I feel for A&M Fans

[ntxVOL]

I wouldn't waste too many tears on the Aggies, they mostly hate us.

 

[DC_Vol]

Same for us. They told us the same thing. They said that the sec would regret the day letting them in

They’re not even in yet and I already regret it.

 

[M40]

Same for us. They told us the same thing. They said that the sec would regret the day letting them in

Texas would have taken their coach regardless of what conference Texas is in. Don’t forget that a few years ago, A$M started the craziness of big NIL by spending 30-35 mill to buy the top football recruiting class in the history of rankings.

 

[Nerwen Aldarion]

Texas would have taken their coach regardless of what conference Texas is in. Don’t forget that a few years ago, A$M started the craziness of big NIL by spending 30-35 mill to buy the top football recruiting class in the history of rankings.

And did absolutely nothing with it. That’s the best part

 

[ntxVOL]

The ones suffering the most in this are the players. They had a great season but, even though the fell short, were not given a chance to celebrate. Instead, they get punched in the gut.

Schloss is 100% to blame for that.

 

[VOLtaism]

The ones suffering the most in this are the players. They had a great season but, even though the fell short, were not given a chance to celebrate. Instead, they get punched in the gut.

Schloss is 100% to blame for that.

They did not pity themselves for long everyone left hit the portal yesterday. They probably entered just to beat the deadline and give themself options, in case the coach hired was not someone they wanted to play for. Since they can be contacted now I doubt any of them will return.
I think this coaching change was instituted when the Texas AD got the job in 2017. Schlossnage was his man and they made a deal he would coach for Texas when the position became available.

 

[Rocky Top T]

I was ready to burn things when Fulmer and co blew the 01 SECCG and the pending trip to Pasedena. Can’t imagine if he left right after that.

Wish he would have left after that

 

[ntxVOL]

They did not pity themselves for long everyone left hit the portal yesterday. They probably entered just to beat the deadline and give themself options, in case the coach hired was not someone they wanted to play for. Since they can be contacted now I doubt any of them will return.
I think this coaching change was instituted when the Texas AD got the job in 2017. Schlossnage was his man and they made a deal he would coach for Texas when the position became available.

The players entering the portal from A&M get a 30 day window because their coach is leaving.

They have to do what's best for themselves but it does give them a chance to shop around while waiting to see who A&M hires.

 

[VOLfrombama]

Wish he would have left after that

Some would say this was the point where his career went downhill. I am one of those. But hindsight is 20/20 and he was an annual contender at that point so no way I would have wanted him to leave at that moment in time.

Now a good ole fashioned butt whoopin for the way the team handled pressure situations and especially a backup QB in that game would have 100% been in order.

 

[VolsLFC]

I felt bad for them until I found out that they stole our pitch com. Absolute bush league. Also never feel bad for a cult.

 

[fryeguy93]

Before the final series I read an article speaking about how the Aggie fans in Omaha were more pessimistic than the Vol fans in Omaha due to the seemingly endless examples of curses befalling A&M.

I laughed it off.

Not today.

However, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I doubt any other P5 school in Texas- or even America obsesses about the University of Texas than A&M does. They need to freaking let it go. In fact, let's let almost everything go.

'Remove any reference to Texas, Horns, Varsity, Sips, etc from your fight songs, your cheers, your media guides, your bill boards, what ever. Don't do the stupid DiNardo thing and call them the "school to the north" but treat them like every other school you play. By the way, this tact would help Auburn get better as well.

No more "Sawing Varsity's Horns off"
No more death defying bonfires.
No more drives to the Chicken Ranch. (this is clearly a joke-never give up the Chicken Ranch)
No more Horns Down

Finally. A&M is simply a better school than Texas.
Texas has chosen to go down the road of embracing liberal arts and humanities over "Real World" programs. A&M has not.
If this continues, Texas students and then alumni will continue to care less and less about athletics and the rivalry problem will take care of itself.

 

[feathersax]

Before the final series I read an article speaking about how the Aggie fans in Omaha were more pessimistic than the Vol fans in Omaha due to the seemingly endless examples of curses befalling A&M.

I laughed it off.

Not today.

However, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I doubt any other P5 school in Texas- or even America obsesses about the University of Texas than A&M does. They need to freaking let it go. In fact, let's let almost everything go.

