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Not wrong just stupid. How is it wrong for them to voice who they want to play for when that is what recruiting is all about, choosing who you want to play for. Secondly you have spent the last3 months talking non-stop about what you want in terms of Sherman's dismissal and you aint close to strapping on a helmet and going to battle for OUR AGS. So if your sick of them get sick of yourself because you felt you had a right to determine if I administration should let our previous coach go.

It's not their decommitment I'm worried about. If an 18 year old would keep his mouth shut that would be great. With all this networking, you can't expect them to keep quite when everybody else is rattling on and on. If we'd cut back on the interviews and quit asking them all the coaching change related questions it might.

Maybe they'll read your post since nobody else is in a position to talk to them about the big picture. Let's hope their HS coaches can provide a little insight and wisdom.

This.

You guys have to expect them to have opinions, just like we do.

There's no reason to worry about what these guys say. If we hire the right guy he will be a stud recruiter. When Turgeon left Green and Branch said they might reopen their commitments. The new staff solidified their commits.
I don't want a guy who just wants to maintain the class. I want a guy who wants to keep the class AND add some difference makers.

what the hell are you talking about?

Let me simplify for it you:

When Jackie was fired A&M didn't go get the best coach in the country to replace him...they took an insider who won a lot of games and not only rode the coat tails of Jackie's success, but he rode the program into the muck. That could be b/c the AD (Groff/boosters) were completely incompetent and didn't upgrade anything at A&M in order to help A&M keep a competitive advantage....So they were passed by OU, LSU, tu, itt, etc

When RC was fired A&M hired what many Ags believed to be the hottest coach in America. Did anyone actually research Fran? If they had you would have seen a historical pattern of mediocrity, below average recruiting, and parlaying of one good season into new jobs.

UNM (6 years) - 33-36 overall (21-27 in the conf)...never finished above 5th in the league in five of those years. Had one 9 game winning season and jumped to TCU.

TCU (3 years) - 25-10 overall (16-7 in the conf)...records of 7-5, 8-4, and 10-1....btw that 10-1 record was achieved LT's senior year....a kid he didn't recruit that he just happened to "Luck" into. So again Bama didn't vet him either when they hired him....To this point he's had 1 great season out of the last 9 years, with 2 good seasons. For the folks scoring at home that's a .333 %

BAMA (2 years) - 17-8 overall (10-6 in the conf)...7-5 year one, 10-3 year two....parlayed that one year into the A&M job

So Fran was 75-54 overall in his three stops (.581 winning %).....47-40 in conference (.540 winning %). No background of great recruiting, no background of winning big consistently. Despite what the media said about Fran, if anyone would have vetted him at all they would have seen a pattern, a lack of winning continuity, and lack of recruiting. His 10 win bama team was a NFL laden team full of seniors, all of which he didn't recruit.

How the hell did Texas A&M hire him? Better yet WHY?

Mike Sherman - well we all lived through that nightmare. No school in the country would have hired MS the year A&M hired him. No background as a good recruiter, no background as a big game coach, there was just nothing to qualify him for the job other than he coached at A&M and he was friends with people in the AD and BOR. Oh he coached in the NFL and proceeded to underachieve at GB.

To date we have 4 fired coaches. Jackie, RC, Fran, and Sherm. At no point since Jackie was hired did A&M actually do a coaching search, vet the candidates, and make the best hire.

So what the hell does A&M do after it releases Mike Sherman, they try and hitch their wagon to Kevin Sumlin without interviewing a single damn candidate. Had Sumlin won on saturday we probably wouldn't be talking about interviews today. Sumlin a guy not known to be a great recruiter, who has had good but not great success in Conf. USA despite being right in the middle of the biggest recruiting hotbed compared to his conference foes. He has Houston and the Golden Triangle at his fingertips. His teams don't play defense and are one dimensional on offense. That is not going to fly in the SEC (west).

YES, to date A&M has been a cesspool of incompetence. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings but I just gave you proof of that.

My hope is that Loftin is the man behind the scenes making this train move. Not that I want him to make the hire, I just want him to make sure A&M takes a professional approach. A&M needs to grow up and start behaving like a school that wants to be successful b/c the last 15+ years have proved otherwise.

I do not want Sumlin. He is a terrible fit for the SEC style wise, and his credentials in recruiting are less than stellar.

The point I was making at the end was that A&M has to break out of the mold it has formed itself into. Until that day arrives I completely distrust this university to make a qualified decision. I hope I'm wrong.