Texas A&M football thread

What's next, the Rockets bring in Kevin McHale to coach?

 

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Sumlin reportedly tomorrow.

 

Big mistake. Big, big mistake. Not the right fit. He will be gone in less than three years after being pummeled in the SEC.

 

its fair to give him at least 4 years....if we fire him after 3 years, it will scare off all other coaches

 

http://blog.chron.com/aggies/2011/12/sumlin-to-hit-ground-running-in-aggieland/

Video of press conference in link above

 

What's up with the recruiting class? Sumlin bringing anything fun with him? Or is he too busy trying to hang onto Sherman's group?

It also looks like DeRuyter will land at Fresno State (good hire). What the hell are we going to do on defense?

 

he was going to leave anyway, even if we fielded a good defense, he would still be gone with a better job opportunity

he has mentioned numerous times that his top priority was to become a head coach

 

Your statement about him leaving "anyway" is frivolous.

Again, what the hell are we going to do on defense?

I'm hearing the LSU DB coach.

 

The LSU DB coach would be great, and I've actually heard they have some good cash to spend on a DC and that we will likely have a few very good options.

 

Reports that Oklahoma RB Brandon Williams will transfer to A&M.

 

I can think of better career moves than running out of the shotgun in the SEC, but more power to him.

 

I saw the kid a few times in high school. My brother was a part-time assistant with Brookshire Royal. He's a very good RB. I'm not sure why he's leaving OU. He got playing time this year as a true freshman and was in line for more. Guess he wanted to be closer to home. With the Dekaney RB coming in and Williams having to sit a year, I wonder if he'll even get a chance to play at all once he's eligible.

 

He is leaving because he has a kid in Houston and realized he wanted to be closer to see his kid grow up. Now that we are in the SEC he only would have to sit out 1 year (Unless he gets a hardship waiver) instead of the usual 2 if he were to transfer to a different Big XII school.

He'll have plenty of opportunities. In the SEC, you need both Speed (Trey) and Power (Brandon) running backs.

 

I think Sumlin handled Adrian Peterson fine at Oklahoma.

 

From what I've seen, since A&M is still in the Big XII at the time of the transfer, he'll still have to sit out 2 years. Not to mention Sumlin has to do some work to keep Williams committed.

 

As the Co-OC? He probably handled WR's or something for all I know. Also, I doubt Peterson needed much help from Sumlin.

 

Its kind of funny reading this thread no matter where you stand on the issue. I hate to be simple, but in cfb, its all in the recruiting. I was at swt 90-95 and during those years and prior, tamu was kicking the longhorns ass in football. They did this mainly because they had better players up and down the roster. If you go back to the late 80's and early to mid 90's, tamu had the nfl talent and texas didn't. From sam adams, aaron glenn and guys like that to dat nguyen and webster. Once davie went to ND, their level of recruits changed. Mack brown comes in and he is getting the kind of players defensively who use to go to tamu.

The aggies need to get back to getting the top talent out of the houston-galveston-beamont area and they can start to become a top program again. Its really crazy to think they're that close to houston, yet those guys are leaving. To me, that means sherman and his crew wasn't closing the deal. From what I know of sumlin, he has a great relationship with the texas highschool coaches. Thats very,very important in getting these kids to commit to aggieland. I think sumlin will be fine going into the sec with the aggies.

 

ATM was getting the talent because they were blatantly paying for it. They got busted twice between 88-94.

http://www.aolnews.com/2007/07/26/dirtiest-football-programs-3-texas-aandm/

 

A&M has been getting decent recruiting classes over the past decade.

Here are our team rankings for the last decade:
2002: 23rd
2003: 10th
2004: 13th
2005: 8th
2006: 26th
2007: 43rd
2008: 16th
2009: 22nd
2010: 17th
2011: 27th
2012: 8th

There is no way you can say that A&M has succeeded even close to the level they were recruiting over the decade. Not saying we were recruiting at Texas' level, but there are not many that can say that. With the recruiting classes that we've had, and the subsequent success (or should I say failures), it is obvious to me that the coaches have not been doing a good job in the coaching aspect of the game. We can get all the recruits we want, but until we get a coach that utlizes talent effectivelt, it will not matter.