'Remove any reference to Texas, Horns, Varsity, Sips, etc from your fight songs, your cheers, your media guides, your bill boards, what ever. Don't do the stupid DiNardo thing and call them the "school to the north" but treat them like every other school you play. By the way, this tact would help Auburn get better as well.

No more "Sawing Varsity's Horns off"
No more death defying bonfires.
No more drives to the Chicken Ranch. (this is clearly a joke-never give up the Chicken Ranch)
No more Horns Down

Finally. A&M is simply a better school than Texas.
Texas has chosen to go down the road of embracing liberal arts and humanities over "Real World" programs. A&M has not.
If this continues, Texas students and then alumni will continue to care less and less about athletics and the rivalry problem will take care of itself.

Mercy sakes! That's quite a doom & gloom list!

 

[VOLtaism]

They players entering the portal from A&M get a 30 day window because their coach is leaving.

They have to do what's best for themselves but it does give them a chance to shop around while waiting to see who A&M hires.

Yes, and they will all be purchased once they go on the shelf. It looks like everyone has decided to buy their way to a championship. I love the way Schlossnage said in his introduction yesterday, "we left the A&M program better than we found it". So the head coach left without notice, took all of the assistants, the remaining players hit the portal, Texas is after 3 of them. He found TAM worse than that? How?

 

[Volfan2012]

I was thinking about this during their promotional ad that played at the stadium and on TV where they say:

"We're not followers but we do have a leader" (showing Collie)



They will never admit it but the dog is NOT their leader as Aggies are completely OBSESSED with the "other school" .
A HUGE amount of their traditions- annoying, eliminate, or otherwise; are directly related to that other school.

I know the ad is intimating that their "leader" is Reveille; but they are clearly lead around by a nose ring and invisible lead by the school they absolutely obsess about. There is not a school in the nation that allows- nay cherishes, a single rival to live in their heads. (edit that West Point and Annapolis but that is a different circumstance)

Now they lose a coach from their most recently successful program to that head dweller?!?! Holy ****!
And right as that Head Dweller University is coming back into the same conference?!?!?
And right after that coach took you 2 runs away from the first real championship since the Roosevelt administration?!?!?

The Aggies joined the SEC to supposedly get away from the Other School but they clearly NEVER did.

Omaha was my first time spending a great deal of time with Aggie fans. I liked them - when they weren't doing the "Kentucky" stuff. Maybe it helped that I did not have to see their mass line dancing at their pep rallies? It was funny that our pitching staff that gave up the fewest walks and HBP by anyone in the SEC (by far) and they could never get into the BALL 5 trope.

The Aggies are never going to become a true national power in athletics until the "Let it Go" but it's so entrenched into their "culture" that they can't do it. It will come as a surprise to most in Texas, but the rest of the country does not view the University of Texas as any different than any other large state school. It works for "Us" (the non-Texas schools) and it will work for them as well.

Had a coach that was not that committed evidently as he moved on quickly. They are going to suffer for it next season hope they find a good coach and don't mind them always finishing second to Tennessee.

 

[JohnWardForever]

I was a soph at UT when Doug Dickey left us for the Gators. There had been rumors but we thought he was locked in here at UT. Talk about getting stabbed in the back! I feel for the Aggies. They played a good series and got stabbed in the back!!

Tennessee should have Never hired Dickey back as AD. There was nobody better out there? PLEASE....JMO. Screw me, I never forget.

 

[Volador]

Ya know, I have felt horrible for sooo many UT athletes over the years that the college didn't provide them with good ADs or Coaches. And now I am happy for our athletes as we have turned a corner and are providing them with excellent direction via great coaching and the #1 AD in the country. Therefore, I find it hard to feel sorry for other teams, and that goes for A&M. Sure I might empathize w a few here in there on rare occasion, but we were cellar dwellers for far too long and I just find it difficult to be anything but happy for our players now. Pay our coaches and let's keep giving our kids opportunities to be champions.

 

[chuck0303]

I shared an elevator at the Marriott with an Aggies fan the day of the championship game. He was basically offering me condolences that Texas was going to steal our coach and was emphatic there was no way the A&M coach would go to Texas. He was almost condescending in a polite way. I've thought a lot about that guy since all this went down. I feel bad for him and all the A&M fans. Most of the ones we interacted with seemed to be nice people. They didn’t deserve this.

