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This year the question marks are all but innumerable. Afterwards it looks like we have a never tiring endless fountain of Defensive Linemen. Biggest question this year is who starts next year? 2) That Baylor Cupp left suggests great things at the TE position hands down. 3) I'm not worried about the O Line. I've been following recruiting since way before Jimbo took the reins. If my math is correct then we should have like fifteen 4 and 5 Star O Linemen on the sideline this year carrying clipboards and doling out Gatorade. 4) If this malarkey regarding Haynes King's being clocked at 22 mph is anywhere close to correct then I know whom I'm rooting for to win the QB battle... a lot of posh. Let's play football, already...
1) I do not worship a football team. 1b) I have never worshipped a football team unless it has sacked a quarterback, stuffed a runner, batted down a pass, blocked a field goal or PAT, gotten an interception, and/or stopped a play short of a First Down to DECIDEDLY win a game. I don't characteristically worship football teams. 2) Texas A&M is currently sporting like a 15 Man defensive line. I personally don't know what we're going to do with it. D Lineman don't regualarly translate to other positions. I'm guess a few edge rushers could play linebacker. I don't know. Maybe what we're building is a Never Tiring Defensive Line. Rotate them in and out like shift workers every 2-3 plays. I don't know. But I read what you're writing. We have A LOT of 5-Star Defensive Linemen...
...What a waste. This kid has all the athleticism in The Universe. Two years ago he seemed like a shoe-in to The NFL. Not saying he won't be: Baylor and The University of Houston will pick him up immediately (he's had three [3] arrests now in the last two [2] years). Jimbo has received a lot of criticism for letting superstar QB Jameis Winston et al "run wild" about Florida State several years ago. As long as I've been watching DD and rooting for DD and spouting the promise of DD... Jimbo can't but let DD fade away now.
I think you hit the nail on the head, PTheRicker. If the quote is accurate then Georgia and Texas are at the top of the list. I can see The Mannings not wanting to bet on a 70 year old Saban. And I can see The Mannings wanting to expand their family brand westward to The Almighty State of Texas. If y'all held Russian AK-47's to my head right now and said, "Bet!" I'd bet Texas, Georgia second, based on this balderdash.
Does not matter. Simply doesn't. Money talks. Thy rest of y'all balks. FOREVER...
Agree. He is a class act and so is his family. Good wishes to JJ from now to eternity...
Saban sees the writing on the wall, and he can't do anything to slow down, let alone stop, the NIL and/or The Transfer Portal. Saban was quite comfortable with the under-the-table stuff Alabama had mastered. He was winning the game and when you're winning the game the last thing you want is for the rules to change. (This is what separates conservatives from radicals, after all. When you're winning the game you do not want the rules to change). The NIL and The Portal are what they are. I will not be shocked if Coach Saban retires before May, 2022....
Some Ag responded with "Clowney". Left me lmao. Maybe if SC had joined the club decades ago y'all'd have a > 50% winning percentage?
Absolutely, but let's all admit that Georgia would be kicking current arse in any division of any conference this side of the NFL.
My initial reply is to cite that we hired Jimbo to a Ten (10) Year deal. No Aggie with perfect sense is thinking that One (1) Top recruiting class is enough to mean anything. We are expecting to land Top Two or Top Three recruiting classes over the next two to three years. Any Texas Aggie with common sense is expecting a National Championship by 2025 (and then one or two more before 2030). This is just my opinion and may or may not reflect the feelings of any given fan[base].
1) Universities provide education. Education along with the power to create and minipulate fire are what separate the species Homo sapiens from the chimps, bonobos, oran otans, gorillas, et cetera... 2) No one has to care about college football. It's a choice you've made. There is absolutely no logical reason to want to stand in a stands boasting because your hossess are better than their hosses. You either care or you don't care. No biggie either way... 3) When The State of California ushered in this NIL stuff several years ago (I heard about it driving my pickup truck on the radio) I leaned back, took a deep breath, and smiled. Texas Aggies care about they college football. Texas Aggies have tons of money. You don't go the Texas A&M to major in Dance and waste your daddy's money; you go to Texas A&M to major in Petroleum Engineering and make a lot of money keeping the species Homo sapiens moving forward... The day this NIL news broke several years ago I knew what was going to happen. It is happening. Sit back and buckle up. There's little you nor I can do about it. The genie is out of the bottle. Let's all sit back and see what happens. Aggies and T-Sips (aka Longhorns) are gonna be driving this bus (perhaps unto Oblivion's Cliff) for the foreseeable future and there's nothing you can do about it... ... ...
