I have never seen the boards more quiet in the off season. I started posting on Texags in 2000. Was banned after bashing Slocum too much in the early 2000's. Regret it now. Wish Slocum was never fired. I think he would have turned it back around sooner than later. Back to the topic. I'm going to have to blame the lack of interest on Battered Aggie Syndrome. BAS as u see it on the message boards. OR .... could it be something else. Has BAS finally beat us down to a point beyond hope? Are we done? Do we have hope? Next year Nuno....are you there? Chime in bro. Drinking since 1430

BAS is at an all time high across all major sports.
It definitely reflects on TexAgs forums.

A combination of the SEC stabbing us in the back and allowing espn to buy their precious a spot in the conference, and the players going from recruits to hired guns, has caused me to be less interested in college sports than at any point in my life.

It's not a matter of bas. It's a matter of being disgusted with the new era of college athletics.

I think most of us have seen enough over the last 10 years to know we're never going to win a national championship, especially now that the blue blood schools can openly pay players. Following and caring about this program is an absolute beating that is not worth enduring.

Also, at least speaking for myself, players becoming hired guns now means I don't know or care who most of our players are. And the ones whose names I do know can just transfer whenever and be playing against us next year, so none of this **** is worth my time or energy.

It's age.

We've matured and moved on to more important things.

Young people don't congregate here like we did well before the explosion of social media and have remained ever after.

My guess anyway.

I was just saying this the other day.
Never seen it so quiet.

maroongoon95 said:

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I have never seen the boards more quiet in the off season. I started posting on Texags in 2000. Was banned after bashing Slocum too much in the early 2000's. Regret it now. Wish Slocum was never fired. I think he would have turned it back around sooner than later. Back to the topic. I'm going to have to blame the lack of interest on Battered Aggie Syndrome. BAS as u see it on the message boards. OR .... could it be something else. Has BAS finally beat us down to a point beyond hope? Are we done? Do we have hope? Next year Nuno....are you there? Chime in bro. Drinking since 1430

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You were right to bash Slocum. He was past his time. Don't regret that. Just be mad at the morons that have been making decisions for the last 20 years.

King said:

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BAS is at an all time high across all major sports.
It definitely reflects on TexAgs forums.

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This isn't BAS imo. I think of BAS as expecting the worst but deep down still hoping, thinking what if

This is stage 4 nihilism

AGinHI said:

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It's age.

We've matured and moved on to more important things.

Young people don't congregate here like we did well before the explosion of social media and have remained ever after.

My guess anyway.

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This is exactly it. These forums are not attracting the next generation of Ags, because they have 1000 other (and arguably better) options to express their opinions and follow others.

Just face it - this is going the direction of Facebook. If you don't know what I am talking about, you are part of the problem... ha ha!

Hey! Texags isn't dying! It's just the people that post on Texags that are dying…

I think it is just realism.

Nobody here (I'm talking football forum) thinks we have the coaching or the talent to be anything better than what we've been.

Mediocre. 8-4 or 7-5.

Until proven otherwise.

If the athletic department and university administration don't care, well then, why should we?

Meanwhile... on the basketball forum there is some cautious optimism that a new era might have begun with Buckyball.... even if many were happy with Buzz and a competitive, tough, defensive-minded team.

Many others were tired of Buzz.... and he clearly was tired of us.

SunrayAg said:

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A combination of the SEC stabbing us in the back and allowing espn to buy their precious a spot in the conference, and the players going from recruits to hired guns, has caused me to be less interested in college sports than at any point in my life.

It's not a matter of bas. It's a matter of being disgusted with the new era of college athletics.

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This plus realizing we will never win and our decision makers only care about money

And finally... there is the baseball forum:

Still pissed off and in a state of shock from playing for the National Championship last year to starting at #1 this year and then... just bad.... until the last several weeks when it seems like a glimmer of hope arrived - only to be outscored this past weekend by just 1 run three games in a row in Austin - losing to our arch rivals coached by the devil incarnate.

TexAgs died when politics became bigger than sports for the majority of posters here. Strange days indeed.

Moderation and deleting of threads and post to make sure everyone follows Texags criteria has gotten worse and worse. And it's on every freaking board on this site.

Why many don't post here or post less and less and why they don't attract new audience

In my 20s, every Friday my co-workers and managers would talk college football for the last hour or two of work. Now it's rare someone mentions sports at work. The younger generations don't seem to care as much.

