Is aTm a sleeping giant that was awoken by move to the sec??

Man you look at the commitments Texas A&M is getting right now, coupled with the down couple of years of texas, you can't help but wonder how good this team could become in the SEC. Kevin Sumlin is a very good coach and a gret offensive mind, if they were to go out and hire a top notched defensive cord. this team could be flat out scary!! What's your thoughts on that bhelm?

 

Tiger Bait

 

I'm not understanding how aTm can have 33 verbal commits, does anyone know how many they can bring in this year?

 

I think you are absolutely correct. Manziel is the spark that has ignited an inferno, but Sumlin will keep the fire going. All of east Texas is fired up about A&M and the SEC.

 

Maybe, but teams that score as fast and as often as they do, will never have a statistically great defense. They will be constantly be on the field, no defense can hold up forever. I think this all boils down to Manziel coming out of nowhere to make them good. If he wasn't there, they may have won 6 games. Beating Bama made them "real" in a lot of people's minds.

 

In my opinion to answer your question directly. Yes, without a doubt. Everyone understands the state of Texas as being a fertile recruiting ground, well prior to this year TAMU was always the little brother that really didn't have much to offer over UT. Now that is definitely not the case. With the allure of playing for your state, and now playing in the best conference in the country, not by a small margin but by a ton over the Big 12 and you add in that TAMU went 10-2 in it's first year in the Conference and is playing in the Cotton Bowl and UT is playing, oh yeah where they lost the Alamo. Oh and TAMU just added a Heisman trophy winner that will be at TAMU for the next 2 years minimum. It is called the perfect storm and the name of it is TAMU.

It is bad enough we have to battle Bama every year, now adding TAMU to the west it is going to be very interesting going forward both on the field and in the recruiting wars.

 

Arkansas and Auburn will reemerge as strong contenders also. In a normal year neither of them would be an easy W as they were this past season.

 

I'm not real sold on arkansas but auburn should be back, arkansas is kind of a every 3 or 4 years relevance type of team.