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2008 Texas A&M Football Preview - State of the Union
Posted by HenryJames on August 21st, 2008 under Football
Texas A&M hasn’t won a national title since 1939. So when the Aggies went looking for a new head coach, where did they look? Their past. A lukewarm embrace of their moderately successful past. Think of it as another tradition. They went out and hired a guy who was an assistant to R.C. Slocum when A&M was wrecking shit in the Southwest Conference. Fuck! They hired Tommy Tuberville?! Oh. Mike Sherman. That’ll do, Ags. That’ll do.
Sherman wasn’t the sexiest hire in the world, but he does have a solid resume. A resume that he should have stopped updating in 2004. But why Sherman? Because he’s the guy that turned Bret Favre into what he is today: a small town boy who doesn’t know when to quit. Now you can understand the Aggies’ attraction.
“Wake up, Mike. You’re hired.”
Same attraction they have for quarterback Stephen McGee. He has the heart of a lion combined with the resiliency of Super Dave Osborne. I’m pretty sure he’s held together with twine at this point. Backup quarterback Jerrod Johnson is drawing comparisons to Vince Young by some Aggies. Of course these same Aggies think Young was a noodle-armed retard. Consistency? Hobgoblins? In College Station, Emerson is the name of that progressive rock fag. Quarterbacks coach Tom Rossley thinks he has three quarterbacks with which he can win. Win what? Certainly not the lottery.
McGee after any game.
Michael Goodson is the best running back in the Big 12. Problem is he knows it. So he can get away with feigning illness and injury during practice while still getting the majority of carries in the games. If practice reports are to be believed, the Aggies have legitimate backups in Bradley Stephens and future star Cyrus Gray. Jorvorskie Lane has been moved to fullback, and that is the last time you will see his name and ‘full’ in the same sentence. The coaches are hoping he embraces his new role as much as his old rolls.
“I can has cheezburger?”
Replace your bishops and rooks with pawns and then try to play a game of chess. That’s what it’s like trying to throw the ball with Franchione’s wide receivers. Franchione took good athletes, added 20 pounds and made them into statues celebrating the glory of the running game. It unfortunately left them with hands of stone. The top two returners are Pierre Brown, whom the Aggies think is Yannick Noah, and Howard Morrow. How bad is it? Third team quarterback Ryan Tannehill has been practicing at wide receiver, and he is beginning to look like their best option. Their tight end will once again be the only member of the corps who sleeps on his back.
“I’m open!”
As a former offensive line coach, no one knows better than Sherman what a dearth of talent he has inherited at the position. Let’s start with the fact that no one ever learned to pass block under the old regime. Add to that a guard playing left tackle, a 270 pound true freshman at guard and a former walk on at center. The right side of the line is pretty solid with Lee Grimes and Travis Schneider, but there is no depth. If you ask Sherman about it, he will tilt his head slowly to the side like a dog does when it hears a strange noise.
Former Arkansas defensive coordinator Reggie Herring initially accepted the same job with A&M. He pulled into town, looked at the depth chart with all the undisguised horror of Thomas Keller reading the menu at Applebee’s and then promptly fled to Dallas. Replacing him is former Alabama coordinator Joe Kines. Kines thought he had retired, but after driving his car through a farmers market in Tuscaloosa he was sentenced to community service on the Aggie staff. He brings a lot of experience to the job even though he occasionally interrupts practice to yell at clouds.
Kellen Heard is a sasquatch that was discovered by students while clearing wood for a bonfire one year. Sherman switched Heard’s diet from Freebird’s to salmon, and Heard dropped 30 pounds. His ability to dominate games is mostly mythical at this point. His fellow defensive tackle is Lucas Patterson. Patterson played high school ball in South Texas and moved over from the offensive line. In baseball that’s called being behind in the count 0 and 2. Backing them up is, well, the goal line. Junior college transfer David Tufuga and a bunch of true freshmen will try to provide depth. Cyril Obiozor is the Aggies best defensive end. Or maybe I just have Tourette syndrome because that does sound totally nonsensical. Amos Gbunblee was sent by the Lorax to warn the Aggies about signing so many shitty defensive ends. They ignored his warnings and put him into a three point stance as well.
