Eh, this isn't the first time I've seen this. It happens all the time. I've mentioned it to people near me in the stands, and they'll respond with, "WELL WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?" like I'm some kind of idiot. But it happens fairly frequently. It'd be cool if they made a rule against it, this isn't soccer.
Love how #23 almost forgot that somebody was supposed to go down. You can see him suddenly remember and jump around to look at the sidelines before going down. That's good stuff.
Cotton 79 wrote to SFA president Dear Dr. Pattillo, I see that you are a long-standing part of the Stephen F. Austin University community (NOTE: the SFA website mentions him being a part of the school for 40 years - Cotton), and I have to believe an honorable member of that family at that. So, it gives me no pleasure in bringing up this subject with you, but I feel it important to do so... to somewhat protect and secure the integrity of your fine university. .
Comments on what Cotton79 wrote to SFA Presdent: Best line in the post "I care about Texas, and I care about the game of football, which our state has so richly engaged for decades." I agree 100% and I'm glad that it was brought up to Dr. Patillo at Stephen F. Austin because this type of play, if indeed it was faked to stall the Texas A&M offense is not a representation of football sportsmanship I want to see in the state of Texas; moreover, in sports period!
Continue'd post from Cotton79 to SFA President I participate in a couple of online Aggie bulletin boards and blogs, and have participated in some of the discussion about this play and the lack of class displayed by the offending SFA players. I finally thought it unfair to hold such a discussion (and ranting at times) without bringing it to your attention as President of SFA. I care about Texas, and I care about the game of football, which our state has so richly engaged for decades.
Continue from Cotton79 During the football game between SFA and Texas A&M University this past weekend, a few Lumberjack defensive players displayed very poor judgment on the field by feigning injuries to ostensibly slow down the Aggie offense, which apparently was moving quickly into a scoring position. Without question, referees of the game must oblige any fallen player, whether the injury is real or not, so the play was stopped. Yet, in the link below it is clear that
Continue'd post from Cotton79 to SFA President Agree with me or not, it just seemed unfair that all this dialog was transpiring in the undercurrent, and I kept thinking that if I were President of SFA I'd damn sure want to know about. So, I did it. I hope Dr. Pattillo speaks to the coach and the football team about it, but that ball is now in his court. At least he knows.
Continue'd post from Cotton79 it was actually coached from the sideline. If you haven't seen it, here it is on youtube: I am an Aggie and proud of it. I am also proud to share the same Texan heritage as you. I am embarrassed to watch this, and I have a hunch that you are/will be too when you see it. I am not naive enough to think that this type of on-the-field behavior has not happened before; in fact, I am quite sure it has.
Continue'd post from Cotton79 to SFA President I am not seeking any feedback or recourse, other than to bring it your attention for consideration. Thank you for listening to me. Good luck to the Lumberjacks this season, and may you perform even better than last year's run in the playoffs. Sincerely, (Cotton79)
I love it how #23 Romeo Robinson from the SFA LumberJackoffs gets up and then jogs off the field....after being suddenly injured while the Fightin Texas Aggies were ramming the ball down there defense. Sad football team....just to take a dive on the field shows no heart by the coach, the player, and the organization.
@jmoface1 - First, FCS teams like SFA, Appalachian State (beat Michigan, 2008) ,North Dakota State (beat Kansas, 2010) deserve an opportunity to play on the big stage sometimes, if they so desire. Second, SFA was a substitute for a previously scheduled D-I opponent, Michigan State.
(cont.) in 1952: ""Long before I entered The University of Texas in 1909 and until about the year 1928 the Aggies had one of the most effective and awe inspiring songs used by any student body any where any time. 'Farmers Fight' at that time was their sacred College song. ... It was to them what 'The Eyes of Texas' had always been to us...". Respect has been longstanding between our universities. You're just ruining "your" school's reputation, nothing more.
@jmoface1 You mean like Texas should be ashamed to schedule Rice. Baylor-Sam Houston, Oklahoma-Utah State, Oklahoma State-Washington state etc. My point is everyone in a prestigious conference wants to start off the season with a victory. that is why there seems to be just lopsided football matches the first week.
Okay even as an Aggie, I'll admit I don't like this practice. However, I believe our beloved Aggies have done it, and no it's not shameful! Until the NCAA or NFL, or even High School makes a rule against it, coaches will teach it. It's a way to help your team win and it's not illegal! The player who stopped play has to come out of the game for a play. That's really the only thing I could see anyone doing about it. As long as teams run fast paced, no huddle offenses, defenses will use this stra
...and the academy award goes to... I lol'ed. The "injured" player looked at the sideline then fell to the ground. Is Todd Graham coaching SFA? This should be a 15 yard penalty!
