Texas A&M Burning Under Mike Sherman

Former Texas A&M assistant and ex-Green Bay coach Mike Sherman returned to the Aggies a year ago vowing to restore Aggie pride, dignity and accountability to the once proud program. But in less than two complete seasons, Sherman doesn’t seem close to his promise. This will certainly be a tough week in Aggieland after A&M fell asleep against Kansas State and did not wake up until the mediocre Wildcats had pulled off a 66-14 rout in Manhattan, Kan., Saturday. And as crazy as it sounds, the score wasn’t anywhere as close as it appears. The Wildcats led 38-0 at halftime and were up 59-0 in the third quarter before the Aggies started putting points on the board. A&M, which breezed through its first three cupcake non-conference games has now lost three straight and you have to wonder if the Aggies will win again this season after Saturday’s embarrassment… Now the question is how long before Sherman gets his butt kicked out of College Station. The message boards and phone lines are blowing up after what could be the Aggies’ most embarrassing loss in years. Sure there have been some bigger margins of defeat to say … Oklahoma. But Kansas State? And a bad Kansas State squad that has struggled to identify a quarterback in Bill Snyder’s return from retirement, at that? – Fan House

Mike Sherman Under Scrutiny at Texas A&M

If recent scores are indicative of the immediate future, Texas A&M will lose by 100 points on Saturday at Texas Tech. That’s not likely to happen, of course, but then nothing seems out of the realm of possibility after Kansas State led the favored Aggies 59-0 early in the third quarter on Saturday night in Manhattan, Kan., en route to a 62-14 victory. Only a week earlier, the Red Raiders had destroyed the Wildcats 66-14 in Lubbock. Meaning there’s a 100-point swing between the two games, with the Aggies set to pay a visit to Tech at 6 p.m. on Saturday. “We just didn’t handle the adversity in the game real well,” a mystified A&M coach Mike Sherman said in trying to pinpoint exactly what happened at KSU. “Things just snowballed on us.” And now Sherman, in his second season, is under severe scrutiny from a fraught fan base for an awful showing against a team that wasn’t supposed to be as talented as A&M. He understands as much, following the Aggies’ most embarrassing game since they lost 77-0 at Oklahoma in 2003 in Dennis Franchione’s first season. – Express-News