A&M Follies

You gotta love R.C. Slocum.

Isn't that right, Aggie fans?

Last week, R.C. decided that his quarterback was the reason his team has one of the worse offenses in the country. He decided the backups should play. Yes, backups. Several of 'em.

Of course, that didn't really fix the problem.

That's okay -- it must be the fault of the offensive coordinator!

So R.C. demoted him to quarterbacks coach, and promoted the wide receivers coach to offensive coordinator.

Never mind that if the quarterback play was so awful in the first place, it doesn't make much sense to put the guy who was coordinating the sorry effort in charge of the quarterbacks. Never mind that the receivers coach has never been an offensive coordinator. Never mind that it's just not that easy to make wholesale changes to an offense in midseason (just ask former Oklahoma coach John Blake, who tried to run the spread one week, the wishbone the next, and finally ran himself out of town). Never mind reality, when you are R.C. Slocum.

R.C. Slocum remains the biggest problem with the A&M offense, and after his latest meddling this season, he's going to have an even harder time attracting any decent assistant coaches to A&M to try and fix the mess he's created over the last few years.

I can't help but wonder how much longer R.C. will be around, especially since Robert Gates seems determined to install his own man (perhaps not a "good ol' boy") as Athletics Director.

(09-26-02 Update) The Dreadful Chron seems to think R.C. is showing decisive leadership. I wonder if they recycled that piece from a press release? I do wish we had a decent newspaper in Houston.

[Posted at 21:32 CST on 09/25/02] [Link]