I love my Aggies, but anyone on here who thinks Tech would be an easy win hasn't watched the last month and a half of Aggie football.
I'm shocked we beat Vandy.
I'm shocked we beat Vandy.
Aggy ducks Tech in Houston
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I think the value is getting to play a bowl game in Houston for LSU. To me that s an advantage in regards to recruiting. I would have rather played in Houston if it was up to me.
Vandy is a very good defensive football team which gives us issues. Our strength on D is rushing the passer and pass defense. We struggle with power running games. Tech would be a very fun game but one we wouldn't struggle to win.
a&m would most likely struggle to beat Tech. This would be a fun game to watch. Too bad aggy and the $EC ducked the Red Raiders. SMDH!
This is the real reason more than anything. LSU lost to Notre Dame in the Music City Bowl last year.
For those who do not realize the geography, Louisville is 2.5 hours north of Nashville on I-65. Louisville fans will outnumber A&M fans probably 3-to-1. LSU actually vetoed playing Louisville in the Music City Bowl last year, primarily because LSU knew that convincing their fans to buy tickets to the Music City Bowl would be much easier if the opponent were Notre Dame than if it were Louisville.
The whole thing about not wanting to end your season in Houston when you started it there is nothing but a load of crap. Didn't you just play in Nashville?
Why can't Aggies admit we don't want to play Big12 texas teams, and Horns admit we are smart for not wanting to play them. And that neither team is good enough to feel confidence in winning.
For example my 8th grade daughter plays soccer and occasionally plays boy's teams. Even if the girls are better (or equal) to the boys, I can promise you it embarrasses the hell out of the boys to lose to the girls. I think it is a terrible idea for the boy's coaches to allow them the opportunity to get embarrassed. Ton of risk for the boys, no reward what so ever. See A&M vs Tech.
I did. You seem to get it, but many don't want to see it (on both sides). They see it as an elementary school playground dispute, not a multi-million dollar business decision.
It is definitely a business decision of the $EC controlling bowl games for the most favorable matchups. They don't want to reveal the man behind the curtain. It's propaganda. As is:
2) avoiding their top West teams playing their top East teams regularly
3) pitifully playing FCS teams every year (especially in Nov when there's movement in the polls)
The $EC is good at propaganda and propping up their story. You've got to give them that. It's cowardly and dishonest like Floyd Mayweather Jr. though. There's always an angle.
2) avoiding their top West teams playing their top East teams regularly
3) pitifully playing FCS teams every year (especially in Nov when there's movement in the polls)
The $EC is good at propaganda and propping up their story. You've got to give them that. It's cowardly and dishonest like Floyd Mayweather Jr. though. There's always an angle.
are you going to call out your own program for avoiding everyone in bowl season? I kid I kid
When the world champion US national women's team practices, they can't find competitive women. So they play elite 16 yr old boys. Because 18 yr olds would wax them. My girls played hs varsity tennis. They were usually 1 & 2 on the girls side. To toughen them up, the coach would sometimes scrimmage them with the 4 or 5 boys. And the girls would get waxed.
Yeah, playing a program like Louisville offers so much more upside. Beating them might get you one recruit out away from Kentucky who at least is in the SEC.
Its not like punking Tech in Houston would solidify you with any important recruits in Texas or anything.
PS I do love how all the Ags are assuming they'd lose to Tech and how bad that would be and they also act like beating them wouldn't solidify them higher up in the state or anything. You just can't erase a century of loser mentality.
At the end of the day A&M as to do what is best for them not what's best for UT. TT or the Big12. A word of caution to the A&M team and fan base. Don't start thinking that you will just show up and win as there are several things to be mindful of.
1) Louisville's QB is the real deal
2) CBP can coach a circle around Kevin Sumlin
3) As stated above, the atmosphere will be like A&M playing a road game
4)Louisville will be motivated and will try to make this a "statement" game
1) Louisville's QB is the real deal
2) CBP can coach a circle around Kevin Sumlin
3) As stated above, the atmosphere will be like A&M playing a road game
4)Louisville will be motivated and will try to make this a "statement" game
Then if Louisville beats a SEC team, texas can hire him as their coach and call him the greatest ever, right?
A grade A scum bag that doesn't know sh!t about driving a motorcycle while your mistress is on the back. First rule of operating a motorcycle with your mistress on the back: don't.
Second rule: if you violate the first rule and do it anyway, don't be a dipsh!t and crash.
Second rule: if you violate the first rule and do it anyway, don't be a dipsh!t and crash.
I was not arguing that girls are better at sports than boys, as they are not. But a high level girls team at 13 can beat a 13 year old boys rec team, I have seen it. I was just using it as an example of how sometimes teams that are very similar in ability have wildly different risk levels if they get beat.
By the way, a rec team is the lowest level of soccer in my area. If the girls played boys of a similar level, I realize the game would not be competitive.
