Only 3 names of 2026’s visiting and all three are A&M commits.

Aaron Gregory, Xavier Tiller, and Jordan Carter.

But here is an interesting one who’s been added to the list.

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For most of a week now every national health agency, including the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health, have been under a Trump imposed complete gag order. They, and employees of them, are barred from any business/health related communications with any media, the public, or even state health agency partners.

They are barred from posting anything on their social media sites. They are barred from updating their websites. They are barred from issuing any health alerts. They are barred from publishing the results of research on everything, to include cancer research, slowing the pace of research into everything. They are barred from publishing routine data updates, such as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), that healthcare providers routinely use to track emerging trends. For the first time in over 60 years the MMWR has missed a publication date.

Just before the gag order the first known severe case of bird to human avian flu transmission was recorded, a disease the World Health Organization (that Trump just removed the United States from) is tracking closely for potential human crossover. If there have been more than that one case the Centers for Disease Control would not be able to inform the American public of it. That one case was from a man who handled sick birds in backyard flocks. The CDC right now is barred from issuing any guidance cautioning those who handle birds.

Right now the largest recorded outbreak of tuberculosis in the United States is occurring in Kansas. Haven’t heard about it? Well, the CDC certainly can’t tell you about it. https://www.cjonline.com/story/news...rgest-in-recorded-history-in-u-s/77881467007/

If there is an indication of a particular food contamination the public should be aware of, the Food & Drug Administration would not be able to so inform the public.

Did I mention research? The blackout includes purchasing anything, to include supplies, for ongoing research. Anonymous scientists at the National Institute for Health (NIH) already report being able to order test tubes, for basic research, and other common research supplies. https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/heal...ministration-pauses-communications/index.html

If this blackout continues much longer all government related health research will come to a halt. Does that sound like efficiently serving the public to you?

As for the duration of this gag order, I don't know. Right now it remains indefinite.

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according to ketch, "the settlement allows NIL collectives to negotiate deals with high school and transfer portal recruits before they make commitments."

talk about the wild, wild WEST

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My dad went missing. Worst day of my life to date, but y’all’s support helped me not only get through it, but find him.

A Mississippi senator shocked residents last week as he proposed a satirical new bill that would bizarrely see men fined for masturbating. It has left everyone wondering how it could possibly be enforced.

It was last Monday (January 20), that Mississippi state Senator Bradford Blackmon made the unusual move to propose that it should be made unlawful within the state for men to masturbate in any other sexual relations that involved 'discharging genetic material' without the express intention of 'fertilizing a human egg'.

Meanwhile, the bill, which has been called the 'Contraception Begins at Erection Act' would still need to make it's way past Republican Governor, Tate Reeves, for it to become set in law. It has left many wondering how such rules could ever be enforced by those in power

If the habit is made unlawful, it is proposed that those in contravention of the bill would be handed fines that would start at $1,000 for the first offense, $5,000 on the second and $10,000 for any offences after that. However, men who use contraception and those who intended to donate to sperm banks would be exempt under the new proposals.

Senator Blackmon said the satirical move was in response to Mississippi state law banning women from having abortions, with the only exemptions being to save the mother's life or if the pregnancy resulted from rape

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An early look at #1
We’re closing in on two weeks until opening day for baseball, and the team seems to be taking shape. And the Aggies have got a stacked lineup and starting rotation, to be sure. Here’s a stab at how the lineup will look like:

C: Bear Harrison (.322, 8 HR, 36 RBI, 1.010 OPS at St. Mary’s) OR Jacob Galloway (.286/7/40/.837 at USC)
1B: Matt Bergevin (.287/18/59/1.045 at Fairfield)
2B: Wyatt Henseler (.360/22/56/1.220 at Penn)
SS: Kaeden Kent (.327/4/28/.908)
3B: Gavin Grahovac (.298/23/66/.986)
LF: Gavin Kash (.300/15/51/.926 at Texas Tech)
CF: Jace LaViolette (.305/29/78/1.175)
RF: Caden Sorrell (.275/11/43/.924)
DH: Hayden Schott (.335/8/63/.916)
UTIL: Jamal George (.310/9/35/.927 at Alabama State)

Right now, A&M doesn’t even have a spot for Blake Binderup (.231/1/7/.726), the huge redshirt sophomore who could be a major power hitter.