The Aggies haven’t had a linebacker drafted since 2001. That’s not going to change next year. Or the next. They had eight linebackers originally, but when converted defensive end Von Miller came in he took over the position and killed all but two of the others. Says Kines, “That one, when he looks at you, you can see he’s thinking, working things out.” He can be pretty good if they can stop him from attacking the trainers every time they try to bring him some water. The two Miller spared are middle linebacker Matt Featherston, whom the Aggies stole from under the nose of Marist, and Garrick Williams. Kines refers to them as ‘God damnit!’ and ‘Son of a bitch!’
I’m a big believer in Big Brothers Big Sisters. And so is Texas A&M. They took little Jordan Peterson and instead of letting him meet some players or some shit, they made him a starter in their secondary. Opposing offenses haven’t been as kind. That dude gets picked on more than Corey Haim in Lucas. The other safety will be Devin Gregg. Senior Arkeith Brown will start at one corner. The other corner is Jordan Pugh. He’s not bad, but it violates the unspoken ‘One Jordan Rule’ in any secondary other than Izod’s.
When Sherman last coached at A&M, Gerry Dinardo was at LSU, John Blake was at Oklahoma and John Mackovic was at Texas. And all was right in College Station. Since then those three programs have combined for four national championships. In recruiting this means that Sherman has to make do with whatever players are left over after the Big 3 get their fill. This is Potsdam, Aggies, and you’re not invited.
Sherman is going to have to come up with a passing offense using a quarterback who can’t consistently throw, a receiving corps that can’t catch and an offensive line that can’t pass block. He’s going to have to try to stop teams with a thin front seven and an average secondary. So it’s going to get worse for the Aggies before it gets better.
Bend over and take it, Mike.
“Can you play guard?”
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Huckleberry said:
August 21st, 2008 at 5:41 am
ChrisApplewhite said:
August 21st, 2008 at 5:42 am
I’m not really sure where Mike Sherman is supposed to be better than Dennis Franchione.
Ag_in_TX said:
August 21st, 2008 at 5:44 am
Generally decent write-up, except not as many funny lines as some of the other ones. I was, in general, disappointed, but I’m sure you’re used to hearing that from people…
HenryJames said:
August 21st, 2008 at 5:48 am
Much like the A&M coaching search committee, I mailed this one in.
Ag_in_TX said:
August 21st, 2008 at 5:49 am
I think anyone who has watched much football would readily agree that Sherman is a superior offensive mind (NFL Offensive Coord and Head Coach) to Fran (leading rusher was your QB - yuor QB?????? - WTF?????)
And Kines must be a better defensive coach than - than…. what the hell was that guy’s name? I know this as I’ve seen pictures of Kines walking upright.
lowery said:
August 21st, 2008 at 6:12 am
Kines is the best agg hire in decades.
Bartoncreek said:
August 21st, 2008 at 6:16 am
It’s not easy making fun of a lousy football team when you manage to lose to that same crappy team two years in a row. After we kick their ass this year, next years preview will be much funnier.
Texas_Dawg said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:09 am
I think anyone who has watched much football would readily agree that Sherman is a superior offensive mind (NFL Offensive Coord and Head Coach)
And we all know that “superior offensive minds” from the NFL mean certain dominance of the CFB ranks. Ask Charlie Weis. He’ll tell you.
coach Callahan said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:18 am
It wurkd fer me
Ag_in_TX said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:24 am
And that Pete Carroll guy - he sucked as well.
Stuck in MN said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:26 am
We lost to this team. Twice. At least once a week in the past year that thought has crossed my mind and I just can’t seem to wrap my head around it.