@gatethrow Um dude, what do you think Texas did with Rice? Or Oklahoma with Utah State? Baylor with Sam Houston, or it could backfire like Kansas did and Ol' Miss did this weekend. Every team pays cupcakes to come play in preseason. Rarely does one team have a ballsack to actually schedule someone good.
I honestly do not understand why everyone is so upset about this. People don't think about the fact that the numbers of players on each sideline is hugly differentiated. SFA has 68 scholarships playing while a&m has around 120. The players get tired and the depth of the SFA defensive line is nothing compared to the aggies. The fact is: a&m beat SFA in the end. What does it matter if this injury was fake or not? Had SFA won then it would be an entirely different story.
@JayDaddy09 I'm refuse to stoop to your level any longer. I already feel dirty from having been down there so long as it is. Have a fantastic week! :) P.S. I'm not that old. So maybe it's you who's hanging on to the past?
This video has taken off and I was reading a blog from aggie fans; here is what an aggie "Cotton79" wrote Ags, The more I saw this video clip, the more it bothered me. I kept going back to the notion that I preferred on the 1st page of this thread, the idea that the SFA Prez should hear about this. It kept percolating in my brain, so I did something about it: I wrote him myself. Today. Here it is: More to follow in next post from Cotton79
Continue'd post from Cotton79 to SFA President Probably more than either of us really knows. Yet, in this age of cyber fast video and youtube and such, even the smallest of things is now captured for posterity to view and applaud... or demonize. My biggest concern is that the video will go viral - as wacky things like this often do - and find itself on some national sports talk show, which will cast a negative light on our great state and your fine university.
Personally, I like how A&M has to schedule a division 2 school. What do you all expect during the preseason? This doesn't even count as a win as far as bowl eligibilty is concerned so who really cares what their non-opponent does?
the second guy to go down (#48) is a much better actor than the first guy #23. 23 sits down and watches, then just gets up and jogs off. at least 48 manages to kind of look like he's in agony.
Apparently, their D has no heart. The "injured" SFA Lumberjack next to #97 looks like he was gut-shot. If you're going to fake cramps, grab a toe, stretch a hammy, do something other than just fall down like a sniper got ya...ha
Cramps do happen but seriously? That's a little odd. That one guy got a calf cramp, grabbed his leg, spun around (wow!!! theres the referee!!!), then got up and ran off. Calf cramps come and calf cramps go but not that quick. However, the other guy sold it. I think he was legitimately injured or was shot the guy on the grassy knoll.
@KRaffFlash Since it is so rare to schedule a DII school during the exhibition games right? No other D1 school does that. And a win over a DII team can count for bowl eligibility, as in this case. Someone needs to brush up on their eligibility requirements...
@Hiram717 there is no way you went to A&M...i believe you said that to try and cover yourself, because no one that has ever come to this school and was apart of going to the games would talk about their team that way, and i believe most old Ags would agree...thanks for trying though
@bbaggie76 Did i miss something or did A&M do this exact same thing this past weekend? Instead of being high and mighty and telling SFA coaching they should be ashamed, your coaching staff borrows the strategic "fake injury" playbook. Enjoy the SEC.
You all are saying like SFA is the only team that did this. Every team does it. A&M did this and so did every other team. A&M should be ashamed of saying that this is the only reason why they beat them.
@JayDaddy09 Texas sings about us in their school song. What we sing. (hint: What you hear) is only 1 verse. there are 2 other verses that have NOTHING to do with Texas.
Alright bbaggie, like I said on a previous comment, you guys won the game. So leave it alone. Why would it matter to you anyway? It's not like were going to be facing you guys in the Big 12. You guys have got bigger fish to worry about like how you're gonna keep UT from putting a whooping on your butts again!
How come it was SFA's players on DEFENSE were the ones getting cramps, and then that the SFA defense only cramped when A&M was trying to go "hurry up" ... hmmm? Busch league maneuver, jacks.
Ummm excuse me! # 23 actually has to have surgery! I dont know about the other player tho. Any who know all the information before making your own assumptions. God bless.
Lumberjacks are makin the excuse of not havin a team as deep as A&M. That is certainly true. But its football, come ready to play any team that is on your schedule. Dont complain about how many more players they have, or how many more scholarship players they have, and dont fake injury just to prolong the inevitable. Maybe that will teach yall not to come back to CS and stay in nachanowhere and play some teams that nobody has ever heard of. Like Northern Iowa...thanks and Gig 'em!
Not very Aggie like on your part "bbaggie76" assuming players are "gaming" the system. I've been watching SFA play for 10 years, playing teams better than Texas A&M and I've never once seen any player fake an injury. Tisk Tisk, bad bull
I mean, it's one thing to lose a game, and another thing entirely to lie and cheat. No one is talking trash about them losing the game. People are just pointing out how unsportsmanlike they were when they pretended to get hurt.
