Good Bull Hunting · Sep 29, 2022
Is Texas A&M actually underachieving relative to their recruiting?
Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty ImagesEditor’s Note: We know that asking whether Texas A&M is underachieving just three weeks removed from losing to Appalachian State is remarkably poor timing, but this is analysis at a macro level over several years, which isn’t discounted by one game’s result (no matter how embarrassingly bad that one game was).
Texas A&M’s recruiting is in the news once again after the somewhat surprising commitment of the nation’s top defensive linemen, David Hicks, and much of the public discourse following that commitment seemed to fall into two buckets:
The Aggies are cheating (we aren’t even going to address that one)
It doesn’t matter, they’ll continue to underachieve