Big Satan said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:28 am
I think more former NFL retreads fail than succeed in college. Wannstedt comes to mind, as does Callahan. That being said, I’m not sure how you would rank coaches like Dennis Erickson, Butch Davis, etc. Those guys bounce back and forth but had success in college to begin with…
coach Callahan said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:29 am
you came a late game fumble and greg davis accidently discovering the zone read again from losing to us twice in the last two years. Think about that for a minute.
eric said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:31 am
Ask Bill Callahan. I think he’s in Tibet right now, “finding himself”.
Ag_in_TX said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:33 am
I agree with Big Satan here.
Are guys with NFL backgrounds successful in college? All sorts of examples can be trotted out to prove either side.
I know one thing - schools brag like hell to recruits about the NFL experience they have on their coaching staffs. At SMU’s junior day, I think I heard “NFL” at least twice in every sentence uttered.
vvn8bs said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:38 am
Maybe this is the year that the media will finally stop perpetuating the myth that Jorvorskie Lane is a great running back. Jorvorskie Lane is a great tactical weapon for close quarters fighting, much like the bayonet, or intestinal gas. Just because something is good at stabbin’ doesn’t mean you make it your primary weapon of war.
dwix_ags said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:42 am
Funny… This year’s #10 ranked team couldn’t beat the poorly ags the last two years, was it rivalry or poor coaching? Why 10th?
“quarterback who can’t consistently throw”, I know it was 3A H.S. football but McGee finished his career with 8,256 passing yards and a 3A state-record 101 passing touchdowns … as a senior, McGee completed 196-of-313 passes for 3,579 yards with 47 touchdowns and only 3 interceptions. Sherman may let him used his best talent, “a passing QB”… R.C. wasn’t invited to a Fran practice, so he didn’t know what they were doing, R.C. & Kubiak knows Sherman can coach, but as James stated does he have the weapons? That’s one big cheeeze-burger, should let Jorvorskie eat one after each TD!
rubber biscuit said:
August 21st, 2008 at 8:00 am
Pretty good.
I’d suggest one edit though:
“[Heard]’s ability to dominate games- not involving Texas- is mostly mythical at this point.”
Big Satan said:
August 21st, 2008 at 8:00 am
But McGee has shown extremely limited ability to hit the broad side of a barn in almost every opportunity in college. That’s not saying he whether he was injured or not, it’s just a statement of his passing performance up to this point. As for HS, well, he had Jordan Shipley to throw to as well…
HenryJames said:
August 21st, 2008 at 8:04 am
I’d suggest one edit though:
“[Heard]’s ability to dominate games- not involving Texas- is mostly mythical at this point.”
Yeah, we need to put a John Lithgow mask on McCoy this year so Heard won’t kill him.
Little Satan said:
August 21st, 2008 at 8:52 am
and we all know how Jordan Shipley has turned out…
Ag_in_TX said:
August 21st, 2008 at 9:04 am
I hold out great hope that McGee is going to have a break-out year this season. I also hope the Easter Bunny still comes and that my new ideas in carbon paper technologies will make me a bazzilion-aire.
HenryJames said:
August 21st, 2008 at 9:07 am
McGee was a great passing quarterback in high school, but four years under Franchione probably didn’t help him much.
And I do wish Jordan Shipley had his durability.
South '06 said:
August 21st, 2008 at 9:21 am
Good writeup, as usual. I generally agree, although I think our personnel on defense is better than most people expect. Of course, most people expect that they are mongoloids riding Segways, so there’s nowhere to go but up.
Nice Jurassic Park reference.
MU_LAX said:
August 21st, 2008 at 9:39 am
As a Packers fan, I’ll throw in my 2 cents here. I thought Sherman was a decent though not spectacular NFL coach. I could see his offense working in college provided he dumbed down the passing game alot (the West Coast Offense doesn’t have the best track record in college…see Nebraska under Cally.)
His real failing was as an NFL GM. He was terrible at evaluating and drafting players. I’ll be interested to see how that will translate when it comes to recruiting.
