Hiring Sherman

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1leggedduck

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As I recall, there was not a long list of coaches considered, and $ Bill pretty much just announced the hiring out of the blue. Isn't that pretty much how it went down? Why did aggie decide to do this? Isn't this almost exactly the route NU took with Callahan? They just don't have the right horses to run a west coast offense. I hate to admit it, but I feel sorry for McGee.
 
Duck,

I don't always remember things real good but I think Cally deal happened only after they got some thanks but no thanks from some college coaches then he basically had to settle for Cally. I might be wrong on this so feel free to correct me.

I got the feeling $Bill didn't want his search to go down like that cause the ags heads would have exploded so big that the dinosaur killing astroid would have looked like a firecracker. Also he knew after Fran there is no way he is going to get a top notch college coach and even overpaid a NFL coach who got NO interest from any other NFL team about being a head coach again.
 
Well, he is a great recruiter and it tearing up the trail so the cupboard will be full of blue chips to rely on very soon.





















Maybe not.
 
it's real bad down there gooberville bout to explode ain't no saving them

Something tells me Frans sitting back with a s*#t eating grin on his face..
 
My personal opinions:

$Bill had zero previous experience in hiring a head football coach.

So $Bill hired a head coach with zero previous experience as a college head coach either recruiting or game day coaching.

Who hired 9 assistant coaches who had zero experience in the previous five years recruiting and signing four and five star players. ( total of "2 " in five years)

I can't even name one person at A&M with the experience or know how in recruiting to just teach our 10 coaches how to recruit the four and five star players necessary to turn this thing around, can you?

The Big 12 is just no place for for a college head coach to experience his first on the job training!

miller58
 
many of you know a lot more than i do about x's and o's, but i've heard - i think it was jackie sherrill - that a&m's program is so far behind even the tech's, colorado's and kansas' of the conference. he was saying that even sherman was utterly dismayed at the talent disparity.
i hope a&m sucks, like they always have save for a 10 or 11 year span, but i do think it might be a little early to call this a failed experiment.
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Talked with an aggie the other day who said Fran's contract was worth more than Meyer's at Florida? Can this be true? Sounds like they may have some financial problems to go along with the problems with their on the field product.
 
For those who recall, Franchione had some "unusual" things come to light during the final year of his tenure, including a secret newsletter that was sent out to just a few, select boosters. Some of the information in those newsletters might or might not have violated the Health Information Privacy Act as well as potentially giving betting advantages to specific people and potentially violating anti-gambling laws as well. So the point there is that Texas A&M had enough bargaining chips that I'm pretty confident they did not pay out Franchione's entire contract. I have no doubt they settled on some number that was somewhere between Fran's pay-out clause, and zero.
 
I had forgotten about the various offers NU made before they signed Callahan. At least they tried to hire other guys first. My point is really that there must have been some college coaches out there who are talented and would see atm as a step up. Baylor got a hell of a coach, imho. It just seemed odd how there wasn't much talk about who they wanted or who they would offer the job to (except on their board) and suddenly, here's the new coach. Did they want to avoid the humiliation of offering a list of people who would turn them down? The whole thing is very strange to me. I am just a college football fan, so what do I know, but there has to be a lot of rising talent out there that would have seen atm as a stepping stone and would have at least gotten the attention of recruits. UTEP has Price. FAU has Capt. Kangaroo. I'm not suggesting either of those coaches in particular, but there have to be some young guys at that level who would wet their pants over the prospect of recruiting Texas high school talent. IMHO this will be a complete disaster.
 
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The funny thing to me is, that under Franchionne, they were what they have pretty much always been...........a .600 / .650 ball team that would ocassionally bite a Top 10 team in the ***.

Save and except the "Fed Ex" years, that is exactly what Aggy has always been, and, pretty much always will be.

They just don't get it.
 
I know a lot of people think that an option-based offense can no longer succeed in college, and maybe they are right. But when you have a QB who has been very successful at running the ball, an athletic breakaway threat as your primary RB, one of the top short yardage/goal-line backs in the nation, no downfield or YAC threat at receiver as well as converted QBs playing slot, you've got to make your run game the top offensive priority if you want to score some points.

I know Lane is out of shape and has to come out of the game a lot, but I don't understand not giving him the ball at all. If I'm a defensive coordinator I'd be glad to know ahead of time that I don't have to focus on stopping that guy because the other team is going to do it for me. And Stephen McGee throwing to nobodies in a West Coast offense reminds me of Michael Vick at Atlanta in terms of futility. It'd be like having Shaq and Duncan on your basketball team, not having a single guard that shoots over 33% from beyond the arc, and yet basing your offense on perimeter penetrate-and-kicks because you want Shaq to lose some weight.
 
Does anyone here other than me think Coach Boom is going to have our guys ready to beat the ever-loving snot out of aggy on T-day? I know they have scoreboard, but I have a very good feeling about that game this year.
 
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