According to the NY times, J-Train has weight issues and his year-old daughter's love of Chuck E. Cheese isn't helping. WTF? Is there a Chuck E. Cheese in College Station? If there is I am going to be mad. All the time I wasted at Gatti Town could have been well spent at Chuck E. Cheese. Stupid Gatti Town and their stupid lack of giant animatronic mice.

[UPDATE] I just looked it up. THERE IS A CHUCK E CHEESE in CS! It is in the mall. I lived across the street from the mall. DOH!

"Uber-athlete"/running back Sam McGuffie of Cypress Cy-Fair will announce his commitment on Friday. His list is down to Michigan and Texas A&M. This kid is FAST (4.32, and has perfected the jump-over-the-tackler move. Check out his highlight reel.

As impressive as that running is, so is the blocking. In half of those runs McGuffie has blockers 10 yards down field. Can we bring some of those guys too?

What are Tech players saying about us?

Defensive back Joe Garcia

They get better every year. They’ve got talent, they recruit talent, they’ll always have talent.

Wide receiver Danny Amendola, on the Red Raiders’ run of five victories in six years over A&M

“They’re a good team, they always are and we expect that this year, but we’ve had our share of success against them.”

Here are some pics (via the 12th ManChild) of the new Adidas uniforms:
And yes, those are silver pants... sigh.
And the new Maroon Out shirts (again, thanks to the 12th ManChild for keeping me informed):
I have NO CLUE what is on the back of the shirt. The text says "Home of the 12th Man" and the graphic appears to be some sort of bird, or wings, with a human head at the point where the tips of the wings meet. Anyone know what that the graphic actually is? or when the class council started dropping acid?

Here is a pic of Acie in a NBA summer league game...If this is a real picture, I cannot imagine how the play went down. The only thing I can think of is that either the dude who is getting a face full of D or 21(Pops of GW) was very confused about where the screen was going to be set. So Pops went hard, and the other dude stopped short. I will ask Acie how it all went down, he has great baseline seats for the game.

I am not sure the pic is real. Unless they are playing without a ball (not pictured) and Pops has had his arm amputated above the wrist.

I just got this email...

The Texas A&M Women's Basketball Team is coming to DC to play George Washington on December 20. The team will be in DC from Dec 18 to Dec 21. In addition, the Traveling Aggies as well as folks for the Association plan on bringing students and fans from outstide the DC area to the game.

How about that! The Aggies will be playing in my backyard. Anyone making this trip?

Here is my (late) contribution to the Aggie Round table, Be sure the check out what the rest of the gang had to say: The 12th Manchild, Off Tackle, and Texas A&M & Baseball.

1. Which game on the schedule scares you the most?

Tech. Always Tech. In CS, in Lubbock, on Mars. It will stay this way until we beat them at every sport every year and drive them back to where they belong, irrelevancy.

2. Coach Fran: Is he really on the hot seat this season?

Normally I would say a DI coach is ALWAYS in the hot seat a year after getting his ass handed to him in a bowl game. But we won in Austin.... Ya, the win saved him last year. This is a new year. His seat is hot. He better win out and home and bring back a bowl win.

3. It's game day in Aggieland and you're on campus tailgating. Where are you? What's in your right hand, and what's in your left hand?

Here is where I admit that I am part of the problem. I don't tail gait. I know, I know, visitors judge our fan-quality by the acreage of drunk BBQ buffets and over-aged/out-of-shape touch football games. But tradition is tradition. So to answer the question: I am at the Dixie Chicken with a cheese burger in the left hand, a cup of beer in the right, and an annoying kid who to is way to young to be playing pool in a bar to my front and center while his father is reliving the glory days via spoken word to a not-so-interested-in-playing-42 wife.

Anyone want to invite me to their tailgate this season (Louisiana-Monroe and Texas)? La-Mo is a 6pm game, so I think I can wake up in time to satisfy the tradition then walk my ass clear across town to a tail gait. I might not make it if there is a Play Station 3 trailer in route. Please send all appearance requests to my assistant at Aggie.Sports at gmail.com

Our 07-08 basketball schedule has not been released, but you can add mighty Emporia State to the list of home games. This will be the "sixth straight year ESU coach David Moe has squared off with Mark Turgeon in exhibition action." How weird is that? It is one thing for Wichita State and Emporia State to play each other every year, they are only 90 miles apart and in Kansas you take what you can get. But to keep that game up when it is a 600 mile trip, that is strange.

The media has voted... Texas is their favorite. Shocking. We did get one first place vote. Here is the break down of the 1st place votes:

North
1. Missouri - 16
2. Nebraska - 8

South
1. Texas - 16
2. Oklahoma - 7
3. Texas A&M - 1

Of the 24 voters, only one of the anonymous voters picked a dark horse. That is terrible. 4 of the 12 teams received all but one vote and two teams received 3/4 of the votes. What happened to making an interesting pick? I would love to see how far these guys had Duke going in last season's NCAA basketball tournament.

As pointed out by jcandy, the athletic department's web site finally posted a story about the Adidas deal. No numbers yet, but it does say it is 7-year deal. Looks like their "compression banding" (wtf?) that really impress $Bill and NOTHING to do with the fact that Nike would not match Adidas's offer.