Hello? said:
August 21st, 2008 at 9:48 am
“Much like the A&M coaching search committee, I mailed this one in.”
Too bad you used the Wells Fargo stagecoach, while A&M used UPS overnight.
Nate Harvey said:
August 21st, 2008 at 9:49 am
At least McGee will have already gotten some work in at receiver for the day we realize he still can’t throw. I seem to remember a couple TD passes coming from Jorvorskie’s gloved hand…
KilgoreTrout said:
August 21st, 2008 at 10:04 am
I have higher hopes for McGee’s passing this year as he won’t be getting the crap beat out of him on running plays all game long. On the other hand those might be traded for beatings in the pocket on pass plays due to suspect line play. I hope the new coaches can teach technique and game plan to get a few wins we might not otherwise get.
ponderos said:
August 21st, 2008 at 10:13 am
Really, how bad could Sherman be …
Abraham S. said:
August 21st, 2008 at 10:54 am
from an Ag - solid, pretty funny write up all around. I got some good laughs. I think the overarching point is that A&M is decent, but compared to the local talent at ou, ut, and l$u, we look thin.
Also, I object to being compared with Joe Kines. He doesn’t know a thing about yelling at clouds.
Facebook User said:
August 21st, 2008 at 11:00 am
I know we’ve all seen it but I always enjoy it. I love this guy.
ponderos said:
August 21st, 2008 at 11:10 am
Kines making the handjob motion as he talks about his defense is pure gold.
HenryJames said:
August 21st, 2008 at 11:13 am
Texas fans were all excited about Kines when his name was mentioned as a possible defensive coordinator candidate last season. He’s got a tough job in front of him.
dwix_ags said:
August 21st, 2008 at 11:17 am
Dang ponderos, I was trying to forget that game, at least the wrecking crew came out in the 4th quarter against their practice squad. That game and the Oiler-Bills game I have tried to erased from memory, it’s not working.
Eric said:
August 21st, 2008 at 11:20 am
“Sherman is going to have to come up with a passing offense using a quarterback who can’t consistently throw, a receiving corps that can’t catch and an offensive line that can’t pass block”
edit: unless they are playing tu
HenryJames said:
August 21st, 2008 at 11:23 am
ChrisApplewhite said:
August 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
I’d just like to stand up for Gary Darnell for a second. That guy salvaged so many wins with shitty talent. He turned a bad group of players into a cohesive unit that saved Fran a couple times in his two years.
Is Kines a better coach? Probably. Will his defenses perform better? Probably not. The last two seasons were the ceiling for A&M football, and this year’s squad is even worse.
ponderos said:
August 21st, 2008 at 11:46 am
dwix. Stoops was having Paul Thompson (a backup at the time) take a knee on first and goal at the 3-yard line so they wouldn’t score 80, but yeah … I guess you can call that a wrecking crew shutout for 15 minutes.
South '06 said:
August 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pm
“The last two seasons were the ceiling for A&M football”
Unpack that though. Try to do it as a football fan and not a Texas fan.
I try to remember I’m on a Texas fansite and take everything with a grain of salt, but I’m challenging that statement both as an Aggie and a college football fan.
BRAGGonUT said:
August 21st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I assume he means a high water mark for this year’s expected results, not forever, but who knows.
HenryJames said:
August 21st, 2008 at 12:41 pm
ChrisApplewhite thinks Slocum hung the moon.
TexAgs Gets Lose! said:
August 21st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
TexAgs on the link.
South '06 said:
August 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
South ‘06 = AggieSouth06
DUN DUN DUN!
coach Callahan said:
August 21st, 2008 at 1:19 pm
I went to that texags link. What are those people going to do when AT&F and the FBI show up on their doorstep?
dwix_ags said:
August 21st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Thanks James for the therapy… Love Ya Blue is now in the past, go Texans!
ponderos, I heard about taking the knee, Stoops didn’t want to run up the score, only 77-0. He’s such a nice guy!
