…..well makes as much sense as any other reason that has been talked about.
It's the RC Curse!
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Last: 2 mo ago by WC94
The curse of RC was not immediately firing him when the plane touched down from the Sugar Bowl. If student fan like myself could predict our offensive plays with 80% accuracy from the stands, pretty sure tOSU coordinators were at 90% plus rate on knowing our plays. Letting him hang around and have an office after he was let go was even more ridiculous than giving him a decade plus of beating poor SWC teams and then getting thumped in every bowl game.
It's Jackie Curse.
We threw him under the bus. And that's what tu wanted after the 5 straight schlacking we put on tu.
BMA didn't have the guts to stand up against tu and the NCAA.
We threw him under the bus. And that's what tu wanted after the 5 straight schlacking we put on tu.
BMA didn't have the guts to stand up against tu and the NCAA.
The only curse about RC is letting him stick around for 20+ years keeping his fingers in the pie having an actual role in the program. Most schools send a dude packing after they fire him. We turned RC into a legend. We'll have a statue of him outside of Kyle soon enough.
Wasn't it 7? Everyone was horrified of the NCAA, no one was willing to stand up behind Jackie, even RC, he saw the HC job ready to step into.AggieDruggist89 said:
It's Jackie Curse.
We threw him under the bus. And that's what tu wanted after the 5 straight schlacking we put on tu.
BMA didn't have the guts to stand up against tu and the NCAA.
Please!!!!! No more corny statues!!!!!PanzerAggie06 said:
The only curse about RC is letting him stick around for 20+ years keeping his fingers in the pie having an actual role in the program. Most schools send a dude packing after they fire him. We turned RC into a legend. We'll have a statue of him outside of Kyle soon enough.
RC and Jackie could have both done better this season.
AggieDruggist89 said:
It's Jackie Curse.
We threw him under the bus. And that's what tu wanted after the 5 straight schlacking we put on tu.
BMA didn't have the guts to stand up against tu and the NCAA.
Jackie would have won 10+ games this season!
If RC is not allowed to stick around, who the hell is going to serve as interim AD when the time comes ? ...
PanzerAggie06 said:
The only curse about RC is letting him stick around for 20+ years keeping his fingers in the pie having an actual role in the program. Most schools send a dude packing after they fire him. We turned RC into a legend. We'll have a statue of him outside of Kyle soon enough.
You can pound sand. We need more people like RC who love this school unconditionally. F off with your hate. The man has spent almost all of his career supporting the Aggies.
Goosespn
Gig Em!!!
Gig Em!!!
Love this school? Of course he does... we've made him incredibly wealthy. Gee, what's not to love when that occurs? Thus, his undying "support" is well..... sorta a no-brainer on his part. What was he suppose to go do, coach somewhere else? Gee, wonder why that never happened.goosespn said:PanzerAggie06 said:
The only curse about RC is letting him stick around for 20+ years keeping his fingers in the pie having an actual role in the program. Most schools send a dude packing after they fire him. We turned RC into a legend. We'll have a statue of him outside of Kyle soon enough.
You can pound sand. We need more people like RC who love this school unconditionally. F off with your hate. The man has spent almost all of his career supporting the Aggies.
And before you cry more....dissect the man's record. Really look at it with an unemotional eye. It's middling at best. Once the SWC died and he lost his automatic seven wins a year he was exposed. Sorry, RC was at best a fair/good coach. He was no where near being great thus our fawning over him is just sad.
RC Slocum deserves to have a statue out in front of Kyle Field because he won 4 conference titles, and he did it with class.goosespn said:PanzerAggie06 said:
The only curse about RC is letting him stick around for 20+ years keeping his fingers in the pie having an actual role in the program. Most schools send a dude packing after they fire him. We turned RC into a legend. We'll have a statue of him outside of Kyle soon enough.
You can pound sand. We need more people like RC who love this school unconditionally. F off with your hate. The man has spent almost all of his career supporting the Aggies.
Life isn't all about wins and losses.
Kellso said:RC Slocum deserves to have a statue out in front of Kyle Field because he won 3 conference titles, and he did it with class.goosespn said:PanzerAggie06 said:
The only curse about RC is letting him stick around for 20+ years keeping his fingers in the pie having an actual role in the program. Most schools send a dude packing after they fire him. We turned RC into a legend. We'll have a statue of him outside of Kyle soon enough.
You can pound sand. We need more people like RC who love this school unconditionally. F off with your hate. The man has spent almost all of his career supporting the Aggies.
Life isn't all about wins and losses.
Class? What does that even mean? Anyway, given the stories… that's a debatable statement regardless.
BTW Jackie won three conference titles. Does he get a statue?
