After Byrne?

I almost took a bat to my laptop when I read this yesterday:

“We all need to remember our coaches and players put us in position to win all our games this season”

He can be such a condescending shit head sometimes. YAY MORAL VICTORIES.

"We all need to remember our coaches and players put us in position to win all our games this season"

If by “put us in a position to win all our games” you mean they actually suited up and went out on the field this statement is 100% accurate.

Nowhere in that mess did he mention or refer to us as"tu", so that’s gotta count for something…

"We all need to remember our coaches and players put us in position to win all our games this season"

We all need to remember that even a blind hog roots up an acorn every so often, and half the time ain’t all that bad, is it?

"He can be such a condescending shit head sometimes.

Sometimes?

YAY MORAL VICTORIES.

Unlike immoral victories at places like … oh, you know, right? Eastward Ho!

I understand why he thought that newsletter was a good idea, but the chances of that thing actually making people happy is next to zero, and the chances of creating more problems are immense.

How many times over the years has he wound up looking like a complainer over lack of money to eject bats or clean up manure or show games on PPV, whatever it might be?

There is no way to cover up for all those losses, especially the one last week. Texas had a placeholder at quarterback and still won the game.

According to Wikipedia, Manny Diaz’s dad (former Miami Mayor Manny) is Roman Catholic, so I’ll presume our DC Manny is RC, too.

And he wanted to win EVEN MORE than Bill Byrne did.

I’ve always felt the same, Bob. I don’t see any upside in writing this retarded brain dumb every week.

It’s really becoming difficult to believe that these are real.

It’s really becoming difficult to believe that these are real.

They’re real enough, but who writes them? Is Dollar Bill being Tooled?

The only thing that could make this Aggie misery any better at this point is to see them lose the New Era Pinstripe Bowl.

Who is li’l bro’s anticipated opponent in the Bottom Bowl (an apt description, if there ever was one)?

@Tex Long, Big East number 4 which I think Rutgers has locked up.

Re: Pinstripe Bowl

Corps + OWS = extraordinary amounts of win

the chances of that thing actually making people happy is next to zero, and the chances of creating more problems are immense.

You seem to be dramatically underestimating how much aggies appreciate reminders about women’s volleyball.

New York is a cold, dreary place in the winter, and is a very crowded, dirty, and crime-ridden city regardless of the season.

Ha, excellent work FKT.

I too fail to see the value of Byrne airing his Catholic guilt-complex for all of the world to see. He’s a grown man basically keeping a diary (a public diary, no less), which is strange at best.

the chances of that thing actually making people happy is next to zero, and the chances of creating more problems are immense.

Come now, it’s made us happy on many occasions.

After losing the big dick contest, Bill Byrne says, “well, it may not be very big around, but it sure is short!”

I think he’s a putz … ugh oh … wrong guy … nevermind. I shouldn’t mix beers and typing.

There is plenty of upside, I mean, they make me happy all the time.

For the AD of an institution desiring to be perceived as sitting at the big-boys table, a weekly email saying so little of value sure comes across as what you’d expect from an institution with 5000 alumni with minimal connection back to the university. I would be terribly disappointed if I discovered that Deloss was spending part of his week putting together information I could get off of texassports.com in a matter of 5 minutes.

It would only be fitting to see A&M blow a 20 point second half lead against Pittsburgh in the Pinstripe Bowl.

I’m hearing the Queen of Hearts solution from Alice in Wonderland from many of you.

Says the man with a Juice Newton ringtone.

Bill? It’s your phone.

Ag,

You have bigger problems than Bill Byrne and that is bowtie. How A&M went from Bowen and Gates to the dentist is beyond me. Bowtie along with Sharp and the rest of the A&M regents are leading you guys down the primrose path.

The only reason that I would hate to see aggy go is because of commentors like ColoradoAg.

He is a helluva a lot classier AND smarter than most commentors on this blog – including me, for sure.

Thanks Snide. I’ll still hang around.

I just read a stat that said A&M was outscored 76-7 during the third quarter in their six losses this season.

That is some serious halftime adjustment awesomeness right there.

Has there ever in the modern history of mankind been an institution in greater need of a good PR firm than Texas ATM? Ever?

Snide,

Colorado Ag is good people, but seriously get a room next time.

There might be three good Aggie commentators on all of the interwebs. I’m pretty sure you couldn’t find five. Unless of course you count Texas fans masquerading as Aggie.

What are the chances that Sherm makes it through the day? Bobby Burton is reporting that he was told that the Aggy coaching staff was pulled from the road this afternoon.

Coming in to 2011 I thought the Aggies were TOO BIG TO FAIL!

“Has there ever in the modern history of mankind been an institution in greater need of a good PR firm than Texas ATM? Ever?”

Well, I hate to say it, but UT has taken a pretty good hit, the past year, itself!

