Arguments today were hilarious.

Sotamayor who arguably got her SCOTUS appointment because of affirmative action didn't know the difference between de jure and de facto when she was speaking today, and even continued to say we had 'de jure segregation' in the US AFTER Justice Alito corrected her. Amazing

Harvard penalizes white students over 300 points and Asian students over 400 points on their SAT's when compared to African American applicants.

Torbush Wow.

Affirmative action is making decisions based on race which by definition is racism even if the skin colors are backwards i.e. racists towards whites and Asians.

Good riddance.

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Comparisons are always a part of recruiting coverage so over the next two weeks in our The Next … series, we take a look position-by-position on who could be one of the next superstars in college football by comparing them to a current college or NFL player. We start with quarterbacks.

Next Up: Comparing QB recruits to college and NFL stars

But seems like McCullers shoulda been pulled like a while ago. No?

Looks good from here, but this is all I have to go by
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Last weekend was an abomination, so I got nothing for that. It was horrific.

But until Saturday I found the defense to be between average to good, with spurts of great. Things I could accept with all of the extenuating circumstances like youth and injuries. I could take encouragement from the first year coach coming in with decent coaching capital.

They seemed to me to be easily good enough to win if they weren’t on the field after every 3-down offensive possession. At worst, they were far from our biggest problem.

What am I missing here? I’ve never been a sunshine guy.

I know a team can have some bad luck but this is ridiculous. Is there any real reason why this team and it seems every player on it, is going down and many not playing for significant time. Could the new S&C coach be a fault? Jumbo having to much contact at practice? Never seen anything like this team and players going down.

If you made me OL coach at A&M tomorrow I'm not sure how much better or worse I could make this OL. If we started back in August how much technique could I change or how much demotivation could I do to make them this much worse?

The answer is not much.

We're giving Addazio way too much credit, IMO. #1 is the 10 of 19 OL who are not playing right now that we had on the projected roster coming into this year. Some were not surprises (Kenyon, Matthews) but most were. We already had a thin exterior, but we had a deep pool of interior linemen that quickly evaporated. That's a cumulative effect across the line. That doesn't let you create chemistry together. And then continued injuries since then and lack of depth (you can blame some recruiting misses at tackle and a misguided transfer policy as well) only perpetuated that. And even now your RG and supposedly your LT are playing hurt. Not cool.

The next biggest offender? Jimbo's scheme. We've talked that to death, but when you're vanilla, don't get your QBs pre-snap reads, and have predictable play calls, they're going to tee off on you. And that's exactly what they've done. Jimbo spent the 2nd half interview at SC talking about how they need to run as they threw the ball 6 straight times right behind him (the same as they did in the first half, both against one of the worst run D's in the country).

Next? QB play. Indecision. Inaccuracy. Forcing long downs. Teeing off.

This past week they actually established the run. And then Weigman was able to make decisive throws behind it. The OL looked very good until late when we had to throw and things started coming apart. It was also one of a few consecutive weeks these guys have played together now. Funny how that all works.

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Are here.

I forgot to put this in the story, but the top 10 Halloween candies:

1) Kit kats
2) Crunch bars
3) Snickers
4) M&Ms
5) Starbursts
6) 100 grand (didn't see any of those this year)
7) Hershey bars
8) Nerds
9) Skittles
10) anything but Candy Corn

Film is damning

He deserves some big time credit. I know his past has caused some undeserving criticism, but that was the past. He has made several dominating plays this season. The TD in the South Carolina was a man play. Two different play in the OM game were cluch and dominate.
He’s play like a senior should play and turning in some stats that need to be noticed.

BTW, this comes because I’m torturing myself by rewatching our last couple games .

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Stanford's mascot, The Tree, unveiled a sign at the game this weekend that said, "Stanford hates fun."

They responded by banning their own mascot.

He's still very constructive on A&M:

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On the not so serious side of recruiting, I thought A&M had the best Halloween graphic today.

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The instant reaction from recruits following the game Saturday night went pretty much like this...

(Text message with Anthony Hill and his father)




The recruits do have a lot of questions considering the state of the Texas A&M Football program as of late. Following the game Saturday night Jimbo Fisher did answer a lot of those questions for many of the prospects in attendance. In general, the positive side to Saturday night was the atmosphere (I too was very shocked at the amount of people in attendance and the level of intensity from the Aggie fans all the way until the end.)