The pitching rotation probably looks something like this:
LHP Ryan Prager (9-1, 2.95 ERA, 20 BB, 124 K, 97.2 IP, 1.05 WHIP)
LHP Justin Lamkin (3-3, 5.21 ERA, 22 BB, 88 K, 65.2 IP, 1.31 WHIP)
LHP Myles Patton (4-3, 3.26 ERA, 24 BB, 85 K, 66.1 IP, 1.15 WHIP at Long Beach State)
LHP Troy Wansing (2/3 inning, 13.50 ERA, 1.5 WHIP)

That’s a lot of left-handed pitching. In the bullpen:

RHP Weston Moss (3-0, 4.56 ERA, 10 BB, 26 K, 23.2 IP, 1.35 WHIP)
RHP Isaac Morton (1-0, 2.87 ERA, 17 BB, 22 K, 15.1 IP, 1.47 WHIP)
LHP Kaiden Wilson (0-2, 9.82 ERA, 7 BB, 15 K, 11 IP, 2.18 WHIP)
RHP Luke Jackson (No record, 5.40 ERA, 6 BB, 4 K, 1.68 WHIP)
RHP Brad Rudis (6-0, 2.55 ERA, 12 BB, 35 K, 35.1 IP, 1.33 WHIP)
RHP Josh Stewart (2-2, 4.26 ERA, 9 BB, 39 K, 31.2 IP, 1.26 WHIP)
RHP Grant Cunningham (3-4, 2.86 ERA, 2 saves, 16 BB, 56 K, 50.2 IP, 1.16 WHIP at Washington)
RHP Clayton Freshcorn (4-3, 2.36 ERA, 3 saves, 61 IP, 17 BB, 79 K, 1.03 WHIP at McClennan CC)


With so many righties in the bullpen, I kind of wonder if Wansing might get bumped to the pen on the weekend and someone like Moss or Morton moves into the rotation for the midweek games. But the big three for the weekend are Prager, Lamkin and Patton.

The bullpen has some power arms with Cunningham and Freshcorn at the back and, and Stewart’s nasty slider to compliment them. Wilson, Moss and Morton can all go multiple innings (and are just sophomores) and Jackson had an impressive summer and fall. And, if all else fails, the wily Rudis is available with his sidearm motion and sinker to get ground balls.



Welcome to the Markposite
We've always got all this squabbling about who lands where and does what when it comes to recruiting. So I went to the the four primary recruiting places (and no, one that is very affiliated with A&M was not used) and figured out where the 2025 class stands if you average things straight up. Here are the results:

TE Kiotti Armstrong
Average position ranking: 6th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

OT Lamont Rogers
Average position ranking: 8th nationally
Average ranking: 5-star

CB Adonyss Currie
Average position ranking: 13th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

OG/C Josh Moses
Average position ranking: 70th nationally
Average ranking: 3-star

WR Jerome Myles
Average position ranking: 5th nationally
Average ranking: 5-star

LB Noah Mikhail
Average position ranking: 7th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

DT D.J. Sanders
Average position ranking: 11th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

CB Jamar Beal-Goines
Average position ranking: 18th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

DT Landon Rink
Average position ranking: 28th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

QB Brady Hart
Average position ranking: 20th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

S Deyjhon Pettaway
Average position ranking: 27th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

LB Kelvion Riggins
Average position ranking: 42nd nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

RB Deondrae Riden
Average position ranking: 30th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

OT Marcus Garcia
Average position ranking: 28th nationally (some have him as a tackle, others as a guard)
Average ranking: 4-star

OT Jonte Newman
Average position ranking: 28th nationally (some have him as a tackle, others as a guard)
Average ranking: 4-star

CB Cobey Sellers
Average position ranking: 33rd nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

OG/C Tyler Thomas
Average position ranking: 50th nationally
Average ranking: 3-star

WR Tristan Norman
Average position ranking: 74th nationally
Average ranking: 3-star

DT Chace Sims
Average position ranking: 38th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

DE Marco Jones
Average position raking: 18th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

WR Kelshaun Johnson
Average position ranking: 26th nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

OG/C Nelson McGuire
Average position ranking: 21st nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

RB Jamarion Morrow
Average position ranking: 20th nationally (He is ranked as an ATH on two sites)
Average ranking: 4-star

S Rashad Johnson
Average position ranking: 23rd nationally
Average ranking: 4-star

QB Eli Morcos
Average position ranking: 71st nationally
Average ranking: 3-star

What I learned from this is that bitching about Rivals’ rankings is a waste of time, because you can get pissed off at every one of the four major sites (I will not name the others). But there are some crazy disparities in opinions on guys like Kelvion Riggins, Landon Rink, Tiger Riden, Chace Sims, Rashad Johnson and Nelson McGuire, just to name a few. Riggins, for example is ranked as high as fifth and as low as 91st; Rink is ranked 10th by two sites and 90th by another. This remains, to put it mildly, an inexact science.

But, by the Markposite, A&M has two 5-stars and 19 4-stars. That’s not a bad day at the office by any stretch.



