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Chris Landry on Texas A&M's Special Season · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Andrew. Landry Football dot Com is the website. Make sure to find
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  him on Exit Landry Football. Chris, I hope you had a great Memorial
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  Day weekend. How are you, sir? I'm doing good, Jack,
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  How you doing doing well? All right? So we're talking through Let's go
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  college and then we'll talk a little NFL. In the second segment, we
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  got you know, the spring meetings slash summer meetings. It's talking season.
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  Spring practice is over, transfer portal for all intense purposes over. I want
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  to start out in the state of Texas. Texas A and M coach Mike
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  Oko said to Bret McMurphy this week, quote, we have the base to
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  be really really special. And I just felt a collective eye roll across the
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  Southeastern Conference when that was said. What did he mean in Ken Texas,
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  A and M be really really special? Well, I don't know what I
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  mean. I'm going to tell you what I think he meant, which is
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  what you're looking for. And I think he probably means because he's been there
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  before, the same thing we've always said about it and M. It starts
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  with, uh, if you think about programs in what you need, programs
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  that maybe are not real successful. What do you need? What do they
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  need to get successful? Well, a fan base that's not only supports it
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  has the passion, but puts the money in the program. Well, check
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  they've got that. Facilities that are going to be, as you know,
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  certainly competitive with anybody in the country. Check they've got that. They've got
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  those things. Uh. In fact, that's where the collective eye rolls come
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  in. Well, they've always had the money, they've always done this,
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  but they've never won. So that is a little bit of a unique challenge.
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  Still better off than those that don't have the financial resources and are limited.
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  They've got a low ceiling. A and M's got a high ceiling.
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  They've just never even come close to. I mean, they basically have performed,
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  performed like they're in a cross space. They just don't they don't accomplish
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  what nearly what their potential is Mike alcol gonna be any different? I don't
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  know, I really don't. I do think one of the things that they've
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  gotten away from was all right, we're going to beat great because we've got
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  all this money and man Anil's built for us. Well as we know,
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  even in the world of nil, you better know what you're doing, and
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  you better spend that money correctly. It's kind of like we talk about these
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  rich athletes and I was thinking about this today or the other day with Antonio
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  Brown. I'm sure you heard about it, and then think about this and
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  this Okay, made eighty eight million dollars and he filed for bankruptly claiming he
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  has no more than fifty thousand assets. That's a perfect example of riches but
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  doesn't know what to do with it. And I've seen a lot of that
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  in my career with players, well, with the Aggies as an example of
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  yeah they got a lot of money. Yeah they brag about what they can
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  do, but they've never been real productive and utilizing that money. Well,
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  that to me is maybe what he's saying is, look, we've we've in
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  a different way. We've got the resources and the potential. We just got
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  to do a better job with it. I thought what they have done,
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  they became a little bit more of we're gonna sell you on the idea you
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  come here and you're gonna make money. Well, then they realized if players
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  are coming for money, they're going to leave for a dollar more and they're
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  not going to be committed to being in your program. You still need the
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  money, but you need them to come for the reason of wanting to be
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  a part of your program. And oh, by the way, you're gonna
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  get paid well through nil. And I think what they did is they they
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  got guys to come because of the money, and they didn't stay because they
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  weren't committed to the program. And I think what Mike Alcohol has been commissioned
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  to do is we need to get back to Aggie's and you know, sell
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  that and the Aggie spirit and all that, you know, Harry high school
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  stuff. I get all that, but they need to get more of that.
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  And oh, by the way, the money's going to be there,
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  but you need to get guys that want to stay and development. I think
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  that's what he means, and that's what he's trying to get to