Editor’s note: This is the first of 15 posts leading to Texas A&M camp, which starts on Aug. 10. The players report on Aug. 9.
COLLEGE STATION – When media covering the Southeastern Conference again picked Texas A&M sixth in the seven-team SEC West this season, Aggies fourth-year coach Kevin Sumlin noticed. Sort of.
“They’ve picked us last or whatever, I don’t know,” he recently told a gathering at the Houston A&M Club coach’s night. “Shoot, I don’t care. They pick us wherever, and the whole time they’ve been wrong every year.