Aggies' Chancellor Sharp Hosting BBQ for College Station PD

[J.B. TexasEx]

Aggies' beat-writer for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News, Brent Zwerneman, reported last night that A&M's Chancellor Sharp is hosting a "meet & greet" BBQ with aggies football players and Bryan-College Station police departments tonight.  Timing is everything, no?

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Myself and posters on the Shag imagine the meeting going down something like this...

 

[Randolph Duke]

What does the law enforcement side of the equation need to do for the two groups to be brought together with the team? It is entirely a failure of Sumlin to provide leadership and previously hold players accountable. Sumlin fails miserably at providing leadership and the chancellor believes he needs to invite law enforcement over to find some middle ground?! 

The aggy jokes continue to write themselves. 

Chancellor Sharp needs to invite Kevin Sumlin over to his house for a discussion, not the team and/or local law enforcement. 

 

[UTPhil2006]

Are we sure it's not a warrant sweep?

 

[HornNdriftwood]

"His effort to bring sides together."

It's all just a big misunderstanding. I'm sure over a big plate of ribs, they can see eye to eye on this thing.

And afterwards, everybody gets pie!

This is how I imagine it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ0VKv5N21o

OOh, my mama, ain't that Texas cookin' good!

 

[PeteA422]

I think it might be something like this:

 

[Topstarr]

I believe that the area Police Groups have already have been meeting the A$M Football Team and will probably have to bring the team members to the BBQ.

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

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[texasdobbs]

Are we sure it's not a warrant sweep?

I don't care who you are.... that funny right there...

 

[texasdobbs]

Atm is not going to fix this problem until Sumlin is gone.... #discipline

 

[Randolph Duke]

Atm is not going to fix this problem until Sumlin is gone.... #discipline

As long as Sumlin leads the team to an 8-4 record and makes a decent showing in the chicken sandwich bowl, Sumlin ain't going nowhere. The is the greatest time in the history of their program. In 2012, for the first time in 20 years, aggy actually defeated a SEC team. In 2012, the ags won their first significant bowl game in a quarter century and finished ranked in the top 5 for the first time in over half a century. @012 was also the first time since before WWII the ags won bowl game in back to back years. Last year was the first time in program history they won three straight bowl games. 

I don't get how people don't understand that the ags don't care about the arrests. They don't care about the drugs, they don't care about  the bagmen handing out cash. They don't care. The major program to their east (LSU), to the west (Texas) and to the north (OU) all have won national championships in the recent past recruiting from the exact grounds the ags recruit from. They are sick of not being able to have any level of success and they will do whatever they need in order to go 8-4 each season, which to them is outperforming. 

Sumlin isn't being paid to build character or to win championships. He is being paid to beat 4 OOC cupcakes, go 4-4 in conference and make a good showing in some meaningless bowl game. As long as he does that, the ags will look the other way at everything going on within the program. 

 

[streettopeschel]

As long as Sumlin leads the team to an 8-4 record and makes a decent showing in the chicken sandwich bowl, Sumlin ain't going nowhere. The is the greatest time in the history of their program. In 2012, for the first time in 20 years, aggy actually defeated a SEC team. In 2012, the ags won their first significant bowl game in a quarter century and finished ranked in the top 5 for the first time in over half a century. @012 was also the first time since before WWII the ags won bowl game in back to back years. Last year was the first time in program history they won three straight bowl games. 

I don't get how people don't understand that the ags don't care about the arrests. They don't care about the drugs, they don't care about  the bagmen handing out cash. They don't care. The major program to their east (LSU), to the west (Texas) and to the north (OU) all have won national championships in the recent past recruiting from the exact grounds the ags recruit from. They are sick of not being able to have any level of success and they will do whatever they need in order to go 8-4 each season, which to them is outperforming. 

Sumlin isn't being paid to build character or to win championships. He is being paid to beat 4 OOC cupcakes, go 4-4 in conference and make a good showing in some meaningless bowl game. As long as he does that, the ags will look the other way at everything going on within the program. 

i respectfully disagree. ask emory bellard if 8-4 is good enough. he took over a shit program, went 8-3, 10-2, 10-2, 8-4 and was fired the next year mid-season at 4-2.

Slocum averaged 9-3 for 14 years. they ran him out of town.  they're delusional. they THINK THEY'RE ONE OF THE BIG BOYS.  they THINK they can be texas, lsu or ou and eventually 8-4 won't be good enough.

 

[Randolph Duke]

i respectfully disagree. ask emory bellard if 8-4 is good enough. he took over a shit program, went 8-3, 10-2, 10-2, 8-4 and was fired the next year mid-season at 4-2.

Slocum averaged 9-3 for 14 years. they ran him out of town.  they're delusional. they THINK THEY'RE ONE OF THE BIG BOYS.  they THINK they can be texas, lsu or ou and eventually 8-4 won't be good enough.

