Considering the average Aggie grad/fan is 40 years old... (a stat I made up, because I'm 40)


32 seasons at .500 or better = 80% of the time we have a decent to good season


Worst season - 4-7/4-8 (three times - so we can expect a really really bad year less than once every 13 years)


28 bowls games (11-17, but bowl wins don;t really amount to much if they aren't for the ship)


7 coaches (Fun fact - no coach has left A&M and had a better winning percentage at their subsequent stops)


1000 (give or take a few) Aggie Football players - 25 new per year for 40 years


Best Record - 12-1


Highest final season rank - #5 (not our 12-1 season)


Top #1 or #2 pick in NFL Draft - 4 total


Heisman Finalists - 2


Heisman Winners - 1 (not the #1 or #2 draft pick)


Average final season ranking 24.4 (inflated, because I ranked us #30 for any year weren't ranked at the EOS)

Raptor said:

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Considering the average Aggie grad/fan is 40 years old... (a stat I made up, because I'm 40)


32 seasons at .500 or better = 80% of the time we have a decent to good season


Worst season - 4-7/4-8 (three times - so we can expect a really really bad year less than once every 13 years)


28 bowls games (11-17, but bowl wins don;t really amount to much if they aren't for the ship)


7 coaches (Fun fact - no coach has left A&M and had a better winning percentage at their subsequent stops)


1000 (give or take a few) Aggie Football players - 25 new per year for 40 years


Best Record - 12-1


Highest final season rank - #5 (not our 12-1 season)


Top #1 or #2 pick in NFL Draft - 4 total


Heisman Finalists - 2


Heisman Winners - 1 (not the #1 or #2 draft pick)


Average final season ranking 24.4 (inflated, because I ranked us #30 for any year weren't ranked at the EOS)

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Check back with me @ 50 years. I think the numbers will be considerably better. Jimbo Era.

I wrote this last week: https://texags.com/forums/5/topics/3080497/replies/55526512

Stats of the last 40 years of Aggie Football here for you to review. (I have no analysis or comments to add)

1980-2019 = 40 years

311 total wins = 7.8 wins per season

10+ win seasons = 8 (20%)

7 to 9 win seasons = 22 (55%)

4 to 6 win seasons = 10 (25%)

Total coaches = 7 (average tenure 5.7 years)

• 1980 - 1981 Wilson = 11 wins
• 1982 - 1988 Sherrill = 52 wins (3 SWC Titles)
• 1989 - 2002 Slocum = 123 wins (4* SWC Titles/1 Big XII Title) (*1994 probation*)
• 2003 - 2007 Fran = 32 wins
• 2008 - 2011 Sherman = 26 wins
• 2012 - 2017 Sumlin = 51 wins
• 2018 - Present Fisher = 16 wins

1980's average 7.1 wins per season

• 4 seasons 6 wins or less
• 2 seasons 10 wins

1990's average 9.4 wins per season (highest wins per season in the history of the program)

• 1 season 6 wins or less
• 5 seasons 10+ wins

2000's average 6.3 wins per season

• 5 seasons 6 wins or less
• ZERO seasons 10+ wins
  

2010's average 8.3 wins per season

• ZERO seasons 6 wins or less (first time in the history of the program)
• 1 season 10+ wins

I never saw yours, but ours compliment each other nicely.

we are slightly over .600 in all tie wins and about .480 in all time bowl games

despite all the ups and downs...A&M is still a top 20/25 program of the last 40 years.

almost every program has had significant down stretches with about 5 or 6 exceptions

John David Crow said Howdy.

JFF

2 Heisman winners

Ubitag said:

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John David Crow said Howdy.

JFF

2 Heisman winners

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Hint: Read the title of the thread CAREFULLY...

Really wish you would have gone back 46 years...because that's how long I've paid attention to Aggie football. 40 years starts two years after I graduated. But this is still fairly representative of my experience with it.

OK....I'll post this here. On another thread there was a discussion of the start of BAS. I suggested it started in 1957 when we were #1 and the season went to the devil. From the time we were #1 after 8 games in 1957, through the end of the 1989 season, we were ONE game over .500.

aggiejim70 said:

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OK....I'll post this here. On another thread there was a discussion of the start of BAS. I suggested it started in 1957 when we were #1 and the season went to the devil. From the time we were #1 after 8 games in 1957, through the end of the 1989 season, we were ONE game over .500.

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AggieJim, that was me that posted the start of BAS.
Your take on it was an excellent addition.
As I mentioned in my post I was referencing when BAS started for "me".
Everyone has their own starting point, but for me it will always be the Arkansas game in 1975.
As someone else pointed out BAS started with the Internet and TexAgs, but for many of us Old army Ags it has lived in our minds long before the Internet.

started in 1956 Games only cost a dollar though

Coach Emory Bellard brought us back to respectability with the exception of Coach Stallings and the Aggies beating Bama in the CB and Coach Bryant that restored hope that didn't result in much. Then Emory came. We had some terrific winning teams and oh so close to a mnc in '75. The azz whipping we put on a very good Florida team in the Sun Bowl is my all time favorite memory of a big win over a big time program. ( until 2012 Bama).

I don't have many left, better get their **** together. Thought it would have happened by now.

it is interesting to go back and rank the decades of the past 60 years.

no doubt the 60's was the worst decade -- only 1 winning season and that was a 4-loss campaign.

and very disappointing that the second worst decade was the 00's

Numbers don't lie. Our program is the very definition of mediocrity

That call is from someone who is pathetic

Pathetic observation

Raptor said:

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I never saw yours, but ours compliment each other nicely.

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Be careful when you start blindly comparing "yours" and discussing "ours" with a BQ. They are known as Band Queers, you know... ;-)