Your team is going to suck for the eternity. Sherman will leave after 4 disastrous years, and unlike Fran he will leave aggies with no talent whatsoever. While this happening, high school players see the Sherman crap, and no one can lure them back to aggieland.

I have a relative that plays for the school so I am going to sick my neck out here.

This is just the first game of the season for A&M. They made some very costly mistakes last night and they definitely need to work on some things but they will improve. A&M had nine first time starters (three non-scholarship players) last night. New coach, new offense. There were some good things…Featherton- 16 tackles, I believe. He has a lot of promise.

Don’t give up yet.

we had some troubles with AKstate last year too. now, we didn’t do anything remarkable stupid like, say, lose to them, but in aTm’s defense, AK state is not a terrible team.

and all the a&m family. May you find peace and comfort in this truly troubling time.

I’m glad you did, I respect that, but I realize it’s tough as hell. Although all the ags I know have a knack and a great capacity for suffering.

Do you think Sherman doesn’t have the players to populate his desired offense? Or were they just not up the learning curve far enough to be effective? If ‘no’ to the first, will he simplify to an offense in which they can be effective for what they have? Or will he pigheadedly persist?

The defense kept the game within reach (that is, 18 points is not bad but I didn’t see the game), so that seems not to be an unmitigated disaster.

Hey, y’all’ll win at least three games, maybe 5-6. Stop being such a sob story.

If I can put four l’s in a row, anything can happen. Anything.

aren’t the way to go these days. If you decide to have an older head coach, you have to compliment them with young offensive and defensive coor. (new/fresh ideas).

But they’ll win a handful. While I and other Longhorns are a bit amused by their Arkansas St. loss, I have hard time imagining an 0-12 season. And while there would be a certain comedy being the team that cements their winless season, it’d also be a bit dull and embarrassing for the Big 12.

…and your a grand fellow for taking some shots for it, but you knew it was coming, right? I mean, after Fran, surely you didn’t expect there to be anything seriously effective there? “IF” Sherman is the good coach he is suppose to be, it will take him two years to shake all the “Fran” out of that program.

The one constant I see in 90% of aggie fans I meet or know is that they believe the schools athletic dept. actually stands toe to toe with top Div. I programs. I say “why”? Where is there anything besides an occasional SWC title that lends any real validity to the thought? Yes, the baseball team is competitive and the basketball team gets ranked, but what have they done? They hate UT so much that they play over their heads when they play us and think if they win (back to back currently) they had a great season. I’d have more respect if they played everyone the same rather than get up, stacked and burned trees and Zieg Heil before Thanksgiving every year.

An aggie friend of mine bought a new truck. He didn’t put an A&M sticker on it, he put a “Saw’em Off” logo that takes up his whole rear window! It’s thinking like that that keeps the aggies from being better than they are. Hatred for Texas is a higher priority than supporting the team. Great tradition, just twisted and invalid.

It would be better for all Big 12 teams for the aggies to bump there class and level of play up a notch or two. Baylor does more for the Big 12 class-wise than the aggs.

I didn’t get to see them play, but I hope Sherman scrapped the triple option offense. Very High School. Judging by the outcome, it may still live in College Station. Good luck with the rest of your season, and i mean it. I want your team to be a challenge everytime we play, and I want to win the game. But more than anything, I want your school to find some class. They bring out the worst in me.

In Dan Hawkins first game at CU, they lost to division 1-AA Portland State at home. In year two, he beat a either 2- or 3- ranked OU (also at home). CU is going to be in the top tier in the Big-12 north in a couple more years, possibly even next year.

AGGY is almost always delusional and expects to win every game, especially at home. However their cupboard is completely bare at the moment. If Sherman can start competing with Tech and Mizzou for the second tier of Texas talent, they’ll be back. In theory they could even compete with UT and OU for recruits.

I’ve always thought that TAMU was a natural competitor to OU for recruits, moreso than it is UT, because both schools are located in semirural (Collie station moreso than Norman) conservative redneck towns that, if not for football, would have basically no African-Americans in them. Austin is liberal and urban, and actually has a nightlife beyond “get drunk at the team safehouse” the exact opposite of Norman and College Station. For any player that cares about non-football related things while in college, there’s no reason to consider both UT and OU/TAMU.

Admittedly in our current culture many players are more concerned about things like playing time, tv exposure, and draft status than they are about their college experience, which is why UT and OU still battle for a lot of players.