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Per Board of Regents Agenda:

The SEC is meeting this weekend to approve a re-alignment package that will include A&M and possibly Florida State. The A&M Board of Regents is meeting on Monday to authorize a conference realignment: This is happening.

What are the demographics of the school you actually went to? :) And the Director's Cup is a joke for the most part, but it's not A&M that gets the most benefit of dumb sports. Women's Equestrian is the only non-major sport A&M plays. Every other sport is pretty much played by every other big school. Only 20 sports are allowed to count, but A&M only has 18 total, so we are already at a two-sport disadvantage. Stanford wins it every year by getting mega points for finishing first in things like Women's water polo. Stanford has the most athletics teams at over 30, so they can throw out their Men's basketball team who would have earned zero points last year and replace them with some other joke sport that only 10 other schools play to give them a huge points edge. They play the most sports so they have the most room for error. Schools like A&M still finishing in the Top 10 despite having two fewer sports counted in their favor is pretty remarkable.

#17 Football #24 Mens basketball #5 Women's basketball #8 Preseason baseball #1 Men's Track #1 Women's Track #9 W Soccer #16 Men's golf #10 Men's Tennis (preseason) #8 Women's Swimming/Diving #20 Softball #1 Equestrian #6 Director's cup 09-10

That's never good news...T&P his way, hopefully he'll make a full recovery from whatever it is he's dealing with.

So what you're saying is Walsh and Stewart are phenomenal players, they have some underrated receivers, and a great offensive line. Their defense is solid and well-coached with some D1 talent. But you're saying they are a different team? Actually they sound quite familiar. :) I thought Guyer should have beaten Longview in 2008. Longview got off to a hot start in 2009 and were able to get pressure on Walsh to keep his legs out of the game. These games are between two evenly matched teams and Longview made the extra plays to win the last two...hopefully the trend continues but it will be a very tough matchup.

My sarcasm meter just exploded. ;) I was also at that game and also thought Leander was slow and just not very good, especially on offense. I could say the same for Tomball. Horn beat the snot out of them in the second half just like they should have. I didn't see that many mistakes from the Horn QB apart from one missed read that ended up going the other way for either a pick-6 or a near pick-6 (I forget). I thought he was impressive. Horn's defense played really well, although it looked like Leander only had one playmaker on offense (#1). He had a really bad attitude problem and gave almost no effort when he wasn't given the ball, never threw a block, afraid to take a hit, yet always yapping after the play like he was accomplishing something. I thought it was pretty funny. I think it was made pretty clear that the only two really legit teams in this region were Horn and Longview.

I want to puke. Texas is considering staying in the Big 12 after the conference commissioner offered them a chance at an independent TV deal with limited sharing responsibilities. The other schools will get their invites dropped if Texas backs out, as the entire Pac10 deal is predicated on getting into the Texas media markets of Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The schools like Kansas, KState, Missouri, ISU, and Baylor will support the proposition, even if it means more publicity for Texas and less revenue for them, because they get to stay in a major conference. Basically, if the Big 12 stays together, Texas' advantages in the conference will double and everyone will be playing second fiddle in terms of revenue and publicity. The conference might as well be called the "The University of Texas Conference +9 other schools that stand no chance." Even OU will lose out in the deal. Fair? No. Sustainable for the long-term? Not at all. If this goes through, the Big 12 (or ten or whatever they name it) will be raided in due time once again.

I posted this on the College Forum but thought I would post it here as well. Houston Bellaire star and A&M basketball signee Tobi Oyedeji passed away last night in a bad car accident following the Houston Bellaire High School prom. http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/93893324.html Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends.

A&M basketball signee Tobi Oyedeji passed away last night in a bad car accident following the Houston Bellaire High School prom. http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/93893324.html Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends.

