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Sherman available to hire!

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12mn95
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What's interesting is that of the top 10 A&M players currently in the NFL, he recruited 8 of them. IIRC.
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AnalogyAg
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honestly his talent lay not in recruiting top shelf athletes to come to a&m, rather in spotting AND DEVELOPING overlooked ir supposed average athletes into solid college players, and good players into great ones.
cc10106
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He did a lot of good things as Head Coach, some of which are lacking now, but he wasn't going to maximize A&M's potential with or without the SEC.
cc10106
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Sherman would have been awesome to have on staff, but that wouldn't have worked out either.
MikeM1960
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AnalogyAg said:

honestly his talent lay not in recruiting top shelf athletes to come to a&m, rather in spotting AND DEVELOPING overlooked ir supposed average athletes into solid college players, and good players into great ones.
This is laughable
rebelAg02
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Honestly... how most of this board comments about Mike Sherman's time at A&M highlights the football stupidity and irrational minds of many posters on TexAgs. Pointing to a loss against Arkansas State in his first game at A&M with all the RC+Fran problems...4th quarter fatigue of players losing games...

Compare that to building an O-line program that put all 5 starters in the NFL, recruiting Evans, supporting Von, elevating expectations to our base thinking we would win a conference championship post RC and Fran... and recruiting Johnny... all of this is drastically more important to the foundation of a program than losing five games by 7 points or less which is easily fixible.

Called it when we fired Sherman for Sumlin saying "in 4-5 years we will be looking for a new coach." A leadership base and fan base that behaves like we have and continues to do will not reach the top of the mountain
JM13
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I bet Sherman is reading this thread just waiting by his phone
Lateralus Ag
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rebelAg02 said:

Honestly... how most of this board comments about Mike Sherman's time at A&M highlights the football stupidity and irrational minds of many posters on TexAgs. Pointing to a loss against Arkansas State in his first game at A&M with all the RC+Fran problems...4th quarter fatigue of players losing games...

Compare that to building an O-line program that put all 5 starters in the NFL, recruiting Evans, supporting Von, elevating expectations to our base thinking we would win a conference championship post RC and Fran... and recruiting Johnny... all of this is drastically more important to the foundation of a program than losing five games by 7 points or less which is easily fixible.

Called it when we fired Sherman for Sumlin saying "in 4-5 years we will be looking for a new coach." A leadership base and fan base that behaves like we have and continues to do will not reach the top of the mountain



I hate to argue with you. I really do. But, we are going into season 6 and Sumlin is still here.

And Sherman was a great evaluator of talent. Not many argue that. He is also a good person.

But he was a horrible gameday coach. Unfortunately, gameday coaching is really important.
DallasAggie89
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Bring back that .500 record.
cc10106
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rebelAg02 said:

Honestly... how most of this board comments about Mike Sherman's time at A&M highlights the football stupidity and irrational minds of many posters on TexAgs. Pointing to a loss against Arkansas State in his first game at A&M with all the RC+Fran problems...4th quarter fatigue of players losing games...

Compare that to building an O-line program that put all 5 starters in the NFL, recruiting Evans, supporting Von, elevating expectations to our base thinking we would win a conference championship post RC and Fran... and recruiting Johnny... all of this is drastically more important to the foundation of a program than losing five games by 7 points or less which is easily fixible.

Called it when we fired Sherman for Sumlin saying "in 4-5 years we will be looking for a new coach." A leadership base and fan base that behaves like we have and continues to do will not reach the top of the mountain

Or compare that to choking 5 games away after having double digit leads with his best squad in 2011. Do you not remember all those meltdowns and his inability to adjust on offense or his refusal to hire an offensive coordinator or even speaking against the SEC move? He wrongly expected his players to be like pros on and off the field which led to the conditioning issues, and he would constantly get outcoached when it mattered most. As great as the 2010 season was, the Big 12 was mediocre, and he basically cost A&M the conference title because he was too stubborn to name Tanny the starter when JJ was struggling even before he got hurt. So when A&M started with 2 conference losses in winnable games, it was too late.

I'm not saying he was treated fairly especially at the end, but A&M was certainly justified in letting him go because he had all the pieces and failed miserably. Every big game in '11, sans Baylor, was the same nightmare over and over and was very telling of things to come despite having a stacked preseason top ten team. Hell, Johnny wouldn't have been the started in '12 if Sherman stuck around. Not to mention Rossley was the reason A&M got Johnny, not Sherman. He was lucky to even get the job because A&M didn't do a proper search because they wanted a Yes Man. No Heisman. No top 5 finish. You get the idea. Or I hope so anyway.

All those things happened or would have for a reason, and that is he simply was not fit to be a CFB Head Coach at that level. Players loved him, and I love how he turned the program around, but he was not the guy. You can't fix that, sorry.
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