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Texas A&M was wooing kids by arriving in a helicopter at their games
Texas A&M was wooing kids by arriving in a helicopter at their games
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Devoted Joel Embiid hater
Watching this ACC Network and they talking talking about best players at DB for the programs.
of course Miami, u mention Ed Reed.
this guy mentioned Devin Hester comes to his mind when talking Miami DBs
he said Hester was a shutdown DB?
of course Miami, u mention Ed Reed.
this guy mentioned Devin Hester comes to his mind when talking Miami DBs
he said Hester was a shutdown DB?
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Not even close to shutdown
They couldn't find a true spot for him on offense or defense. Who tf said that dumb shyt
Not even close to shutdown
They couldn't find a true spot for him on offense or defense. Who tf said that dumb shyt
white dude at 14:07
Mickey Joseph only been in Nebraska 2 months & already playing in the snow again
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We gettin BMWs. Mercedes, and Chargers now
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Bob Wager stood on the visitor’s sideline of the Gopher-Warrior Bowl on the night of Sept. 12, 2013, dutifully coaching his team when a helicopter briefly caught his attention.
Wager, the head coach at Arlington (Texas) Martin High, knew it was coming. Texas A&M coaches told him so just days before. The chopper was there, with then-head coach Kevin Sumlin and defensive line coach Terry Price in tow, to see Myles Garrett, one of the most coveted recruits in the land.
As Wager tried to focus on the game, he couldn’t ignore the sleek, streamlined, maroon aircraft. Neither could Garrett, who years later admitted that he almost missed a play as it arrived. It approached the stadium low, at a 45-degree angle from the southeast, and circled the stands to ensure everyone in attendance saw it before landing nearby.
“This thing looked like it ought to have a couple missiles,” Wager recently recalled.
As third down turned to fourth, Garrett refocused as South Grand Prairie High lined up to punt. The five-star defensive end blocked it. Martin went on to win, Garrett committed to Texas A&M the next month, and Sumlin later proclaimed the helicopter “undefeated” in recruiting.
“That left an impression on me, to be sure,” Garrett wrote in a Players Tribune piecein 2017.
It was a seminal moment in the life of the “Swagcopter,” the famed Texas A&M aircraft that left an indelible mark on Texas and SEC recruiting in the mid-2010s.
Bob Wager stood on the visitor’s sideline of the Gopher-Warrior Bowl on the night of Sept. 12, 2013, dutifully coaching his team when a helicopter briefly caught his attention.
Wager, the head coach at Arlington (Texas) Martin High, knew it was coming. Texas A&M coaches told him so just days before. The chopper was there, with then-head coach Kevin Sumlin and defensive line coach Terry Price in tow, to see Myles Garrett, one of the most coveted recruits in the land.
As Wager tried to focus on the game, he couldn’t ignore the sleek, streamlined, maroon aircraft. Neither could Garrett, who years later admitted that he almost missed a play as it arrived. It approached the stadium low, at a 45-degree angle from the southeast, and circled the stands to ensure everyone in attendance saw it before landing nearby.
“This thing looked like it ought to have a couple missiles,” Wager recently recalled.
As third down turned to fourth, Garrett refocused as South Grand Prairie High lined up to punt. The five-star defensive end blocked it. Martin went on to win, Garrett committed to Texas A&M the next month, and Sumlin later proclaimed the helicopter “undefeated” in recruiting.
“That left an impression on me, to be sure,” Garrett wrote in a Players Tribune piecein 2017.
It was a seminal moment in the life of the “Swagcopter,” the famed Texas A&M aircraft that left an indelible mark on Texas and SEC recruiting in the mid-2010s.
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Creative problem-solving
The origin of the Swagcopter, which took its first recruiting flight nearly 10 years ago, wasn’t the result of months-long meticulous planning, but rather sheer logistical necessity.