Also, texags was sanitized so it would appeal to a young crowd. That lead to the zoo not being a zoo. Game threads are the only thing left of much interest.

Just my take...

cupofjoe04 said:

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AGinHI said:

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It's age.

We've matured and moved on to more important things.

Young people don't congregate here like we did well before the explosion of social media and have remained ever after.

My guess anyway.

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This is exactly it. These forums are not attracting the next generation of Ags, because they have 1000 other (and arguably better) options to express their opinions and follow others.

Just face it - this is going the direction of Facebook. If you don't know what I am talking about, you are part of the problem... ha ha!

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This, the younger generation are all on X, Instagram, etc. for their sports fix. And their attention soan is much shorter so those platforms are plenty for them.

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TexAgs died when politics became bigger than sports for the majority of posters here. Strange days indeed.

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At least with politics I've felt like I've had some big wins recently.

I think premium has most of the football discussion.

The Collective said:

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I think premium has most of the football discussion.

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Only discussion allowed on here is negative discussions. If positive at all you are attacked

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maroongoon95 said:

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I have never seen the boards more quiet in the off season. I started posting on Texags in 2000. Was banned after bashing Slocum too much in the early 2000's. Regret it now. Wish Slocum was never fired. I think he would have turned it back around sooner than later. Back to the topic. I'm going to have to blame the lack of interest on Battered Aggie Syndrome. BAS as u see it on the message boards. OR .... could it be something else. Has BAS finally beat us down to a point beyond hope? Are we done? Do we have hope? Next year Nuno....are you there? Chime in bro. Drinking since 1430

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You were right to bash Slocum. He was past his time. Don't regret that. Just be mad at the morons that have been making decisions for the last 20 years.

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…and the Crackhead that wrote (or let Jimmy Sexton write) the Sumlin and Jimbo contracts

You're loyal 24/7 when student athletes' first priority is playing for your alma mater. Even if you go 0-11, you'll remain interested and take a bullet for them.

You're not loyal and won't have that level of interest when they play for money 1st and opt out of bowl games.

It's that simple, and many saw it coming when it began 3 years ago. The biggest surprise is the number of people who are surprised it happened.

SunrayAg said:

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A combination of the SEC stabbing us in the back and allowing espn to buy their precious a spot in the conference, and the players going from recruits to hired guns, has caused me to be less interested in college sports than at any point in my life.

It's not a matter of bas. It's a matter of being disgusted with the new era of college athletics.

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Nailed it. The days of rooting for the hard worker that grinds for years to earn a spot are far and gone.

100% right here, I'm class of '14 and all my friends were on TexAgs, I have twin siblings that are class of '26 and neither of them are on here or care about TexAgs at all. We've turned into our aunts and uncles and TexAgs has turned into Facebook. We're not cool anymore.

I am in the same boat. Third generation Aggie and class of 2001. Been around TexAgs since the beginning. My daughter is currently a Sophmore at A&M. I have always been a diehard fan, but the mediocre product with zero major successes has gotten me to the point where I haven't even watched the last 2 bowl games. I was planning to drive to Norte Dame since I'm not too far away now, but due to BAS and the mediocre product it's hard to get excited. Like many others I've given up. Every major sport is down. Basketball couldn't keep a promising coach. Baseball couldn't keep a coach that almost won a national title. Elko was like our 3rd choice for football coach and the program is not improving. Let's face it A&M is never going to get their act together. We need radical change.

SunrayAg said:

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A combination of the SEC stabbing us in the back and allowing espn to buy their precious a spot in the conference, and the players going from recruits to hired guns, has caused me to be less interested in college sports than at any point in my life.

It's not a matter of bas. It's a matter of being disgusted with the new era of college athletics.

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I don't think it's fair for us to pull the victim card. We're one of the wealthiest athletic programs in the country. Lack of success is a leadership issue. Unless that changes, the same result will persist.

I've said it on similar threads, but this is largely an indictment on the current rules/landscape of college football. Up until a few years ago, this was the time to follow recruiting. Now, with the portal and NIL the way they are, recruiting rankings right now mean absolutely nothing, and there is no point in checking them until closer to the season.

