In 2011 Mike Sherman came into the year with a solid roster and lofty pre-season expectations. He was coming off a slow ascent from 4-8, to 6-7, to 9-4 and despite not being perfect he had shown promise as a head coach of A&M as they closed out their time in the Big 12 and moved to the SEC.
The 2011 season was a total shit show and resulted in Sherman getting fired. Everything that could go wrong did, and it was capped off with him losing the last game against UT at Kyle Field.
And sure it wasn’t just that we lost games, it was how we lost games, but I think there was also a thought that we couldn’t go into a new conference with a lame duck head coach who we had lost faith in.