The 2012 season marked both Sumlin’s first year as A&M’s head coach and the school’s debut in the Southeastern Conference. The Aggies’ scheduled season opener against Louisiana Tech was postponed because of Hurricane Isaac, turning A&M’s Week 2 contest, a Sept. 8 home game against Florida, into its grand opening.
A&M, eager to make its mark on the recruiting trail, took advantage of every opportunity it could to maximize visibility to Texas high school football stars. So when a pair of coveted recruits — four-star quarterback Kohl Stewart, an A&M commit, and five-star athlete Ricky Seals-Jones, then-A&M’s top target — squared off before ESPN cameras on Sept. 6, two days before the Florida game, there was no question that Sumlin would be there.
There was one problem. The high school game, set at Stewart’s St. Pius X High in North Houston about 90 minutes away from Aggieland, kicked off at 8 p.m. The Aggies’ Thursday practice wrapped up around 7 p.m. Mix in Houston’s oft-congested roadways, and it was impossible for Sumlin to make the trek in a timely fashion.
Sumlin could have departed Thursday’s practice early, but it was a non-starter to him. Coaches had to put the finishing touches on the game plan, assess injuries and prep redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel for his collegiate debut. “Summie hated to leave the team for anything,” said Clarence McKinney, then-A&M’s running backs coach.
McKinney, now the head coach at Texas Southern, had a solution: a helicopter. Alan Roberts, a 1978 A&M graduate and longtime donor to Aggie athletics, offered up his. Roberts and McKinney had a connection through grassroots basketball, which their daughters played together while McKinney was at Houston. When McKinney and several other staffers followed Sumlin to Texas A&M after the 2011 season, Roberts assured them that the chopper, a Bell 429 that Roberts used for business purposes, was theirs whenever they needed it.
“I had to be in two places in an hour,” Sumlin said. “And the only way to get there was that way.”
The plan was in motion.
Three days before the game, McKinney called Blake Ware, then the head coach at St. Pius, to inform him that he and Sumlin would arrive at the game via helicopter.
Ware’s jaw dropped on the other end. “You’re gonna what?”
Creative problem-solving
The origin of the Swagcopter, which took its first recruiting flight nearly 10 years ago, wasn’t the result of months-long meticulous planning, but rather sheer logistical necessity.
The 2012 season marked both Sumlin’s first year as A&M’s head coach and the school’s debut in the Southeastern Conference. The Aggies’ scheduled season opener against Louisiana Tech was postponed because of Hurricane Isaac, turning A&M’s Week 2 contest, a Sept. 8 home game against Florida, into its grand opening.
A&M, eager to make its mark on the recruiting trail, took advantage of every opportunity it could to maximize visibility to Texas high school football stars. So when a pair of coveted recruits — four-star quarterback Kohl Stewart, an A&M commit, and five-star athlete Ricky Seals-Jones, then-A&M’s top target — squared off before ESPN cameras on Sept. 6, two days before the Florida game, there was no question that Sumlin would be there.
There was one problem. The high school game, set at Stewart’s St. Pius X High in North Houston about 90 minutes away from Aggieland, kicked off at 8 p.m. The Aggies’ Thursday practice wrapped up around 7 p.m. Mix in Houston’s oft-congested roadways, and it was impossible for Sumlin to make the trek in a timely fashion.
Sumlin could have departed Thursday’s practice early, but it was a non-starter to him. Coaches had to put the finishing touches on the game plan, assess injuries and prep redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel for his collegiate debut. “Summie hated to leave the team for anything,” said Clarence McKinney, then-A&M’s running backs coach.
McKinney, now the head coach at Texas Southern, had a solution: a helicopter. Alan Roberts, a 1978 A&M graduate and longtime donor to Aggie athletics, offered up his. Roberts and McKinney had a connection through grassroots basketball, which their daughters played together while McKinney was at Houston. When McKinney and several other staffers followed Sumlin to Texas A&M after the 2011 season, Roberts assured them that the chopper, a Bell 429 that Roberts used for business purposes, was theirs whenever they needed it.