Stewart's stock on the rapid rise while Scourton's falls

A&M defensive end Shemar Stewart had a great week of practice at the Senior Bowl — great enough, in fact, that he has pulled out of the game itself because he’s done what he needs to do already. There’s plenty of footage on X of him destroying some of the nation’s best offensive tackles, and a re-watch of the film from the LSU game shows him brutalizing Will Campbell repeatedly. It was his pressure, in fact, that led to the game-changing interception by BJ Mayes in the third quarter.

But, anyway, back to Mobile. NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah, who is at the Senior Bowl, wrote this about Stewart:

“Here we have a height-weight-speed freak. There was more disruption than production from Stewart during his college career -- he posted just 4.5 sacks in 37 games -- but I thought he had an impactful week in practices. All of his traits are elite and he showed he’s starting to figure some things out as a pass rusher.”

The news for Nic Scourton isn’t as good. He’s out of the Senior Bowl, likely due to injury, and he’s starting to slide on mock draft boards. I’ve seen several that no longer have him in the first round and he’s even out of the top 50 prospects in some places. He’ll have to kill it at the Combine and A&M’s Pro Day — which he’s very capable of doing.

The news is saying 2 pilots, 2 doctors, 1 patient and 1 family member. That doesn't smell right to me. What kind of patient has two docs and no nurses/emts...? Maybe someone uber rich?

How things have changed.

Expectations are as high as possible

Early has a lot to prove

Gonna be fun


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He’d never let this happen.

His daughter was having trouble in her divorce so dad met son in law in an attempt to get him to sign the divorce papers. Son in law head butted him and he died. And all he gets is 23 years in jail.

Say hello to Brian Schottenheimer.

Going to be in downtown SLC this weekend, looking for some restaurant reccs. Any can’t miss spots (or better than average)?

Do you guys have any suggestions on what you'd like to see? We have Monday Thoughts, 10 Things for Tuesday, the Mailbag and Tidbits, so I want to add something to anchor coverage on Wednesdays.

We have any updates on these fools?

Article in DRC

The retired business executive told The Watchdog that someone removed $1,987 from his checking account. He can’t get it back.

Because Zelle is involved, I’m not surprised. Federal regulators have sued Zelle’s owner, Early Warning Services, and its three owners — Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo — contending that the banks did not do enough to protect customers and didn’t handle fraud complaints in a meaningful way.
I remember a few years back, I started telling a spokesperson of one of the major banks about a reader’s problem. But before I could get the first sentence out, the bank rep asked, “Is this about Zelle?” It wasn’t, but his question indicated a larger problem.
Zelle is a major embarrassment to the big bank community. If you don’t know, it’s an app used to send money to a person or institution at no charge.
The lawsuit argues that Zelle has cost Americans $870 million in lost money due to theft. But the banks are adamant when they say that number is overblown.

Apparently the banks do not believe the people filing complaints about losing money.........

Can we discuss now in a more rational way with the information we have today? The World health organization now believes it came from the lab in China. It is well established the virus was in the US since 2019, yet the hospitals were not overflowing with sick people. I had two family members that were sick early 2020 both tested negative for the flu and strep but the Dr. Said they had the flu and treated them like they had the flu. Even with all the covid cases being called the flu it was a slow flu season. So what happened that made everyone get scared? Why are hospitals not overflowing today?
How did people believe a new vaccine was safer then ivermectin? Why are people still getting the vaccine when it is proven to be ineffective? Why do people still trust the CDC, and the FDA after they have been proven liars?

I'm developing a new brand called the Rieti Athletic Club.

Rieti, Italy is where Kobe grew up as a young kid as his father played overseas. The brand focuses on both the mental and physical preparation required for success. The inside front of the hat has a "flow state" pattern and the back pays homage to the price that must be paid for progress made in any discipline (EARNED EXCELLENCE). They are superior all around hats but really built for the outdoors and golf.

I've spared no expense on these and will be gifting them to the Aggie Basketball team soon. I just wanted to share and would love your feedback- please follow / share on Instagram as we have much more coming.

A portion of the proceeds will go to Basketball NIL and Texas Children's Hospital. Thank you!


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Any of you guys still on the Ray Epps is an FBI agent crazy conspiracy theory? Turns out it wasn’t super fun for him. Shocking.

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Winning? (Of course in terms of profitability only)

You financial guys,

does the terminology match up?

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Those documents, which were sent to the NCAA earlier this month, show A&M spent $243.7 million in the 2024 fiscal year. Their reported operating revenues were $266.4 million, meaning they netted a surplus of approximately $22.7 million

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Hey guys, this is my nephews latest highlight tape. He plays at Groesbeck High School which is 3A here in Texas. I need some expert opinions if you guys think he could play D1 based off his film. He is 17 years old and has a 78” wingspan.

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