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PanzerAggie06 said:
Our culture is perfectly encapsulated in our lovefest for RC. Here's a guy who went 3-8 in bowls, was under .400 against top 25 teams and under .300 agains top 10 teams. Yet because he supposedly has an "amazing" overall record, built upon the corpse of the SWC, we treat him like a god. Most programs, when they fire a coach, run him out of town. Nope, not Aggies. We let him hang out for 20+ years, give him a nice office, secretary, big salary and a fancy title. Then to top it off we allow him to play a role in bringing in two of his boys to replace the guy we replaced him with. The most **** move ever.
And all because he "gets" A&M and is a good ol' country boy that has a folksy personality. A guy whose entire career can be summed up with his famous quote thrown out after another one of his inexplicable loses, "well, half the teams lose every Saturday." That's the guy we fawn over. That's the perfect example of why our culture is a f'ing joke.
PanzerAggie06 said:
Our culture is perfectly encapsulated in our lovefest for RC. Here's a guy who went 3-8 in bowls, was under .400 against top 25 teams and under .300 agains top 10 teams. Yet because he supposedly has an "amazing" overall record, built upon the corpse of the SWC, we treat him like a god. Most programs, when they fire a coach, run him out of town. Nope, not Aggies. We let him hang out for 20+ years, give him a nice office, secretary, big salary and a fancy title. Then to top it off we allow him to play a role in bringing in two of his boys to replace the guy we replaced him with. The most **** move ever.
And all because he "gets" A&M and is a good ol' country boy that has a folksy personality. A guy whose entire career can be summed up with his famous quote thrown out after another one of his inexplicable loses, "well, half the teams lose every Saturday." That's the guy we fawn over. That's the perfect example of why our culture is a f'ing joke.
Thanks. I'd forgotten how eloquent I was.
goosespn said:PanzerAggie06 said:
The only curse about RC is letting him stick around for 20+ years keeping his fingers in the pie having an actual role in the program. Most schools send a dude packing after they fire him. We turned RC into a legend. We'll have a statue of him outside of Kyle soon enough.
You can pound sand. We need more people like RC who love this school unconditionally. F off with your hate. The man has spent almost all of his career supporting the Aggies.
Unconditionally?
I thought he remained on payroll.
Not sure why he stuck around instead of getting a better coaching job elsewhere.
RC is the best coach we've had in the last 70 years.
That he was mediocre says a hell of a lot more about us than it does him.
That he was mediocre says a hell of a lot more about us than it does him.
Slocum...that's what she said...but in all seriousness, RC could coach.
Jackie was the best and it's not even close. And I've got 60+ years of experience for comparisons.amercer said:
RC is the best coach we've had in the last 70 years.
That he was mediocre says a hell of a lot more about us than it does him.
123-47-2
Best win % in SWC history. Better than DKR.
A total of 4 home losses for the entire '90s.
Last coach to win a championship in football.
Best win % in SWC history. Better than DKR.
A total of 4 home losses for the entire '90s.
Last coach to win a championship in football.
As PanzerAg mentioned already, take a reeeaaall close look at the opponents during that "amazing" run Slocum had. Take a look at the quality of the teams he built those wins on, then take a look at his record versus actual quality opponents.
amercer said:
RC is the best coach we've had in the last 70 years.
That he was mediocre says a hell of a lot more about us than it does him.
So basically, the best coach at A&M in the last 70 years was still just mediocre?
Nah. RC had plenty of time. It's the Mike Sherman curse if anything.
83Aggie said:
123-47-2
Best win % in SWC history. Better than DKR.
A total of 4 home losses for the entire '90s.
Last coach to win a championship in football.
How many national championships did RC have compared to DKR? How convenient to have left that little tidbit out.
And what was RCs winning percentage once he joined the B12? Here's a hint….. it took a major hit. Shocking what happens when you leave behind a dying conference and start competing with actual legit programs.
RC was a good coach. No where close to being great. Our obsession with his coaching ability is sorely misplaced.
AggieDruggist89 said:goosespn said:PanzerAggie06 said:
The only curse about RC is letting him stick around for 20+ years keeping his fingers in the pie having an actual role in the program. Most schools send a dude packing after they fire him. We turned RC into a legend. We'll have a statue of him outside of Kyle soon enough.
You can pound sand. We need more people like RC who love this school unconditionally. F off with your hate. The man has spent almost all of his career supporting the Aggies.
Unconditionally?
I thought he remained on payroll.
Not sure why he stuck around instead of getting a better coaching job elsewhere.
Maybe bc he was given a 1 mil/yr gig as a "university representative"?
Do you guys even pay attention?
Farmer_J said:amercer said:
RC is the best coach we've had in the last 70 years.
That he was mediocre says a hell of a lot more about us than it does him.