I’m hearing the Queen of Hearts solution from Alice in Wonderland from many of you.
…
Says the man with a Juice Newton ringtone.

Ain’t got no ringtone of any sort other than builtin on my DummFone, but the tape of Juice that included Queen of Hearts saved my life a good while back, driving from FWT to Yellowstone in a Suburban with wife and seven kids (five ours, two tagalongs)… wore that sucker plumb out.

Has there ever in the modern history of mankind been an institution in greater need of a good PR firm than Texas ATM? Ever?

Third Reich?

It is almost sad for Bill if he released this newsletter telling the fans to lay off Sherman, and not even a full week later, Sherman is fired.

“You have bigger problems than Bill Byrne and that is bowtie. How A&M went from Bowen and Gates to the dentist is beyond me. Bowtie along with Sharp and the rest of the A&M regents are leading you guys down the primrose path.”

I have always contended this Thrown Gene Stallings and Wilson in with ilk as well,

There are too many of tAMU’s leadership that have actually bought into the cultish crap they are indoctrinated with the minute they set foot on thier campus.

All emotion, resentment, hatred and ridicule aside, everyone (UT or A&M) with any reason knows that A&M has no Godd….ed business leaving this confrerence – it is absolutely madness! There is simply no argument that justifies the insanity of it.
The school leadership has been occupied by children and madmen!

“Throw in Gene Stallings and Wilson with this ilk as well.”

Well, I hate to say it, but UT has taken a pretty good hit, the past year, itself!

In the service of creating the best marketing ploy in the history of college athletics we have experienced a minor spat of bad publicity.

ATM has a history of doing the dumbest possible thing at the worst possible time. A few examples

$ Bill
Frans news letter
Bonfire
The Core grabbing themselves on national TV
Utayag
Listeater
Saw varsity horns off while UT’s band gives thanks.
Sherm falling asleep on TV
Sword fighting with cheerleaders
Throwing manure
Can you help me with this.

As to the Third Reich, they were actually really damn good with PR, see Albert Speer and Leni Riefenstahl.

Just to clarify the Third Reich was a horrid, evil party/government, but Hitler certainly understood the power and persuasion of film and architectural drama. He used both to his advantage with among other things Albert Speer’s Cathedral of Light and Riefenstahl’s films.

Roach – I would like to pose an argument to your position – but you have cut my legs from under me!

Roach – You also forgot fighting with the Rice band and beating up their women.

and you forgot joining the SEC

LOL – Their should be a thread started about bad aggy decisions

And it would appear we just took WR Marcus Johnson from Aggie. He decommitted today, and according to his HC was offered by UT this afternoon. He will be at banquet weekend. Can we please continue to add insult to injury? Yes. The answer is yes.

ColoradoAg is the first person to spread AIDS through a computer. Seriously, watch out for that guy.

“Texas had a placeholder at quarterback”

Actually McCrary would be an upgrade.

“Has there ever in the modern history of mankind been an institution in greater need of a good PR firm than Texas ATM? Ever”

1a. Texas A&M
1b. Branch Dividians

God its great to be a Longhorn! I’m all for offering Marcus Johnson, but how many receivers are we planning to take in this class? We’ve got Cayleb Jones, Thomas Johnson, and Kendall Sanders is most likely a WR. Has the DGB ship sailed? All of these guys outside of Cayleb Jones are smallish type receivers. I hope that doesn’t bite us in the ass with blocking in the running game.

Considering how many spares we have at WR currently on the roster I am all for signing a bunch in this class and allowing attrition to fix the numbers issue.

We seriously have Shipley and Davis at WR right now and Davis just got benched for poor performance. And Shipley is playing at 75%.

God, I hope Texas doesn’t end up playing in the Pinstripe Bowl.

The agy AD office has become as much of a joke as its football team squad.

First the AD’s CFO calling its President a BTP, and now this. I’m jumping to a bit of an assumption, as the interweb seems to be seething with reports that Sherman is about to be (or alread is) canned. This is – what, one day? – after the AD told his readers to get off the Sherminator’s back. Is Byrne full of shit (rhetorical, do not answer) or is he truly out of the loop regarding his own office?

Maybe the rumors are unfounded, but they’re certainly not beyond belief. If they’re true, it’s hard to think of a worse time for agy to be looking for a head coach… thinks, “Let’s see, do I want to go to UCLA or A&M? Hmmmmm?”

This truly appears to be becoming a textbook case of the inmates running the asylum.

Guessing it is a sign there will be more attrition at WR than would be expected, and probably that they are realistic that the odds on DGB are probably not great.

I second the motion on the musings of “our friend from the Rocky Mountains…” er ColoAg.

Byrne’s material is priceless!

