cmsaggie12 said:
jaxisback said:
Some of you need to spend some time walking through the MSC and reflect a bit on what really matters.
Any Aggie that would trade what Texas A&M is for anything else really isn't an Aggie at all.
This is minor league pro football. Someday we might reach the top of the mountain or maybe not. Enjoy it for what it is, in the end it's of little importance.
The notion that our university should somehow morph its culture and traditions because that would lead to football success, I reject out of hand.
And ladies and gentlemen, this is why. Losers with a losing mindset.
I don't think it is a loser mindset, but we CAN aspire for both the values A&M has traditionally stood for and success on the athletic fields/court. We just have to run the Athletic Department more like a business than it has been run. By that I mean get the best AD we can, put him or her in charge of hiring/firing coaches, and then hold them responsible for the results. Not any group of BMAs who may or may not be the same every year and have effectively zero accountability. If Fran doesn't work out, oh, well. We'll just keep going until we finally get a national championship contending coach in Jimbo. Oh, wait. That didn't go so well, either.
Then, like a well run organization, give the AD the tools to succeed. Forget the spending on facilities and NIL. Spend money (at least some of it) on intelligence. Why is information so powerful in the outside, especially business, world, but we don't seem to use it to our full advantage? We need a committee or staff within the AD that knows (or can find out) EVERYTHING about every potential coach we COULD hire in every sport -- PI level stuff. Not just their resume but every home address, who they've hung out with over the years, whether they have a drinking/drug problem, etc. We need people multiple outside of the AD on a first name basis with every agent and attorney of any desirable coach (head or assistant) so we can approach and hire the most effective potential coach when either one leaves or we send one packing.
Do we have ANY of that now? From what I can tell, I seriously doubt it. At best, its a "I know someone who knows someone..." Last year DeBoer may not have been a potential hire (and we may have dodged a bullet knowing what we know now), but nobody would have said then he wasn't worth considering. Did we make him turn us down? Did we even try to show him something better than what Bama was offering? I don't know but I doubt it.
We can NOT keep doing things the SAME WAY and expect different results. Call that insanity, or whatever, but regardless, it won't work. We've essentially hired the last 5 football coaches the SAME EXACT WAY and thats beyond stupid.
