Bucky has the right resume. Elko ? Wait and see???

zooguy96 said:

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AggieNattie said:

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I don't blame you. Football has taken a backseat for me for a while because of the constant underachieving. It's fun following a program that actually is consistent year in and year out with less. And now we just got a young coach that's hungry to win at a big school like A&M.

A&M sports have been more fun for me personally in the spring time (basketball and baseball).

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That's because baseball and basketball have been consistently better than football, relative to funding.

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Also people are more passionate about football so the letdowns hit them harder

I would love to win in football, but I'm not holding my breath there.

Hoops can be more fun because you can make deep tourney runs that are lots of fun and losses in the regular season aren't devastating to your season like they are in football.

I love the football offseason. Recruiting, spring practice, fall camp, all of that. I just eat it up. Almost without fail for my entire life, I make it about 1 month through football season before just giving up and moving on to my real passion which is basketball.

for me my annual schedule of attention is:

March-September- Football season
October-November- Hunting season
November-March- Basketball season no matter how good or bad we are.

full apathy set in? those are the type of years when football pulls a rabbit out of the hat.

NyAggie said:

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zooguy96 said:

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AggieNattie said:

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I don't blame you. Football has taken a backseat for me for a while because of the constant underachieving. It's fun following a program that actually is consistent year in and year out with less. And now we just got a young coach that's hungry to win at a big school like A&M.

A&M sports have been more fun for me personally in the spring time (basketball and baseball).

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That's because baseball and basketball have been consistently better than football, relative to funding.

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Aldo people are more passionate about football so the letdowns hit them harder

I would love to win in football, but I'm not holding my breath there.

Hoops can be more fun because you can make deep tourney runs that ante lots of fun and losses in the regular season aren't devastating to your season like they are in football.

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Exactly. I think the college football format tends to make fans fatalistic lose a game and you lose most of your hope. Lose a second game and you are just waiting for next year. Not much has improved with a limited Tournament format. It makes for a very bipolar experience where medication doesn't help.

AggByMarriage said:

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NyAggie said:

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zooguy96 said:

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AggieNattie said:

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I don't blame you. Football has taken a backseat for me for a while because of the constant underachieving. It's fun following a program that actually is consistent year in and year out with less. And now we just got a young coach that's hungry to win at a big school like A&M.

A&M sports have been more fun for me personally in the spring time (basketball and baseball).

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That's because baseball and basketball have been consistently better than football, relative to funding.

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Aldo people are more passionate about football so the letdowns hit them harder

I would love to win in football, but I'm not holding my breath there.

Hoops can be more fun because you can make deep tourney runs that ante lots of fun and losses in the regular season aren't devastating to your season like they are in football.

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Exactly. I think the college football format tends to make fans fatalistic lose a game and you lose most of your hope. Lose a second game and you are just waiting for next year. Not much has improved with a limited Tournament format. It makes for a very bipolar experience where medication doesn't help.

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Yep

You've got only 12 playoff spots with dozens of schools thinking they should be in them every year

Hoops has 68 spots and even tiny cinderellas get a shot

I have somewhat jokingly made that same point. It does seem to me like the Ags tend to perform better in football when expectations aren't as high.

Well people definitely weren't sleeping on us a few years ago where we started out as a top ten team in back to back seasons.

I get it, everyone thinks we're in a "here we go again" deal with Elko or they're just tired of hyping themselves up every offseason. And I'm sure by August they'll have hyped themselves up again, but right now I think the general fan vibe is undershooting how good we're actually going to be for once.

For me, Basketball and Soccer have always been my top two Aggie sports. But...soccer has been a beatdown recently... So it's all basketball...

All this excitement should lead to much improved game attendance I assume? We had strong attendance last year, second all time as far as average sold tickets per game, but I want sellouts in conference if people are so excited. I actually want it to be mostly an increase in students at games, that would be so fun.

I agree with Bobinator that I have a strange positive feeling about the football team - not talking top 5 dominant team but a very solid across the board competent team that will be in every game at a minimum. We weren't far off of that last year, just ugly out of reach losses in 2 games, and I feel we are much improved.

I'm excited about the new coach and players in basketball, most excited about the new style of play, maybe less excited than some others about the level of success we will achieve this next year.

bobinator said:

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I legit think people are sleeping on our football team this year. I think we're going to be really good.

That said I'm always more excited for hoops, but especially this year. Some high major school was going to roll the dice on Bucky and see if his style could work at this level but I never imagined it would be us, it's just so out of character.

I can't wait to see the reaction in Reed for our first few games next year. It's going to be so jarring. They need to bring some extra medical staff for the fans.

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Im usually a wait and see kind of guy but I cannot wait until October. I'm really really anxious and curious to see Bucky ball at A&M. Good gosh we've needed a high scoring team for so long now; we've been a grind it out team since BCG so I do not know what to expect.

However, when it comes to football, I'll stick to my wait and see mode. I think the less Coach Elko speaks, the better it will be. Let's cut the "wait until next year" chatter and stick to performance on the field. Go out and beat Notre Dame and tu at their house and i'll change my mode.

bobinator said:

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Last season was just an extremely weird year in Reed Arena. It's hard to capture exactly why, a lot of different factors were involved, but it just kind of felt like the vibe was off most of the year.

We objectively had one of our best years ever, but I don't think any home game except Auburn really had the same kind of juice as when the team and the fan base really seem hooked up.

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You could kind of see it against tu, but not nearly as good as I remember against Alabama in the previous year.

yep. big reason i was all for a coaching change or hoping Buzz would leave. BBall was maxed out under Buzz.

Thiught of rebuilfing with HIM was "ugh...!"

I remember having a very similar feeling about baseball about 11 months ago.

Cola8d8 said:

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I remember having a very similar feeling about baseball about 11 months ago.

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Yeah. Bucky has some juice tho and Earley is a wet noodle.

Turkey said:

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Unfortunately, A&M is the most underachieving college football program in the country, IMO. You should be excited about men's basketball! I am.

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Please erase your reminder of Buzz…