“I had to be in two places in an hour,” Sumlin said. “And the only way to get there was that way.”
The plan was in motion.
Three days before the game, McKinney called Blake Ware, then the head coach at St. Pius, to inform him that he and Sumlin would arrive at the game via helicopter.
Ware’s jaw dropped on the other end. “You’re gonna what?”
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McKinney repeated the plan and needed to know where they could land. St. Pius was a 650-student private school in a busy part of town, so there wasn’t a ton of room to work with. The baseball field, adjacent to the football field, would be in use as ESPN installed temporary lights for its game broadcast. So Ware suggested the softball field. It was a little farther away, so the school arranged for a golf cart to pick up the coaches upon landing and drive them to the football stadium.
The night of the game, Sumlin and McKinney both were a bit anxious before takeoff because neither had been on a helicopter before. But Roberts’ chopper was believed to be the largest privately owned helicopter in Texas at the time. It sat eight people, including the pilot.
“It was not your average helicopter,” McKinney said. “When you took off, it was like sitting on your couch in the living room. You didn’t feel anything.”
Said Clay Taylor, a Texas state trooper and A&M security detail for every head coach dating back to R.C. Slocum: “I likened it to the inside of a King Ranch (F-150) pickup truck, but just in the back of the helicopter.”
It took only 30 minutes for Sumlin and McKinney to get from Easterwood Airport in College Station, Texas, to St. Pius. When they arrived, pregame warmups were still ongoing. The helicopter circled the stadium multiple times to catch the attention of the cameras. It worked: When the ESPN broadcast commenced, it included a mention and a brief video clip of the arrival, followed by a shot of Sumlin.
Stewart and Seals-Jones, the two recruits, were blown away.
“It was pretty crazy,” Stewart said.
Seals-Jones said his Sealy High team was heading back to the locker room from pregame warmups when he noticed it. “It was exciting and shocking,” he said. “All my teammates were coming out of the locker room, taking pics, checking it out.”
Sumlin and McKinney landed, jumped in the golf cart and arrived on the St. Pius sideline in time for kickoff. Once the game kicked off, McKinney’s phone was inundated with calls and texts.
“I couldn’t watch the game because my phone was blowing up,” McKinney said. “I had recruits telling me I had to bring the helicopter to their game.”
Right then and there, the first unintended consequence of the Swagcopter was born.
McKinney repeated the plan and needed to know where they could land. St. Pius was a 650-student private school in a busy part of town, so there wasn’t a ton of room to work with. The baseball field, adjacent to the football field, would be in use as ESPN installed temporary lights for its game broadcast. So Ware suggested the softball field. It was a little farther away, so the school arranged for a golf cart to pick up the coaches upon landing and drive them to the football stadium.
The night of the game, Sumlin and McKinney both were a bit anxious before takeoff because neither had been on a helicopter before. But Roberts’ chopper was believed to be the largest privately owned helicopter in Texas at the time. It sat eight people, including the pilot.
“It was not your average helicopter,” McKinney said. “When you took off, it was like sitting on your couch in the living room. You didn’t feel anything.”
Said Clay Taylor, a Texas state trooper and A&M security detail for every head coach dating back to R.C. Slocum: “I likened it to the inside of a King Ranch (F-150) pickup truck, but just in the back of the helicopter.”
It took only 30 minutes for Sumlin and McKinney to get from Easterwood Airport in College Station, Texas, to St. Pius. When they arrived, pregame warmups were still ongoing. The helicopter circled the stadium multiple times to catch the attention of the cameras. It worked: When the ESPN broadcast commenced, it included a mention and a brief video clip of the arrival, followed by a shot of Sumlin.
Stewart and Seals-Jones, the two recruits, were blown away.
“It was pretty crazy,” Stewart said.
