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Armour: Texas A&M assistant coach cost Aggies more than recruit

Immaturity cost Texas A&M big.

I’m not talking about Tate Martell and the highly sought-after quarterback’s announcement that he was dropping his commitment to the Aggies and reopening his recruiting process. I’m talking about what came after. A flurry of tweets by an Aggies assistant so pointed, so personal — so petty — that it caused another player to decommit and a third to scratch Texas A&M off his list of possible schools.

Wide receivers coach Aaron Moorehead apologized Thursday, but the damage — all self-inflicted — was already done.

“I need to do better,” Moorehead said on Twitter, “& I will.