alexrgct
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Make no mistake about it: the Aggies may have a very good WBB team, but A&M is a gigantic mess right now.
Their athletic director, Bill Byrne, was tasked with announcing that A&M was terminating its football coach Mike Sherman. Note that he didn't support Sherman's hiring to begin with. He also didn't support his termination at this juncture. He's the AD and didn't get much say in hiring the most important coach on campus.
His own contract is set to expire in 18 months, and it's an open secret it's not going to be renewed.
Let's keep going, shall we? After Robert Gates vacated the Presidency of A&M to become Defense Secretary, A&M brought on a very bright Hispanic woman. She, God forbid, wanted to reign in the athletic department, which had to borrow $17 million from the university in order to remain solvent. She was ousted and replaced with the bowtie-wearing chauvinist nincompoop they have today.
Rick Perry and the Aggie board of regents are running the show there. They're the ones who decided to move A&M to the SEC. This was a move the athletic department generally didn't support. The CFO of the AD was recently outed on TexAgs.com for posting on the site and calling A&M's president a putz.
So in the midst of all this silliness, they now have to make the most important football-related hire they've had to make. Targets appear to be Kevin Sumlin of Houston and Larry Fedora of Southern Miss. Not terrible hires, but neither have proven they can get it done in big-time conferences.
Just thought some people might be interested in hearing the mess A&M's WBB team is leaving behind in College Station as they head up to Hartford.
Oh, one more thing. Sherman is about to sue A&M because the president didn't bother to sign his contract extension and are trying to use this as an excuse to screw him out of an extra $3 million that was in the buyout clause of the new contract. UConn at its worst never was this much of a mess.
Their athletic director, Bill Byrne, was tasked with announcing that A&M was terminating its football coach Mike Sherman. Note that he didn't support Sherman's hiring to begin with. He also didn't support his termination at this juncture. He's the AD and didn't get much say in hiring the most important coach on campus.
His own contract is set to expire in 18 months, and it's an open secret it's not going to be renewed.
Let's keep going, shall we? After Robert Gates vacated the Presidency of A&M to become Defense Secretary, A&M brought on a very bright Hispanic woman. She, God forbid, wanted to reign in the athletic department, which had to borrow $17 million from the university in order to remain solvent. She was ousted and replaced with the bowtie-wearing chauvinist nincompoop they have today.
Rick Perry and the Aggie board of regents are running the show there. They're the ones who decided to move A&M to the SEC. This was a move the athletic department generally didn't support. The CFO of the AD was recently outed on TexAgs.com for posting on the site and calling A&M's president a putz.
So in the midst of all this silliness, they now have to make the most important football-related hire they've had to make. Targets appear to be Kevin Sumlin of Houston and Larry Fedora of Southern Miss. Not terrible hires, but neither have proven they can get it done in big-time conferences.
Just thought some people might be interested in hearing the mess A&M's WBB team is leaving behind in College Station as they head up to Hartford.
Oh, one more thing. Sherman is about to sue A&M because the president didn't bother to sign his contract extension and are trying to use this as an excuse to screw him out of an extra $3 million that was in the buyout clause of the new contract. UConn at its worst never was this much of a mess.