So, what do y'all think now. I was around for Pilland. Clearly you need a certain talent level to run this offense. However A&M is above recruiting guys that bad. Hill just beat out JFF for best first game performance. The system will put up numbers.
Like I said months ago, not worried about QB one bit. Not worried about offensive weapons one bit. Not worried about o-line one bit (Yet. Thanks Sherman). The defense, I was worried about, not initially, but after losing 5 starters to injury/suspension. The defense looked solid when Davis wasn't out there. Still too early to tell though... Garrett is gonna be fuuuuuuun for a long time though.
Nice getting a tough road opener out of the way. SC honestly look shell shocked after our first two drives. It was pretty clear that they just couldn't hang at all. Hill had great pockets, and I felt like he went through his reads well. Helps when there are 5 guys running great routes. Looking forward though... We go through a pretty tough SEC stretch - @miss st vs. Miss @bama And then of course the last three - @Aub vs Missouri vs LSU Honestly, I don't see why we can't make it out with two of three losses. Everyone was projecting us at around 7 wins, with last night being one of our losses. At this point though? I think 8 should be considered the floor. That would include losses vs Ole Miss, @ Bama, @ Aub, vs LSU. I think we can do 9 or 10. Maybe SC is just terrible though. Either way, hard to imagine how last night could have gone much better given the personnel and the situation.
Offensively, sure, we've brought the Sumlin Spread to the SEC, and it's been fun. What is even more fun though is watching how physical the defense was playing last night. Yes, they made mistakes, but they were clearly the harder hitting team out there, and SC's offense could never get into a rhythm. We've gotta do something to remedy the long ball woes though. If it wasn't for that, SC might not have broken 14.
That offense looked unstoppable (assuming SC's defense isn't really as bad as A&M made them look). They were literally doing whatever they wanted. It looked like an arena football game when the Aggies were on offense. Color me impressed.
First TD, there was coverage but Everett got beat. Second TD, it was obviously a busted assignment. Most of the rest of the passes were seam routes that we (for whatever reason) never adjusted to. It seems that some of the problems of guys being in position or understanding their assignments that occured last year has continued into this season. That is coaching. Pure and simple. Snyder has GOT to get those things straightened out.
The NFL has already come knocking (Eagles). Sumlin responded by declining and signing a new contract that forbids him from taking an NFL job for at least three years.
These contracts, no matter how binding, really aren't. It's no different than all the "binding" contracts regarding conference realignment. At the end of the day, if coach or school doesn't want to be there, everyone is going to work out an agreement to get out. Forcing a coach to stay at a job they don't want doesn't benefit anyone. Not saying that he will leave for the NFL, but if the NFL wants him and he wants the NFL, no contract is really going to stand in the way of that.
Go read the contract then get back to us. Maybe this one is constructed differently than others have been in the past. I can definitely see Sumlin leaving. Thought he might go to USC last year. But to think of TAMU as some small potato school that cant keep a coach or pay top dollar... that's foolish. It's a high caliber program, always has been, always will be. It's right below the OSU, UT, USC jobs, but when things are going right it's close. For example Michigan is a team I would have mentioned alongside USC at one point, but they've fallen down to that tier with TAMU.
Again, it has nothing to do with the contract. It could be completely ironclad - but if Sumlin says he wants to be in the NFL and doesn't *want* to be at A&M, there's no way A&M's going to force him to stay - they would work something out. This is true of any school and any coach. The last thing any school wants is a coach who's unhappy - just like a conference doesn't want a school that doesn't want to be there. It doesn't benefit anyone. Can you think of a coach that was forced to hold onto a job against his will? What does any of that have to do with whether Sumlin would want to go the NFL?
I agree with you Major .. If he ever wants out to go tothe NFL, he can get out. The thing is that we can pay him NFL money so if he leaves it will be due to him wanting the NFL challenge.