A&M did not hit a SINGLE jumpshot the entirety of the second half or overtime and missed seven free throws out of seventeen. Not to mention the Red Sea defense at the end. Ags gave this one away, and they know it. Turge did a fantastic job this season, though. Losing Elonu to the draft and losing Roland early this year really forced him to make some adjustments and play freshmen in spots that we'd rather not put them. Then Dash Harris busts his arm up late in the year and can't bend his wrist enough to get a good shot off. To be honest, in late December I was ready to call it a year and didn't think we'd make the tourney. This team showed a lot of heart and exceeded a lot of expectations. Can't wait for the freshmen class coming in next year...a whole stinking lot of athletic big men.

Kudos to OU for playing a pretty challenging non-conference schedule. A&M can't really say the same thing.

In my opinion it is a work of an anti-Christian and possibly Satanic-cult group. The way the churches are set on fire has been very clearly designed to deliberately send a message. In many of the churches the altar is flipped upside down and a Bible has been lit on it to start the blaze.

I misspelled Kragthorpe in the title...I caught it before YOU did :) What a great offseason for the Ags in terms of bringing in top-flight assistant coaches. Mike Sherman added former Tulsa and Louisville head coach Steve Kragthorpe to coach wide receivers and has hired Nick Toth to coach outside linebackers. Kragthorpe is widely known as an offensive guru and was A&M's offensive coordinator from 1997-2000. As a head coach he revitalized Tulsa's offense into one of the most potent in the country before replacing Bobby Petrino at Louisville, where he did not fare so well. As far as offensive minds go, Kragthorpe is considered one of the best in college football. Sherman will still be the offensive coordinator and will call plays, but as was the case last year, developing the offense and gameplanning will be a team effort between all the offensive coaches. Nick Toth is a young fireball of a coach and was hired away from The Citadel where he helped transform a lackluster defense into a solid unit last year. Toth is considered by a lot of people to be an up-and-comer who will be a major D1 head coach one day. We'll see how it all works out, but with the additions and subtractions from the staff, especially on the defensive side of the ball, there's good reason to be excited about what's going on in Aggieland.

There are indeed people in prison who understand redemption and justice. We hear the word "prisoner" and so often think very negative thoughts. This just goes to show you can't judge a book by the cover or the person by the mistakes they may have made.

Blackwell, Corey Nelson called Coach Sherman last night at 9pm telling him that he was committing to A&M. You don't do that unless you're doing it on purpose to rub it in. OU and their media sources knew all along that he was going to Norman, and he purposefully played it up by denying it over and over again. There's not a doubt in my mind that Brent Venables put him up to it. And yes, that IS the way OU recruits. They are some of the most negative and nasty recruiters out there.

The Aggie basketball team knocked off Missouri in Columbia tonight. They are the first road team to win in that arena since 2008. Play of the game, freshman Ray Turner getting a bit of PT and taking advantage: A&M held the Tigers bucketless for a 10:34 stretch in the second half. :thumbsup:

OR perhaps if you can read, read what I said. If he wanted to go to OU, he had four days to say so after telling the OU coaches was going there and not many would have been surprised. Instead, he pulled a low class, shallow, vain maneuver and lied to everyone around him, including the media and A&M"s coaching staff. Wanting to play at OU has nothing to do with it. It has everything to do with a kid lying to people's faces for his own personal gain. If he wants to go to OU or anywhere else, fine. Just stop telling everyone, including the A&M coaching staff that you're "definitely" going to be an Aggie. He lied to everyone so that he could make a splash on signing day. It has nothing to do with decommitting or signing with someone else, it has everything to do with character.

He apparently called the A&M coaching staff last night and told them he was going to be an Aggie. That is about as low class as it gets.

