should have beaten Auburn. You should have won them.
 

A&M is not "a lot more talented" than South Carolina. It's probably even. They are not "a lot more talented" than Auburn. It's probably even. They are not "a lot more talented" than Florida. Florida couldn't get it figured out. They are getting pillaged in the portal. You look at A&M and see the defensive line talent then you look around and go, "Where are the NFL Draft picks?" They will be young guys. Guys like Chase Bisontis and Le'Veon Moss, but where were they outside of the defensive line and say, "That's a lay-down NFL guy”?
 

You should have beat Auburn and USC. That's why you are frustrated. You know they should have been able to get a yard in three tries against Texas. You know that game should have been 17-14 with six or so minutes left. Then you put real pressure on that offense and Quinn Ewers. You get the 100,000 people that came to your stadium to root you on and be a real factor. You know those those things should have happened. That's why you are discouraged.
 

It doesn't mean throwing the whole thing in the dumpster. It doesn't mean no one can have any optimism moving forward. Any player can go into the portal and make more money than they make on their current team. There will come a point where Texas, in the playoff run, will have conversations about whether they should keep a player because he is asking for "this." If the answer is "no," if they leave, they will probably get paid more than they would've gotten to stay at Texas.
 

These guys that are staying, it’s not because of money. They could get paid anywhere. They are staying because they have optimism about where it’s heading. The recruits and portal commits have optimism. It's not a guarantee that this passing game will explode. Marcel Reed has to continue to develop, which, by the way, I thought he played a lot better. He has a ways to go. He was a freshman.
 

These receivers have a lot of confidence in this passing game and quarterback moving forward.
 

It's not unacceptable to talk about the future. You can do both and say, that sucked. But you can say the year was not a disaster, and it was a solid first season. Year two, to me, is the hardest one because the expectation is to make a jump. This team needs to figure out a way to win nine games. Go win a bowl game and be 10-3 next year. You look at the schedule, and it will be hard to do. NIL, you are up there. The expectation is to make a significant jump in year two with what I think is a harder schedule and three defensive linemen that went to the NFL


That's a lot of words to say "We suck. We have always sucked. We always will suck. It's tradition."

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34 minutes ago, Updawg said:

Comparing them to Dan Campbell and the lions. They will eat that shit up


On the other hand, by this time next year, me and my posse of folks with TexAgs socks are going to be claiming that, last year, Billy said that Elko is the next Dan Campbell and that A&M is the new Lions. Watch and learn.

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William's a weird guy.

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Is he saying he will adopt asses and raise them to be big jerks? He should really consult Olin, TexAgs Poet Laureate, about communicating in English.

One of the greatest sentences ever written/uttered:

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Fascinating. I think now we all have a clear understanding of where William draws his line. He surely knows about rights!

 

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Nice things. You feel really good. Nice. There's that top 10 class which is about 7th in the SEC. Nice. Great job with player retention. Nice. The MAC and Missouri Valley conferences aren't getting their guys back! Feelin' good. Optimism. Have another gummy.

 

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1 William is off script. It's Sark's first year that they compare themselves to. Standby for confused parrots.

2 What doesn't?

3 Both what things? Starting 3-13 and something not happening overnight? Those are the same things.

4 In its totality? What? Both things? 

5 There is a reality of how you finished, and it should be. WTF? 

6 Is there somebody else in the room that nobody but William sees? 

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7 Inside, William has contradictions. An enema wrapped in an igmo struggling to connect thoughts and words.

 

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Yes! You don't want to apply real pressure until just the right moment. That right moment is when the score is 17-14 in a game you lost 17-7 where your coach says you were physically annihilated. If only that perfect moment to apply pressure had happened. Sadly, the real pressure stayed in the holster.

 

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Interesting premise, William. I'm sure you're right.

 

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It's certainly that and not:

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I'm beginning to think Olin or William's mom or maybe even Dreamy Brauny should review the meaning of "both" to William. William owns the double negative, though.

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1 hour ago, Updawg said:

Comparing them to Dan Campbell and the lions. They will eat that shit up

He had to quit with the Sarkisian and Saban comparisons because those were pissing everyone off. He still has to make excuses and buy Elko time since he wants to keep his personal access.

