ag94ag said:
rocky the dog said:
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FSU is a place you retire. Texas A&M has more or less wallowed in mediocrity for the last 20 years.
Nebraska's football program wallowed in mediocrity from its beginning until Bob Devaney came along, followed by Tom Osbourne. They flourished from 1970 until 1997. They are now "wallowing" in mediocrity. It happens. Michigan football is wallowing in mediocrity now. You could say that about many college programs. But sometimes, you strike gold in a head coach who takes a program to new heights. Jimbo Fisher just might be the one to take us there.
Just because A&M has had a bad run doesn't mean we have to stay in it. Any "journalist" who writes this crap has no real knowledge of college football history or the rise and fall of programs.
These are the same journalists that believe that "we need to stay in our lane."
They are afraid of us and what we may accomplish.
What exactly are they afraid of? What do they have to fear?
The guy wrote that article SPECIFICALLY to generate interest in the article. He wrote about a lucrative contract that was signed by a National Title winning coach and he pointed out the obvious: Texas A&M hasn't been a place to attract a coach like that since Fran, and that was an unmitigated disaster.
We have absolutely wallowed in mediocrity. But we made a HUGE hire with Jimbo and that was surprising. Even to the most die-hard sunshine pumpers on this board, it was a surprise hire.
That is worthy of writing an article about.
Frankly, I took it as a complimentary article about TAMU having the resources and the balls to take a shot at a guy like Jimbo.
But you guys see ghosts and phantoms at every turn.
So, I ask you again. What, exactly, is there to be afraid of for a journalist if we have a successful football program? They get to write stories about how unlikely it was that we won a title? How impossible the odds were lookingat our history? How unlikely it was that we would get a head coach like Jimbo?
Yea, if I was a journalist I would be hoping for something like that to happen. And I would set that scene with an article pretty much like that dude wrote.
But that is just me.