Since moving to the SEC for the 2012 season, Texas A&M has made a ton of noise. The problem: not enough of it has come between the white lines.

The Aggies came into the conference with one of the most passionate fan bases in the nation, a group of football-crazed Texans that scream and sway and make Kyle Field seem like a vortex of sound. With the renovations the school has done to the stadium, the Aggies’ home field is one of the biggest in the country, and they set an SEC attendance record in their home loss to Ole Miss last weekend.

Coach Kevin Sumlin has brought his “swagger” to the program after being lured away from the University of Houston, with his tenure starting along with the school’s SEC membership. Along with it, he’s brought a dominance to recruiting unseen before in College Station.

The program had a few leaps into the recruiting rankings’ top 20 in the decade before Sumlin arrived, but the program has been in the top 10 in each of Sumlin’s two full years of recruiting, and the 2015 class is currently ranked No. 6 by 247sports.com.

Sumlin’s most talented player wasn’t one of his recruits, but the coach sure found a way to unlock Johnny Manziel’s talent. Freelancing in the Air Raid offense, Manziel exploded onto the scene as a redshirt freshman, leading the Aggies to an 11-2 record, a Cotton Bowl win while taking home the Heisman trophy. In that season, the program truly put its name on the map with a win in a game for the ages over Alabama in Tuscaloosa, plus that win over Oklahoma in the bowl game.

Since then, the program has fallen back to earth on the field. Manziel was just as spectacular in 2013, but couldn’t lead a talented Aggies team back to the heights they reached the previous year. And this year, A&M looks like a very average team.

With all of the off-field hype, why isn’t Texas A&M keeping up on the gridiron? They’ve lost plenty of talent the last two off seasons: four first round picks and eight total picks. That’s not insurmountable for a well-established program, but for a school still on the way up that’s a lot to lose.

With the way talent is flooding into College Station, Sumlin is able to point to the future. But in the present, A&M isn’t delivering, especially on their home turf. Since joining the SEC, the Aggies are 0-5 in home games against ranked teams, all of them SEC foes. The signature road wins over Alabama in 2012 and against South Carolina this season are nice, but the Aggies have put up some frustrating efforts in front of the Kyle Field faithful.

With a $5 million price tag, the expectations for Sumlin are to deliver blue-chip recruits and wins in bunches. With the program looking to break into the nation’s upper crust on a permanent basis, they need to come sooner than later.