Originally Posted by
The Historian
The Texas A&M games was one of the biggest fails, if not the biggest fail, in the FBS era at Tech. The game should have never been scheduled.
You and others who posted that summer were correct in that we never have success against A&M. And then, at the last minute, to put them on the schedule the year we had a schedule that gave us a red carpet walk to a BCS bowl game was not only a bad decision it was a horrific decision. It was tempting fate. It cost us dearly.
Had we just told A&M thanks but no thanks we would have kept Lamar on the schedule and then played them on opening weekend at some point, either before or after the threat of the hurricane. That would have given us the open date we so desperately needed that year to get healthy and rest the team. Instead, we scheduled A&M and then, because of weather, moved the game to the weekend of our only open date. Sonny tried to move the Idaho game the following week to the end of the season (which Idaho agreed to), but our administration nixed the idea.
Again, it was a horrific decision to even schedule that game.