Seals-Jones said his Sealy High team was heading back to the locker room from pregame warmups when he noticed it. “It was exciting and shocking,” he said. “All my teammates were coming out of the locker room, taking pics, checking it out.”
Sumlin and McKinney landed, jumped in the golf cart and arrived on the St. Pius sideline in time for kickoff. Once the game kicked off, McKinney’s phone was inundated with calls and texts.
“I couldn’t watch the game because my phone was blowing up,” McKinney said. “I had recruits telling me I had to bring the helicopter to their game.”
Right then and there, the first unintended consequence of the Swagcopter was born.
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A&M finds its swag
The buzz generated by the St. Pius-Sealy game made Sumlin and the A&M staff realize they had a useful recruiting tool on their hands. The next order of business was figuring out how to properly utilize it.
Every recruit wanted the helicopter to come to their game, but that was impractical.
During recruiting meetings following the first flight, the staff targeted high-profile games with blue-chip recruits that made sense schedule-wise. The prospects at the top of A&M’s board got first priority. If there happened to be a game where two A&M commits were performing, that was also considered worth the trip.
It also helped the staff be more efficient. In traffic-congested Houston, the chopper allowed coaches to attend more than one game per night. But making an impression on recruits became the goal.
“It was a recruiting tool and maybe one of our biggest chips,” said Justin Moore, then-Texas A&M’s associate athletic director for football and currently the school’s deputy athletic director for administration. “It made the recruits feel super important. It was something just a little bit extra.”
The helicopter also fit nicely into Sumlin’s efforts to change A&M’s image among recruits. The school and its alumni are fiercely loyal to its traditions and the fan base embraced its old-school reputation. As the Aggies entered the SEC, Sumlin took several steps to change the narrative while still respecting A&M’s roots. That included modifying the team’s game day entrance by adding Kanye West’s rap hit “Power” (which is still used at A&M games today), using a variety of uniform combinations and launching a social media hub dubbed AggieFBLife that became popular in the school’s early SEC days.
The nickname “Swagcopter” developed organically, helped by fans on the TexAgs.com message boards, who originally dubbed it the “Swaggercopter” to play off of the confident image Sumlin portrayed early in his tenure (in a YouTube video in September 2013, AggieFBLife officially established the name as “Swagcopter” via a video tour of the heli).
A&M finds its swag
The buzz generated by the St. Pius-Sealy game made Sumlin and the A&M staff realize they had a useful recruiting tool on their hands. The next order of business was figuring out how to properly utilize it.
Every recruit wanted the helicopter to come to their game, but that was impractical.
During recruiting meetings following the first flight, the staff targeted high-profile games with blue-chip recruits that made sense schedule-wise. The prospects at the top of A&M’s board got first priority. If there happened to be a game where two A&M commits were performing, that was also considered worth the trip.
It also helped the staff be more efficient. In traffic-congested Houston, the chopper allowed coaches to attend more than one game per night. But making an impression on recruits became the goal.
“It was a recruiting tool and maybe one of our biggest chips,” said Justin Moore, then-Texas A&M’s associate athletic director for football and currently the school’s deputy athletic director for administration. “It made the recruits feel super important. It was something just a little bit extra.”
The helicopter also fit nicely into Sumlin’s efforts to change A&M’s image among recruits. The school and its alumni are fiercely loyal to its traditions and the fan base embraced its old-school reputation. As the Aggies entered the SEC, Sumlin took several steps to change the narrative while still respecting A&M’s roots. That included modifying the team’s game day entrance by adding Kanye West’s rap hit “Power” (which is still used at A&M games today), using a variety of uniform combinations and launching a social media hub dubbed AggieFBLife that became popular in the school’s early SEC days.
The nickname “Swagcopter” developed organically, helped by fans on the TexAgs.com message boards, who originally dubbed it the “Swaggercopter” to play off of the confident image Sumlin portrayed early in his tenure (in a YouTube video in September 2013, AggieFBLife officially established the name as “Swagcopter” via a video tour of the heli).