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Do You Consider this a Successful & Great Season?

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VatoLocoAggie
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Silver Arrows said:

No, we didn't take any hardware home. Losing to our rival and missing a chance at the SEC championship and then capping the season off by only scoring 3 points at home is not success.


This is pretty much where I am at on all of this. I agree with you.
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FriendlyAg said:

no. absolutely not.

if we don't win a conference or national championship, it will never be a great season.

CHANGE YOUR MINDSET. DAMAND MORE. WE ARE TOO GOOD OF FANS TO DEMAND LESS.
this is dumb. This was a very good season, one of the best ever. I enjoyed it and will take may more of them. And no, not a "losers mentality" just a realistic Aggie fan able to enjoy Aggie football. And before you say it - I am very much a winner by any way you would want to measure.
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Every effing year.

We're Charlie Brown.

LSU, Bama, Georgia - they're Lucy.
I know a lot about a little, and a little about a lot.
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Great, Hell No.

Better than recent history, Yes.

Every aspect of the program regressed at the end of the season.

At this point, I don't see any difference between Jimbo and Elko.

Next year will be back to mediocrity but we'll hear about this "great" season for years when explaining the losses.

Same old ****, just a new decade.
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cone
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Yes this was a fun season
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No.
Spaceball 1
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Record was good, beating ND was good. But this season was fools gold. We won nothing, beat one team with a pulse and rewarded our coach anyway.

I like Elko but he didn't deserve a raise
maroonblood90
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You do realize the choice was give him a raise or watch him leave? Not giving him a raise was not a realistic option this year.
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Agsrback12
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Spaceball 1 said:

Record was good, beating ND was good. But this season was fools gold. We won nothing, beat one team with a pulse and rewarded our coach anyway.

I like Elko but he didn't deserve a raise


This. We negotiate off emotion. Anytime these things come up, we should take some deep breaths and truly evaluate things.

We had beaten nobody and had won nothing when we extended Elko. It went down hill from there.
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This is absolutely a great season. Think of what we thought of this team preseason. 10-2 was an outlandish prediction. If I told you before the season we'd be 11-1 with a playoff berth and asked you if that's a great season, yes absolutely it is. This was monumental for our program. We've been "so close" for so many years, this year we actually broke through, with a talent roster just above the middle of the SEC. Our team will get better as Elko's recruits mature and with it our ceiling will rise.

For everyone moping, I totally get it, but imagine how you'd feel if we'd gone 8-4 this season like everyone expected. We are disappointed because our expectations have changed which is a good thing.
Maroon Dawn
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Success:

-Won 11 games
-Made playoff

Not Success:

-Late season implosion
-Choked in the biggest games that take you to the highest level to compete for real hardware

JDCAG (NOT Colin)
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Great year? No.

Very good? Yes.

Almost everyone on here picked 8 or 9 wins tops.

11-1 in year 2 is very good, regardless of what you think the schedule was or wasn't.
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Given where we were when Coach Fisher was fired, imo a very successful season and ahead of my expected schedule. Our roster has some areas that I think and hope are being addressed. Against good to great defenses we are forced to be one demensional and Marcel lacks the accuracy. We have got to greatly improve our running game or improve at QB.
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No.
We've been 11-2 before.
Still yet to appear in SEC championship.
Lost to sips, which caused above.
Showed our ass to the nation in the playoffs.
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Texas8&4 said:

No. We achieved nothing. And regressed by the end of the season.

We were lucky that our schedule was easy.


Could not have said it better. Disappointed. Next year will be much tougher. Feels like we had everything lined up for us this season and blew it. Feels so familiar. The last time an Aggie Team finished strong was 2012. That was such a great feeling. 3 points in the last 6 quarters is unacceptable.
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just confirms what I've learned so far on planet earth

some people retreat to misery
Sgt. Schultz
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If we lost both games with our "best"game, then yes to OP.

But we didn't so the answer is no
GigEm200$
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Building season but not a great one...starting 11-0 but not making the SEC title game and losing a playoff game at home diminish the 11-0 start
GigEm200$
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Would Trev have given Elko the extension if he waited until the end of the season and saw the final result?
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Yes because he'd be at Penn State right now otherwise. Did history just begin at this nanosecond for some people?
EclipseAg
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It's about perception.

We once again confirmed that people's perceptions of us as chronic underachievers who can't win the big game are on point.

Play well in our last two games but still lose and it's a whole different mindset going forward.
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First play-off appearance ever. First 10+ win season since 2012, and second since 1998.
Deal with reality, take the progress, and trust Elko to continue the trajectory.

2021 Jimbo Fisher
8-4/ 4-4
2022 Jimbo Fisher
5-7/ 2-6
2023 Jimbo Fisher
7-6/ 4-4
2024 Mike Elko
8-5/ 5-3
2025 Mike Elko
11-2/ 7-1
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Last year vs this year absolutely it was a very successful and great season

But I still wanted more.
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DTX_12
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The fact that there are people saying the season was "very good" when we got absolutely humiliated and laughed at anytime anything mattered just makes me realize that we actually are just a joke and probably that's the way it needs to stay.
Top Cede
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No, not successful. Same as always. Downward trend in the season. Losing to rival, losing bowl/playoff. Left with a bad taste in your mouth and really no reason to think anything will be better next season.
the more coolest guy
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Most predicted 8&4 at best. We went 11-1 and made the playoffs. It's a success.
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No Natty = Loser
Bison
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Indiana had never won anything since a Big Ten title in '67. In less than three years they have won a conference title over a defending national champion and been to the playoffs twice.

So no, I don't think we should have to be content with our own results, given that we have more money and slightly better football tradition.

Better than 8-4, sure. But reason(s) to be optimistic for next season being anything other than a reversion? Not yet.
Hubert J. Farnsworth
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Failure. It felt just like every 7-5 or 8-4 season.
the more coolest guy
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Then you didn't enjoy some really good games this year. It was a lot of fun. And I guess you missed it.
FightinTexasAg15
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Was it a better year than expected? Yeah.

Was it great/successful? No. Sure we won 11 games but what do we have to show for it?
- lost to main rival
- didn't make it to conference title game
- first round home playoff loss
Furlock Bones
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This was a good season. Getting to double digit wins and making the playoffs is good by any definition.

Far from a great season.
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Bunk Moreland said:

Yes it was an amazing season. We went 11-1 in the regular season and made the playoffs. Virtually everyone on texags and all national pundits predicted 8-4. Now those same losers want to cry about 11-1 with a playoff loss.

Given we're in year 2 of Elko, given his 2026 and 2027 recruiting, given how well they hit in the portal last off season, it was absolutely a success and I'm very excited to see what happens next year


8-4 next year as we "rebuild and reload" for the umpteenth time.
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the more coolest guy said:

Then you didn't enjoy some really good games this year. It was a lot of fun. And I guess you missed it.


After years of being an A&M fan, flaming out at the end of the season like that was not fun.
 
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