If I was an a&m fan............

[Marcus Bryant]

Oh yes, Mack could've stopped it, but he didn't want to...

[Cant_Be_Faded]

marcus you're playing dumb, it's all about keeping the enemy in the dark

is a&m our enemy? no...it's USC, and it has been all year. In past years, i would have got scared when a&m kept that game close, i would have been scared cuz Texas is known for blowing games like that...or at least was known. Vince Young has defied so many expectations, including mine, I never thought he'd become the player he is now, I thought he'd be a typical one trick pony..and the defense is living up to the fans' wildest dreams

Texas is just really really really good this year, and probably will never be this good for a very very long time. When aggies kept it close i swear I didn't even yell bad things or talk aggie trash or anything, i kept total composure, cuz there was no doubt in my mind that if this kept up, Mack would finally let the dogs out and put this to an end.

AND HE DID.
no fourth quarter points.

that's one fourth of the game you realize
Texas had 3 scoring opportunities that quarter alone and seized two of them.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

There's no shame in admitting a&m is just an inferior team. It's called being realistic.

[Marcus Bryant]

Mack used some mind control techniques to force the Aggies into going for the pass on 3rd and 2 in the red zone and planned the sack and fumble instead of handing the rock to Lane.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

5 minute drive, 67 yards, mcgee fumbles due to the massive heat put on him in the form of Roderique Wright.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

In the end, it comes down to three options:

1) Aggie's offensive line was really incredibly bad ass, but waited until the last game of hte season to show it

2) Texas' defense was really bad ass, but did not show up last friday until the 4th quarter of the last regular season game

3) A&M gave Texas problems due to the dynamics of matchups, schemes, etc

I think number 1 is pretty implausbile, number 2 is what I believe in, and I don't believe number 3 because I've seen teams try some of that before and it didn't work against us.

[mookie2001]

I think because it was a "one possesion" game peoples chodes exploded a little
they werent down by 2, the chances of them scoring a TD then converting for 2 pts, then holding Texas, then winning in overtime were very slim

although what else can you say
the ags played great and lost by 11 at home
they were happy and so was I

[Mr Dio]

atm never really had a chance to win that game

maybe next year

seriously doubt it.
maybe in 2 yrs back @ cs.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

There a difference between a QB trying to execute an offensive scheme that the coaches themselves can't grasp, much less teach (McNeal, the spread option), and a QB carrying out a highly simplified scheme (McGee, the scaled-down running option).

I guess you missed McGee running the spread option at times in the game. Nice try though.

Dude I was at the game, there wasn't one sign of Texas players or coaches being rattled.

Well, I was watching it on ABC and the tv folks were all but breaking out the telestrator to draw circles around Vince's pouting, depressed little head on the sidelines.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

marcus you're playing dumb, it's all about keeping the enemy in the dark

is a&m our enemy? no...it's USC, and it has been all year.

You're the dumbass.

I'll clue you in as you apparently don't watch a lot of football: USC has run the option about zero times this year.

I'm not sure what dark you're planning on keeping them in, but I don't think it's gonna work out too well for you.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

So a defensive scheme to better protect the strong side of the field automatically only works against options?

There is no shame in admitting your team was inferior. Yall lost by 11 at home and you proclaim blasphemy, I'm just looking from the other side of the box at the same result.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

gutless gutles ags

[samikeyp]

The Ags kept going back to the same play because it worked. McGee was a stud. Looks like the Ags have their QB of the future.

[mookie2001]

^he's almost like the ag savior...or a white jesus

[Mr Dio]

I don't think VY will be as bored with the Buffs as he was in the anm game. He looked so bored & never got into a groove. On tv he looked like he was trying to remember the name of a restaurant he ate at in LA this past Jan.

Not bad, 40pts in the worst game of the yr & the last 2 times UT has won by under 3 TDs they came back to score in the 60s I think.

CO is cooked.
USC is going to be a good game.

[Mr Dio]

Wow, with over half the 3rd qtr left VY looks as bored as he did in the ag game.

[hussker]

Hahaha!

[Kdfelicity]

But apparently if I go through my day without consciously observing the effects of my whiteness on others and feeling guilty about it, I am a racist.

Apparently, according to some liberal who told me this, since black people must consciously cope and adjust to the white society around them, if I am not consciously working to cope and adjust to the norms of black people, I am a racist.

So I'm left to wonder, is every white person who is not a left-wing social science professor a racist?

Wow sounds like my class exactly. Only if we don't observe the same, then we're racist and we have to admit it or we can't make a good grade in the class. So yea we all are racist looks like...

[SWC Bonfire]

Well, I took a week off to travel to India, climb into the mountains and seek the advice of a wise sherpa. He told me thus:

"Though it may seem as though you have decended into a lower level of with the current A&M programme (he was educated in the UK and spells like a Brit), the net result is that it is a positive for A&M football if Texas wins the contest betwixt USC and itself. Then, when the Fighting Texas Aggies beat Texas in the future, they not only beat the team, but they will beat the name. The weight among poll voters will be shifted accordingly for all Texas teams, as wins over the university in Austin will count for more, and close losses will not be penalized as much in the polls.

"Also, sipping tea is bad for your teeth. Look at the British."

Is that all, wise sherpa?

"Not all, my friend. All is not lost. Texas-Texas A&M series is still only tied in your lifetime. Now live well, and do you have an IT job for my son in America?"

Thank you, all-knowing sherpa, I feel better now. Now I can mourn the passing of A&M defensive coordinator and get on with my life.

[mookie2001]

it wouldnt even THAT be stupid to annoint McGee as the savior...
IF Reggie McNeal would have sucked really bad
but he was good, and even if youre really optimistic and say McGee is going to be as good or even better, the ags will still suck

[SWC Bonfire]

THE SECOND COMING OF BUCKY.

[Mr Dio]

If McGee plays with anywhere near that intensity in the future & gets 2-3 players on each side of the ball to be as fired up as he is, that would make the ags quite a force.

[hussker]

If McGee plays with anywhere near that intensity in the future & gets 2-3 players on each side of the ball to be as fired up as he is, that would make the ags quite a force.

I agree, as long as those two to three players on each side of the ball are O-Linemen...He is tough, but I am not sure how much of THAT punishment he can take game in/out.

[mookie2001]

the problem is, come gameday, youve still got Fran as your coach

[Extra Stout]

Wow sounds like my class exactly. Only if we don't observe the same, then we're racist and we have to admit it or we can't make a good grade in the class. So yea we all are racist looks like...

My black coworker was trying to explain to me how integration was racist because it destroyed the black middle class and black social infrastructure.

Or, at least the way integration was done was racist because of the assumption that blacks were being "allowed" into the "superior" white society.

He was saying that integration should have been done more slowly so that black business owners could take advantage of newfound civil rights to get bank loans and such so that their businesses could compete on equal footing with white-owned businesses. Instead, we did integration real quick-like and they all went out of business.

Example: the baseball Negro Leagues. Everybody lauds the addition of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers, but nobody ever thought about making the Kansas City Monarchs or Homestead Grays Major League teams.

I think if we can figure out a way to say that racism can be as much a result of just cluelessness as of hate, then we'll get somewhere. Because I don't hate anybody, but I don't get it either.

Except in College Station. Those crackers are hopeless. Good luck with Stephen McGee, you redneck honky hillbilly Aggies.