Are there any other schools with our level of resources, alumni money, facilities, number of former students, fan support, etc. that also struggle with winning as much as we do?

OU is currently struggling like us

Over the past ten years. Probably Auburn and Florida.

Michigan State consistently underperforms and had their own Jimbo recently.

South Carolina
Tennessee

Did Ole Miss spend as much in NIL with its $10M this year?

We have more winning tradition and better academics than the joke schools listed in this thread.

Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:

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We are Michigan state and ucla

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At least they have some nattys in the big 3 sports

sixfoot said:

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Are there any other schools with our level of resources, alumni money, facilities, number of former students, fan support, etc. that also struggle with winning as much as we do?

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I would say UCLA.
UCLA had a fantastic football program in the 70's and 80's, and they dominated USC in the 1990's.
The Bruins have only been pretty good the past 25 years.

But OU has won 7 national championships in Football & won about 100 Big 12 titles.

Tennessee.

Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:

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We are Michigan state and ucla

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At least Michigan state has made the playoffs

…and… OU does not have A&M resources. They've done more with less. That said, we'll see how that holds up in the NIL era.

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Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:

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We are Michigan state and ucla

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At least Michigan state has made the playoffs

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Michigan St has 7 seasons of 10 or more wins since 2000.
6 seasons of 11 or more wins since 2010.

Per the recent CNBC financial valuation of athletic programs, Texas A&M is SECOND in revenue behind only Ohio State. In looking at the top 10 richest programs 5 are in the playoff this year(Ohio St, Tennessee, Georgia, Notre Dame, and Texas). Four programs have had significant national championship winning success(Nebraska, Michigan, Alabama, OU). There is only one outlier-Texas A&M. In fact, EVEN expanding to the top 20 in valuation, A&M is STILL the outlier.

UltimateSuperGenius said:

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We have more winning tradition and better academics than the joke schools listed in this thread.

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Haha, no we don't. On either account.

Anyone in top 10% gets into engineering or business school regardless of test scores. How does that compare with other states?

UltimateSuperGenius said:

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We have more winning tradition and better academics than the joke schools listed in this thread.

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Beta.

What winning traditions are you referring to?

Canyon Lake Agbu94 said:

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We are Michigan state and ucla

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People always say this .. Texas A&M has 36 times the resources Michigan state and ucla have .
Not even close

In all honestly there is not another school with the resources of Texas A&M that has underachieved as much

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TAMUallen said:

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OU is currently struggling like us

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But they've won multiple nattys. Their struggle is only recent.

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Are you aware of the word currently?

UCLA is a basketball blue blood. There was a time when they might've been good at both, like UNC, but they're basketball focused. I don't think they care as much as we do about being in football purgatory.

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UltimateSuperGenius said:

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We have more winning tradition and better academics than the joke schools listed in this thread.

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WTF are you blabbering on about?

UCLA and MSU may not have won it all in decades but both schools have been in the discussion much more than we have in the past 50 years. Which I suppose isn't saying much because we've never been in the discussion at all.

As for Purdue and Georgia Tech... you actually believe our academics are so impressive we can call these schools "jokes"? That's cute. Thanks for letting us know you're as clueless about academics as you are football.

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I was listening to the radio and someone asked if there was any difference between Texas Tech and Texas A&M when it came to sports?

Some people have silently said the only difference is that A&M plays in a huge stadium.

Texas Tech has the #1 transfer portal class in the nation for 2025. Their lax academic standards make it a magnet for football players looking to transfer, and athletes looking for easy academic credits.
The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce is also looking to fund a portion of the Tech NIL.
Texas Tech might be a sleeping giant in the NIL era.

As to football, we are Less Out of More University

TAMUallen said:

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sixfoot said:

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TAMUallen said:

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OU is currently struggling like us

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But they've won multiple nattys. Their struggle is only recent.

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Are you aware of the word currently?

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Are you aware of your attitude? It's unnecessary.

I was simply trying to say that OU might have recent struggles, but nothing like what we've had for 85 years.

If you judge by this thread, surely no one can rival us in the number of self-loathing, losers who sit in the corner and watch their significant other get plugged.

No one has the resources we have with nothing to show for it. With all we have, we should have at least stumbled into the title game if not won it over the last 20-30 years. We wasted our best shot in 2012 and got cheated out of a playoff spot in 2020.

It's a stunning failure. No clue what it will take. What has any coach since 2012 not been provided that they needed to win at A&M?

Which schools are you referring to? Because I have seen OU, Tennessee and Florida mentioned and you are beyond delusional if you think we can be mentioned in the same category as those three programs. Each one of them has at least 1national title since 1990 and certainly more conference championships than we have even smelled.

Stop drinking the kool aid.

First thing you should do is size up the NFL Draft pick quantities (we only put in about 3 per year)

Find a handful of teams that also put in similar quantities as we do. Our peers (in this regard) are likely not what you think.

Now compare their W-L records. This is where you may find yourselves giving the coaches a little credit, given how few draft picks we actually produce.

And THEN compare the budgets.