They have some very entitled arrogant fans and I'm glad they lost. I'm also glad Texas picked up their coach. TX A&M did have a great baseball team and deserved to be in the final. Had they won the championship you would NEVER have heard the end of it.

 

[brockytop]

Did Schlossnagle prove to be a POS the way he handled this move? 1000%.

Do I feel sorry for the Aggie cult? Not even a little bit.

 

[fryeguy93]

Did Schlossnagle prove to be a POS the way he handled this move? 1000%.

Do I feel sorry for the Aggie cult? Not even a little bit.

The SEC was so willing to love the Aggies. We knew- from limited contact, what it must be like to be the rival to Texas. The SEC wanted those guys to succeed and become preeminent in that state.

But. I do not think any of us were prepared for how freaking backwards they are.. Tradition is one thing but making every little weird thing someone does in the past into a tradition is beyond the pale. Especially since following these traditions has accomplished so little.

Joining a new conference would have been the perfect time to create new traditions.. A fight song that is not solely about another school for instance. Keep the yell leaders- just make them this less dated and less emasculated. (Cheerleaders at no other school have worn the same outfits since the 30s) Fewer corp of cadets members copping squats and other ridiculous poses on the sideline of road games at least. Overall, cut down the "performance art" by the fans by about 27%. (But at least they weren't doing "Baby Shark" sh*t)

 

[WeNeedaQB]

Over on the Aggie’s Board they have really changed their tune and respect for CTV. They now see why he appeared to have a problem with their former coach and recognize CTV as being the best coach in baseball and true leader of young men.

 

[WallyBalls]

The SEC was so willing to love the Aggies. We knew- from limited contact, what it must be like to be the rival to Texas. The SEC wanted those guys to succeed and become preeminent in that state.

But. I do not think any of us were prepared for how freaking backwards they are.. Tradition is one thing but making every little weird thing someone does in the past into a tradition is beyond the pale. Especially since following these traditions has accomplished so little.

Joining a new conference would have been the perfect time to create new traditions.. A fight song that is not solely about another school for instance. Keep the yell leaders- just make them this less dated and less emasculated. (Cheerleaders at no other school have worn the same outfits since the 30s) Fewer corp of cadets members copping squats and other ridiculous poses on the sideline of road games at least. Overall, cut down the "performance art" by the fans by about 27%. (But at least they weren't doing "Baby Shark" sh*t)

I'm not sure I've read such a quality dissection of A&M and their lot in life. Really could be written up as a long form article if you wanted. Excellent stuff.

When my dad was stationed at Lackland, he and my mom were around a ton of Aggies. More than 40 years later my mom still talks about how odd they all were, and its always in that almost pitying way only a Mother can do.

They could be so much better but they insist on dragging those anchors around.

 

[Godfatha]

They’re not even in yet and I already regret it.

Dude, I love that avatar. As weird as it sounds, that was my favorite part of the game when Combs was smiling like that.

 

[Backwards K]

According to one of their mesage boards:
-- Many want their AD to pursue Vitello.....even tho, earlier in the week, they thought he was classless
--One poster was saying a "Tennessee Message Board" was saying LaViolette was a "done deal" to NIL. Surprisingly most replies said they wouldn't blame him. Talked about playing for a good coach, a hot program in a small ballpark where he would hit 40 HRs.

I ain't losing any sleep over any problems any other team in the SEC may be having. GBO........only.

 

[NeverWe'llSever]

If the school wasn’t an embarrassment with their cult-like rituals and massive inferiority complex, maybe I’d care.

 

[cobbwebb0710]

A&M and their fans will make a HUGE mistake with this hire.

They will try to save face and hire a "big name" head coach instead of the best man for the job.

The best hire they could make is likely Josh Elander. Josh would be an even better fit at A&M than he would have been at South Carolina (who I believe made a big mistake with Paul Mainieri.

Dropping Josh into the current situation with his energy, experience, Texas ties and recruiting abilities would be a fire in an oxygen-rich environment. But the boosters and fans - at least the casual fans, would never accept it as UTexas has slapped them in the face with a steel gauntlet- at least in Aggie view.

fryeguy, I love you, you know I really do, but...