Best part of this thread is this. The sips deep down inside always understood what would happen if A&M ever had a decent shot at being on equal footing. It started with the scholarship limitations that thwarted some of their recruiting efforts of which tu was the biggest benefactor with proof from several publications being written about it. Next was the death of their inside man Wright of which this thread was about. Another was the failure of their recruiting advantage with the bevo channel. And last but surely not least was the fact that one R.Bowen Loftin did things to Dodds that shouldnt be mentioned in front of the kids and he placed us right square in the middle of the best conference in the land.
They did their best politically to keep A&M in a state of perpetual disadvantage with all their behind the scenes payoffs, bribes and cheating. But once things started to unravel, their biggest fear came upon them. That once A&M no longer had to battle a crooked narrative, repeated recruiting violations, and could strike out on equal footing, that the real cream of this State would rise to the top.
They were Texas because of one reason and one reason only. They always were able to game the system, create unfair advantages,and do their best to put things in their favor to win.... always. Those no longer exist. And one other contributing factor to their downfall is their continued belief that they were a national brand. When the truth of the matter is, that when all the dust settled, tu cant even garner enough TV eyeballs in the state of Texas to move the ratings scale off of 0.0 on the crappy bovine network. You are now just Texas University at Austin. To be thought of as nothing more than what you really were all the time. Just another school in the tu system.
I think that the UIL should be investigated also. It's their last bastion of clinging on to things that help them with high school recruits.
They did their best politically to keep A&M in a state of perpetual disadvantage with all their behind the scenes payoffs, bribes and cheating. But once things started to unravel, their biggest fear came upon them. That once A&M no longer had to battle a crooked narrative, repeated recruiting violations, and could strike out on equal footing, that the real cream of this State would rise to the top.
They were Texas because of one reason and one reason only. They always were able to game the system, create unfair advantages,and do their best to put things in their favor to win.... always. Those no longer exist. And one other contributing factor to their downfall is their continued belief that they were a national brand. When the truth of the matter is, that when all the dust settled, tu cant even garner enough TV eyeballs in the state of Texas to move the ratings scale off of 0.0 on the crappy bovine network. You are now just Texas University at Austin. To be thought of as nothing more than what you really were all the time. Just another school in the tu system.
I think that the UIL should be investigated also. It's their last bastion of clinging on to things that help them with high school recruits.