I recognize two facts: The best two teams in college football are squaring off for all the marbles. Bama comes in with a significant psychological advantage. Before anyone puts a foot on a ball Bama will be expecting to win and Georgia will be afraid of losing. The Bulldogs are going to have to find a way to use both of these to their advantage.
Like you my first response was, "Wha? Who?" But I gotta trust Jimbo on this. He knows what players he has and what kind of DC this guy is. Jimbo has made it clear that as the HC he is in charge of the defense as well as everything else. I'm not going to pretend that I'm a better football coach than is Jimbo Fisher. If this is the guy he wants then this is the guy.
Alabama Arkansas Auburn Georgia LSU Mississippi Mississippi State Texas A&M Michigan looks solid. Ohio State ain't going nowhere. There's Cincinnati and there's always pretender Notre Dame, but seriously...
After a hard cold brutal stretch Arkansas is back to making the SEC West better. This means a harder future for the rest of us. Auburn is looking good. Ole Miss is looking good. Mike Leach's State is looking good. Absorb Georgia into The SEC West and the 8 of us could secede from the union and name our own champion.
Everyone on Earth (save us Aggies) were for Ed O to win his final game. The braintrust at Louisina State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Louisiana (meaning Scott Woodward) long since had committed the societal faux pas of telling the son of Baba and Coco that he was too big, fat, dumb, illiterate, and lacking of couth, to continue to be the face of THE LSU. I like him. We all like him. He's a very likeable chicken on a stick and crawfish eating jolly good fellow. He can't help that he has a zipper head on top of every other back swamp fugly thing about him. It is what it is. As some other coonasses have already said here, let's go back to the 7 overtime thriller in College Station. It is what it is. NOW, let's all contribute to a monetary collection for poor ol' Baba and Coco's son Ed who's now unemployed, the poor bug eater.
Oklahoma has no head coach. Texas isn't even bowl elgible. This kid's decision should be an easy one.
Have to agree. I love everything else about the kid, but he has two weaknesses still: Poor pocket presence (which seems to be improving) and ignoring his 2nd and 3rd receivers almost always. He tracks his main target and either throws it to him or goes immediately to his check down. There are several other really good receivers out there he never looks at. Could be this weakness is attributable to the other. Because of his poor pocket presence he doesn't feel comfortable enough to scan the field. Hopefully he'll continue to improve. He has a good O Line now (unlike earlier in the season). God knows he can take a hit. If he ever starts scanning the field this offense could be as good as the defense is.
Beautifully said. I'm just coming off a 32 of 40 hours' work weekend. I had to watch the last game (South Carolina) in spurts on my phone whilst I kept people alive (from dying). ... Over the past 5 hours I've watched the 2021 A&M over South Carolina, the 2021 A&M over Alabama, and the 2019 A&M over LSU games. I was already worried about Jimbo Fisher dissing us and leaving for LSU. After watching that "great" A&M 7 overtime victory over LSU for the first time in forever just a few moments ago... Texas A&M is 20 degrees superior to what it was in 2019 thanks only to Jimbo Fisher. I mean... At EVERY LAST POSITION Texas A&M is 20 degrees superior to what is was a scant 2 years ago (when it beat LSU in 7 OT blah blah blah, blah blah blah)... Jimbo Fisher is one hell of a college football coach, people.
In ALL honesty, I would LOVE to see him at texas u.
The longer the better. Let them languish in their sub-conference as long as possible whilst others continue to evolve amongst The Apex of niches...
Yeah, I am a bit worried about going to Baton Rouge to play against LSU in Ed Orgeron's swansong. It's going to be awkward as heck if Jimbo is still a candidate for replacing Ed (son of Baba and Coco if I remember correctly)... ...and it's going to be awkward as heck if Jimbo is not. Worst case scenario A&M wins out unto that night (and it's at night) whilst Alabama has lost another conference game... If this ends up happening that A&M will be playing for a spot in Atlanta vs. an LSU team which wants to give its son of Baba and Coco a win on the night of his retirement. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezus. Could be cray cray fo sho.
Of all the things I have foreseen and did not catch, worrying about Deion Sander's foot effecting his ability to coach a college football team falls under the latter.
It's coming down to the wire. There will be 64 schools in and a 16 team playoff by 2040 A.D. Everything is changing, boys. It ever was.