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  • It is bad when a ranked Aggie basketball team loses to an unranked team in a virtual home game in Houston, as the Ags did when they fell 84-81 to New Mexico Saturday evening. It is even worse when both basketball teams fall, as the fifth-ranked women's team was upset by unranked TCU. Not a good day for Aggie basketball.
  • Mark Ingram's selection as the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner shows that when there isn't an overwhelming favorite for the award, the voters will revert to choosing the best player on what is ostensibly the best team. It is hard to believe Ingram is the best player in the nation when he isn't even the best player at his position.
  • texas fans may be scrambling to use what they view as Colt McCoy's Heisman snub as another comparison to the 2005 national champion team. The difference is, McCoy has been shut down several times this season, while Vince Young only had one bad game in 2005. McCoy isn't the same kind of physical freak that you feared to play against because of what he could do on the field as Young is, so there really is no worry about him getting 'revenge'. It would be similar to Chris Simms' infamous 'list'.

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I'm beginning to think....

That Colt must have done something bad to you personally – every statement, remark, observation you make is hatin on Colt. Good grief, just because he went to Texas doesn’t mean he is the devil incarnate. If you truly knew anything about football, you would at least understand what kind of player he is and how much he has mean’t to the Longhorns. I understand this is an aggy blog, but at least try to put up some semblence of objectivity – no matter how much it pains you. Otherwise, you come off as simply petty and without credibility.

Hook em!

by littlelonghorngirl on Dec 13, 2009 7:27 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Credibilty?

What did he say that wasn’t true? Maybe if you really paid attention to football, you would realize that Jordan Shipley is the most important player on your team and should have been up for the hypesman not McCoy?

by miketag on Dec 14, 2009 3:51 AM CST via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

I am beginning to think...

….that you have a very unhealthy obsession with Daniel McCoy because you wildly overreact to anything you perceive as criticism of him.

Here is a suggestion: when you think someone has said something unfair, or is “hatin” on Daniel, then explain why it is unfair. Meaning: cite some numbers, stats, etc., rather than just make a vague statement that he is a good player, as that sort of a retort is utterly meaningless.

As you have failed to construct one single argument as to why anyone on this blog has been unfair about McCoy, it is your credibility that is the lowest; not beergut’s or anyone else’s here.

by FuturePants on Dec 14, 2009 9:29 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

How about this..

1. He QB’d an undefeated team that is playing for a national championship.
2. He passed at a 71% completion clip
3. He was the leading rusher of the team
4. He was voted Collegiant player of the year.
5. He won the Johnny Unitas award for the nations best QB – voted on by coaches!

(How is my credibility now?)

That’s just a few I can think of – I won’t even bring up his body of work while at The University – that’s documented in the record books.

I have never argued that he was the most deserving of the Heisman – frankly, last year was better and because he had that year it has become the guideling of excellence for him. He SHOULD have won the Heisman that year!

My comment was not an argument for the Heisman, it’s against the virtriolic frenzy by which you aggys (and one corn shucker) demonize him. IF you were truly objective, you would take off the maroon shades, quit drinking the farmer koolaid and admit you would had an infinitley better team WITH him than the one you wound up with.

Instead, you are reduced to smirking about hurting him enough to be carted off the field, slinging praises about your “game statistics” and crowing about your QB who has never even had a winning season!

And, just in character alone, Colt would be a man you would be PROUD to have your daughter marry – an intangible that made him a great team leader.

So, for all you aggys out there – try to be a little less critical of me and hope your coach is able to recruit a player that is HALF of this young mans ability and character!

Hook em!

by littlelonghorngirl on Dec 14, 2009 12:40 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Reply Fail

Winning an award – any award – does not prove anything; it’s evidence of a solid season, but proof that he is a top player, it is not.

Your other arguments are essentially team arguments. A QB doesn’t compelte a pass without a receiver and doesn’t win without the whole team. 13-0 is extremely impressive, sure, but is that attributed to Daniel alone? You’d be a retarded idiot to think so.

I don’t think anyone here has ever made any argument that Daniel has a bad character. You’re just being silly. Your credibiliy would get higher if you started actually reading and responding to the comments people are making about Daniel, rather than citing imaginary ones.

