Albert's is a complete disaster. He couldn't be the AD for a high school. He's an embarrassment.

Ags2013 said:

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Is it actually embarrassing that we went after a high caliber coach and he declined?

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Seeing as he is a wife beater…then yes

There are still Ags that think there was any chance Schlossbag was going to stay here when the tu job came open

Timberwolf said:

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JJxvi said:

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What in your opinion did he botch?

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Optics kinda looks bad when the AD throws all his chips in on a coach that was playing for a raise and didnt ever really want to leave. My speculation though.

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So how's the AD to know this? And so it is better if we don't try so some people don't get embarrassed ? What a bunch of drama queens.

gopitt said:

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Albert's is a complete disaster. He couldn't be the AD for a high school. He's an embarrassment.

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This post is one helluva lot more embarrassing than your post. Go cry somewhere else.

Artorias said:

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Ags2013 said:

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Is it actually embarrassing that we went after a high caliber coach and he declined?

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If you go after a coach Texas recently FIRED, you better be damn sure he says yes.

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You realize he wasn't fired because of his ability, right? If he was still at tu they would've already been to a final four.

GymBroFisher said:

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dumb post, the schloss thing is the only thing he may have fudged so far

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I'll see your Schloss and raise you the almost Mark Stoops hire.

I mean honestly after that debacle, how did he keep his job?

justsomeguy said:

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GymBroFisher said:

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dumb post, the schloss thing is the only thing he may have fudged so far

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I'll see your Schloss and raise you the almost Mark Stoops hire.

I mean honestly after that debacle, how did he keep his job?

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Surely joking?

justsomeguy said:

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GymBroFisher said:

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dumb post, the schloss thing is the only thing he may have fudged so far

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I'll see your Schloss and raise you the almost Mark Stoops hire.

I mean honestly after that debacle, how did he keep his job?

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The guy who did that left his job and won a national championship.

TAMUallen said:

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justsomeguy said:

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GymBroFisher said:

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dumb post, the schloss thing is the only thing he may have fudged so far

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I'll see your Schloss and raise you the almost Mark Stoops hire.

I mean honestly after that debacle, how did he keep his job?

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Surely joking?

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Why didnt Eric Hyman fix this

gopitt said:

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Albert's is a complete disaster. He couldn't be the AD for a high school. He's an embarrassment.

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I see stuff like this from occasionally, it is total nonsense.
Trwv hasn't made that many descions that you would know about to have this opinion mean anything. He was hired to get our athletic dept finances under control and to develope the sports programs. Now the finances and the sport success are more tied together than ever before. He is actually doing a decent job with the money that is available to him. He actually put some money into the women's bb program, look how that turned out. But he also pit money into to women's softball program and that is going well. So.it is always a crap shot.until the coaches have proven themselves.

AtticusMatlock said:

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Can't even grasp how dumb this thread is.

We went after a high caliber coach and he decided to stay where he was after getting what he wanted. It happens.

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Seems the rumors about Buzz have been going on long enough that Trev would have already been working the phones well before Buzz announced he's leaving. Trev is a perfect Aggie, completely behind the obvious.

TAMUallen said:

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Kind of the point though, we didn't have a good baseball option lined up. Appears we don't have a good basketball option lined up. If we knew they were going to leave but hadn't done things to protect the future of the programs then what were we doing?

I would love to be wrong but the optics right now arent looking great.

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Ditto… It's not that great leaders don't make mistakes, but they learn from them.

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AtticusMatlock said:

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Can't even grasp how dumb this thread is.

We went after a high caliber coach and he decided to stay where he was after getting what he wanted. It happens.

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Seems the rumors about Buzz have been going on long enough that Trev would have already been working the phones well before Buzz announced he's leaving. Trev is a perfect Aggie, completely behind the obvious.

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This op is also wrong. All and all Buzz was an ok guy. But if you were ever personally around him for very long you would have realized he was one strange dude. I'm sure Ttev like any AD probably had his thoughts about replacements for Buzz and all coaches A&M has. But there is only so much you can do until the coach decides to leave.

Artorias said:

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Ags2013 said:

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Is it actually embarrassing that we went after a high caliber coach and he declined?

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If you go after a coach Texas recently FIRED, you better be damn sure he says yes.

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Sure, give him another $100M contract. I bet he would have taken it!

As another said, hold onto your panties till we see who he lands. Get reactionary much? This is A&M and little has changed since I graduated in 1998.

Terv hasnt proven himself as good, bad or indifferent. Only thing we know is that he hasnt started off as a great AD. Give it another 3 years or so before any conclusions can be made. All kinds of changes within A&M at the highest levels over the last few years. It certainly has influenced athletics.

