One of the best-known college football analysts in the country, Phil Steele is very high on Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M entering the 2023 campaign. On Wednesday morning, Steele joined TexAgs Radio to explain why he believes the Aggies will be much improved this fall.
https://247sports.com/Article/Texas-AM-football-Phil-Steele-previews-Aggies-2022-season-190036239/Quote:
"In the SEC I rank Alabama the best, Georgia second-best and then clearly No. 3 to me is Texas A&M," Steele said. "All you have to do is look at what Jimbo Fisher has been doing recruiting-wise, I get to talk to coach Fisher each year and going through the team with him and getting that second and third team, wow this team is talented. But I'll tell you what, when I hung up the phone with coach Fisher this year I was like, 'Wow, this is going to be a great team next year.' I think next year when all this inexperience that they have, I mean they lost all four starting defensive linemen, they lost a good portion of their linebackers, the secondary, a lot of the units when I was talking to coach Fisher he would sell them up and say, 'Well, we're inexperienced but we're going to be really, really, really good next year,' and it seemed like almost every position was wrapped up that way. I think this is an A&M team that is poised for a potential title next year, but let's try to keep some of that in the bag for this year. We'll talk about this year's team.
Truly a man ahead of his time!Divining Rod said:
this was his take LAST YEAR (2022):https://247sports.com/Article/Texas-AM-football-Phil-Steele-previews-Aggies-2022-season-190036239/Quote:
"In the SEC I rank Alabama the best, Georgia second-best and then clearly No. 3 to me is Texas A&M," Steele said. "All you have to do is look at what Jimbo Fisher has been doing recruiting-wise, I get to talk to coach Fisher each year and going through the team with him and getting that second and third team, wow this team is talented. But I'll tell you what, when I hung up the phone with coach Fisher this year I was like, 'Wow, this is going to be a great team next year.' I think next year when all this inexperience that they have, I mean they lost all four starting defensive linemen, they lost a good portion of their linebackers, the secondary, a lot of the units when I was talking to coach Fisher he would sell them up and say, 'Well, we're inexperienced but we're going to be really, really, really good next year,' and it seemed like almost every position was wrapped up that way. I think this is an A&M team that is poised for a potential title next year, but let's try to keep some of that in the bag for this year. We'll talk about this year's team.
This is the most next yeariest of all the next years.sleepybeagle said:
Aren't we always going to be good next year?
Divining Rod said:
this was his take LAST YEAR (2022):https://247sports.com/Article/Texas-AM-football-Phil-Steele-previews-Aggies-2022-season-190036239/Quote:
"In the SEC I rank Alabama the best, Georgia second-best and then clearly No. 3 to me is Texas A&M," Steele said. "All you have to do is look at what Jimbo Fisher has been doing recruiting-wise, I get to talk to coach Fisher each year and going through the team with him and getting that second and third team, wow this team is talented. But I'll tell you what, when I hung up the phone with coach Fisher this year I was like, 'Wow, this is going to be a great team next year.' I think next year when all this inexperience that they have, I mean they lost all four starting defensive linemen, they lost a good portion of their linebackers, the secondary, a lot of the units when I was talking to coach Fisher he would sell them up and say, 'Well, we're inexperienced but we're going to be really, really, really good next year,' and it seemed like almost every position was wrapped up that way. I think this is an A&M team that is poised for a potential title next year, but let's try to keep some of that in the bag for this year. We'll talk about this year's team.
