00:01Ah, yes. That music is starting to get to that time, huh?
00:05I know what it does to you, this music.
00:08Right around the corner.
00:09Yep. Now it means Big Ten instead of the SEC.
00:11Easy. Everybody relax.
00:13I'm just saying.
00:14Everybody relax.
00:15I'm just saying the SEC made the move away from CBS.
00:18This is the CBS music.
00:19Now it's the Big Ten.
00:21Big Ten's over there now.
00:23Now it means Indiana, Ohio State, and Michigan are about to play instead of Alabama and Arkansas.
00:29Yeah.
00:30You heard Craig Bowlerjack say, touchdown Arkansas in the middle of that.
00:35Sorry, Craig.
00:37Before we get there, because this will be fun,
00:41and I want to see how people will be honest about their universe
00:45and a little thought of where does your school belong.
00:52I do want to send a shout-out to my man, Desmond, who I saw today at HEB.
00:57He came to me and said, you got that Chiefs hat on.
01:05That's got to only be one person.
01:07You've got to be that man that works on the radio.
01:10I said, what's up, baby?
01:13As I was getting some groceries at HEB.
01:16So shout-out to you, Desmond.
01:17Appreciate you for stopping by.
01:20He said he's been listening to us ever since I got in town and a big fan of the drive.
01:24So we appreciate you.
01:25Shout-out to you, Desmond.
01:27I saw him earlier.
01:30I don't know if this happens to you, Clinton Tyler.
01:32Tyler gets recognized more than anybody.
01:34I don't know if it happens to you.
01:36Guy just catch you, just stare you dead in your eyes.
01:39But for longer, you can tell they're trying to figure out, I've seen this Joker before.
01:45Who is he?
01:46Who is he?
01:47It's either somebody plotting your assassination or they know you.
01:51We were in the juice aisle, and that's where I first spotted him.
01:55He stared me right in my eyes for five seconds, and I could feel him still looking at me.
01:59And then he came up behind me while I was checking out.
02:02That's what my man said.
02:03That's got to be you.
02:05So shout-out to you, Desmond.
02:06Appreciate you.
02:08Again, anytime you see us out, especially Tyler, stop by.
02:12Say what's up.
02:13Say hello.
02:14I think you should have gave him one of them old high school locker room back of the neck slaps.
02:19I think that's what should happen.
02:21I think that's what should happen.
02:23I'm not sure that would have gone over well.
02:24Could you see Ron looking at the –
02:26This is a guy on my 42nd birthday was telling me that I need to move away from confrontation.
02:33Yeah, you need to change his –
02:34That's a conflicting message.
02:35You need to move away from his AAU habits.
02:39He changes AAU habits.
02:41Yeah, just a friendly little old –
02:44Tap to the back of the neck.
02:45You know, just one of them got you.
02:46No, I thought our connection was good.
02:50I thought that was –
02:51It wouldn't be so good if old Desmond –
02:54Random Des walked up and popped you, huh?
02:56Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:57Appreciate you listening, though, champ.
02:58He had a St. Louis hat on, so we were doing the same thing, same thing.
03:02All right.
03:03Where does your university –
03:05Where does your school belong?
03:08We have somebody who nobody loves or breaks down or watches college football as much as Clint Sterner here at
03:14this station.
03:15And I think we're in three categories here, Clint.
03:20Is your school in the hold up the gold trophy in Vegas?
03:25That's where the college football championship game will be.
03:29Is that the expectation that your school is in?
03:32Is your school in the place of, hey, college football playoff.
03:36That's it.
03:37That's the expectation, right?
03:38It's 12 of them.
03:39Is that where your school is?
03:41Or are you just in the AAUs better make a bowl game?
03:44Now, we're really not going to go over teams that we're looking to get to four wins or something.
03:48That's not what we're doing.
03:49And I'm not saying that that's the Razorbacks.
03:52It's even my team out there, huh?
03:53I'm not saying that.
03:55And I like for people to be honest with themselves.
03:58And, Tyler, I think if we're going to do this exercise and we're going to do this with a lot
04:02of the schools that people care about around here, I think we stay with A&M.