Additionally, for the first time in a very long time, we don't have some obvious reason for unrealistic optimism. In recent memory:
2013: Johnny's gonna do it again!
2014-2016: This is the most talented team we have had in the history (starting at 2000) of recruiting rankings.
2017: It's been a bumpy road, but we have at least taken over as the #1 program in the state.
2018: We have a new championship-winning head coach!
2019: On-field performance and recruiting are picking way up!
2020: Recruiting is still picking way up!
2021: We just had our best season in half of forever and recruiting is going great!
2022: We just signed the #1 recruiting class of all time!
2023: Not sure what happened during the season, but we got rid of the bad apples and our #1 class should be ready to start really contributing next year!
2024: We have a new coach, a workable schedule, and still have one of the most talented teams in the nation!
2025: ???

I'm not sure that we have something to put in for those question marks above. Elko doesn't seem to want as much off-season publicity as Jimbo had. That is probably for the better, but it does leave a bit of a vacuum of information. We are still in a good position, with a workable schedule, top ten talent, and a lot of returning production from both players and coaches, but there's nothing to latch onto that clearly gives us the edge this upcoming year like we have had recently.

AgDotCom said:

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You're loyal 24/7 when student athletes' first priority is playing for your alma mater. Even if you go 0-11, you'll remain interested and take a bullet for them.

You're not loyal and won't have that level of interest when they play for money 1st and opt out of bowl games.

It's that simple, and many saw it coming when it began 3 years ago. The biggest surprise is the number of people who are surprised it happened.

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Oh no…athletes have agency now…cue the tiniest violins in the world to play in unity.

I'll note the following:

1. Professional tennis became a better, more competitive support when the women cast off their shackles of amateurism. This in spite of prophecies of doom.

2. All but wrestling invite professionals to compete in the Olympics. The athletes can receive the equivalent of NIL or private funding or state funding. Generally the competition level has gone up and also in general the desire to represent our nation has not been quenched by all that change.

3. The current NCAA was created by rulings that required fair and lawful support for women in athletics that has created competition that didn't exist before…and while some men revile it, it has its own smashface rough and tumble nature and now professional leagues are emerging. Caitlin and now Paige have helped the grinders get more attention to their sport by their lucky emergence.

The big issue is that at A&M only football generates more operational and contribution income than it spends and the rest depends on that rather thin largesse to survive including potentially profitable basketball and well-lived baseball or even the most popular women's teams. Our front porch is expensive to run.

I think as the House cases are either successfully settled or are sent to trial (when the NCAA is stupid enough to not compromise in grandfathering contemporaneous walk-on spots and the judge merely sends it to trial due to their stubbornness) that the possibility of a bit more stable system could emerge and deal with some of the issues. My personal opinion is a CBA is more stable but in most people's minds turns athletes into common laborers (which it won't.)

Will this be resolved before July 1? If the NCAA can discard their reputation for losing anti-trust suits and say yes…

Honolulu Blue said:

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King said:

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BAS is at an all time high across all major sports.
It definitely reflects on TexAgs forums.

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This isn't BAS imo. I think of BAS as expecting the worst but deep down still hoping, thinking what if

This is stage 4 nihilism

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This is exactly it! I went to the spring game and my family was asking me if the game was that day because there was nobody on campus walking to the game. It was empty. If it wasn't for the stadium announcer you would have never have known the spring game was happening.

Most people are beat down from Aggie sports. From the failure of Jimbo, being less than two innings away from winning the CWS and then blowing it, to Schloss negotiating with the sips during the CWS, for Schloss lying and then leaving a day later, for Buzz to have his best team yet and not even making it to the sweet 16, Buzz leaving and having virtually no one on the roster, Aggie football having an average of one 10+ win per season every decade since we going the Big 12, for the sips beating us in every major sport....,.....and this is just over the past year.

I will still take my family to some games because for some reason we still enjoy it but for me the excitement is gone. Usually by this time of the year I'm excited for next football season but now I don't really care at the moment.

We were all a lot younger. The new generation has shifted all the chatter over to the X dot com platform.

Apathy due to decades of mismanagement at the highest levels and this new one year contract NIL garbage world we live in.

Family and other outdoor pursuits are much more satisfying than the revolving A&M clown show.

Levy situation sums it up

Everybody hates them
TAMU does nothing about it, nor even acknowledge it

We've got Premium priced concessions with garbage product

Same as our:
Football program
Basketball program
Baseball program