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He knows damn well they are going to struggle to get to 6 wins let alone 9 regular season wins. Their road schedule is brutal, they will likely be double digit dogs to ND and Texas, while LSU, Missouri, and Arkansas will likely be favorites. Then they get Florida, South Carolina, and Auburn at home and all 3 of those teams likely have better rosters than they will.

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1 minute ago, HtownHorn said:

He knows damn well they are going to struggle to get to 6 wins let alone 9 regular season wins. Their road schedule is brutal, they will likely be double digit dogs to ND and Texas, while LSU, Missouri, and Arkansas will likely be favorites. Then they get Florida, South Carolina, and Auburn at home and all 3 of those teams likely have better rosters than they will.

Don't get suckered into this. They’re not Texas 8 and 4 for no reason 

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6 hours ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

Liucci 


Segment 1 (00:00:00 - 09:20:19)

I am not happy with the way things finished. No one should be. If the people in the building across the street weren't really disappointed by it, then it's the wrong coaches and players. I don't believe that is the case. They were working yesterday because they know it is not good enough.
 

I don't expect anyone to be happy about it. Where I draw my personal line is if you are going to be an ass, then I will take you being an ass and raise you the biggest jerk you have ever seen. I treat people well, but I treat you how you treat me. People in real life are nice. People on a site, whether on TexAgs or any website, become an outlet for this inner jackass. I have no time for those people. It's a very small but very loud percentage.
 

The normal sports fan is pissed about the way the season went. I am, too. It's different covering the team, but for all the people who flew out to South Carolina, Auburn or Vegas or paid top dollar to watch A&M-Texas, it's very disappointing. It's frustrating. If you want to get angry about it, I get it. A lot of people devote a lot of time, resources and energy towards helping the program win. I get all of that.
 

Where I draw my line is when you don't have the right to expect people to not say, "I don't want to hear that." If you don't want to hear anything positive, don't listen to it. If it's not negative enough for you, I don't know what to tell you. The way to go here is to be calm, rational and honest, but see the big picture and be fair about it.
 

For the people who get mad about someone not being angry enough, listen to the words and conversation. If that is not enough for you, then don't listen. We are being more than fair and plenty critical.
 

There are things to be optimistic about. If you want to say you don't want to go there yet and be hopeful... Look, you got some nice wide receivers they are adding from the portal, and they are keeping key players with NIL. They are doing a great job with player retention. They signed a top-10 2025 class. They are doing nice things in the portal, and if they can finish off the defensive line, you feel really good. I wonder if there is room for another linebacker or defensive back. I would find myself another Scooby Williams-type.
 

At times, I saw enough from the offense where you go, "I need to see it to believe it, and I am not going to buy in." I get that. To look at it logically and not expect a noticeable improvement in year one to year two, I think you are letting your anger get in the way. The personnel and the quarterback are plugged into where we are now and what he should be next year. If that is not for you, that's fine, but don't crap on anybody that frankly is trying to look ahead and see where the team should be better. There are plenty of reasons to say this thing should certainly work, and it is fair to say.
 

If you guys don't think I am frustrated, or Nuño isn’t, or people at A&M aren’t, everybody is. It is what it is. There are a lot of college programs sitting in this position right now. A&M is in a unique position in that a lot is poured into this. It's year one of a head coach. There were ups and downs, and the downs were at the end of the season.

Segment 2 (09:20:20 - 16:29:10)

Everybody wants to be right. People will magically forget when they are wrong and tell you when they are right.
 

2021 was the early time people were getting on Jimbo Fisher. A year after that was an 8-4 season with a win over Alabama with a backup QB. Who would have known you would continue to have backup QBs with a bad offensive line? You didn't know that after 2021. You guessed right if you were out on Fisher after 2021. You probably guessed a lot of things wrong, too. I am wrong, too. But I am right a lot, and angry fans will never point that out.
 

All of this is fine if you are not a jackass. If you run a Twitter account and are A&M-related and want to take a shot at us, I will not engage with that. I am not giving you a platform. If you are a site I don't respect, and most of them I do, but there are a couple that like to take shots at us. The door is right there. We don't do that on social media. We can have a conversation. It’s a failed effort if you try and bait me.

