Former Texas A&M football DL drops social media hint that DC Bateman should be ousted

Former Texas A&M football DL comments approvingly on post calling for DC Jay Bateman's firing

Texas A&M football fans are in a bit of a tizzy right now about their defense. What was being counted on as a great unit coming into the year really faded down the stretch, and many of the countless fingers being pointed are aimed at DC Jay Bateman.

Hired from Florida, where he worked as the linebackers coach, Bateman didn't have a spotless track record of solid defenses coming into the job, but he had a lot of promise based on some of his stops. Because of that, Aggie fans have regarded him with skepticism from day one, but the way the defense played down the stretch is enough to cause some clamor no matter the preconceived notion of the man.

Some of that frustration spilled over into social media, where the Barstool account affiliated with Texas A&M posted a picture of Bateman with a caption calling for him to be fired. Interestingly, underneath the post, a comment appeared from former Texas A&M football DL Gabriel Brownlow-Dindy, who was clearly endorsing the sentiment in the caption.

Dindy's comment is obviously just an emoji, but it conveys something more than a simple "like" would have (though he did like the post as well). You can say whatever you want about making mountains out of molehills on social media, and there's something to that, but the plain fact is that this is not a comment that someone who liked the coach— or was neutral about him, in my opinion— would make.

Now, that doesn't mean that it's the right decision to get rid of Bateman simply by virtue of this fact, or even that he's an unpopular guy in the locker room. What it means is that Dindy was not a fan— if this is a sentiment shared by other players, they have yet to express it.

That could be sour grapes from a lack of playing time, but Dindy was hardly in the rotation for any of his time in College Station— that wasn't a Bateman thing.

Is it fair to extrapolate based on this one comment? I think that might be a little much. But given everything swirling around right now, including Elko's comments from after the bowl game, this isn't helping the public perception of Bateman's job security.