Aggies-Longhorns coming soon to a parking lot near you | Bohls

Former Texas A&M head football coach Jackie Sherrill gave Aggies bragging rights over the Longhorns (briefly) and is fired up about the renewal of this fierce rivalry.

WACO — Jackie Sherrill fired a warning shot across the bow of the Longhorns on Saturday night.

But it wasn’t the first time.

Remember, the controversial, outspoken former Texas A&M head football coach early in his tenure with the Aggies in the early 1980s famously pointed out that their opponents “had better get their licks in now.”

He said it with the clear message that Texas and the other Southwest Conference opponents might have the upper hand on A&M when Sherrill took over in 1982, but that wouldn’t last forever.

And it didn’t as his Aggies took control and won three straight Southwest Conference titles and beat the Longhorns a record five straight games, a streak that extended to six in a row after he was forced out at College Station. Over his seven seasons, the Aggies went 52-28-1 and finished as high as sixth, 12th and ninth over a three-year span.

Jimbo Fisher, he was not.

A&M got in its shots for sure, and the robust, 80-year-old Sherrill, fresh off hip surgery, rather fittingly is celebrating the return of one of college football’s best rivalries, come November, after Texas joins the SEC in July and the two sides renew a blood feud that began in 1894 and has been played 118 times.

“This game is deserving of the state of Texas and also deserving of college football and deserving to be a national television game,” Sherrill said. “I’m excited about it. But I’ve always said I’d play Texas in a parking lot if I had to.”

To which former Longhorns quarterback Colt McCoy pointed out a couple of hours later at the banquet in remarks directed right at Sherrill, “I don’t think you want that right now.”

And just like that ……

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Author : Austin American-Statesman

Publish date : 2024-04-14 19:57:42

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