Segment 3 (16:29:11 - 31:03:27)

In Dan Campbell's first year with the Lions, they were 3-13. It doesn't happen overnight for a lot of people. Both things can be true. In its totality in year one, for any first-year coach, you can go down the list of things they did accomplish. All of you know it, and you choose to acknowledge it, or you don't. There is a reality of how you finished, and it should be. It dulls the enthusiasm. I am not just a fan, but I am a fan. I am a fan of the Astros.
 

Some of you would love a show where we went crazy. It would get tiresome. The fans that want to crap on everything forever, it gets tiresome. Fans that want to be pissed watching A&M lose its fourth Power 4 game in a row, I get it. Everybody is mad.
 

I get the anger, frustration and disappointment. I am not going to tell anyone that they shouldn't feel that way. The overwhelming majority appreciates our words and the show. I don't care if you don't like it. 8-5 in year one is not bad. Not good, but not bad. Better than a lot of teams historically around this league. People don't want to hear that now, but you know it's true. You were 8-5, but two of the wins were against top-10 teams. "But it was Missouri and LSU." That's not how we do it. 8-5 with four wins over teams with winning records. In the last three years combined, A&M won four games against SEC teams with winning records. This year, A&M beat Missouri, LSU, Florida and Arkansas. This is not a parade thing. The point is that there was an improvement in this program. The problem is the end of the season didn't make it feel like it. The reality is they lost two games basically on a play. They should’ve beat USC. They should have beaten Auburn. You should have won them.
 

A&M is not "a lot more talented" than South Carolina. It's probably even. They are not "a lot more talented" than Auburn. It's probably even. They are not "a lot more talented" than Florida. Florida couldn't get it figured out. They are getting pillaged in the portal. You look at A&M and see the defensive line talent then you look around and go, "Where are the NFL Draft picks?" They will be young guys. Guys like Chase Bisontis and Le'Veon Moss, but where were they outside of the defensive line and say, "That's a lay-down NFL guy”?
 

You should have beat Auburn and USC. That's why you are frustrated. You know they should have been able to get a yard in three tries against Texas. You know that game should have been 17-14 with six or so minutes left. Then you put real pressure on that offense and Quinn Ewers. You get the 100,000 people that came to your stadium to root you on and be a real factor. You know those those things should have happened. That's why you are discouraged.
 

It doesn't mean throwing the whole thing in the dumpster. It doesn't mean no one can have any optimism moving forward. Any player can go into the portal and make more money than they make on their current team. There will come a point where Texas, in the playoff run, will have conversations about whether they should keep a player because he is asking for "this." If the answer is "no," if they leave, they will probably get paid more than they would've gotten to stay at Texas.
 

These guys that are staying, it’s not because of money. They could get paid anywhere. They are staying because they have optimism about where it’s heading. The recruits and portal commits have optimism. It's not a guarantee that this passing game will explode. Marcel Reed has to continue to develop, which, by the way, I thought he played a lot better. He has a ways to go. He was a freshman.
 

These receivers have a lot of confidence in this passing game and quarterback moving forward.
 

It's not unacceptable to talk about the future. You can do both and say, that sucked. But you can say the year was not a disaster, and it was a solid first season. Year two, to me, is the hardest one because the expectation is to make a jump. This team needs to figure out a way to win nine games. Go win a bowl game and be 10-3 next year. You look at the schedule, and it will be hard to do. NIL, you are up there. The expectation is to make a significant jump in year two with what I think is a harder schedule and three defensive linemen that went to the NFL

I’m convinced he takes a Xanax before he goes on air. The calmness, the weird ramblings, paranoid thoughts, irrational comparisons.

This is why he never melts down on air, it’s always on Twitter or in aTexAgs thread. 

How Nuno introduces Looch is bizarre. He’s either running late and they interview him in the car, take a commercial break, and he staggers into the studio OR he’s just late as shit and staggers into the studio during hour 3. And again, his co-hosts never interrupt him. They just let him go for 45 minutes to an hour of him taking to himself. 
 

