Good post 100. I've taken plenty of shots at aggy on here, but I appreciate most of what Bundy has to say when he comes over. I've said it before...he's easily the most rational agricultural poster on here.
It has to be tough trying to recruit to aggy. They used to have the pitch that if you're a player who wants a smaller town atmosphere, they're the place for you. Today, okie's taken that away from them. Those same players can go to Norman and have a better chance of winning something.
aggy used to depend a lot on legacies...but these days, high school players don't necessarily want to go where their parents, or older brothers and sisters went.
College Station isn't the worst place around, but you can probably see that place from C.S. They have a lot of the same plastic restraunts and strip malls as other places, but not much else going for them, unless you're a huge fan of Wings 'N More, or like to stay up until the cows come home at the Chicken.
I don't have anything to prove it, but I get the idea that Sherman is kinda uncomfortable being back at the college level. He wasn't a bad NFL head coach, and it wouldn't surprise me if some team came calling on him again, no matter what his record is with aggy.
Those guys have us to the west of 'em, okie up north, LSU making more progress in east Texas and the Houston area, and a resurgent Baylor in their back yard up in Waco. I don't see who they're gonna outrecruit, even if they had a staff full of good recruiters, which they don't.
They have gotten two or three decent players to verbal in the last couple of weeks, but it's gonna take a lot more than that before they're on any kind of equal footing with Tech, or Baylor, much less us, okie, and LSU.
That's a hard row to hoe, even for an agricultural college.