I say the more the merrier at WR. As Newy said, we essentially have nothing there right now. Wyatt is supposedly a very strong evaluator of talent, so hopefully this is not another class filled with spare parts.

DG-B might like the WR class – gives him all the more freedom if there are others whom a DC cannot afford to maroon with his DBacks.

http://blog.chron.com/sportsjustice/2011/12/aggies-have-undermined-mike-sherman-so-badly-that-he-must-be-fired/

I can only hope that just the right aggie fans make the trip to Times Square and meet the illustrious Naked Cowboy. That’d be even better than an encounter with Leslie.

I just found a copy of one of Sherman’s half-time speeches.
“You know they are a good team and they will probably catch up and even outscore us. So don’t let them because if you do, we probably couldn’t win the game. And we are not supposed to be a bad team even though we have been. So don’t lose the lead because that would look really bad and our fans would be really disappointed. And I wouldn’t know what to say after the game and everyone would probably feel really bad for days and not even want to talk to anyone. Then we would probably end up doing the same thing in the next game too.”

Man, they are teetering on the edge over on Texags. Wow…

Comic gold how Aggies turn this into a moral victory. Hahahaha

http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=1988038&forum_id=5

Finally the Ags did something right!

http://texags.com/main/forum.reply.asp?topic_id=1987155&forum_id=5

So is Sherm out now? TexAgs are posting a Kirk Bohs tweet that he’s out.

God dammit, Fellache. That marks the SECOND time I’ve had to clear my internet cache today.

Well, I guess we are doing this damn thing again:

http://eye-on-collegefootball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/33615732

If Sherman really didn’t sign his extension, that is hilarious.

@BrickHorn, my bad bro… My bad

CA, what? is it just sitting in his desk drawer? Did he just forget all the months to sign that? Weird

Dirty -

No idea. Nothing makes sense anymore. Such a Sherm move, if true.

This is the best synopsis I’ve been able to find on what’s going on at a&m:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZQ0uJ3i_M

Monkeys fuckin a football, indeed.

ColoradoAg, you don’t know me and I don’t know you, but I salute your many contributions on this board. You’re a good sport, a knowledgeable commentator, and a class act. Thanks from NYC. (That’s not a PinStripe crack, by the way. I live in Manhattan.)

Bowtie probably just Wite-Outed Sherm’s signature and made a copy.

I like most individual ags I know and meet. As a group, I absolutely loath them and I wish nothing but a slow and painful death on those that have saw-em-off stickers on their vehicles or t-shirts.

Flash, typically groups of people suck. They race each other to the lowest common denominator. And individuals are, well…. individuals.

Thanks, Major. I like the crew around here. Tough times to like the Ags though.

According to Sports Illustrated via Kirk Bohls, Aggies are firing Mike Sherman, though they haven’t told him yet. Classy to the end …

http://tracking.si.com/2011/12/02/report-texas-am-to-fire-head-coach-mike-sherman/?sct=hp_t2_a4&eref=sihp

In case the link doesn’t work here are a couple of quotes (short article):

Texas A&M has decided to fire head football coach Mike Sherman, according to the Austin American Statesman’s Kirk Bohls. The school has not yet notified Sherman, a source told Bohls.

According to Bohls, the school will owe Sherman between $3 million and $5 million.

Trey Williams, come on down …

We’re going to discover this was an outgrowth of Operation Northwoods, and the feds have been experimenting with mental-incapacitation drugs in the water supplies for College Station.

Sherm only signed the first half of his name.

Mack Brown is retiring – not to become AD (God forbid), but to work his makeover magic in… COLLEGE STATION! It ust be true, I saw it on the innertubes.

Sherm only signed the first half of his name…

… and fell asleep in the chair…

I’m young, so I don’t have a huge memory bank, but hypothetical:

What would the old SWC and Pony Express days have looked like with the internet and Twitter at the ready?

Allsome I imagine.

“Sherm only signed the first half of his name.”

LOL, good one. So the 3rd quarter of his signature tailed off the line as he fell asleep?

IF Mack retires, and it is a big if, I think he will take Urban Myers place on ESPN for CFD

CA: one of the reasons the Pony Express went down so hard was because the money men (Sherwood Blount) bragged about their deals – they would have been all over Facebook.

Colorado Ag, he didnt sign it because it wasnt in his best interest, remember your ex BBall coach never signed his contract at Kentucky.

And by the way I think you said the Ags would “beat the fuck out of us” or something of that sort before the game last week, well I kind of like you being around but still owe you a big Fuck You!!

Congrats, VA. I own debts. Enjoy.

Colorado Ag,

Appreciate your stand up response. Kudos to the administration for making this move, it had to be done, now you have hell of an opportunity to get the right guy, Sumlin looks like a no brainer given his presence in Houston. Even though it pains me to say this, good luck!

The bowl invite is truly befitting of your moniker: tremendous.