Read it or die.

good read.........its good to hear he is doing well.

Every time I hear of Mark Farris, I remember hearing of the alternate "Let Him Play" shirts -- with Farris' number and the qualifier "He's Got Kids". Pure comic genius but probably an urban legend.

You gotta love this guy. This is what the term student-athlete is all about.

I'm proud to call him a fellow Aggie.

I do love the guy, but he is hardly what the term student-athlete is about. How many students were millionaires before stepping on campus?

I think that it is sad that the same people that were calling for his head, are going to be the ones that will say stuff like Farris is the true definition of an Aggie...

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Tim the Enchanter--

The "Let him play; He's got kids" shirt is NOT an urban legend! My brother and his best friend came up with that last year and printed about 25 shirts. I have one of them.

They should have given the idea to Inspirations in College Station and let them run with it!


Catch the Coach Fran Fever!

Stay drunk game. You're probably my brother that I'm going to disagree with, but RC's demise is why Farris was QB, not the other way around.

Mark Farris handled a difficult situation pretty well IMO. A lot of people would have been way less mature when losing their starting job as a senior. I was as ready to go in a different direction at QB as anybody but give Farris credit for keeping his composure during a tough time.

He did help usher in a new passing offense for the Ags. I think that gets overlooked.

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Steph -- pure genius nonetheless.

Tim- I'll be sure to pass that along!

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Without looking, I boldly predict he moved back to his hometown and is selling insurance. It's what every failed athlete does. If they are successful, they'll attribute it to a competitive spirit or something.

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I hate to live up to your measure of success. He played QB in Div I football. He played AA baseball. What level of success did you reach?

Secondly, you're on the nose about selling insurance. But hell, you should go into insurance or real estate if you're a former athlete. You already have name recognition, and you're 2 steps ahead of the competition.

Plus, I cannot beleive I'm defending Farris. Sheesh! There's an amazing thing called perspective



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thebloomer --- Did your job in Overland Park arise out of some failure of yours?

I sure don't see the point in bashing Aggie football players. I really don't.

Bloomer you are a ****ing idiot. So only failures head back to their home towns to work? I think a lot of people wish they could go back to their hometown and make a decent living, but that is not possible in most of them.

Oh by the way, since you won't read the article. He did not go back to his hometown, but you probably still consider him a failure.

For guys like you, it is better off that a player quit after high school, so that way he will never be considered a failure if he does not live up to your expectations.

Rocks -- maybe you should loan bloomer your user name.

Actually, Baytown is an hour an a half from Angleton.

Nevermind, I missed the "not" in rocks post.

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Bloomer,


Let see one of his wins againts one of yours?

Mark Farris beat Notre Dame 24 - 3 in Kyle Field

You, beat notre Dame 38 - 10 in a Video Game

Snopy is right. Angleton is small town while Baytown isn't far from Houston.

That's like telling me I grew up in Clear Lake when I'm really from Cypress. Those communities are different.

Mark Farris continues to handle himself with class. That was a great article.

He did what he was supposed to do--he competed hard, played for the team, and made the coaches choose who should play. I wish him success in whatever he tries.

my Farris memory goes back to the I-Bowl (I for independence or Ice either way)- my wife is silent for four qtrs of a North Toronto style snowstorm only to find out the game is going to overtime - she looks at me and gives me that WHAT DO YOU MEAN OVERTIME WHAT THE F&%K - SINCE WHEN HAVE THEY HAD F&#KING OVER F#&KING TIME IN COLLEGE F&*KING FOOTBALL - then we lost.

Yea we enjoyed that trip - Farris throws that interception and I see my sexlife evaporate

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Buehler?.....Buehler?.....

"When I grow up, I want to go to Bovine University!" - Ralph Wiggum

Farris is a smart and talented guy in both football and business. Things unfortunately didnt go the way he wanted them to in football. So now he is saying the right things in an article (free advertising), which will surely get him all the insurance business from all the Ags. He would have been stupid to say anything negative about A&M, because his business would surely not profit from that as much as it will by saying positives things. He will see the benefits from this and he knows it.

Farris is a good guy and real class act.

RC is a good guy and real class act.

thebloomer is a good guy and real class act.

P.S. I actually know thebloomer. Give him a break guys...it's only an opinion and we've all got them.

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nice fake edit, aggie-master. Too bad you screwed up the date.

Say it with me fArris.

How did staff manage to edit a post (aggiemaster) in the future? THose bastages must be more powerful than I thought!

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It takes a brave and mature man to post something like that.

You guys crack me up... while the topic of the article was fine, that was the worst written story i've read in a LONG time, perhaps EVER... good read my @$$

I'm glad he's doing well. He's a good guy and is undeserving of some the trash he's gotten on this board over the years.

Whoa. My monthly venture to the Ag football board went a bit awry.

I shouldn't have called him a failure. My mistake there. How about this:

It seems like MANY college athletes that experience college-level success but don't make it to the big leagues (be it baseball or college) end up back in their hometowns selling insurance. I don't know Mark, I don't know anything about Mark the person at all. Heck, I've had plenty of failures in my life. I'm darn happy with where I am now and I'm sure Mark is pretty happy with where he is, too. Of course, I'm 5'11 180 lbs. and I can throw a football at least 30 yards. I can also run a solid 5.2 40 and I'm pretty sure if I really got pumped up I could bench 150. Maybe. I throw one helluva forehand bender with frisbee, though.

I just wonder if there is some sort of weird statistic that can drawn up with this. Look at where Mark was at 18 years old. 1MM signing bonus with the Pirates or D-1 QB recruit on full scholarship. How is it that so many of these folks that don't play pro ball end up selling insurance? It's truly amazing. My high school's phenom was Tommy Maddox. Where was he when the XFL came calling? I'll give you one guess.

I could probably put together a football team of small town insurance agents that would give the Houston Texans a run for their money.

Some of you on here would slap your own mother if she had something negative to say about an Aggie football player.

Thanks, prof. You and Rosa's are about all of Lubbock that I call good.