Yall give OP some respect. He ****ing made Metroid Prime. Respect your superiors

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He has now presided over embarrassing coaching hires for two of the big 3 sports, both resulting in us being made to look like Horns' *****.

He let Horn steal Schloss the day after the baseball team played for our first natty in modern history, and then hired a grossly inexperienced assistant only to watch the preseason #1 baseball team this year collapse, falling out of the rankings completely and destined to not even make a regional.

Now he goes after a basketball coach that Texas fired just a few years ago, and gets rejected to stay in freakin' Mississippi.

Twice now, the Horns and the sports world are left laughing at A&M, further cementing the "little brother" moniker the A&M brand struggles to shed.

Add to that the football team was dominated on our home field by the Horns after not playing in over a decade, in the process of collapsing out of playoff contention and ending up in some **** tier bowl nobody cares about. Basketball still managed to lose 2 out of 3 to one of the worst Horns teams in modern history. And the way things are trending, we will be lucky if baseball doesn't get swept by Horns.

Alberts is a disaster and needs to go.

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The fact that 21 people as of now have blue starred this post scare the hell out of me

Considering that everyone wanted Buzz gone they are complaining either because we didnt get Beard or Buzz left us

I said in another post EVERY coach has left this program in the last 20+ years except the one we fired who got us to 2 Sweet 16s. You guys are delusional thinking we are a basketball school who any coach would be happy to be at when EVERYONE leaves us for one reason or another

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OMeara said:

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If you want a former Texas basketball without a cloudy personal life........Rodney Terry is available.

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Terry… the Black man that Texas fired after only 2 full seasons as Head Coach.. something they'd never do to a White coach before after 3 years. . .

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Terry replaced a white coach fired shortly into his second season.

Ghost of Bisbee said:

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Yall give OP some respect. He ****ing made Metroid Prime. Respect your superiors

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So his last big success was 20+ years ago? Where have I seen that before?

Alberts was a bad hire. I can imagine his dumb azz on the computer googling "college basketball coaches". The guy is an amateur. He also insulted A&M every Saturday on national tv when he was an "analyst" for ESPN.

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OBJTEX said:

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He bungled schloss. Horribly.

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I don't get this. Schloss showed his true character by interviewing while A&M was making their run. That was all on Schloss, not Alberts.

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We knew who we hired when we hired him. We made promises that were also not kept. There was nothing pretty that happened and judging by what happened plus how we handled it, we didn't do a good job.

Tough situation but you must be at least aware of your program as an AD to not be left so unexpectedly without better than buying an assistant from that backstabbing coach as your best hire.

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The goal was always to keep the team together. No one wanted to see Jace Laviolette or Gavin Grahovac wearing burnt orange.

It hasn't worked out.

But in an alternate universe, we hire Vaughn from Bama, some our favorite players leave and we're 4-5 right now and all the posts are about how obvious it was to hire Earley and keep a CWS finalist together.

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Yes. 100%. And that is why Trev mucked up this situation. First, he softened the ground by firing Schloss' guys without telling him.

But your point is the real fireable offense.

We shouldnt hire someone for a 1 year plan. Otherwise all coaches shoild have 1 year deals.

Hired 20th best candidate maybe just to keep 3-4 players happy?

A great coach will win here. Earley aint it.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/more-details-surrounding-texas-ms-100638836.html

I am curious why everyone blames the AD for the Schloss situation. I am not saying he didn't play a role or not, I honestly don't know. Just seems like Schloss was going to leave either way based on his relationship with Del Conte. Feels like he used Trev as a scape goat. Does everyone think Schloss was really going to stay? Just curious if there is more that I don't know about the story.

I do think Trev is slow at making other decisions that seem like they should be made. For example, soccer and women's basketball. I realize they are not the major sports, but you can't talk about building champions across all sports and ignore what is going on in those programs.

We're always going to be little brother because your entire cry baby post is comparing us to the Sips. As long as we think a 1-11 football season where we beat Texas is better than an 11-1 season where we lose to Texas, we're going to be little brother. As long as every coaching hire and AD decision is judged by how we stack up against Texas, we're going to be little brother.

People like OP are why we will always be little brother. It doesn't matter who's in charge.

There is absolutely nothing that Trev could have done to keep Schloss in College Station. Nothing. Texas has been his dream job for over 20 years.

Maybe part of the problem is that we seem so concerned with what Texas thinks of us as opposed to just trying to be the best we can be. Ya think?

The Red Sox only cared about beating the Yankees for decades as opposed to actually just building the best winning group of folks, then when they finally did it they realized winning wasn't just beating NYY. Funny how that works out when you ask why that isn't as big a rivalry anymore.

