The Blue Board

In regards to the tidal shift in the state of TX, keep in mind that this season could not be further from an anomaly. A&M went into a NEW conference, NEW head coach, NEW off. coord., NEW def. coord, and NEW AD. They had no business winning anything... Just ask any media outlet.

The biggest thing never gets mentioned is Kevin Sumlin. He is a young black coach that identifies with young black players. (Did you ever think that Tupac would be played over the speakers at an A&M practice?) He is very smart offensively and does a nice job on defense as well. He's taught his guys to believe in him and his system. The swagger of Kevin Sumlin landing a helicopter next to high school football games versus Mack Brown handing Werther's Original butterscotch out to kids is why the momentum will be sustained. Remove Mack, its a different ballgame. Keep the status quo and the snowball only gets larger. Long live Mack!!!

Black people listen to Tupac? Thought that ish was for suburban white kids. Lulz

Respect what Nick has done, but if we're just throwing out wish lists I'd rather have Harbaugh. He would be Urbie's worst nightmare. "What's your deal?"

I'd much rather see Saban in Ann Arbor than Harbaugh.

It is cute hearing the, "But WE'RE Texas!" line over and over and over though.

Yes, you're Texas. aka SEC whipping boy.

Enjoy it, horns.

No doubt. I'd take Harbaugh over any coach in football.

Anyone can win at Stanford is the funniest thing I've read in months...

But yeah, I think Shaw is way, way overrated.

Mack lets QB's like Andrew Luck, RGIII, & Johnny Football slip through the cracks...he must know his time is coming

would you say 3 years makes a trend? because Texas has been mediocre at best these past few years, and A&M has done everything possible to make everyone forget about their own mediocrity in the decade before this. Sumlin has been recruiting like Mack used to, picked up the top recruit in the state in a head to head with Texas and lsu. In the meantime, Texas has a small class, and had done decommits and hasn't.been as stringent on their no visits policy. Granted, they were going to take a small class this year, but looking at juco and in December doesn't show much.confidence in swoopes or anyone they have on campus.

bottom line is, we've cycled around; Mack is RC, Sumlin is the new Mack. and texas has given him at least one more year to make impressive come back wins against teams like kansas and tech.

The quarterback remark is because of how many they've burned through. Gilbert transferred out to SMU, Connor Wood transferred to Colorado, Ash was getting juggled with McCoy (who's currently in criminal trouble), and I remember hearing rumors about Connor Brewer transferring out. Plus on top of all that, Swoopes has not been looking as impressive as he was billed. I definitely think there's nothing wrong with going to a juco player, it certainly worked out well with Auburn and Cam Newton. But in the case of Texas, they are looking nervously thin, especially to start looking at a juco player to make an instant impact at QB.

I guess it may be a little early to say anything has cycled, but Texas has definitely been in a bit of a slump with the rise of OSU, KSU, and Baylor, not to mention the success we've had this year.

I definitely think that if Texas doesn't right their path soon, they're in for a long decade. Conversely, with the draw of Mizzou and Vandy out of the east, I think A&M has a good shot to make a run for the SEC title, or at least a BCS bowl. Sumlin's flying helicopters to recruits games, flying between Memphis and Arizona in the same day to see a recruit and his parents, while Mack has been bitching about the LHN and other teams doing the horns down. It's a limp dick attitude coming out of Austin, and I honestly think Florida took the fire away from that program.

And in the 15 years since texas has mopped the floors with tamu. Whats your point?

Gary Patterson.