Forgot how annoying the sips and their 40 acres nonsense is

Nobody calls it the 18,500 acres at the AF Academy

Way past time for a change.

Is the sips soggy diaper short look considered demure?

Terrible yellow card from Prancer

Not even close to a yellow on Matula2

More frustrating that they did not come out in the same formation vs Auburn. They were running two 6s plus pushing man coverage and not letting ball recipient turn. We went back to old formation, when we loosened coverage and refocused mid on pushing ball forward only. All is not lost, but certainly frustrating.

No creativity on offense whatsoever. Frustrating.

Announcer sums it up - Aggies didn't play hard enough in the first half

Ouch

Coach G has won 12 out of 34 conference games since 2021

SOS

Terrible. Watching the game in Austin it's obvious Coach G just recruits a different style of player than tu does. tu had a lot more quicker smaller players than us that were better on the ball.

Aggies players don't seem to have the foot speed required to move the ball and score on offense. Kate Colvin is the exception and plays very hard when on the field.

rollingwoodaggie said:

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Terrible. Watching the game in Austin it's obvious Coach G just recruits a different style of player than tu does. tu had a lot more quicker smaller players than us that were better on the ball.

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exactly! The past few years tu has their pick of the top recruits in Texas, Coach G hasn't recruited well in state for a while

Which is a shame. This is the one program we have where are historically better than tu.

A befuddling thing about tonight's game is how many times, especially in the first half, our players played a lob into the box. Surely our staff scouted the Texas keeper enough to know she's very strong and aggressive about coming out and gobbling up crosses and high balls into the box--especially soft lobs. Those turned out to be massive wastes, but our players did it repeatedly.

And then in the second half you could see the fatigue and frustration leading to our players just resorting to kickball again, repeatedly blasting a long, futile ball. When you resort to playing "hope" long balls, you're toast. It's a shame the possession-oriented team that trounced TCU and Auburn was nowhere to be seen tonight.

Poor possession and a high turnover rate was an issue tonight. We rarely have any build up into the opponents box. To much sending the ball over the top and hoping our forwards can battle it out for a goal. At the same time Texas's did a good job stopping our forwards going 1v1 against them. We are missing an Ally Watt type of player to play this style of soccer. Texas played a better possession game and did a better job building up into our box. All their goals were scored near the 6 yard box. This was also a Texas team not at full strength. Two very different styles of soccer tonight. Defense continues to be a bit concerning as of late as this is supposed to be the strength of our team. Next weeks Ole Miss game is a must win. Auburn just beat them 3-0.

It seemed liked Pante hardly ever touched the ball in the first half. Wilkinson came in and got a little offense going. Their defenders anticipated our passes better than our players who were the targets of the passes. Their defense played a lot better than their first SEC game where Alabama scored 2 second half goals to tie them. Looks like our RPI will be about 41.

Tough match for A&M. Texas dominated early and scored their 2 chances on goal, one of which was poorly defended on a missed clearance. The second half A&M had the run of play but couldn't really figure out how to attack the Texas defense once around the box. It became a lot of lobbed passes into the box that were easily defended by their GK. We did have 2 really good scoring chances but missed them both. We actually outshot Texas overall, but the finishing touches and effective possessions by them were the difference in the match.

What really stands out to me is when Texas had the ball, they could dribble quickly with it at their feet without pushing the ball too far out in front of them, thereby making it easier to beat A&M defenders. If you watch our players, it's the opposite; we kick the ball out in front of us and have to try and run it down before the defender gets to it. That's the skill level difference that has allowed Texas to slowly take over as the better program. Their top talent is better than ours and they were without Byars, so I guess it could have been worse.

I just think A&M will be up and down all season and look to be around .500 in the league, fighting for a spot in the tourney.

When Becerra re-entered the game in the second half she only played for 4 minutes and was replaced by Ivey.

Also I guess G didn't want to do a post game press conference once again

The Auburn win now appears to be a perplexing anomaly.

Collectively, our team is inconsistent at best and not likely to compete for a championship due to an unfortunate trifecta of unsuccessful recruiting, lack of player development, and state of the art coaching.

G has lost credibility with elite recruits, lost excellent players to the portal, and cannot buy the level and quantity of talent in the portal to restore the program to a highly competitive level. I anticipate that the balance of the season will be G's "Farewell Tour." Finding the right coach who will say "yes" may be a very difficult challenge.

I am a very interested observer with no training in the sport, so my observations and opinions may be wrong.