I did the camp this week. Talked to most Aggie coaches and players in private. I will not tell word for word but just let me say they believe they have something to do big things. Not coach speak. Remember This was coach to coach talking in private. Ok take you shots! haha.

Coach, in your honest opinion do you think our OL will be improved this year? You need to post more btw..

Not trolling but what did they say about the o-line and Trevor Knight (strictly on-the-field play)? IMO these are the weakest positions on the team.

Coach, I hope you're right that it wasn't coach speak. I've talked to a few college coaches (I also coach HS football) and I always feel like they're just blowing smoke, no matter what. I would assume that unless it's with their own staff, they're always "doing great things" or "expect big things this year". I guess I'm just pessimistic like that.

**** it. I'm in.

I hear the same thing every year

Believe in coach LB, he's no rojo or tennis boy!

This year summer has a total different feel then last. I sense more team unity and the addition of the turners and mazzone has given team more confidence. The commits that we already have for 2017 love TAMU and they show that on Twitter everyday.

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I did the camp this week. Talked to most Aggie coaches and players in private. I will not tell word for word but just let me say they believe they have something to do big things. Not coach speak. Remember This was coach to coach talking in private. Ok take you shots! haha.

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Hate to burst your bubble, but the entire SEC west feels this way EVERY year.

There is every reason to believe the hype. It isn't like Sumlin will be here next year if he repeats 8-5 or worse...

After a little research, CoachLB, I know you!

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After a little research, CoachLB, I know you!

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If we stay healthy, this will be our best sec team yet. Our defense could be lights out and if ford is what everybody thinks he is, sir Lancelot will be an incredible game manager with deadly weapons. Iz gonna be good.

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If we stay healthy, this will be our best sec team yet. Our defense could be lights out and if ford is what everybody thinks he is, sir Lancelot will be an incredible game manager with deadly weapons. Iz gonna be good.

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I'll take a keg of whatever you are drinking... Here's to eternal optimism!!

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If we stay healthy, this will be our best sec team yet. Our defense could be lights out and if ford is what everybody thinks he is, sir Lancelot will be an incredible game manager with deadly weapons. Iz gonna be good.

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I'll take a keg of whatever you are drinking... Here's to eternal optimism!!

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Bottle of NyQuil. My daughter brought the plague back from camp.

I worked it at well! Had a lot of fun

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This year summer has a total different feel then last. I sense more team unity and the addition of the turners and mazzone has given team more confidence. The commits that we already have for 2017 love TAMU and they show that on Twitter everyday.

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I sense that you totally just made that up

chilpote thanks you won a bet for me. I bet you would show up and piss all over this! Look I am at a Houston Cougar camp today so I will go into more detail tomorrow. But I know coach speak when I hear it, heck I have used it myself. This was a confidence, a we know something the rest of the league media and fans do not. I am passing this on because there are actually some on here that wants to have football conversation. You do not have to believe it. But I was raised in a family of coaches and have been around it my entire life. It sounded legit to me. But it has to be won in the field.

Oh. and hello saw em off.

Let us know if our camp had bigger, faster SEC ready athletes.

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I hear the same thing every year

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I was torn on my bet between you and chipote.

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"The first thing that got me excited about this team was the lack of drama in the offseason. You cannot act like that is not part of it. These guys have seemed to be pretty focused on what they came here to do, and I think they are a closer bunch than what a lot of people think. That becomes interesting, because there's a bunch of highly recruited guys on this team and sometime those kind of guys are looked at as prima donnas, or not wanting to work, or stand offish, but that has not happened with this group."

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Was this coach speak? I don't know how to tell.

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And because of this I have learned to not get too excited for this year. Hopefully it's a pleasant surprise!

It is tough to tell in the written word. Kind of like a girl telling you she loves you in a note. You have to see their expressions and the tone in which they say it.

So supposing you're not the mfbarnes of LB coaches....

Did you attend last year's camp? Any differences stand out?

I am not a Coach but I am drinking the kool aid. This is with the caveat that we avoid injuries to key personnel.

Replacing Mr. Howdy Doody & Boy Wonder with Jim Turner and Mazzone is huge. Also, Dave Turner is a proven DL Coach and he is working with what may be our most talented group of DT's ever.

I am pretty well connected with some other SEC West fan bases and they don't expect much from us. My response has been that I expect us to field our best team ever.

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It is tough to tell in the written word. Kind of like a girl telling you she loves you in a note. You have to see their expressions and the tone in which they say it.

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I'll give you $1 for every time you heard a coach say, "Jeepers, we're just not going to be very good this year. Don't expect anything out of us."


I'll give you an extra $5 for every time you heard this from a coach who was arrogant enough to say on national TV, "We wanted to show that we're not a one-trick pony."

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Not trolling but what did they say about the o-line and Trevor Knight (strictly on-the-field play)? IMO these are the weakest positions on the team.

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You obviously aren't aware of the LB issues we had last season.

We will be better at OL and QB game 1 series 1 snap 1 than we were in the 4Q of the bowl game last season.

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Not trolling but what did they say about the o-line and Trevor Knight (strictly on-the-field play)? IMO these are the weakest positions on the team.

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You obviously aren't aware of the LB issues we had last season.

We will be better at OL and QB game 1 series 1 snap 1 than we were in the 4Q of the bowl game last season.

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I think LB will actually be ok IF, IF, IF we can avoid the injury bug. Of course, the guys we have haven't been able to do that yet in their careers here.

I have a feeling UCLA is going to be unprepared for the defense we will put on the field. Our O-Line is the big question mark in my mind. If they are good, TK will be fine.