Buzzard luck: Can't kill nothin' and can't find nothin' dead.
When it comes to Aggie football, I feel like I'm on a long, rarely interrupted streak of buzzard luck. It started in 1996, when Texas A&M joined the Big 12 conference and went 6-6 in its first season. In 1998, the Aggies got their lone whiff of a conference title with a miracle win over Kansas State in the championship game, but the subsequent loss to Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl started a long, slow spiral into mediocrity. Eventually Slocum was replaced by one of the hottest commodities in college football coaching, Dennis Franchione, who blew his reputation as the guy who could fix any program. Exit Fran, enter Mike Sherman. Years one and two under Sherman were more of the same, then a radical transformation occurred in the latter half of season three. A winning streak that included victories over Texas Tech, Baylor, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas stirred me from an apathetic attitude that had been developing for most of a decade. Then things fell into place for A&M to get the hell out of the Big 12, an environment that was by now boring the crap out of me. The SEC ain't gonna be no stroll in the park, but by God, I won't have to suffer through any more games against Baylor, Texas Tech and the fucking longhorns.
Just when I began to think the nightmare was coming to an end, the 2011 season happened. Sherman got an unceremonious boot out the door, and the names of possible replacements have been tossed around for almost a week. None of them lit a fire under me, but after a serious exchange of email analysis with my bro in Houston, I rationalized the selection of Southern Mississippi's Larry Fedora as potentially the best of A&M's limited options.
Buzzard luck strikes again. Fedora apparently prefers the ACC and North Carolina, and the Aggies may wind up with Kevin Sumlin instead. I thought Sumlin was a hell of an offensive coordinator under Slocum, but I have my doubts that he'll be an improvement over the guy we had when it comes to the transition to SEC football. Shit.
When it comes to Aggie football, I feel like I'm on a long, rarely interrupted streak of buzzard luck. It started in 1996, when Texas A&M joined the Big 12 conference and went 6-6 in its first season. In 1998, the Aggies got their lone whiff of a conference title with a miracle win over Kansas State in the championship game, but the subsequent loss to Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl started a long, slow spiral into mediocrity. Eventually Slocum was replaced by one of the hottest commodities in college football coaching, Dennis Franchione, who blew his reputation as the guy who could fix any program. Exit Fran, enter Mike Sherman. Years one and two under Sherman were more of the same, then a radical transformation occurred in the latter half of season three. A winning streak that included victories over Texas Tech, Baylor, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas stirred me from an apathetic attitude that had been developing for most of a decade. Then things fell into place for A&M to get the hell out of the Big 12, an environment that was by now boring the crap out of me. The SEC ain't gonna be no stroll in the park, but by God, I won't have to suffer through any more games against Baylor, Texas Tech and the fucking longhorns.
Just when I began to think the nightmare was coming to an end, the 2011 season happened. Sherman got an unceremonious boot out the door, and the names of possible replacements have been tossed around for almost a week. None of them lit a fire under me, but after a serious exchange of email analysis with my bro in Houston, I rationalized the selection of Southern Mississippi's Larry Fedora as potentially the best of A&M's limited options.
Buzzard luck strikes again. Fedora apparently prefers the ACC and North Carolina, and the Aggies may wind up with Kevin Sumlin instead. I thought Sumlin was a hell of an offensive coordinator under Slocum, but I have my doubts that he'll be an improvement over the guy we had when it comes to the transition to SEC football. Shit.
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