ccolley68 said:

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So he's on a team that just played for and almost won a conference title, at a school loaded with beautiful women, that is likely still going to the CFP, and makes a ****ton in NIL money and likely just played himself into a big raise. And you think a team that hasn't sniffed a conference championship since the 90's, with a campus full of yell leaders and corps turds, who can't outbid the re-energized SMU boosters is going to steal that player away? This place gets more delusional every day.

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Wabs said:

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We'll see how everyone feels about SMU and their QB after they play Penn State.

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ccolley68 said:

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JDCAG (NOT Colin) said:

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ccolley68 said:

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JDCAG (NOT Colin) said:

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Wrong. They were in the 30s again while A&M was top 5.

https://247sports.com/Season/2024-Football/TransferTeamRankings/


There is literally no evidence of the juggernaut recruiting/nil machine you are describing.

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Ok, well then how do you explain a team that has better players at every position, better coaches, better record, more conference total game appearances than A&M if A&M has all the money and according to all the rankings services, all the players too. We had the #1 class of all time not long ago, how did that work out? At some point evaluation has to play a part, not just rankings. Leach never outrecruited A&M either, but he sure could always whip our ass

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Now you're just lashing out because people are pointing out that everything you say is made up.

It's been explained - SMU played a terrible schedule, losing to the only ranked teams they played.

They did a great job for SMU and are probably about even with A&M, which is a great job by their coaches - but you're trying to make them this rising program that has found the secret and the truth is, they're just a good team with a terrible schedule. They'd have - at most - won 9 with our schedule. And that is if I give them the auburn game.

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Call it what you want. I have degrees from A&M and SMU. Aggies are my team first and foremost, and SMU was always the little start up that big they won, woohoo that's fun, and if they lost that was expected. But somewhere along the line, they have become the team that does more with less, while we have everything and accomplish nothing. Do we outrecruit them? According to the metrics sure, but we don't ever do anything with all our star players, so something is amiss. Heck, they go off and win Heisman at other places.

Did they have a soft schedule? Yes, but so did we. They can only play the games they are scheduled, and unlike us for decades, they took advantage of the opportunity while we squandered it with another typical Aggie November.

The approach of some Aggies of being so high and mighty and thinking well just tap little ol SMU on the head and say good job little buddy, proud of how you punched above your weight class this time is what has been the problem with our entire program for so long. Somehow we think we are superior, that just being A&M and being in the SEC and all our resources, we are just supposed to be good, but it never actually happens. Until we change that mindset and actually get serious about the product on the field, and stop worrying about who has the best gameday atmosphere and welcoming fans, and big stadiums, and yells and traditions, and start actually demanding more, we will just stay where we are.

The players are now paid mercenaries. Not fellow students, regardless of what anyone wants to call it. They don't represent me or my university anymore. Go get killers. If half our team was full of blood thirsty savages that weren't sure if they could play because they might have a prison sentence to start, but if they play we win, I'd take it. Give me Miami of the 80's, don't care. Just win. And stop with the superiority complex that we are somehow better than everyone because we say we are.

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