So basically, the best coach at A&M in the last 70 years was still just mediocre?
Yep. Which speaks volumes to our program. Texas 8&4. The masters of mediocrity.
John317 said:Jackie was the best and it's not even close. And I've got 60+ years of experience for comparisons.amercer said:
RC is the best coach we've had in the last 70 years.
That he was mediocre says a hell of a lot more about us than it does him.
RC couldn't hold a candle to whomever ran the D under Jackie and brought about the advent of the Wrecking Crew.
Plus Jackie had two 10 win seasons in the SWC in seven seasons well before RC recorded four 10 win seasons in the SWC in his first six seasons (including 11 and 12 win seasons). It was easy after being shown how a couple of times.
Faustus said:John317 said:Jackie was the best and it's not even close. And I've got 60+ years of experience for comparisons.amercer said:
RC is the best coach we've had in the last 70 years.
That he was mediocre says a hell of a lot more about us than it does him.
RC couldn't hold a candle to whomever ran the D under Jackie and brought about the advent of the Wrecking Crew.
He was an amazing coordinator. One of the best. Sadly, the Peter Principle kicked in once he became HC.
For every Slocum win over Nebraska or Oklahoma or even Texas, there's a 51-6 thrashing by Oklahoma, one of several double-digit losses to Texas, a tie with SMU or Baylor, a game with -35 yards rushing and 90 total yards at Kansas State, a game where Kingsbury set a new NCAA game percentage-completion record, a loss at Southwestern Louisiana with seven turnovers, one of two shutouts ... and that's just off the top of my head.
The Aggies under Slocum occasionally overperformed and more than occasionally underperformed, even in games they won.
I suggest that Arkansas 1975 was the beginning of BAS, but it didn't mature until 1989-2002.
The Aggies under Slocum occasionally overperformed and more than occasionally underperformed, even in games they won.
I suggest that Arkansas 1975 was the beginning of BAS, but it didn't mature until 1989-2002.
AnScAggie said:
The curse of RC was not immediately firing him when the plane touched down from the Sugar Bowl. If student fan like myself could predict our offensive plays with 80% accuracy from the stands, pretty sure tOSU coordinators were at 90% plus rate on knowing our plays. Letting him hang around and have an office after he was let go was even more ridiculous than giving him a decade plus of beating poor SWC teams and then getting thumped in every bowl game.
I'm pretty sure you couldn't predict ***** You probably think predicting "run"'or "pass" is predicting a play. It's not. RC was 11-3 and won the conference, and you think we should have fired him? You're insane.
we've discussed this before...
but the greatest sin of the Slocum era...
was not realizing or ignoring what was happening in Texas high schools in the mid-to-late 90's
----> they were moving to the passing game...and putting their best athletes at the WR position
OU, Tech, and t.u. picked up on the trend and switched to passing attacks around 1999
and that led to landslide recruiting for the sips and sooners starting in 2000
the situation was further compounded for A&M when Fran was hired in 2003...and like R.C...he wanted a run-based offense.
and A&M fell even further behind OU, Tech, and t.u....as the Ags' record vs. those 3 programs in the 2000's indicates.
I believe the Ags were 8-22 vs. OU, Tech, and t.u. from 2001 to 2010...and 3 of the 8 wins came in 2010
but the greatest sin of the Slocum era...
was not realizing or ignoring what was happening in Texas high schools in the mid-to-late 90's
----> they were moving to the passing game...and putting their best athletes at the WR position
OU, Tech, and t.u. picked up on the trend and switched to passing attacks around 1999
and that led to landslide recruiting for the sips and sooners starting in 2000
the situation was further compounded for A&M when Fran was hired in 2003...and like R.C...he wanted a run-based offense.
and A&M fell even further behind OU, Tech, and t.u....as the Ags' record vs. those 3 programs in the 2000's indicates.
I believe the Ags were 8-22 vs. OU, Tech, and t.u. from 2001 to 2010...and 3 of the 8 wins came in 2010
We won 6 in a row. 89 was under RC.aeon-ag said:Wasn't it 7? Everyone was horrified of the NCAA, no one was willing to stand up behind Jackie, even RC, he saw the HC job ready to step into.AggieDruggist89 said:
It's Jackie Curse.
We threw him under the bus. And that's what tu wanted after the 5 straight schlacking we put on tu.
BMA didn't have the guts to stand up against tu and the NCAA.
RC benefited from the change of perception brought about by Jackie and playing in the weakest conference in the country...not to mention tu was waffling. He lost to any team with equal or greater talent and had fewer bowl wins than Sumlin during a tenure thay was twice as long.
The real curse came from not standing behind Jackie.
The real curse came from not standing behind Jackie.
RC sucked on many levels.
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