South '06 said:
August 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
For the reverse side of the coin, check out my preview for our 2008 season.
Pretty objective, don’t you think?
Laces Out said:
August 21st, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Backing them up is, well, the goal line.
Love it.
Now that TexAgs is on the case, I see this combox thread devolving into illiterate rants by a swarm of dyslexic e.e. cummings fans. I thought the Mizzou preview was in danger of pushing BC.com over the interweb fire marshal’s maximum occupancy for blithering, spittle-tossing, knee-jerk defenses of underachieving programs and the fans who love them, but this preview is sure to do so. Get out while you still can.
South '06 said:
August 21st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
You’ll be suprised, Laces Out. Most of us love these. Look at the comments from last years’.
Scipio Tex said:
August 21st, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Last year’s preview
Black Scholes said:
August 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
“looked at the depth chart with all the undisguised horror of Thomas Keller reading the menu at Applebee’s and then promptly fled”
Genius.
vvn8bs said:
August 21st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Laces, was Mizzou underachieving last year? Or overachieving? It is so hard for us new money folk to understand your old money ways. At least you guys still have money, I guess. Listening to Nebraska fans is like being strapped Clockwork Orange-style in front of a neverending Sirius broadcast of Mortimer and Randolph at the end of Trading Places. Get those brokers back in here! Turn this recruiting back on!
miketag said:
August 21st, 2008 at 4:39 pm
“Kines thought he had retired, but after driving his car through a farmers market in Tuscaloosa he was sentenced to community service on the Aggie staff. He brings a lot of experience to the job even though he occasionally interrupts practice to yell at clouds.”
Genius!!!
I think I have seen it all. A Texas fan defending Gary Darnell. The only offense Darnell knew how to stop was the Longhorns. Maybe that is why he was at Texas so long. His defenses looked so good in practice.
We are very thin on the OL and at LB. I think better coaching overall will lead to one more win than last year so am looking at 8-4 but 7-5 would not surprise me. Just looking forward to being able to watch a game without pondering whether or not to gouge my eyes out in frustration over the coaching.
Ransom Stoddard said:
August 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Only Mack, Duane and Greg could lose to this mess two years [three?] in a row.
Laces Out said:
August 21st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Clarification: South ‘06, you and other sane Ags who were here before today’s TexAgs link were not the subject of my tongue-in-cheek warning.
This isn’t going to get me banned from BC like I got banned from Hornfans, is it? Please oh please, show me some mercy! I have nowhere else to go but http://www.mackbrown-texasfootball-suspends-reality-while-bill-little-reweaves-the-time-space-continuum-and-returns-us-to-1968.com. Save me, Scipio-wan, you’re my only hope!
Greg Davis Rides the Short(pass) Bus said:
August 21st, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Was the statue of David picture meant as a subliminal reminder that we were beat by the little guy for two consecutive years? Or just to infer that aggies have small penises?
The Thomas Keller reference, as well as Grandpa Simpson yelling at the clouds (my favorite Simpsons reference) were golden.
smallpenisip said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:13 pm
hmm…how bout them Aggs beating us sips the last 2 years. With our talent this year and old yeller teeth, they may make it 3 in a row.
vinceisgay said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:18 pm
let’s party. i like to party, will you with me.
2losswhorn said:
August 21st, 2008 at 7:28 pm
darn they got our number. old yeller tooth, please don’t let us down. Please let us win another 10 games, even it means we get beat by the Good Guys.
LOL Aggies said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 am
And that Pete Carroll guy - he sucked as well.
give it a rest aggies Sherman is no Pete Carroll. Pete Carroll has a couple things working for him that aggyland doesnt.
1) 5* recruits will flock to southern cali not some hill billy racist redneck town.
2) Pete Carroll has a lil more class and personality than Sherman’s boring old ass
3)Serman didn’t develop Brett Favre, Brett Favre was already in the system and didn’t need much coaching. Credit the previous coach for developing Brett.