The ags still measure everything they do with a burnt orange yardstick. Going 8-4 is no problem for them, because they can crow that their four losses are "against the bestest conference in the country" and that since their level of competition is so much higher that ours, their accomplishments are much more significant. 

To them, going 8-4 in the SEC is being one of the big boys. Sumlin is safe for a while, partially because if they show him the door they eat his entire contract and partially because by aggy standards, 8-4 and a bowl game is beyond anything they have done in the past 20 years. 

If no one has said anything about the arrest problems at aggy yet, they don't care. Sumlin is safe, even factoring in any Stansbury indictment and adding on a half dozen or so more felony arrests. 

 

[streettopeschel]

Duke...i think we're saying to different things.

No, i don't think arrests will get Sumlin fired. Yes, Sumlin is safe 'for a while'. but, 'a while' has a shelf life. Bellard was easily thier most successful coach since the Junction Boys. They thought they were better than they are. never underestimate aggy delusion.  

 

[texasdobbs]

As long as Sumlin leads the team to an 8-4 record and makes a decent showing in the chicken sandwich bowl, Sumlin ain't going nowhere. The is the greatest time in the history of their program. In 2012, for the first time in 20 years, aggy actually defeated a SEC team. In 2012, the ags won their first significant bowl game in a quarter century and finished ranked in the top 5 for the first time in over half a century. @012 was also the first time since before WWII the ags won bowl game in back to back years. Last year was the first time in program history they won three straight bowl games.

I don't get how people don't understand that the ags don't care about the arrests. They don't care about the drugs, they don't care about the bagmen handing out cash. They don't care. The major program to their east (LSU), to the west (Texas) and to the north (OU) all have won national championships in the recent past recruiting from the exact grounds the ags recruit from. They are sick of not being able to have any level of success and they will do whatever they need in order to go 8-4 each season, which to them is outperforming.

Sumlin isn't being paid to build character or to win championships. He is being paid to beat 4 OOC cupcakes, go 4-4 in conference and make a good showing in some meaningless bowl game. As long as he does that, the ags will look the other way at everything going on within the program.

I get that some don't care... but my point is that Sumlin is the problem with all the discipline issues and it will not change until he is gone... but then it might be a way of life by then. This crap is going to catch up with him eventually if it does not change. When parents start saying you can't have my young man and I'm going to send my son to Charlie. ...

 

[Randolph Duke]

I get that some don't care... but my point is that Sumlin is the problem with all the discipline issues and it will not change until he is gone... but then it might be a way of life by then. This crap is going to catch up with him eventually if it does not change. When parents start saying you can't have my young man and I'm going to send my son to Charlie. ...

The kids that are flocking to play for Sumlin are as likely to decide Texas as their next best choice as they are to pick Juiliard.
Sumlin offers online Ag Leadership classes instead of attending classes, no ramifications for failed drug tests, multiple second chances with no suspensions for being arrested and a very loose atmosphere at practice. Those who are attracted to that are not going to be interested in what Charlie Strong has to offer.

 

[Matt Cotcher]

Good to see Sharp is using the ol' jedi mind trick on the BCS police force....

 

[Etex Horn]

ESPN's "College Football Live" tonight pulled no punches on Sumlin and Aggies. Mentioned dismissal of Claiborne and Golden, departure of numerous members of their 2013 class. Andre Ware: "Sumlin has definitely lost control at A and M". I expect such dialogue from posters here at HornSports...but from an ESPN panel (none of whom are UT exes) that is nationally televised? Ware even ridiculed the necessity of the bbq meet and greet between football team and local law authorities. I had thought that was a joke anyway, didnt realize it was a real event. The panel was pretty harsh on Sumlin and the Ags. Like I said, I expect that here on this site, but on an ESPN panel? Wow.

 

[Randolph Duke]

ESPN's "College Football Live" tonight pulled no punches on Sumlin and Aggies. Mentioned dismissal of Claiborne and Golden, departure of numerous members of their 2013 class. Andre Ware: "Sumlin has definitely lost control at A and M". I expect such dialogue from posters here at HornSports...but from an ESPN panel (none of whom are UT exes) that is nationally televised? Ware even ridiculed the necessity of the bbq meet and greet between football team and local law authorities. I had thought that was a joke anyway, didnt realize it was a real event. The panel was pretty harsh on Sumlin and the Ags. Like I said, I expect that here on this site, but on an ESPN panel? Wow.

The ags don't care in the least what other people say. Sumlin went 8-4 last year and they were so thrilled the gave him a raise to $5 mil/yr. If/when the Stansbury indictment comes down, the press will continue to pile on and the ags still won't believe they have any problem.

 

[J.B. TexasEx]

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