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[74novaman]

It's almost gameday.....

[Scott in Houston]

It's almost gameday.....

True. Oh, and congratulations on those new national championships and conference titles!!

Did you see this?

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[74novaman]

Regarding the national titles, they're long overdue. Many schools have claimed retroactive titles from pre AP championships in 1936. Frankly they should have added 1917 as well (Ags went undefeated and unscored upon, just like they did in 1919.). Are they silly? Yeah, but we certainly didn't start the trend. Heck, USC even claims 1939, when AP awarded the title to A&M. If you want to complain about a school claiming titles they don't deserve, talk to Alabama, who's gone so far as to claim a NC for a year they went 8-2.

The conference titles are dumber. The only big 12 title we have is 1998. But big 12 rules call division champions conference champions, so I guess you could argue we're following their dumb rules.
The big 12s own media guide credits A&M with 3 confrrence championships in football. http://www.big12sports.com/fls/10410//p ... M_ID=10410 (it's on page 6).

I'd prefer we just claimed '98, but if the conference considers them "championships" I can see why someone would want to claim them.

My .02 on the issue.

[Scott in Houston]

Regarding the national titles, they're long overdue. Many schools have claimed retroactive titles from pre AP championships in 1936. Frankly they should have added 1917 as well (Ags went undefeated and unscored upon, just like they did in 1919.). Are they silly? Yeah, but we certainly didn't start the trend. Heck, USC even claims 1939, when AP awarded the title to A&M. If you want to complain about a school claiming titles they don't deserve, talk to Alabama, who's gone so far as to claim a NC for a year they went 8-2.

The conference titles are dumber. The only big 12 title we have is 1998. But big 12 rules call division champions conference champions, so I guess you could argue we're following their dumb rules.
The big 12s own media guide credits A&M with 3 confrrence championships in football. http://www.big12sports.com/fls/10410//p ... M_ID=10410 (it's on page 6).

I'd prefer we just claimed '98, but if the conference considers them "championships" I can see why someone would want to claim them.

My .02 on the issue.

The national titles are very silly to do now... The timing is what really makes it look bad. It would be different if it was over the summer or something.

The conference titles are incredibly bad. I mean just bad... Smacks of reaching hard to find something to brag about all the way to essentially lying. I'd be embarrassed of it if my school did that. I'm sure 90% of Aggies feel like you do about those.

[74novaman]

The national titles are very silly to do now... The timing is what really makes it look bad. It would be different if it was over the summer or something.

The conference titles are incredibly bad. I mean just bad... Smacks of reaching hard to find something to brag about all the way to essentially lying. I'd be embarrassed of it if my school did that. I'm sure 90% of Aggies feel like you do about those.

It was done over the summer. Someone just decided to make a media issue of it the week before our first game of the season.

I wouldn't say its lying to claim those conference titles since as I mentioned, the Big 12 itself calls those "titles" thanks to their own stupid rules. I think its moronic and the only true Big 12 title I will ever claim is the one we earned in 1998, but if anyone wants to get mad at claiming those, I'd suggest complaining to the Big 12. They count divisional wins as championships for all their teams. I don't get it, but whatever..... After all, we don't have to care about Big 12 rules anymore.

I was able to attend the first SEC home game at Kyle Field on Saturday.

Quarterback looks promising, but he needs to learn that this isn't high school anymore, and EVERYONE is going to be fast. He can't just scramble, he's going to have to try and pass. Defense looked better than I expected. Lots of penalties, communication issues etc that you can always expect from the first game of the season.

After watching that game, I'm still going to hold onto my previous statement of 6-6 being the mark for a "good" season this year.

I think we have the potential to go 7-5, but that's about as far as I'd be willing to make any bets on. Florida (obviously), LSU, Alabama, and Mississippi State are all "for sure" losses in my mind. Mizzou will probably be a loss as well....they looked pretty good on Saturday night. If we do lose to Mizzou, as long as we can manage to only drop 1 game out of 3 to Arkansas, Ole Miss or Auburn we'll go 7-5. Drop 2 of those 3 and it'll be 6-6...which isn't great but for a new coach, style of play, conference and QB I'll take it.

6-6 is realistic, 7-5 would make me pretty happy, and 8-4 would rank as "exceeds all expectations". After watching Arkansas and Auburn these last 2 weeks, its entirely possible we could win 7 or 8....but I'm going to keep my expectations low and shoot for 6.