Wake up and smell the sheep dung you retarded rednecks
TaylorTRoom said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 am
I had no idea before that the Ags were the best team in 1927. I knew that their claims to a 1919 MNC were hokie. A review of records shows that the 1927 seems more legit. The quality of southwest football was better, and Illinois’ claim seems not as strong (they had a similar record to TAMU- no losses but tied once). Joel Hunt was the star of that Ag team, and he was one of the SWC’s greatest players of that era.
Ag_in_TX said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:18 am
Correction - Joel Hunt was the greatest SWC player ever. (hey, he used to give me free ice cream - I owe the guy!)
South '06 said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:20 am
LOL - I’ll bet 2 thousand dollars that you are more redneck than me, the people I hang out with, and 90% of College Station in general. If you’re gonna thrown insults, try a few that didn’t fucking go out of date in 1952.
stick95 said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:54 am
You know, you could actually provide some real football analysis in addition to taking random shots at another team.
Better yet, leave the previews to Scipio.
Compton said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:06 am
Where the f do you live that you think College Station isn’t redneck?
Stuck in MN said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:11 am
Bryan?
ChrisApplewhite said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:18 am
“I assume he means a high water mark for this year’s expected results, not forever, but who knows.”
This is correct. I meant that the last two season were absolutely as good as those teams could’ve been.
South '06 said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 7:32 am
I see. I just read it wrong.
I agree with you about last season’s team, but in ‘06 we were a few blown coaching decisions away from beating OU and Nebraska. There was really nothing we could do about the Tech loss. Graham just nailed that pass. And let’s not even talk about the dismantling at Cal. But the OU and Nebraska games were incredibly winnable.
Ag_in_TX said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
They are as good as they could have been with that coaching staff. htmfh….
ChrisApplewhite said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 am
“I agree with you about last season’s team, but in ‘06 we were a few blown coaching decisions away from beating OU and Nebraska.”
In my worldview results and performance are two different things. I agree that those games could have gone either way, and I think if A&M and NU played 50 times that year each team would win at least 20. But I focus more on how well teams play throughout. A&M got better as the season wore on and I’m not really sure how any other coaches squeezes anything more out of that team.
“They are as good as they could have been with that coaching staff. htmfh….”
True. I just wonder why you think that the new coaching staff will be better. Fran’s biggest failing was recruiting, and Sherman won’t be any better there. Aside from a few big in game blunders, A&M’s ‘06 and ‘07 were tough, physical, and technically sound. The talent just wasn’t there overall. What little you guys id have was well used, outside of maybe Bennett in the passing game. Maybe.
TaylorTRoom said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:28 am
D-1A college football has changed the last few years. It used to be that if a defense had top 30 talent, and was well prepared for an opponent, they could usually hold the opposing offense to 25 points or less. This meant that conservative game plans were a reasonable strategy.
Something changed the last few years. I suspect the spread offenses, which make it easier than before for a weaker team to get the ball to its best offensive playmakers in space. This means that superior teams can’t game plan to go into a shell and wait for their superior talent to win out.
For some reason, Fran’s offense did not have that “big play” element consistently, and his grind-it-out approach was too risky for the Ags’ talent level, playing a B12 schedule. His spread QB couldn’t make the big runs, nor did he find (maybe they weren’t there) the wide open receiver in space.
Sherman’s offense will be interesting. Certainly, the NFL is a tougher game. However, a lot of NFL offensive schemes are based on the recognition that the opposing squad has top talent superbly coached. NFL offenses don’t have plays to take advantage of broken coverages; they assume coverages won’t be broken enough to do so. NFL teams can’t use plays that require an individual player to be overmatched. An NFL scheme transfered directly to D-1A probably wouldn’t score as much as a well-coordinated spread option.
