trueaggie2782 said:

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Cromagnum said:

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JDCAG (NOT Colin) said:

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Any reasonable person understands it takes time to build a program. Ask Sark who went 7-5 with Texas NIL $$$ in year 2.

The expectation before the season absolutely was 8-4 which is why 11-1 is so impressive. Elko was deservingly in coach of the year conversations for how much the team exceeded expectations.

******* Georgia, with all their resources and National Championship seasons and top 3 recruiting classes, went 10-2 and lost in the first round last year. If you can't call this a successful season in year 2 and celebrate that, you need to find a new hobby because you will never be happy here.

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The sips only extended Sark once he won something.

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Extend Elko.
Have him go to PSU and replace him.

Those were the options on the table.

Some of you want to live in a hypothetical world where we can not extend him and keep him from taking a bigger gig. That world did not exist.

I don't get why so many of you care about the extension. 99.99999% of this board will never be financially impacted by it.

Unless you'er one of those people that thinks you care more than Elko now that he got paid, I honestly don't know what difference it makes

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You cant say everyone is unaffected by it. Have you seen the ticket prices to our games. A family trip to Aggieland for a Saturday will easily set you back $1000.

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Do you really think the extension moved the needle of the prices? That's cute. In reality, college football is a business with a high demand. When demand is high and supply is low, basic economics says that prices rise. They will continue to go higher and higher until people decide to stop paying for it. P.S. This will never happen in our lifetime. That affects you because you let it affect you. You can easily stay home and see the game for much cheaper.

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I do. I haven't been to a game since an Aggie Band reunion a few years ago.

Farmer_J said:

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ahpetty33 said:

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Yes, most outside observers were predicting 8-4.

So Imagine, if everyone at your place of work agreed on some aggressive but attainable goal going into the year (10-2, make the playoffs). By November, you had already met and exceeded your goal for the year. When Your boss sees that, he changes your goal to 120% of the original goal (win the natty). You come up short, and you don't get your Christmas bonus because you failed to meet the last-second recalibration of expectations. Some people are actually talking about how it's not good enough, and you should probably be fired because surely there is one special person out there who could have gotten the job done

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This makes no sense. We didn't fire Jimbo to go 8- 4 Elko wasn't hired to go 8-4. The expectation was to win the conference and make the playoffs. If we don't think we can get 10 wins, then something is wrong with recruiting or the coaching. In your analogy, you're a mediocre employee that's afraid of high expectations.

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It's as if you did not read my post at all and you are arguing against the thread title instead. My analogy used 10-2 and playoffs as a strong and achievable expectation and a step forward in year 2. If I used the same workplace analogy and goal setting you would expect continued improvement in year 3 (conference champ or final 4 appearance, looking like a well oiled top 5 team

I guarantee if you crushed every KPI put in front of you by your company, and then your boss pulled the rug on you Dec. 1st and said "double it, or no bonus this year", you would not be calling YOURSELF a mediocre employee. The post is about people's inability to embrace a season that met (most) people's goals. It's just an all or nothing, reactionary mentality that leads to poor decision making

A lot of Ag tags lacking in this thread.