Welcome to Farmers Fight!

"Farmers Fight!" is where I will keep my Texas A&M Athletics stuff, as it doesn't really flow well with the soccer and personal stuff that I post on my other blog, Implausible Dreams.

To be sure, once a top quality program for A&M football was probably an Implausible Dream, but now? Especially after last night's wood-shedding of Steve Spurrier and the South Carolina Gamecocks, it really is hard to look someone in the eye and say that A&M isn't a budding elite program. Success is really not very implausible.

So here we are, at the start of Kevin Sumlin's third season, and he has fired a massive shot across the bow of the rest of the SEC and even the national football powers. "You better bring it. From the first minute. Or what happened to South Carolina will happen to you."

Hell, what must Nick Saban be thinking? Mr. "You took 10 years off my life" now has to rethink how serious he is going to have to take the Aggies, just like a lot of people - not the least of which are those on TAMU's schedule right now. No, folks, it really wasn't all just Johnny Football, although clearly he was a special player and brought some amazing things to the game and the University.

But he was just one of 80+ players. A very very very unique one, but just one. It took the entire roster - everyone pushing each other to be better, to be bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, quicker - to give A&M the 20-6 record over their first two seasons.

And now you see that it is Sumlin and his amazing staff that made all that happen. Talent is necessary, but so is coaching. What you see at A&M right now is a melding of the greatness of both.

What does that mean? It means that A&M is going to be in the top half of the SEC, and will continue to improve. I will talk more later about details, but the bottom line is this - I am not saying this is a national title contender. Too much football remains, and for the 2014 team, it might be a bridge too far. What I am saying, though, is that this is not going to be the No. 6 team in the SEC West, this year or any year in the near future.

Gig 'Em!