He always been obsessed with the males interns. Just weird fucking questions about their personal lives. 
 

Lately, he’s been obsessed with buying a baseball glove from Academy. I shit you not. He’s spent hours in consecutive weeks talking about how he should go buy a mitt and play catch with Brauny. 

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26 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I’m convinced he takes a Xanax before he goes on air. The calmness, the weird ramblings, paranoid thoughts, irrational comparisons.

This is why he never melts down on air, it’s always on Twitter or in aTexAgs thread. 

How Nuno introduces Looch is bizarre. He’s either running late and they interview him in the car, take a commercial break, and he staggers into the studio OR he’s just late as shit and staggers into the studio during hour 3. And again, his co-hosts never interrupt him. They just let him go for 45 minutes to an hour of him taking to himself. 

The gloryholes don’t man themselves. 

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On 12/29/2024 at 8:06 AM, Longhornfrenzy said:

Liucci

12/29/24

What are your general thoughts and feelings right now both short and long term?

Long term I believe the guy coaching at Texas A&M is going to figure it out. ... But he has to get there, and doing so requires winning in the short-term. The Ags ... fell hard in November. 

I even think last night was a chance to score tangible momentum entering the off-season and the Ags didn't do that (in pretty embarrassing and discouraging fashion, no less).

... the head coach and DC clearly have a lot to figure out when you look at how the Ags played on that side of the ball (defense) for halves and/or full games all too often this season. ... the head-scratcher for me is the fact that Elko openly stated this off-season on more than one occasion how excited he was about this year's defense even compared to past A&M units he's coached. Definitely something the head man has to be very disappointed in ...

Outlook for next season?

There really should be a noticeable year one to year two jump for a program under a new regime and also for a ton of individuals ...

...help also needs to arrive and if I'm Elko right now, I'm taking a hard look at every position.

... you also had guys you're planning to depend on next year on both sides playing who struggled mightily to make winning plays.

... the book was out on the Ags by the time November rolled around. Make Reed and the A&M passing game beat you down the field, sit on early-down runs and run right at the Aggie defense. South Carolina, Auburn and Texas did so with alarming degrees of success. 

Look, I'm as disappointed as all of you are about the way things went after the LSU win but let's be productive with the conversations and stop acting like kids or like this is social media. I don't have the time or patience for it today ... 

the reality is A&M was a completely unnecessary INT and a short FG miss from putting up 41 points. 

After the last 4 meaningful games, do you really see much of a culture change? Still had same sloppy penalties/missed tackles/drops etc and seemed to regress as the season went, especially on defense. I did see penalties and missed tackles as ongoing issues but that's more playing clean football than it is culture ... but I think this group and program have a lot further to go in the learning to win department than culture.

Any chance Elko spends some time with Dan Campbell this offseason? His first season in Detroit was obviously much rougher but did have a few similarities as far as not being able to get over the hump…

I think you're probably referencing Dan's second year in Detroit. Interestingly enough, I've floated the idea to both coaches and would love to facilitate the two sitting down during the off-season.

Rough ending and some real questions that need to be answered after the way the team finished but that was a solid first season and not only that folks should walk away feeling hopeless after watching.

... the Ags were so bad when it mattered most with some important 2025 pieces and several starters out there letting it happen. Somehow, someway, the players needed to step up and ... the coaches ... figure out how to make that happen.

So much to unpack here. 

Things have to be better next year, they just have to ... but he (Elk)has to get there, and doing so requires winning.

They have a lot to figure out on defense, help needs to arrive ... take a hard look at every position, several starters out here letting it happen Somehow, someway, the players needed to step up and ... the coaches ... figure out how to make that happen.

stop acting like kids or like this is social media... 

a completely unnecessary INT

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 ... folks should walk away feeling hopeless after watching

... the Ags were so bad when it mattered most

On 12/29/2024 at 9:04 AM, WBT said:

Looch to facilitate an aggy meeting of the minds!

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Simply taking a look at Dan Campbell and then the Elk tells you everything you need to know.

Campbell had the escape velocity (and body shape) to get away from aggieland,

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