04:06I mean, that is a fan base that sometimes I wonder if they know exactly who they are.
04:12Fair to wonder that and fair to talk Maroon and White any time, man.
04:16A&M last year, obviously, they made it to the playoff last year, 11-2.
04:23And they got in and they lost to the eventual runner-up, Miami Hurricanes, at home in a tight game.
04:33Failed to score a touchdown.
04:35That's all right.
04:35I didn't mean to bring that back to you.
04:36I just got to explain what their season was.
04:38Just calm down just a bit here.
04:40Marcelle Reed, their quarterback returns, who had a really good season last year.
04:45Other offensive guys returned.
04:48Almost had 1,000 yards last year as a receiver.
04:50They've lost some guys on the offensive and defensive line to the NFL.
04:56Concepcion, they lost to the NFL as well.
04:59Clinton Tyler.
05:00A&M enters the season with a projection of win totals that range from nine to ten games.
05:07And they are ranked in the top ten.
05:10The back half of the top ten, usually around nine.
05:14Mike Elko returns.
05:18What tier should they be in, Clint and Tyler?
05:22I'll go with Tyler first.
05:24Should they be in, hey, this is a season where we expect to hold up the gold trophy in Vegas.
05:29Is this a just make it to the college football playoff?
05:32That's our expectation.
05:34Or better make a bowl game.
05:35Where do you see A&M coming into this year?
05:39Well, y'all tell me if I got these old maroon blinders on.
05:43Because it's always possible.
05:45I think Clint will tell you.
05:45But, no, I think Texas A&M absolutely should be in the very tippity-toppest tier that we have in
05:53this discussion.
05:54They should be...
05:54Hold up the gold trophy.
05:55Yes.
05:55Not just make the college football playoff.
05:57Yes.
05:58Beyond that, hold up the gold trophy.
05:59Yes, because it is time for this program to finally live up to what it should be and all the
06:05expectations that are there for them going into any given season, lately at least.
06:11I mean, Mike Elko's got the program for Texas A&M on the right track.
06:15Been moving in the right direction, taking the next step each year, kind of getting further and further.
06:21They haven't gotten to that ultimate goal.
06:23But, no, they need to be right there where they were last year, but on that, maybe not crap all
06:29over themselves in the college football playoff.
06:31All right.
06:32Clint, Tyler has them in the top tier, hold up the gold trophy in Vegas beyond what they did last
06:38year.
06:39You look at this, your thoughts, where would you put them?
06:42Do you agree with Tyler?
06:44You put them in the expectations to be that.
06:46I do not.
06:47I do not.
06:47I put them in the college football playoff expectation.
06:51I think it's unrealistic, with the exception of a couple of schools, to put them in the hold up the
06:57trophy.
06:57You know how.
06:58I mean, look, if you get to the college football playoffs, anything can happen once you get there.
07:05And if you get there, you've accomplished something in a big, big way, if you're anybody.
07:10And I think that's where A&M should live.
07:13And they should have college football playoff expectations.
07:16I think those would be fair, real, not delusional expectations.
07:20Right?
07:20You look at A&M this year.
07:22They've got, according to Field Steel, they've got the 28th toughest schedule in college football.
07:28It's in the lower half in the actual SEC.
07:30The SEC schedules are an absolute monster.
07:32I think they've got 13 of the top 15 hardest schedules in college football.
07:38But I think the Aggies have got a respectable schedule up there.
07:45They finish with an absolute bang with four of their last five games, or include Alabama, Tennessee, OU, and Texas.
07:52So they're going to have a rough fourth quarter of the season.
07:54But check this out.
07:55They start out, they've got basically a three-week ramp up to LSU.
07:59No disrespect to Arizona State out there.
08:01Love Dillingham.
08:02But the reality of it is, is they've got to come to college football, and A&M should have significantly
08:10better dudes in Arizona State.
08:11They've got a three-week ramp up to LSU week four.
08:15Right?
08:15And then beyond that, they should go into that Alabama game six and one.