@xjlr002 not trying to win an argument, who on the sidelines are you good friends with, feel free to send it to me in a message. I'm very involved in the athletic program at SFA and would just love to know.
hey is it just me or at 8 seconds I heard two gunshots and both football players went down. I dont think that was a fake injury everyone listen closely
@JayDaddy09 Right. That's exactly what we are. No one laughs at the bandwagon you're hanging on to? People all over the country acknowledge you, the T-Shirt fan. At least we actually have ties to the school we hold so dearly. You, on the other hand, will jump off the bandwagon as soon as the program starts to fail.
@xjlr002 Well I'm waiting on the personal message with your contact info...I will post it on 4chan. You are probably the toughest guy I have ever conversed with on the internets.
@JayDaddy09 I know REAL longhorns. (People who actually went to UT). Including my cousin and he came to the Thanksgiving day game last year. There was no trash talk like you are pulling. After the game I hung out with him AND his buddies who ACTUALLY GO TO the University of Texas.
Aggie fans....watch out. This will continue to happen to your team. More and more teams are resorting to these cheap tactics to hold up fast-paced offenses. Just ask Houston Cougars. It happened to them once in 08 and three times in 09. The refs do absolutely nothing and the worst part, you can usually see the player looking at the sidelines and then suddenly, he's down on the carpet.
@JayDaddy09 You probably didn't go to Texas because even Longhorns have class. We are two schools with a longstanding rivalry, yet we still respect each other. Not throw around insults and degrading comments; particularly those regarding the bonfire. Longhorns who went to the game in 1999 all rallied behind us during that tragic time, because we are all Texans. Your comments are just trashy and again, uncalled for. In particular, these words were written by Colonel Walker S. Hunnicut (UT Alum)
how embarrassing..not only the score but to stoop to faking injuries. im sorry but the odds of both of them having cramps at the same instance after looking at the bench is highly unlikely. I guess this is what they do in Division III when they run out of time outs.. lol seriously this is lame.
@JayDaddy09 And from which prestigious university did you graduate? Losing seasons ≠ poor sportsmanship Think of insults that actually make sense, you cant just make them up on the fly to fit the current situation. It would be funnier if it was true...like the bonfire joke. But again, you're still struggling for an insult if you have to stoop to that level. You just want to hate on the Ags, you don't care how you do it.
@kray122 and? What's your point? Doesn't mean that Von miller wasn't laying on the field every 3 plays when OU's offense wan on the field in the fourth quarter. It's called a hurry up offense. Bot sit and wait on Von miller offense. Besides, what did that win get y'all? A real big 12 championship ring? No. A bcs bowl berth? No. A beating from an sec team that you supposedly are dying to join? Yes. Enjoy getting stomped in Norman this year. I know I will be there.
this is a post to everyone defending what SFA did....you are all wrong. this goes on quite frequently however in most programs it isnt as blatant and there is 1 person "assigned" to carry out the injury. now before you claim that isnt what SFA was doing I can promise you it was. im good friends wih someone on that SFA sideline and thats exactly what they were doing.....faking cramps to kill the clock. when i say im friends with...we have known each other for the better part of his life...
@JayDaddy09 Right, "goat lover". Just because I go to Texas A&M I'm immediately an ag major? Dead wrong; quite the opposite actually. You should probably look into facts before throwing assumptions around and making yourself look like the degrading low-life you make yourself seem. Furthermore, no one cares if we "suck" at football, we still stand behind our team and our school.
@kears1008 Ya I can tell you went to ATM...hanging on to the past. The good ole days right? Like when we were segregated and women weren't allowed in the work place (or at your school which explains y'alls fascination with sheep).
@jaydaddy09 dont kid yourself buddy. Maybe you mentioned something along the lines of the bonfire falling to someone in your high school PE class that claims to be an aggie but we both know youve never done so to an actual aggie. If you have and still talking trash then obviously you are mistaken on who is an aggie and who isnt. I sent you a private message with my contact info if you ever wanna meet a real aggie. Doubt I hear back from you.
@kentatm yea they just both were walking ok and then....2 guys cramp at the same exact moment in time...LMFAO yea watch out for cramps or a bunch of NANCIES flailing on the ground fakin WOW LMFAO
Lets see... A&M players should be bigger, faster, stronger, in better shape, all around better football players, correct? I'm sure you would agree. How do you know where they were looking, did you see if they might have signaled the bench that they were cramping? Have you ever seen a football game, after the cramp is stretched out, players normally jog off the field, if he sprinted off the field full speed, maybe I'd be suspicious. You're last comment tells of your lack of knowledge of football.
