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ssJackie was screwed by the Ft Worth Telegram,
Jackie was done in by the Dallas Morning News. When A&M starts winning people, sips, can't stand it. The DMN found a contract signed by Kevin Murray for a car furnished by a Former Student, from there it went from bad to worse. Jackie had done no worse than other schools, he just had to be put in his place by the sips.
I've witnessed football from the Bear to Sumlin, it seems we just can't make a good hire at a head coach, The Bear was not about to stay when he was offered a chance to go back to Bama. Then we hire Jim Meyers and Hank Folberg, they were a bust. We hire Gene Stallings and had a good run until he quit letting his coaches coach. I know a couple of men who coached for him. After he won the SWC Championship and the Cotton Bowl he thought he was the guru of college coaching. No one could tell him anything, he was always right, that led to his demise. Emory, was terrible at discipline and players went wild. Cain Hall was known as Co Cain Hall, plus the wishbone was an antiquated formation by that time and he was not going to change. Tom Wilson, what can I say with his Tech mentality, Bum Bright finally had enough and brokered the deal to bring Sherrill here, there was a condition, Bum's buddy RC was to come also. A&M wouldn't stand behind Jackie and he bailed, can't blame him. I think most of you know the story on RC, Fran and Sherman. Now we hire a drinking buddy of one of the regents. Sumlin really never had anything going on at Houston, as with Johnny, the QB that built Sumlin, he had QB's at Houston that built him also. In my life in College Station I've witnessed two coaches that were what I'd call premier coaches, Bear and Jackie. We just can't seem to hire a decent coach. We had a chance at Johnny Majors who eventually put the U of Tenn on the map, however, as a friend of mine said of one of the regents he knew, "we can't hire him, did you see those white and tan shoes he had on, and that long hair?" We need an athletic director with some GIANT GONADS, to fire and hire good coaches. Don't tell me $Bill was one, the only thing he knew to do was spend $$$$$, hell, he was on his way out when we hired him. That's a perfect example of what is wrong here, Nebraska was about to fire him and we hire him. And you ask why people tell Aggie jokes.