The main argument about getting rid of Alberts isn't that Schloss went to Texas. The main argument is that he was caught flat footed on two of the three major sports coaches leaving without having any plan. That for me is a failure for the Athletic Director. I know everyone criticizes us for lack of stability. However, I think a good AD would have at least had a plan. The embarrassment of the Beard rejection just adds salt to the wound.

Capt_Crunch 14 said:

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We're always going to be little brother because your entire cry baby post is comparing us to the Sips. As long as we think a 1-11 football season where we beat Texas is better than an 11-1 season where we lose to Texas, we're going to be little brother. As long as every coaching hire and AD decision is judged by how we stack up against Texas, we're going to be little brother.

People like OP are why we will always be little brother. It doesn't matter who's in charge.

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You are completely missing the point. I don't give two ****s whether we beat Texas if we are winning championships. But we aren't winning championships.

The reality is the A&M brand has a long struggle shedding the "little brother" label. All the examples I outlined exacerbate that label, which directly impact hiring, recruiting, etc. Embarrassing missteps like the two coaching situations under Alberts watch are detrimental.

Halconblack said:

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The main argument about getting rid of Alberts isn't that Schloss went to Texas. The main argument is that he was caught flat footed on two of the three major sports coaches leaving without having any plan. That for me is a failure for the Athletic Director. I know everyone criticizes us for lack of stability. However, I think a good AD would have at least had a plan. The embarrassment of the Beard rejection just adds salt to the wound.

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Agree to disagree here - but what would your plan have been? They went after Vitello and he said no. The players would have left if Earley didn't come back and whether we all want to admit it or not coming off a Nat'l Champ runner-up year, we all thought these players could win whether Earley was the coach or a message board poster.

I don't see how giving Beard top 5 coach salary and a significant NIL pool is being caught flat-footed after he literally reached out to us mid-year to say he'd be interested. They had a Plan A. And are now moving to Plan B.

TX_Aggie37 said:

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There is absolutely nothing that Trev could have done to keep Schloss in College Station. Nothing. Texas has been his dream job for over 20 years.

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Except he didnt take it when Augie retired. Yes i know there was different AD. But a dream job is a dream job.

Your post is not accurate.

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Halconblack said:

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The main argument about getting rid of Alberts isn't that Schloss went to Texas. The main argument is that he was caught flat footed on two of the three major sports coaches leaving without having any plan. That for me is a failure for the Athletic Director. I know everyone criticizes us for lack of stability. However, I think a good AD would have at least had a plan. The embarrassment of the Beard rejection just adds salt to the wound.

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Agree to disagree here - but what would your plan have been? They went after Vitello and he said no. The players would have left if Earley didn't come back and whether we all want to admit it or not coming off a Nat'l Champ runner-up year, we all thought these players could win whether Earley was the coach or a message board poster.

I don't see how giving Beard top 5 coach salary and a significant NIL pool is being caught flat-footed after he literally reached out to us mid-year to say he'd be interested. They had a Plan A. And are now moving to Plan B.

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You know what happens when t you assume…

Are people gonna show up to games now? Or just ***** about not getting a big name when money doesn't solve all the other issues around bball

Halconblack said:

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The main argument about getting rid of Alberts isn't that Schloss went to Texas. The main argument is that he was caught flat footed on two of the three major sports coaches leaving without having any plan. That for me is a failure for the Athletic Director. I know everyone criticizes us for lack of stability. However, I think a good AD would have at least had a plan. The embarrassment of the Beard rejection just adds salt to the wound.

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Embarrassment?? We go after some of the top coaches in the game and you're embarrassed? 95% of schools can't even attempt to do what we do. Next time we'll just go fish for perch so you won't be embarrassed

OBJTEX said:

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TX_Aggie37 said:

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There is absolutely nothing that Trev could have done to keep Schloss in College Station. Nothing. Texas has been his dream job for over 20 years.

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Except he didnt take it when Augie retired. Yes i know there was different AD. But a dream job is a dream job.

Your post is not accurate.

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He didn't take it because he didn't want to leave and immediately go heads up against the program he built from scratch. Time passed. They moved to SEC. Etc etc.
did you see him on selection day in 2022 when TCU got put in our regional? He was nearly sick to his stomach. .

OBJTEX said:

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TX_Aggie37 said:

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There is absolutely nothing that Trev could have done to keep Schloss in College Station. Nothing. Texas has been his dream job for over 20 years.

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Except he didnt take it when Augie retired. Yes i know there was different AD. But a dream job is a dream job.

Your post is not accurate.

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yeah, I wouldn't say dream job. Open checkbook though.