December 8, Kansas State comes to town

Sydney Bowles playing well for Florida State. Ave approx 25 mins / game.

Why can't we do the same? Just really having hard time understanding why we are no longer relevant, or why we can't seem to get back to where we were. I'm genuinely asking. Are our facilities subpar? I'm just of the belief that if you have a coaching staff that the elites want to play for then the program will grow. (outside of infinitely more NIL opportunities from competing schools). What is the disconnect? Are we being unreasonable and unrealistic? When you listen to Coach Joni talk, you can tell she knows the game and understands why we aren't winning. Her team just doesn't listen maybe? IDK!?!

I want to be the first to point out that greg was right about Coach Blair. He did seem to lose steam with the recruits, but nobody loved and sold A&M like GB. We owe that man more than his name on the court. Really wish we had given KBW a shot. I'll be the first to admit I was wrong. Not giving up on the current coaching staff but definitely trending the other direction for me.

Is our excuse injuries, or is it truly lack of determination from the top? We have lost SO many to the transfer portal. Some needed to go, but did they? They clearly weren't getting what they needed in a coach or a coaching staff. On another note, you've had several transfer in (Ware, AC, Kent, Kyndall...) that seem to believe in Coach Taylor. WTF IS THE PROBLEM? LOL

I think the thing that shocked me the most is the total lack of faith the conference and media have in this program now. We aren't even considered a threat anymore. Receiving votes? What is that?

Aceswimmer09 said:

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She's lazy and introverted. She's not going to win here... She's riding coattails to get a spot on USA basketball and doesn't care two bits for this program... Have you seen her recruiting lol it's a complete joke. Time to cut her and get someone else in... A young hungry smart charismatic person

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No - what do you mean re: recruiting?

Their model projects us to go 13-13 which is hard for me to believe quite honestly.



And we actually end our non conference slate with
335. Texas Southern
355. Miss Valley State

Can't believe we scheduled 3 teams outside the top 300 lol!!! Villanova our next opponent is 49. Then we play either Ball State or North Carolina, probably UNC if we win and Ball State if we lose. Then hosting Syracuse and Kansas State at home… which are both on national tv for now

aggiedad55 said:

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Hire Vic away from the sips and bring him back home to Aggieland!

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Sadly, Vic has already said that ship has left the harbor and won't happen.

The last bridge we missed was KBW

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/kelly-bond-white-1.html

Our NET is now 97… just making the top 100! Our next two opponents in the month of January are a combined 2-13. They rank 333rd and 318th! What fun lies ahead

Boise State, Tulane, Coastal Carolina, USF, Buffalo, Grand Canyon, Southern Indiana, Idaho, Butler, Lehigh, Northern Arizona, Cleveland State, Seton Hall, Temple, Oral Roberts, Portland, Stephen F. Austin, Ball State, Northern Iowa, Montana State, Middle Tennessee, James Madison, Quinnipiac, UNLV, Belmont, UTSA, Columbia, Murray State, Fairfield, St John's, South Dakota State, St Joseph's, George Mason, Richmond…

What do these schools have in common, they're ranked higher than Joni Taylor and the Texas A&M Aggies

But yes, let's keep saying NIL is the problem

In the state of Texas alone

4. tu
9. TCU
22. Baylor
50. UTSA
69. Texas Tech,
70. Stephen F. Austin

Teams we've beaten

50. UTSA (7-1)
120. Syracuse (4-6)
253. Southern Miss (2-6)
292. Northwestern State (0-5)
322. Western Michigan (1-6)

Have to win for anything to "matter." More to do.

For a proven, consistent winner and program, time on "Beyond Basketball" and being gone
a lot in the summer for USA Basletball makes sense. Our program needs a focus on building
a winning program every week all year around.

NET up to 95

Have you looked at the SEC stats? We're in the bottom 4 of most major statistical categories. We're like 7th in blocked shots, everything else we are 13,14,15, or 16. If we are 16, we're last by ALOT

Blocked Shots - 6th
Free Throw % - 8th
Rebounds - 13th
Opponent FG % - 13th
Opponent Scoring - 13th
Field Goal % - 14th
Steals - 14th
Assists - 14th
Opponent 3 Point % - 14th
3 Point % - 16th
Scoring - 16th
Turnovers - 16th

Ouch

It's sad that we don't even make threads for games anymore. Even more sad that the analysts are worried we could lose this game to Texas Southern who is 1 and 7 on the year. We started off by missing 4 layups in a row. Just shocking how bad we are offensively.

7 turnovers in the first quarter. Against Texas Southern. Texas. Freaking. Southern.

I am worried about our conference slate---hopefully we won't have a Melvin Watkins no win conference record.

NET fell to 101, we're not even a top 100 team