It would shock me if Dabo left for ATM. He might be showing signs of fatigue like GP did at the end here, but he is set for life $ wise and has established Clemson football as a Christian-based organization. He might leave Clemson some day, but I bet it will be for Bama as he is a Tide alum and Saban would leave him a loaded roster.
The new Texas A&M coach is….
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Chongo94
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Good god man, Nebraska?? It’s not 1976…ha.
Toad Jones
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You have to put them in the top 20 b/c of the brand. There's nothing wrong with that environment at College Station until you add Tx A&M! To the folks at A&M, they think it is ideal or would attempt to change it about 100 years ago. It would help them if they decreased the influence of the Corp and became a university like the rest, but that isn't going to happen, ever. Again, it's their brand. IF It became an academy of some sort and focused on that. It's a fine university with, a great education. I have many alumni friends and think they are the salt of the earth, but they are just a wee bit different!!. Of course, they are but they don't know that., Yet
I remember now, back in the day it was 100% military, No women, and if I remember correctly, women were not allowed on campus unless accompanied. Think they had gates and you had to have permission to enter. You couldn't step on the grass. You had to square off EVERY corner and other silly things. Believe that was in the 30's and 40's. WWI1 was right around the corner and many men lost their lives fighting in that war and WW1 from A&M.
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Frog-in-law1995
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It’s extremely easy to argue with that. When a school last won a natty has no bearing on how good the job is, unless you think Colorado and BYU are the best jobs in the new Big 12. Budget, facilities, fertile recruiting location and NIL support are far more important and A&M is comfortably top 10 in each of those categories.
Boomhauer
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Your Aggy is showing.
dawg
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Klatt start started by pointing out a few positives before gently eviscerated them on his pod this week:
aggy is a great job for a few reasons: Great fan support (I'll admit, aggy fill their glorified tacklebox), great donor support (obviously), in the middle of great recuriting area, and in the best conference.
But...
1. aggy are the fourth best job in their area, behind OU, wHorn, and LSU.
2. It's the seventh or eighth best job in the sec.
3. aggy expectations are out of touch with reality. aggy are an eight-win team since, well, FOREVER, and aggy absolutely lose its mind when anyone points out those facts.
Then there's this:
fanatical frog
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hmmmm.....interesting.
froginmn
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Possibly, but he's right.
Don't get me wrong; I think it's hilarious that Aggie has won ten games ONCE since GMFP took over at TCU (!), but it's still a top job.
Frog-in-law1995
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Perhaps, but where was I wrong?
Frog-in-law1995
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This exactly. That Thujone Aggie roller coaster cartoon from Shaggybevo years ago nailed it. And that pimp cane game loss was about my favorite video on YouTube that season, but at some point, they’ll hire the right guy. Maybe. I don’t look forward to the [ Finebaum ] I’ll have to eat from my Aggie buddies then.
Boomhauer
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The part where you said “When a school last won a natty has no bearing on how good the job is.”
If A&M had won multiple titles in the last decade or two do you think the profile of the A&M job would’ve been raised? You are saying it would have no bearing.
What about TCU? If we had won the natty last year would that have raised the profile of the TCU coaching job? Or would that also have no bearing?
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Frog-in-law1995
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I don’t know what you mean by “profile of the job,” but the question was about the “best” job. Past success by different coaches using different players, playing a different game in different times under different rules against different opponents in a different conference has no bearing on how successful a program can be going forward for a new coach (except to the extent it affects those other factors I mentioned earlier, in which A&M ranks in the top 10 easily). It’s the very reason Jimbo left a school that had 2 nattys in the previous 15 years for A&M.
froginmn
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I can't believe you have me defending Aggie of all things, but that's an odd thing to nitpick.
This started with you saying it's tough to argue that Aggie isn't a top ten job (and emphasizing the fact that they haven't won a title for a long time), but what are the ten jobs that make it "tough to argue"?
This would be mine as well.
Penn State and Tennessee are a couple more that I think are really close.
Frog-in-law1995
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I will add this. I do think Texas coming into the SEC, especially if they come in with the kind of momentum it looks like they may have, may ding A&M recruiting for a while since they won’t have the exclusive SEC carrot in the state. I don’t expect them to have a #1 class again (but still very good classes). Will be interesting to see how that shakes out.
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Frog-in-law1995
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Yeah, I had PSU in over OU originally but changed it with OU going to SEC, their budget will bump up over Penn state’s I bet.
Boomhauer
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Jimbo left as because his shine wore off without a heisman QB and he had a losing record his last year at FSU