Not to mention that a player’s “character” doesn’t make him talented at football. I’m a pretty good guy. Do I deserve a Heisman Trophy? Does being a good guy mean that nobody is free to criticize anything that I do?

Daniel had a solid season, but all the criticisms levied against him on this site are generally accurate. You just take all of them personally and react in a very illogical and emotional way. Saying that his completion % is low for the conference on passes over 15 yards is not an attack. Comparing his performance to JJ’s when Daniel faced the worst defense in the conference and JJ faced the best, and concluding that JJ had the better game is not an attack.

You confuse arguments with some kind of personal attack on you or on Colt, then you react by saying we are unfair, are drinking the “farmer koolaid” (whatever that means), and aren’t viewing things objectively. Then, even stranger, you attack our use of statistics as unfair. How is citing numbers unfair or biased? It seems to me that stats are about the most objective way to look at something.

Also, if you are a UT student or UT grad, why do you spend so much time on this blog and the OU one? Why don’t you just go to BON and call it a day?

Also, learn how to press the “reply” button.

by FuturePants on Dec 14, 2009 2:54 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I get it now

“Winning an award – any award – does not prove anything; it’s evidence of a solid season, but proof that he is a top player, it is not.”
I always thought they presented these kinds of awards to the best – I was unaware it was only for a “solid” season. So the 4 Heisman finalists were really only there for their “solid” seasons – stupid me.
Your insinuation that I might be a retarded idiot may have some merit – I always thought the QB was the cornerstone to the team – like you have said of JJ and the aggys.

“Not to mention that a player’s "character" doesn’t make him talented at football. I’m a pretty good guy. Do I deserve a Heisman Trophy? Does being a good guy mean that nobody is free to criticize anything that I do?”
You DO understand the difference between character and talent do you not? Talent racks up statistics – character wins championships! As far as you are concerned, since you bring yourself up as a reference – have you ever QB’d an undefeated major college team? As a music major, I doubt it.
“It seems to me that stats are about the most objective way to look at something.”
How about this stat – 13 -0? By-the-way, Coach Boom says this is the only one that counts – anything else is for losers!

“You’d be a retarded idiot to think so.”, “You’re just being silly”, “Also, if you are a UT student or UT grad, why do you spend so much time on this blog and the OU one? Why don’t you just go to BON and call it a day?”
Attack me? Of course you haven’t!

You are right – I will vacate this blog and leave you alone – it’s obvious by your inane remarks that you can’t handle an opposing viewpoint!

by littlelonghorngirl on Dec 14, 2009 10:43 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

God you're an idiot.
I always thought they presented these kinds of awards to the best

Naive.

So the 4 Heisman finalists were really only there for their "solid" seasons

Yes, and because they were on teams that had exceptional records.

I always thought the QB was the cornerstone to the team – like you have said of JJ and the aggys.

Post a link where I said that. Because I have not.

You DO understand the difference between character and talent do you not? Talent racks up statistics – character wins championships!

Yes, I understand the difference. Character is not talent, and character does not win anything. I have good character. I am not winning the Big XII in a football game. It’s obviously you who does not understand the difference. You seem to suggest that character is just more talent.

As far as you are concerned, since you bring yourself up as a reference – have you ever QB’d an undefeated major college team? As a music major, I doubt it.

Music major? Not in college, honey. And you have illustrated my point: character does not equate with winning a football game. Talent does. Are you starting to understand the difference yet?

Attack me? Of course you haven’t!

But I DO think you’re retarded and being silly. What’s your point? My argument was that I have not (and nobody else has) attacked Daniel McCoy’s character.

Bottom line: you aren’t an opposing viewpoint. You are arguing that we are saying things that we simply are nont saying. You’re just being silly. If you had a rational thought or viewpoint, then lay it on us. Instead, you just freak out and respond in irrational ways, which is not fun for anyone.

by FuturePants on Dec 15, 2009 11:19 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Why are we calling Colt Daniel?

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by KWashburn on Dec 15, 2009 5:59 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Because his first name is Daniel. Colt is his nickname. If his mother wanted him to be named Colt, she would have named him Colt or Colton or perhaps Colt45workseverytime McCoy. She named him Daniel, so calling him by his first name is proper and right.

by ambivalent on Dec 15, 2009 6:07 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

So why does the aggie fanbase call Jerrod Johnson "JJ"?

