gooberhead said:
The attitude on this board is a reflection of the Kyle Field crowd, and vice versa. Self-loathing, impatient and quick to give up.
Muy said:gooberhead said:
The attitude on this board is a reflection of the Kyle Field crowd, and vice versa. Self-loathing, impatient and quick to give up.
Bull****, most of us show up, yell our asses off, and stay until the bitter end.
Nebraska doesn't seem to have that problem.Stoopkid said:TxAg76 said:aglaes said:
Pretty much right. Home crowd is supposed to get loud when your defense is on the field. For a LONG time our defense has been so bad the 12th Man could never really get into the game. Defense is better under Elko, but not yet good enough to get the crowd whipped into a frenzy like the old Wrecking Crew days.
Play great defense = have intimidating crowd presence.
Crowd has to hang around first. Bolting midway thru Q3 won't work
This is the whole chicken or the egg problem. Crowd will stay around if the team gives them something to stay for.
I don't watch pre-game, post-game, game day, etc. or listen to sports talk radio (I have heard of Chris Fowler, and think I know who Herbie is, but have never heard of Bear (other than the famous dead one) but your TL;DR comments are correct. We don't have a chance against Alabama and Kyle Field hasn't been a home field advantage in a long time. Much of what has transpired since it used to be a home field advantage has been to detract from that. It is a glittery advertisement, it has a damn stupid DJ or all things, its not conducive to being what it once was. Of course, what we have put on the field most years isn't either, whether due to players, coaches, or both.12thAngryMan said:
In case you missed it, Chris Fowler, Herbie, and Bear ripped A&M in last night's "nightcap recap". A&M discussion starts at 3:02. TL;DR: A&M has no chance against Alabama, and the home field advantage at Kyle Field is a joke. They tell it like it is after a few drinks...
Chris Fowler Nightcap Recap
Spot on. I was at that game and miss that intimidatiing atmosphere.AgDotCom said:
The Jumbotrons and piped in music all game long have sucked the life out of the crowd. The last time the full power of the 12th Man was on display was Nebraska 2010, and it wasn't just awesome, it was downright scary even for some Aggies like me. Good defense helps but is not mandatory, see OU 2000 where lots of points were scored, and I left Kyle physically beat down by the 3 hour cascade of jet engine-like noise.
We have sold out, and it won't be fixed until we hit the mute button. What do you expect when you have a loud video playing on 1/4 acre of video boards? 100,000 people yelling with snot flying out their nose or people standing there looking at a video with their mouths open catching flies? Let the game speak for itself, you have no chance trying to manufacture something better.
You nailed it. This and add cell phone usage is out of control.AgDotCom said:
The Jumbotrons and piped in music all game long have sucked the life out of the crowd. The last time the full power of the 12th Man was on display was Nebraska 2010, and it wasn't just awesome, it was downright scary even for some Aggies like me. Good defense helps but is not mandatory, see OU 2000 where lots of points were scored, and I left Kyle physically beat down by the 3 hour cascade of jet engine-like noise.
We have sold out, and it won't be fixed until we hit the mute button. What do you expect when you have a loud video playing on 1/4 acre of video boards? 100,000 people yelling with snot flying out their nose or people standing there looking at a video with their mouths open catching flies? Let the game speak for itself, you have no chance trying to manufacture something better.
Nonregdrummer09 said:
Agreed, but I was at the game. I'd never seen the A&M crowd leave with a game still in contention against a top ten opponent like that. It, clearly, is still bugging me.
Dude, I will enjoy it immensely. That said, I have been fully invested in Aggie football for over 50 years. Outside of a stretch in the late 80s-early 90s and an occasional flash here & there, we have never lived up to our billing. We have been hyped big time since Y2K, and and have not won a conference championship in over 20 years and have only won 10 games or more once. Sooner or later you got put up or shut up/LewP said:
You know, I have a theory.
When the train is running good, EVERYONE wants to ride it.
When the train is a little slow and not running right, no one wants to ride it.
How sweet will it be when A&M wins a national championship and we can say we were here the entire time?
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How sweet will it be when A&M wins a national championship and we can say we were here the entire time?
I have been saying this for awhile. In a nutshell, we think we are the best in everything. We have the best of everything. Thats all well and good but it leads to a country club mindset. We need to stop with all the flash and embrace the blood, guts, hard working farmer/rancher mentality that this university was built on and be hungrier than every opponent. I am not saying being Redneck U but rather to embrace that "roll up your sleeves and get to work mindset that is necessary for success."Rendered Fat said:Flexbone said:How we've done in the past is completely irrelevant. You're looking for things that aren't there. There are PLENTY of programs with way less history than us that break out and achieve. It's all about hiring the right coach and supporting him. There's nothing "in the water."chipotle said:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: We're not that good a program. We get a spark once every decade(92-93, 98, 2012) or so but that's it. It's not who we've been hiring it's Whoever is doing the hiring is the issue and I'm not talking about the AD. Something is rotten in the water here.
Some of you fail to realize that by all accounts, finishing second in the toughest division in football, winning 9 games, and finishing in the Top 15 ish (16) in a coach's first year is really, really good. We lost a lot of key players; a drop should have been expected, especially with this schedule.
It sucks to have to read so many stupid opinions.
It's sad watching you constantly e-defend and cheerlead for this program year after year. A&M is not good. It never has been. We won a bunch of games in the 90's against Rice, Houston and SMU but have never done anything of significance against anyone that matters. I don't know why you keep holding on to this delusional fairy tale that we are a premier program or a powerhouse. Did you not just watch Herbie and Fowler drag their drunk, sweaty nuts all over our chin and laugh at us while doing so? And there is literally nothing we can do about it because they are 100% correct. Kyle Field is a joke and everyone knows it. Commentators openly laugh at us. Everyone from Iowa State and Arkansas State to Bama and LSU casually walk into Kyle, promptly bend our program, traditions, history and culture over for four quarters and laugh at us on the way out. It's literally sadistic to expect our fan base to sit through the entire game and take it...over and over and over again, game after game, year after year but 100,000 of us do it every single year and keep coming back for more. We NEVER win big games at home. Ever. It took three literal miracles in a single game to beat a pretty good LSU team last year. Aside from that, our home record over the last twenty years or so is pathetic.
There was a good argument to be made that A&M had everything a school could possibly need to become elite, but consistently stepped on its own dick with terrible coaching hire after terrible coaching hire.
The thought was that if we could ever make a genuine hire, everything else would fall in line. That argument is now officially dead. If Jimbo Fisher can't win here, nobody will. There's no point in doing this any longer, it's over.
The problem is our culture and that isn't going to change so there's no point holding out hope that a football powerhouse will ever emerge at A&M.
But keep calling everyone idiots. Probably just a bunch of sip trolls and 2 percenters commenting on this thread. I'm gonna get banned after this post, but I'm still gonna check in every now and again hoping you'll see the light and find a better use of your life than goal tending for a school that is going to ALWAYS let you down.