Conner Weigman's performance was a major positive for the Aggies in all aspects, but especially so in terms of recruiting. I said it in preseason training camp and was laughed at by...pretty much ALL ...what I saw during camp was that Weigman was the best. The way he performed behind such a depleted, chaotic offensive line as a freshman was impressive on Saturday night (I saw it coming esp. after that last drive in the South Carolina game.) I can tell you it was Impressive enough to keep recruits interested. Combine that with ALL of the other young talent playing for the Aggies right now and it is actually a selling point for the Aggies (despite what anyone says from national outlets who do not talk to these recruits on a regular basis and yet think that they know what is going on because they have a large following on social media..wont name names)

The national media and social media (which dominates in the recruiting world) have set up the perfect storm..a top ten preseason ranked team, falling so far to this...headlines claiming that "Jimbo is the no. 1 most likely to get fired..." will create confusion and chaos... but that is the medias job (or so it appears for most) ...get the most clicks and likes.

Yahoo though does say this -

Pete Thamel reports “zero evidence” of Jimbo Fisher’s dismissal, but changes may be coming​

Based off of my communication with the recruiting realm change is indeed needed, but Jimbo leaving the program does not appear to be the answer.

Some more quick hitters based off of what I saw on the SL Saturday and then following up after the game:
- Lafayette, LA, Melvin Hills has been offered
- 2025 OL from Houston Josh Moses has been offered
- TJ Shanahan was not able to attend
- Anthony Evans did not make it
- Johnny Bowens was in attendance
- Deyjhon Pettaway in attendance
- Raheem Vance in attendance
- Tory Blaylock in attendance

Last but not least, Lane Kiffin's comments after the game did not sit well with all recruits parents...

“I mean, 390 yards rushing against a bunch of five-stars is pretty good,” Kiffin said.
'The SEC Network’s Cole Cubelic asked Kiffin what he might wear for Halloween. Kiffin thought Fisher could lend a hand.'
“Maybe Jimbo has a Joker outfit for me.." - Kiffin

Kiffin did not improove his recruiting stock based off those comments from what I uderstand.

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As many of you know, I grew up in central Illinois before attending the greatest University in the world. I do, in fact, still follow Illinois football but not to the level I do as an Ag (basketball is another story, I'll admit). Three years after a "poll" ranked the Illinois roster as the worst in college football, they sit on top of the Big Ten West (no powerhouse division, mind you) with a 7-1 record. This is a program without a winning record in 10 years! The SEC has its own renaissance team in the Vols and both success stories have a few things in common I'd like us to consider.

1. Great use of the transfer portal and JUCO ranks. Hooker is a Heisman candidate. Tommy DeVito (late of Syracuse and sacked over 80 times there) is a solid efficient QB who makes plays and wins. Both Illinois' starting guards are JUCOs not on the team last year. Their starting center is a former walk on TE. Tennessee has a lot of other key transfer contributors as well, including Bru McCoy.

2. Outstanding player evaluation and development. Illinois' starting 22 is full of players no one here has probably heard of, but will still be playing on Sundays. Tennessee has and has had more dudes, (albeit some "questionably" obtained) but you can't argue with Heupel's identification and development.

3. The "Right" coaches, coaching and schemes. Heupel, as much as we dislike him for being a land thief, is a really good offensive mind. His DC has done his best to cover up pretty big holes with creative blitzing and other stuff.

It's not so long ago that we don't all remember Brett Bielema being unceremoniously booted from Arkansas. He was trying to bring Wisconsin's ground and pound to the SEC about the time everyone else was changing to more spread. Well, where did he go? To the NFL for a few years, to remember, rethink and reconsider. Illinois, last year, got beat at home by UTSA at the start of a 4 game losing streak. Bielema then hired the guy (who he had coached with before) who beat him after having his previous OC with him for 1 year. Lunney, at Illinois, has one star player in Chase Brown, who leads the country in rushing. Even with those limitations, he has been able to build a really cohesive and efficient offense utilizing spread passing concepts, a power run game, and a really good offensive line.

For DC, Bielema chose the coordinator at Missouri. At the time, I thought he was out of his mind as bad as Mizzou's defenses had been. Illinois's current defensive rankings this year:

Total Defense - # 1
Passing Efficiency Defense - # 1
Rushing Defense - # 2
Scoring Defense - # 1

Yes, it's not the SEC West, but think of the relative improvement of a program that has not had a winning record in 10 years, not won a division title in 21 years and has no where near the resources of us or Tennessee even.

Truthfully, I have been extremely disappointed in Durkin's schemes thus far, but his track record seems to indicate that this year has been an aberration. We can only hope. I am much more interested in who the potential OC (and other offensive hires?) will be and how much autonomy Jimbo will give them.

Bielema has reinvented himself at Illinois of all places. C'mon Jimbo, we're rooting for you!

Gig'em!!!

No surprise.

The loudest cheer at our game last night was for a frigging t-sip. Any Aggie that cheered for a sip in front of our team should turn in their Aggie ring if they actually got one.

No wonder Texas thinks we’re their bitch.