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by KWashburn on Dec 15, 2009 6:48 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

It’s easier to type an abbreviation than his full name. The same reason some people refer to Daniel McCoy as “CM.”

by ambivalent on Dec 15, 2009 7:24 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

From what I can gather......

You are doing this to slight the guy.

" Answers -- Become Resources."
Without Questions; There are limited Resources...

by KWashburn on Dec 15, 2009 8:00 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

How can calling someone by their name possibly be a slight? I’ve never met him in my life; I am not so presumptions to call him him by his nickname as though we are on familiar terms. Unless he has told everyone in public to call him “Colt,” then no one is doing him a slight by calling him by his given name.

by ambivalent on Dec 15, 2009 8:16 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

This is the first time I've heard him called Daniel.

I think it’s slighting due to the fact that everybody else in the football nation calls him Colt. I don’t understand why you would call him by a name that nobody refers him as. Therefore, it seems to be a knock or a slight. I don’t care what you call him to be honest, just thought it was odd.

" Answers -- Become Resources."
Without Questions; There are limited Resources...

by KWashburn on Dec 16, 2009 2:15 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

It's his name.

I’m calling him by his name. Get over it.

And you honestly have never heard of someone abbreviating a name by using initials? Seriously, dude?

by FuturePants on Dec 16, 2009 9:32 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Is your name Future Pants?

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by KWashburn on Dec 19, 2009 6:51 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Of course its a small slight

Just like saying tu or misspelling aggie. Its just one of those things you do to poke at a rival. But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter because the best degrees in Texas are from A&M, UT, or Rice, and that’s what really matters.

by the12thman11 on Dec 16, 2009 9:43 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I would love a finance degree from A&M at this point...

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by KWashburn on Dec 19, 2009 6:51 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I’m going to assume you’re being sarcastic. And with a finance degree from anywhere right now you’re pretty much screwed.

by the12thman11 on Dec 19, 2009 10:40 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

yes, I'm being sarcastic.

I agree, one would be screwed with a finance degree….

" Answers -- Become Resources."
Without Questions; There are limited Resources...

by KWashburn on Dec 19, 2009 11:21 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

point #3 is patently false

he is not the team’s leading rusher this season, a fact that you would know if you ever looked at the team stats

Craig Krenzel quartbacked an undefeated team to a national championship; did that make him the best QB in 2002?

If you can’t objectively look at the 2008 season and determine that Sam Bradford of OU had a better season than McCoy, I don’t know what to tell you.

As I have pointed out before, McCoy would not do well on this A&M team the last two seasons b/c of the poor OL play; we saw what McCoy does with a bad OL in 2007. This isn’t vitriol, it is an opinion based on hard facts from McCoy’s past performance. To say we would be better with McCoy than Jerrod is hyperbole and you showing your own bias, particularly when Jerrod has performed better than McCoy in similar circumstances.

by Beergut on Dec 14, 2009 6:08 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

YOU SIR ARE WRONG

i guess your forgetting that colt is from a town of 700 people! or the fact that he likes to fish and hunt with jordan shipley…….hmm i wonder how many people are from houston (jj’s home town)…….i bet he cant even hunt…(dont know how you can call hm a qb if he cant hunt)….so much for your argument that colt cant play unless he has stellar oline play….. my facts are hard and my truth is overwhelming

by wishiwasalonghorn on Dec 14, 2009 9:20 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

my facts are hard and my truth is overwhelming

Sounds like my…

wait this is a sports blog.

by the12thman11 on Dec 15, 2009 5:48 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I heard he was Shipley’s roommate too

by miketag on Dec 15, 2009 10:05 PM CST via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

Since this is your blog

I had to address the hypocrisy of it. You chastised me for getting “personal” in my comments and stated that personal attacks are not approved.

I will be interested in seeing what you have to say to the little music major (future pants) about his personal attack on me. Although I think your football team is incredibly mediocre, I have always admired A&M’s traditions, for the most part, and their perceived sense of honor. We’ll put this to the test with your reply – if you have one!

