Sankey in the spotlight
This will be the first tangible reminder we'll receive that Mike Slive is no longer the commissioner of the SEC, and that seriously sucks. That's not to take anything away from Greg Sankey, who I've never met, but Slive was the best college conference commissioner ever (honestly, you can make the case he's the best commissioner at any level).
So Sankey takes the podium at 11:30 a.m. and there will be some big issues for him to discuss. Here are a few of interest:
As A&M has painfully learned the past few years, you don't want to draw undue attention to your program in the offseason. The Aggies have done pretty well with that this year, but the home of the Core Values has a full-fledged embarrassment on their hands. WR/RB Daje Johnson, a graduate of that known tough hood school Pflugerville Hendrickson* (*not tough, not hood) has decided he's a rapper. His most recent release, which he put out last week, is entitled "Dealer". And yeah, it's a first person view on being a dealer.
This is a guy who has had trouble staying on the field due to injuries, was suspended by Charlie Strong, drew glares from Mack Brown every time he came off the field. He contributed a total of 81 yards of total offense last year. And he goes out and releases a fine little ditty that is sure to bring more unwanted attention to a program that is, at best, treading water right now.
Oh, Johnson has another single out. It's called "conceited." Indeed.
P.S. If I'm Kevin Sumlin and any of my players are near any music recording equipment, I'm destroying it. Breaking it into little bitty pieces.
Quartney Davis shows up huge
At 7-on-7 this weekend, Aggie commit Quartney Davis had a very nice run on both sides of the football. When it was all done, Fletch talked to him and asked him if any other schools were after him. Davis said that, while he's totally solid to A&M, two schools are pushing very hard to get his attention: Alabama and LSU.
Just a hunch, but this kid will get a fourth star by the time it's all said and done.
Old School Monday
I love this flick.
This will be the first tangible reminder we'll receive that Mike Slive is no longer the commissioner of the SEC, and that seriously sucks. That's not to take anything away from Greg Sankey, who I've never met, but Slive was the best college conference commissioner ever (honestly, you can make the case he's the best commissioner at any level).
So Sankey takes the podium at 11:30 a.m. and there will be some big issues for him to discuss. Here are a few of interest:
- Satellite camps. Other conferences have already started doing these (Michigan, anyone?) and the SEC has indicated that if the NCAA doesn't kill them outright, the conference will go in the completely opposite direction and turn its schools loose to do as many as they want. We'll see if he throws down the gauntlet here.
- Expansion. Slive was happy with 14 teams in the conference for the foreseeable future and made that abundantly clear. If Sankey does not come out and make an equivocal statement that he is happy with the size of the conference and conference peace, it could have major repercussions for other conferences -- even if the SEC itself really has no interest in expansion.
- The SEC Network. After its astronomical success in its first year out, could the relationship between the conference and the network expand? I don't know how they'd do that, but the SEC has some very inventive folks on their payroll.
- Recruiting matters. Some conferences are now guaranteeing four-year scholarships to recruits, and the SEC doesn't. It hasn't made much of a difference in terms of recruit interest as of yet, but what will the SEC do?
- Pushing around the NCAA. Each of the past three years, Mike Slive had a key bone to pick with the NCAA that he'd bring up during his state of the conference speech. In each case, it was more along the lines of Slive saying, "you're going to change this," and the NCAA complied. When the SEC normally floats something out there, they're doing that on behalf of the Power 5 conferences. What's up their sleeve in 2015?
As A&M has painfully learned the past few years, you don't want to draw undue attention to your program in the offseason. The Aggies have done pretty well with that this year, but the home of the Core Values has a full-fledged embarrassment on their hands. WR/RB Daje Johnson, a graduate of that known tough hood school Pflugerville Hendrickson* (*not tough, not hood) has decided he's a rapper. His most recent release, which he put out last week, is entitled "Dealer". And yeah, it's a first person view on being a dealer.
This is a guy who has had trouble staying on the field due to injuries, was suspended by Charlie Strong, drew glares from Mack Brown every time he came off the field. He contributed a total of 81 yards of total offense last year. And he goes out and releases a fine little ditty that is sure to bring more unwanted attention to a program that is, at best, treading water right now.
Oh, Johnson has another single out. It's called "conceited." Indeed.
P.S. If I'm Kevin Sumlin and any of my players are near any music recording equipment, I'm destroying it. Breaking it into little bitty pieces.
Quartney Davis shows up huge
At 7-on-7 this weekend, Aggie commit Quartney Davis had a very nice run on both sides of the football. When it was all done, Fletch talked to him and asked him if any other schools were after him. Davis said that, while he's totally solid to A&M, two schools are pushing very hard to get his attention: Alabama and LSU.
Just a hunch, but this kid will get a fourth star by the time it's all said and done.
Old School Monday
I love this flick.