Corey Nelson has signed a LOI to play football. Not at Texas A&M, where he verbally committed last fall, but to Oklahoma. The last-minute switch was a calculated and cunning move by an 18 year-old and his family that wanted to gain as much media attention as possible. Media reports surfaced that Nelson had agreed to commit to OU over the last weekend, however, he told media outlets on Monday that the reports were entirely false and he was a solid Aggie, even referring to himself as "Mr. Aggie." However, it was all a big sham. He indeed committed to OU over the weekend and intentionally lied (probably at the behest of OU) to the A&M coaching staff and to the media about his commitment. Why? He wanted media attention. Instead of coming out over the weekend and saying that he was in fact changing his commitment, he waited until the last moment to make as big of a splash as possible. In the process, he prevented A&M from recruiting other players and adjusting their class to meet the needs that Nelson was going to fill. This isn't anything new. Ryan Perriloux did this to Texas a few years ago. Highly rated recruits do it every year. I'm not against anyone changing their mind, but this isn't about changing one's mind. This is about intentionally lying to everyone around you to gain as much attention as possible when your lie is revealed. I really feel like the media and these coaches are doing too good of a job in making these kids feel like superstars. The kids start to buy into it and think they are above even the commonest form of human decency...telling the truth. Lying is OK if it gets you media attention. Had Corey Nelson simply said on Monday "I'm going to sign with Oklahoma" I would have been disappointed, but not angry. Even after Nelson's lie became public knowledge this morning, A&M still inked the 3rd best recruiting class in the Big 12. Do you guys think that all the media frenzy has changed recruiting to the point that it is actually doing damage to the game?

Today was a crazy day for Aggie faithful. OUInsider.com (a Scout.com/ESPN affiliate) reported that Corey Nelson, one of the nation's top-rated linebackers, was de-committing from Texas A&M and committing to OU. This set off a tidal wave of rumors and speculation. The report was eventually picked up by ESPN.com and ESPNU, and Ags everywhere were scrambling for information and contemplating whether or not to take the rest of the day off from work to mourn. The only person of interest who didn't know that Corey Nelson had changed his mind was, well, Corey Nelson. He found out he was apparently changing his commitment when he received a text message from a media outlet. Nelson immediately sent a text to the A&M coaching staff and to various media outlets that he was, in fact, still going to be an Aggie and he didn't know how the rumors got started. OUInsider, ESPN, and ESPNU have all retracted their stories...but it sure was a fun few hours in Norman and a dismal morning in College Station. For some reason, Rivals, Scout, and MaxPrep still list Nelson's commitment as "soft", even though he's told them several times he's a hard commit and isn't going anywhere else. Apparently Rivals and Scout don't think a player like Nelson belongs at A&M and are going to run with crazy stories that have him going elsewhere until the day he signs.

The Ags are very excited about this hire. DeRuyter is an intense guy, is a disciple of Dick Lebeau, and runs the Pittsburgh Steelers defense. He is the reason Von Miller is coming back. A&M has also landed 3 or 4 running backs that will be playing linebacker for us when they arrive in College Station. We will be fast and aggressive on the defensive side of the ball and it the goal is to rush the passer and force turnovers.

Good news for the Ags. Might also be giving us a clue as to who the DC will be. The two finalists are Tim DeRuyter from Air Force and Justin Wilcox from Boise State. Wilcox prefers a 4-2-5 alignment while DeRuyter prefers an aggressive 3-4 system. With Miller looking to be an NFL outside linebacker, could it mean that the choice is DeRuyter? Stay tuned.

There is some new information coming out of the search that those who have paid to know it on TexAgs can only describe as some "crazy (in a good way)" changes to the coaching staff. Liucci is reporting the search for the DC position is down to two candidates...yet there's more to it than meets the eye...and that's all I can say. :) Be ready to have one of the best assembled coaching staffs in the country when all of this goes down. If I'm Tech or Oklahoma State I'm very worried after next week. Texas and OU will still get their guys, but A&M is about to become a major recruiting power in Texas after these changes take place.

A plane carrying Air Force Defensive Coordinator Tim DeRuyter apparently landed early this afternoon in College Station. It is likely that he will be interviewing today for the A&M defensive coordinator position. Former A&M DC Phil Bennett is also in the running. However, he has plans to move back to College Station regardless of if he is going to work at A&M. He may end up being a position coach for the Ags.