“God you’re an idiot.” “But I DO think you’re retarded and being silly.”

by littlelonghorngirl on Dec 16, 2009 8:34 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

You have revealed that...

…you are incapable of formulating a logical or factual argument, you flat out make information up, and you say that we said things that we did not. That means that you are an idiot. Sorry.

by FuturePants on Dec 16, 2009 9:33 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

You are getting ridiculous - whoever you are

Do you go through life like this? When someone disagrees with you they are just idiots and retarded? COLT, not Danial, just made first team all American on the AP poll – last I heard this is an honor presented for the best in his position – NOT for a “solid” season – which, by- the- way makes YOU sound like an idiot!
Also, his mother AND father named him Danial but they both call him COLT – I promise you I know more about this than you do. Actually, it appears I know more about football than you do.
Also, I don’t really think you are an Aggie – just a wannabe (Beergut is right, I use aggy just to irritate him).
You, sir (I think) have taken this blog from good natured jibes to a nasty level of personal attack!

I do believe you hate the Horns – and I also believe you ain’t too fond of the opposite gender either (lwhich makes your name of “future pants” a little suspect as well).

I suggest, little music person, that you go back to beating your drums or strumming your guitar or blowing something – you seem better qualified in this area – football is out of your league!

by littlelonghorngirl on Dec 16, 2009 12:44 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

that one night in college station

i guess she woke up in the wrong hotel room after the game this year in college station and she never got a call back after that night.

There's something spiritual about baseball — like Mother Nature," Garrido said. "You don't mess with it. And I think before a player can really believe in it, he has to experience it."

by dmurphnextrusygreer on Dec 16, 2009 12:48 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Rodrique Wright made 1st team AA when he had 30 tackles, 3 TFLs and 1.5 sacks. Hardly the best at his position (or even close to being one of the best in the conference). You get those awards based off preseason hype. There was no one in the nation better than Von Miller at getting into the backfield and after opposing QBs. He did not make the first team bc he didn’t get any preseason hype.

by miketag on Dec 16, 2009 1:56 PM CST via mobile up reply actions   0 recs

Much ado about a name...

The Texas offensive linemen call Colt “Daniel.” They say they do it with a humorous intent because he prefers “Colt.” Sort of a way to keep him humble.

I think I once heard him say that his name is Daniel Colt McCoy…so, if you know him, ask him what’s on his birth certificate…just for the record.

I’m sure I’m missing something here…does FuturePants have a special meaning to some protected subgroup?

by MesquiteHorn on Dec 18, 2009 6:22 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Which is utterly ridiculous considering what she has written.

All I ask is that you be equitable, and as the worst I wrote is that I think she’s an idiot, you should take what she has written about me into consideration, because she has written worse, calling me an “idiot,” “wannabe,” that I hate women, that I’m gay, that I give blow jobs and that I’m stupid.

Where’s the equality?

by FuturePants on Dec 16, 2009 4:01 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I stand corrected

For the year 2009 Colt was the second leading rusher – it was 2008 that he lead the team. Since this posting, Colt has made first team AP All America and Player of the year. Now, even if YOU don’t agree with this, the majority of knowledgable football people (including coaches) DO! So, your opinion flys in the face of people that have to make a living coaching football.

If I thought Sam Bradford was the better QB and even though my glasses are slightly tinted burnt orange, I would have said so. In 2008 Colt’s pass completion percentage was INCREDIBLE – above 76%. Now, you may say it was because of the spread system he was playing in – could be – however, Bradford played in the same systam as did 75% of the teams in the nation and THEY were nowhere near his stats. Finally, in a head to head game, and even though Bradford did well – Colt was the winning QB and, as coach Boom says, that is the only stat that really counts. So, my question to you is – where is YOUR objectivity?

You may say that it is hyperbole for me to suggest that Sherman would bench Colt in favor of Johnson – but I find it ludicrous to believe a coach (particularly one on the hot seat as most aggy coaches always seem to be) would bench the winningest QB in the history of college football in order to play your soph QB. Who is not being objective now?

