Looks great out there. Experienced beyond his years, makes the right move by taking the sack instead of throwing the INT. McNeal will make a fine WR someday. Seriously, what the hell is RC doing putting in a true freshman against one of the top defenses in the country. Dammit RC, you better not lose this one.
He got the ball across midfield, so they can't take him out now. But they did anyway. Looks like a bit of a controversy in College Station.
Guys, the title for this thread is very misleading. Everyone knows there is, and will always be, only one REGGIE!!!
baqui- You really don't know anything about football if you don't think McNeal will be a very good QB.
Why didn't Farris play, anyway? Any particular reason other than him sucking? I doubt he could've been any worse than the quarterback play of Long and McNeal....
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOP...tee-f**kin-doo. Miserable. Pathetic. Incompetent. I give up. By the way, I think playing McNeal today was something that had to be done; however, I don't think putting him in for the first time on A&M's own five yard line was the best of choice.
You failed to see the flip side...I KNOW Farris wouldn't have played any better than Long or McNeal. So, the question is... do you go with the guys you doubt will play very good, or do you go with the guy you know will suck pretty bad? That's the question.
Reggie will be a very good Qb, but he should've been redshirted. I think the reason A&M didnt redshirt him is because Drew Tate is coming there next year and they dont want a big controversey like UT had with Simms and Applewhite. I think they'll redshirt Tate so by the time he's ready to play, McNeal will be a juniorand have one more year of eligiblity and then they'll hand the reins to Tate.
James, that doesn't make any sense. If you have two quarterbacks who can play, there's going to be a controversy the first time one of them struggles. It doesn't matter if one's a redshirt freshman and one's a junior. Also, I think the fact that McNeal's already playing despite very obviously not being ready for college football indicates that Slocum has no discipline when it comes to planning for the future. What makes you think he'll be able to resist the temptation to throw Tate in there next year, when A&M inevitably struggles on offense? Slocum senses that his program is being left in the dust by Texas and OU, and he's desperate to stop at least the perception that's the case. That's why McNeal's playing. So that when A&M finishes 7-5, he can say, "Welp, golly, we had some tough breaks and some injuries, but we were right there against some of the elite teams in the country, and we played a lot of young guys who are really gonna help us out next year. I knew we'd have a tough time this year, with a true freshman QB. I like where we're headed next season, I really do. I think we're gonna win some ballgames". I don't know much about Drew Tate other than his stats, but he's either colossally arrogant or completely ignorant to choose to play at A&M. Arrogant if he thinks he's going to have much success at a program that intentionally embraces a defense-first mentality, and ignorant if he's unaware of A&M's history of ruining high school quarterback phenoms. A&M should be known as the 'Graveyard of Bluechip HS QBs' after what it did to Vance Smith and Colby Freeman and Randy McCown and Branndon Stewart and Corey Pullig and Jeff Granger and so on and so forth. Talent like McNeal and Tate has never been the problem at A&M. It's what they do with these bluechip QBs once they recruit them. Tate will end up just another name in the litany, five years from now, if he plays for R.C. Slocum.
Colby Freeman for Heisman. I knew him from an on-line website...really down to earth guy. He transferred to a Div 2-A school and got hurt. Bad breaks.
Me too...new AD often = new head coach. I believe he has family history at A&M...God forbid the kid just wants to go to school there. McNeal's play shows that with a little seasoning, he is OBVIOUSLY the best QB the Slocum has on his roster. He actually started to move the football. I knew Stewart in college. About midseason in 1996 he told me that his heart just wasn't in it. After feeling lied to at Tennessee and then having difficulties at A&M he just didn't want to play football anymore. He didn't have that passion for the game anymore. It's pretty easy to say that RC buried the kid...but he was pretty damaged when he left Tennessee.
