This is a good thing in my view. Find out who can play and correct their mistakes now and they'll be better when we need them to be. A lot of people here complain generally about lack of player development at A& M. This IS player development. Lack of player development was a legit complaint with some of the past coaching staffs and now people are getting a real look at player development and still complaining because of not covering spreads?

It means Elko does not feel that covering the spread is part of his coaching responsibilities

Lack of killer instinct.

It is quite annoying. We complain about lack of experience and depth and then complain when we try to get players experience and build depth. Half of these whiners probably never played an organized sport and are incapable of looking at things from an overall perspective.

It means we have players coming in to get game time experience for the strategic development of the team instead of keeping our 1's in to keep meaningless points off the board and hoard all of the reps. It's like playing any game where you need to develop multiple skill sets or characters: If you spend all of your time on the one or two easy ones or the ones you're most comfortable with and ignore the others, you're not going to have anything to fall back on when you need it. Developing them all across the board is harder and you can't win as easily or cleanly, but it's better for strategic progression.

Look at Saban and Alabama. Yeah, they recruited a lot of 5* talent, but those guys always stepped up and came in looking like disciplined and developed players, not players riding the bench and counting on raw talent once it was their turn. That's why they didn't drop off. They were always working on next year's team and the year after that. We need to accept that we need to do the same and that it will mean having games like this until we have the depth and talent that it 3's look like 1's out of the gate.

Elko lacks self discipline.

It means that 3rd and 4th string guys are not quite built and/or developed as opponents 1st team or even 2nd team guys. Is it because the Ags are fish, redshirts or junior or seniors. If they're junior and seniors its cause for concern.