But you are right about my bias – I am – and I certainly don’t agree that Johnson has performed better than McCoy. For one thing, Johnson hasn’t even played in a bowl game that presented the quality of competition that Colt has – mainly because they weren’t good enough to GET into that kind of game. When was the last time the aggys were in a BCS game?

Finally, for the ridiculous assertion, by that other aggy dude, that character doesn’t win championships – tell that to Bucky Richardson. Certainly he wasn’t the most talented QB when he played, but had the guts, will and character to not ACCEPT defeat and he jerked the Aggies up into a mindset they weren’t used to – that took CHARACTER!

As usual – Hook em!

by littlelonghorngirl on Dec 17, 2009 12:59 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

x
as coach Boom says, that is the only stat that really counts

so if he said grass was blue and the sky was green would you believe that too?

There's something spiritual about baseball — like Mother Nature," Garrido said. "You don't mess with it. And I think before a player can really believe in it, he has to experience it."

by dmurphnextrusygreer on Dec 18, 2009 7:53 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

No, why would I?

That doesn’t even make sense.

by littlelonghorngirl on Dec 18, 2009 5:09 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

being the second leading rusher on a team that has only one 500 yd rusher

is nothing to brag about.

McCoy is the second-leading rusher with less than 350 yds rushing; that is pathetic, quite frankly.

As for McCoy making the AP All-America, AP stands for Associated Press, that is the media All-American team, not the coaches’ team. To say that team is made up of the choices of people who make a living coaching college football is patently false, but this isn’t surprising, since you seem to base a lot of your arguments around what YOU believe to be true, instead of the facts.

You say you believe Bradford was a better QB last year (which means you agree with my opinion), then bring up Colt’s completion percentage and then ask where my objectivity is? I don’t see what point you were attempting to make there?

Sherman isn’t on the hot seat, so eliminate that myth from your argument. McCoy struggles to play well behind poor offensive lines, as he showed in 2006. A&M’s offensive line has been mediocre to poor the last two years, but Jerrod has performed ok (2008 season) to very well (2009 season). If McCoy had been playing behind our offensive line the last two seasons, he wouldn’t be “the winngest QB in the history of college football”, and since that is the only fact you can use to prop up your McCoy over JJ argument, we’re finished here. JJ is a redshirt junior, not a sophomore, btw.

As for comparing the competition Jerrod and McCoy have played against, they both play in the Big 12, so they’re facing the same competition. If you want to use one game (the bowl game) to support your argument, fine, but getting to a bowl game is a TEAM accomplishment, not just the accomplishment of one player.

Bucky Richardson was a physically gifted football player, which is one of the reasons he was as good as he was. It is also why he spent a little time in the NFL.

by Beergut on Dec 19, 2009 3:54 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I would be interested

In reading what you wrote in your e-mail to the music major?

I never said that the AP team was the coaches all america team – but since you brought it up – he DID make the American Coaches Association all america first team – do you refute that as well?

You totally understood what I mean’t by Colt being a better player than Bradford – you are just being argumentative.

It has been my observation that EVERY football coach that has worked at A&M the last few years wind up on the hot seat – you guys just don;t seem to ever be satisfied.
You keep saying that Colt was crummy when he played as a freshman – couldn;t have been too bad cause that year surely counted towards his record total wins – your argument fails here as well.

Your apparant disdain for Colts athletic ability is almost obsessive – particularly when you state that Richardson wassuch a gifted player. I have met Mr. Richardson and he is a fine and personable man and would not have played QB on a D1 team without having ability. But it was his character that separated him from the other athletically gifted QB’s that were playing against him. Colt is gifted as well and I can assure you that the NFL scouts hold Colt in high regard as you will see during the draft!

Furthermore, on the subject of talent as opposed to character – Rhett Bomar was supremely talented – where is he now?

Finally, it is just conjecture on your part to suggest that if he played with an inferior team like the aggys that he wouldn;t have done as well. Maybe so, maybe not – maybe the aggys would have played better with him than with Johnson – leadership counts as well!

by littlelonghorngirl on Dec 22, 2009 11:48 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

this might just be

the greatest discuss thread i have seen on here.

haha

There's something spiritual about baseball — like Mother Nature," Garrido said. "You don't mess with it. And I think before a player can really believe in it, he has to experience it."

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