[tiviti]

Out of curiosity, did you go to Baylor? I've been surprised by the number of other students I've found from Houston at Baylor... when I first decided to go there, a lot of the other students at my school didn't know much about it.

Exactly... I'm a huge Redskins fan now. Love RG3... hate Jerry Jones. That makes for a great combination.

I've never understood that mind set. I had a lady tell me that about a year or so ago. I told her I don't cheer for the owner, I cheer for the team. I'm not a huge Jerry Jones fan, but I AM a Cowboys fan, and have been since I was 6. Through thick and thin, the Super Bowl-less 80's, the 3 championship 90's, and even now. I love and appreciate the history of the team.

I can't be a fan of a team for just one player, either. RG3 was a phenomenal QB. I hope he does well (just not TOO well...). I am a Texas Tech fan, but I can't be either a Patriots fan (Wes Welker) or Rams fan (Danny Amendola) just because they have a player or two from the college I like on them.

Yeah, I understand.
My thing is this: I spent a lot of time, effort, and money at Baylor. I still contribute a bit with graduate events and programs as well as helping to mentor, council, and sometimes hire undergrads today. It's become a big part of me and my life. As a result, I'm much more interested in how Baylor performs than any professional team of any league.

As for the NFL, I only live in a city with a NFL football team. There's no real tie. I've always been a Broncos fan because I lived in Denver as a kid, but that's it. I still like the Broncos a lot, but care less about the Broncos than I do of individuals who mean something to me, like RG3. FWIW, I got to know his parents as well over the years at our tailgate, so I don't know Robert at all, but I somewhat know them, and that adds to the reason I want him to succeed.

Now that Kendall Wright, another awesome athlete from Baylor, is on the Titans, I'll even pull for them. And this is from an old Oilers guy! As long as Kendall is playing and contributing heavily, I'll pull for them. (I won't root for Washington if Robert isn't the starting QB, but if he is, they're my team).

That's kind of a rambling way of explaining myself, so hope it's understandable. :)

[BigGuy]

I was really looking forward to this season. This was going to be the year. There was a lot of talk that Arkansas was a serious contender for an SEC and BCS championship. Arkansas was ranked no 8. (low in my opinion) going into their second game. This game, against an unranked University of Louisiana-Monroe, was really just a warm up, almost a practice game in preparation for the the third game of the season against No. 1 Alabama. Next week against Alabama would be the test of our BCS potential.
That is until ULM whooped that chitlins out of us. (34-31 loss in overtime) And they had to come back from a 28 -7 deficit to do it.
It's going to be a long, ugly season. ( sigh! )
Let's see what the Cowboys do this year.

[74novaman]

There was a lot of talk that Arkansas was a serious contender for an SEC and BCS championship. Arkansas was ranked no 8. (low in my opinion) going into their second game.

I'm not going to say that Arkansas should have been ranked higher or lower, because I haven't watched them play this year. (And I feel your pain with high expectations and low results. That's A&M most years. )

I do think preseason rankings are stupid though. Look at last week: Arkansas and Wisconsin lost to unranked opponents, while Michigan, Florida and Notre Dame all barely beat unranked opponents. Was that because there were a bunch of upsets? Are those teams they played just that good? No.

Preseason rankings are based purely on hype, sports media biases, and speculation. I wish they'd release their first "Top 25" in about week 4 of the season, after we'd seen everybody play a few games. As it is now, as long as you have the hype to get you into the preseason Top 10, all you have to do to make a BCS games is not drop a game to someone you shouldn't. I think it is kind of silly.

/rant off.

Looking forward to Arkansas coming to Kyle Field this year. Just wish we were keeping the series Home and Home instead of moving back to Jerryworld.

[Scott in Houston]

Out of curiosity, did you go to Baylor? I've been surprised by the number of other students I've found from Houston at Baylor... when I first decided to go there, a lot of the other students at my school didn't know much about it.

I did. I grew up in Sugar Land and went to Baylor from there. Most of my classmates went to UT and/or A&M, and out of 650 or so in our class, I was one of 2 who went to Baylor.

[Vandelay Ind.]

Looking forward to Arkansas coming to Kyle Field this year. Just wish we were keeping the series Home and Home instead of moving back to Jerryworld.

I heard A&M cut a deal with Arkansas to extend the series with them, but they would give up the LSU Thanksgiving game so we could play LSU. Who needs Texas or their network

[BigGuy]

I loved this line from The Bleacher Report.

Raise your hand if you expected one of the two teams in this weekend's showdown between Arkansas and Alabama to be unranked at game time.







Put your hand down...no you didn't.