In the last three weeks the relationship between the Aggie faithful and Mike Sherman has become unstable and hard to watch, causing me to feel sorry for the Aggies and root for them for the first time in my life.
With Texas A&M’s 62-14 loss to a Kansas State I am still scratching my head. I have been an Aggie optimist all season, but there is no excuse for an A&M football team to lose like that to a team like Kansas State under any circumstance. I don’t care how young the players are, how bad the athletes are or how much of a “work-in-progress” the Sherman project is.
It is Mike Sherman’s second season as head coach and I am not expecting the guy to compete at the top of the conference. I am, however, saying that getting embarrassed and humiliated by Kansas State is not acceptable and should not be accepted or justified by any supporter of the Texas A&M football program.
I have stood by the statement that Sherman isn’t the coach that is going to take the Aggies where they want to be (realistically or unrealistically), but I thought that he would at least show some improvement this season before the Aggies blowout loss to Arkansas in Arlington.
Last week the Aggie faithful accepted a moral victory and were encouraged after a five point loss in College Station to an Oklahoma State team without its two best players on offense, but that optimism was wiped-out after Saturday’s loss to Kansas State. The Wildcats made the Aggies look like an early season, cupcake non-conference opponent instead of a Big 12 team with good recruits and great facilities.
It is very apparent that Sherman isn’t the guy that will take the Aggies to where they want to be, but at this point I wonder if he can even take them to the level where Dennis Franchione had them.
Some Aggies are remaining patient with the Sherman experiment, a total 180 from the stereotypical Aggies train-of-thought. It is ironic that the fan base notoriously known for its unrealistic expectations has now become a naïve fan base where mediocrity is justified and underachieving has become part of a “bigger plan.”
Mike Sherman has a lot of the Aggie faithful brainwashed, just like a sweet, innocent girl who is madly in love with her lowlife boyfriend.
After years of hating the Aggies for their unrealistic expectations, I now find myself feeling sorry for them and rooting for them to do well because of their recent acceptance and justification of mediocrity.
It’s because he has aggie street cred! If he was an outsider it would be different.