08:20No worse than six and one.
08:21And that one would be LSU.
08:24Right?
08:24No worse.
08:25They should be seven and O or six and one based on what they do.
08:28They've got a lot of their games on the road.
08:29That's the other part is.
08:31Where's that LSU at?
08:32Well, no.
08:33LSU is at LSU.
08:35Yeah.
08:36But when you get to that fourth quarter of the season, they go to OU.
08:39They go to South Carolina.
08:40They go to Alabama.
08:41They get Tennessee at home and Texas at home.
08:43But the reality of it is, is whatever problems they have.
08:47They lost some offensive linemen.
08:48They lost some defensive linemen.
08:49Okay?
08:50You should be able to fit.
08:51If you're A&M, right?
08:53And you are developing players, recruiting and developing the way that you should.
09:00Recruiting is all-encompassing.
09:02The NIL and transfer portal all-encompassing.
09:04One of the top programs in America.
09:07You should, within a month of the season when you first face LSU, you should have your O-line and
09:11D-line figured out.
09:12Whatever wrinkles, whatever kinks are there, you should have that figured out and be 6-1, if not 7-0,
09:18going into that fourth quarter of the season.
09:19And they should be a college.
09:21If you're not in the college football playoffs, you should be extremely disappointed.
09:26I am a...
09:28Give it to me straight, man.
09:29Give it to me straight.
09:30We're clearly past the better make a bowl.
09:32That's not where they live in.
09:34Now, we're talking firing people at this point.
09:37Text line coming in.
09:38I'm an Aggie 92 grad.
09:40Matt, love Tyler, but agree with Clint.
09:42Can't say we're top tier until we actually do it.
09:45Well, no.
09:46I mean, it's different.
09:49I'm saying it's time for them to actually do it.
09:52But I hear...
09:52I agree with that.
09:53I agree with that.
09:54It's time for A&M.
09:55I mean, you got...
09:56You are winning in an era of football where most schools are losing.
09:59I just...
10:00Clint, I just...
10:01When I say it out loud, everybody's losing people.
10:05Yeah.
10:06But you got your quarterback back who is now multiple-year starter and was flirting in
10:13the Heisman conversation before some things kind of happened.
10:16You're bringing him back.
10:18He's got a receiver that nearly went for 1,000 yards.
10:22One of the best in the country.
10:23They've got from the portal to guys coming in.
10:26No, damn it.
10:26And I think the expectation should be beyond where they were last year.
10:34And I do think...
10:36And there's a part of this, and maybe this is unfair, that damn it, if Indiana is going
10:40to walk up in here and grab the trophy.
10:43I mean, there's a part of it...
10:44They're coming back with each year, Clint.
10:48You think about it.
10:48If I can come back with a quarterback that's been in my system that's been a starter for
10:51multiple years, that has not just been a starter, but been really good, and we're bringing some
10:57other parts around them, and we feel like at A&M, they should be able to replace offense
11:03and the defensive linemen in a manner that other schools around them can with the guys
11:09and the money and everything they have there.
11:12I know it probably screams college football playoff, but they feel like it should be past
11:19that.
11:20I feel like if I'm an A&M, I'm like, man, if I don't believe they should go to Vegas
11:25and be playing in that game, I don't know.
11:28Yeah.
11:29With what we do have coming back in this era of college football.
11:34So I'm in the...
11:37You know how I am, Tyler.
11:38I've told you.
11:39I feel like A&M don't know who they are sometimes.
11:41I feel like in this case, we'll get to Texas at one point.
11:45I feel like I got a feeling where most people are going to go with Texas.
11:48I feel like the A&M should kind of feel the same way with what they're bringing back
11:55from a college perspective.
11:57That schedule thing is a good point.
11:59But wait, just go see Texas schedule.
12:01Yeah, it's up there, too.
12:02It's tough.
12:02If it's an SEC schedule, it's a monster.
12:05Well, last year, A&M got help with their version of their A&M.
12:09But my hogs had the toughest schedule in America this year.
12:12Yeah, y'all did.
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