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This just in. According to this article on Yahoo Texas A&M is now known to the nation as the third-best team in Texas. Texas Tech, now the second best team in Texas, can also boast having the coach with the best quotes. “Sometimes a pirate can beat a soldier”, Mike Leach told reporters after the game. This leads me to believe we may have stumbled upon the first coaching blunder by both teams’ coaching staff, as the coaches apparantly do not know they are coaching 18-20 year old football players. With that being said, much scrutiny has been placed upon Texas A&M as of late, with emphasis upon the questionable coaching of Gary Darnell and Dennis Franchione.

Darnell hails from Western Michigan, where he led the Broncos to back to back MAC West division championships. Upon assuming the defensive coordinator position at A&M, Darnell became the proud parent of a defensive unit that finished, for all intents and purposes, dead last in Division I-A NCAA football. A defensively minded team that had finished in the top ten in at least one major defensive category for 28 years finished last in pass defense in 2005. Ironically, Darnell’s former team, the Broncos of Western Michigan, were next to last.

Texas A&M Dennis Franchione is on the hot seat more than ever. He’s fired one defensive coordinator and now it’s questionable whether the change to Darnell works for him. We shall see.