College teams can assume that there will be breakdowns in the coverages, and that their best playmakers can overpower the opponents. It will be interesting to see how much of the NFL scheme Sherman retains.
ChrisApplewhite said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:34 am
Fran’s offense consisted of Stephen McGee, a mediocre OL, and 4 tight ends. Bill Walsh couldn’t get big plays out of that group.
The big plays came on the ground because that’s where the talent is. If Sherman thinks McGee is capable of running his offense, even simplified, he is going to be Callahan’d really quickly.
Ag_in_TX said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:28 am
From all I’ve heard, the intent is to make Goodson to focal point of the offense.
Sherman seems to be smart enough to figure out who the best ballplayer on the team is right now, the same way perhaps Brown/Davis are figuring out that John is the best player on y’alls team.
ChrisApplewhite said:
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Depends on how you define ‘player.’
J-Train's Gunt said:
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:48 am
I’ve been reading Henry James’ stuff since before Hornfans. He’s good at the sarcastic one-liners but not so good when he’s forced to write any more than that.
These are far better left in Scipio’s hands.
Objective Aggie said:
August 24th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Pretty solid writeup. I think you are a little too hard on our defensive ends as Bennett and Obiozor are adequate, but I’m not going to call the assessment wrong either. You also failed to mention our best player, Justin Brantly. That’s one guy you know is going to see a lot of reps.
Count me among those who thinks Sherman doesn’t have much of a chance of real college success.
This isn’t even some coach who can set down roots if he has success and be a longterm coach. The dude is in his mid fifties and many think he already should have retired. I would have preferred a younger, more charismatic coach. A workaholic, a real asshole. Like Bob Stoops when OU grabbed him.
Extremely poor hire by Bill Byrne and company. Not that it would matter because Bear Bryant, Bill Parcells and Chuck Norris combined couldn’t get this team into the Holiday Bowl. Makes me sick, quite honestly.
ChrisApplewhite said:
August 24th, 2008 at 4:32 am
A&M lost their highest rated player, Ivory Wade, in yet another decommitment. Best part? Lost to Baylor.
New coaches usually bring that “new coach smell” excitement to the recruiting trail, but it looks like Sherman has totally failed to do that. Their recruiting class sucks right now.
ChrisApplewhite said:
August 24th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Also, let me agree with Objective Aggie, Michael Bennett is a pretty nice player. At least when he plays us.
BatesHorn said:
August 25th, 2008 at 6:33 am
I would just like to point out that you guys have now referenced Jurassic Park TWICE during the series.
Good or bad? Discuss amoungst yourselves.
Objective Aggie said:
August 30th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Please note that some Ags objected to this mindless good ol’ boy hire as soon as Sherm was announced. I also mentioned McGee could not succeed without being a “run also” QB and that we would probably lose 6 games this year.
I stand corrected. I think we’ll lose 8 this year. Thank God I get to go to grad school in a couple of years and find a new fucking football team.
Oh, and Michael Bennett did have a fumble recovery in that abortion of a game. He’s a nice player.
TSOBO said:
September 16th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
College Station isn’t a “hillbilly racist” town. You shitbag have never been there, nor are you accurately describing rural America, meanwhile SOUTH CENTRAL LA, where USCheat is, is a racist, gang infested, crime infested hell hole…lol at you shitbag.
PatronSaint said:
September 16th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
HenryJames, I’ve got some bad news for you. You are a shitbag.
HenryJames said:
September 16th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
That’s not exactly news.
coach callahan said:
September 16th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
it could be worse, you could be a flaming shitbag and be sitting on my porch.
Patient Procrastinator said:
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 am
So far it looks like the entire aggie QB depth chart is preparing for the Black Knights of Army by feigning injury. Jerrod Johnson was spotted in the aggie medical library (okay next to that one book labeled “Asprin: elixer, black magic or fraud?”) looking up “unverifiable, debilitating, soft tissue injury”. I am totally joking, actually he just started at “A” and slammed the book down in disgust 11 seconds later.