Texas A&M great Jeff Fuller reflects on storied career in Aggieland

One of the most productive receivers in Texas A&M history, Jeff Fuller leads the Aggies all-time in career receiving touchdowns with 34. The former wideout joined Friday's edition of TexAgs Live to discuss his time in Aggieland, his 1,000-yard season and much more.

Key notes from Jeff Fuller interview

• I was being recruited as a sophomore. I'll never forget taking that trip down to Texas A&M with my dad. Coach R.C Slocum wasn’t the coach at the time, but I got to meet him then. Receiving that offer was amazing. I remember going back to McKinney as a big man on campus.
   
• I ended up committing somewhere else, and with Mike Sherman, I remember Cyrus Gray and I joked about who he called first, but I'm pretty sure he gave me the first call. I won't ever forget that recruiting trip and hanging with Jerrod Johnson. It was pretty fun.
   
• I was kind of a hoop dreams kind of guy. I remember moving to McKinney and getting into football, just starting my freshman year, and I had been playing basketball before that.
   
• It’s crazy because I remember my mindset during that process. If you told me I was doing that well when I was actually in it, I wouldn’t have believed it. I remember that attention to detail because I came from a running offense in high school, and I remember Coach Sherman coming in, and it was a pass-first offense. Just staying in the books and learning it, and taking advantage of opportunities, is what got me there. I wouldn’t have expected to have so much success early. I think an advantage I had was that I came in early and played spring ball, but I definitely wasn’t ready during the spring.
   
• I always remember wanting to play basketball. After playing ball myself, you start hearing more and more about my dad’s career and kind of put the pieces together after you’ve played your own career, but no, it didn't have a huge influence. He played safety, and I was able to meet Ronnie Lott, Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, which was fantastic, but at the time, I was a basketball player.
   
• As far as talking to the guys at A&M, I think playing receiver is like an endless craft. I would tell the receivers to master their craft every day. I remember being at the point of having a good season. The mindset was like, even after a good game, it didn't feel like you had the greatest game.
   
• As far as coming to A&M as a recruit, it's the best school in the country. I’d tell guys to get behind the 12th Man. Go visit the campus and see what the culture is about.
   
• I didn't even know that I was the first to reach 1,000 yards. I attest to hard work and dedication while I was there. We had guys like Johnson, who’s a coach with the Texans. There was a point in time when it felt like he was just forcing me to throw the ball every play.
   
• There were so many opportunities that when the ball was in the air, I had as many opportunities to make a play on it. There were no jitters when the ball was in the air. I just wanted to go up and get it.
   
• The 2010 season, man, you have guys like Ryan Swope, Von Miller was there, Gray was there, Christine Michael, Ryan Tannehill, Johnson and Eazy Nwachukwu were there. It was a really fun time. I remember a huge influence was our strength and conditioning coach, and it felt like the seasons we did well were when we had high expectations for ourselves and no one else did.
   
• I feel like Mike Elko is a players' coach. You can tell the guys are really rallying behind him. I think one of the biggest things was being in-house and not having that much hype around us. We were all locked in on the same goal. I think we did our greatest when no one around knew how well we were going to do. I can tell right now that they are cooking something up.
   
• I’m a general manager at a solar company out here in Dallas. Hopefully, A&M invites me back this year, but every year, I try to play in the spring game… I’d love to come join you guys in the studio. I love College Station.
   
• I can’t stand Texas. It’s really funny. We got our butts beat pretty bad by them a couple times, but we made sure to get in the end zone. I took it personal.