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How SEC wargaming and Aggie fears stopped a Texas Tech-A&M bowl game from happening
Call it a conspiracy theory if you want, but it makes a lot of sense. The Texas Bowl pays out $3 million, $250,000 more than the Music City Bowl. (Yes, the SEC pools its teams bowl money, but A&M can’t claim Music City Bowl prestige is worth more than the cash.) The Aggies first said they wanted to avoid playing in the same city twice in one season, but now they’re doing just that in a city about 700 miles further from campus than Houston. It’s hard to sell this as a recruiting trip for A&M, as Tennessee and Kentucky annually duke it out for the most feeble high school talent in SEC country, and what little those states produce more often that not ends up at nearby schools like Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss. The Aggies and Louisville are not rivals by any stretch of the imagination, whereas Tech vs A&M was one of the best (and most evenly-matched, over time) in Texas NCAA history. - See more at: http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-dai...-be-playing-a-bowl-game/#sthash.j3DXsf3t.dpuf
Last Year....COWARDS>>>>
Officials for the Texas Bowl expressed interest in matching the Longhorns and the Aggies in a renewal of one of the best rivalries in college football that ended up with the move of A&M to the SEC. But a report from Chip Brown of Horns Digest indicated that the SEC wasn’t interested in that game happening — there was too much to lose, especially in recruiting. The Aggies are dominating the current landscape of the state and a loss could have given Texas and new head coach Charlie Strong a head-to-head win on the field that could have resulted in some head-to-head wins on the recruiting trail with the state’s top prospects considering both schools. - See more at: http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-dai...-be-playing-a-bowl-game/#sthash.j3DXsf3t.dpuf
http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/texas-am-and-texas-tech-should-be-playing-a-bowl-game/
✔ @TexasMonthly
How SEC wargaming and Aggie fears stopped a Texas Tech-A&M bowl game from happening
Call it a conspiracy theory if you want, but it makes a lot of sense. The Texas Bowl pays out $3 million, $250,000 more than the Music City Bowl. (Yes, the SEC pools its teams bowl money, but A&M can’t claim Music City Bowl prestige is worth more than the cash.) The Aggies first said they wanted to avoid playing in the same city twice in one season, but now they’re doing just that in a city about 700 miles further from campus than Houston. It’s hard to sell this as a recruiting trip for A&M, as Tennessee and Kentucky annually duke it out for the most feeble high school talent in SEC country, and what little those states produce more often that not ends up at nearby schools like Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss. The Aggies and Louisville are not rivals by any stretch of the imagination, whereas Tech vs A&M was one of the best (and most evenly-matched, over time) in Texas NCAA history. - See more at: http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-dai...-be-playing-a-bowl-game/#sthash.j3DXsf3t.dpuf
Last Year....COWARDS>>>>
Officials for the Texas Bowl expressed interest in matching the Longhorns and the Aggies in a renewal of one of the best rivalries in college football that ended up with the move of A&M to the SEC. But a report from Chip Brown of Horns Digest indicated that the SEC wasn’t interested in that game happening — there was too much to lose, especially in recruiting. The Aggies are dominating the current landscape of the state and a loss could have given Texas and new head coach Charlie Strong a head-to-head win on the field that could have resulted in some head-to-head wins on the recruiting trail with the state’s top prospects considering both schools. - See more at: http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-dai...-be-playing-a-bowl-game/#sthash.j3DXsf3t.dpuf
http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/texas-am-and-texas-tech-should-be-playing-a-bowl-game/
Pretty much everything we all knew. But I doubt you'll sway the majority of aggy fans except the rational ones. (Mm42)
What sucks for aggy is that the SEC is doing what we all knew they'd do to aggy and our state: use aggy to get a bigger foothold on Texas recruits. Slowly over time by sending aggy out of state to far away bowl games, and then sending out of state teams into play in bowls games in state, they create more exposure for those SEC teams and limit aggy exposure. If I were aggy, I'd be pissed! Do you know how many houston recruits could attend that game in houston?
And now they'll all be going to watch LSU instead of a&m.......
What sucks for aggy is that the SEC is doing what we all knew they'd do to aggy and our state: use aggy to get a bigger foothold on Texas recruits. Slowly over time by sending aggy out of state to far away bowl games, and then sending out of state teams into play in bowls games in state, they create more exposure for those SEC teams and limit aggy exposure. If I were aggy, I'd be pissed! Do you know how many houston recruits could attend that game in houston?
And now they'll all be going to watch LSU instead of a&m.......
Not saying CBP isn't a pos, obviously, he is. Also not saying A&M can't or won't win. I'm just pointing out that the game is far from a walk over. FWIW the SEC has bent over backwards for A&M ever since they joined the conference and I'm unclear as to why.
Exactly.
I am not so sure beating UL or losing to UL is better for ATM than either beating TT or losing to TT.
Arguably I'd rank it like this in terms of what would help them most in recruiting and overall:
Beating TT
Beating UL
And a loss is a loss is a loss. Losing to TT would be damn embarrassing after they ran away, but its not like ducking TT and then losing to UL is exactly a win for them. Although I am sure they would find some moral victory in it.
Its easy to argue what would be best is to man up and face TT and beat them in to the ground and make a statement that they are better than BigXII and thats why they left. Problem is that they don't know if they are better than TT and they left to differentiate themselves. Best way to do that is to win a conference title. But that is something Aggie is very unfamiliar with. So they will take their mediocre years for a while longer and be happy with them because being mediocre in a fun new SEC conference makes them feel more relevant than being mediocre in the BigXII. They aren't used to winning bowl games so bowl win or loss matters little to their boasting. They already move on to dreams about next year by the time the leaves start turning brown every year.
Losing to Tech would be considerably worse for our perception than losing to Louisville however a win against either for us means little to nothing. I would have preferred to have played tech or TCU or even Baylor or Okie State, much more interesting games from a viewers point of view.
Alabama's recruiting within Texas has improved since the addition of A&M.
The SEC is using Aggie. A&M is the nerd that all the hot girls use just to get their school work completed... Then afterwards brags about how all the girls like him. Nobody in the SEC likes Aggie, but some of our teams like the larger foothold we now have on Texas recruiting.
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