Congrats to the Red Raiders for dominating Eastern Washington. I am still completely stunned by the Aggies' first loss of a home opener since my freshman year at A&M. That was a 1987 loss to LSU. We won at home the following weekend against Washington (not Eastern), and also beat Brett Favre's USM team in Hattiesburg, and finished the season with a Cotton Bowl win over Notre Dame. We went on to finish the season 10-2, the only other loss at the hands of who else....Texas Tech, 27-21 in Lubbock. I long for those days, when we gave up 161 points the entire season.
The Arkansas State loss yesterday may be the single most embarrassing loss in A&M history, including 1991 Tulsa, 1995 Texas Tech, 1996 USL Ragin Cajuns, and 2004 Baylor. Those were all road games against reasonably (relatively) respectable opponents. There's just no way to spin this one, and I'm the Aggie spinmaster. Four CRITICAL turnovers, two missed field goals, and the defense gave up over 400 yards at home, blowing a 14-3 lead. Completely pitiful. We are definitely not ready for a road game, but I expect to see a lot of Jerrod Johnson next weekend in New Mexico.
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Well Joe, I think all of us with Red and Black feathers can certainly understand your feelings. We've been scratching our heads over embarrassing losses more times than we care to remember. Maybe that's why there are always so many flasks in the stands.
I think you have a young team and a new coach, and they have to learn to work together- just like Sarah Palin's daughter and her boyfriend will have to make their shotgun marriage work.
But I'd love to see you rally soon and have a respectable season, beat Texas and put up a fight so Roosterbowl is a fight to the finish!
Thanks Fletch. I am sure we will lose some more shockers and have some surprise wins. It's just going to be one of those years.
nice to see nothing has changed in aggyland - Sherman blamed the terrible kicking on Hurricane Hugo.
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