Texas fans can't even flex correctly about hiring Schloss from Texas A&M baseball

Texas fans keep tripping over their own feet with the Jim Schlossnagle situation while Texas A&M baseball keeps pulling in top recruits

It's actually pretty impressive that a university with such a developed network of media members has managed to bungle the narrative surrounding hire of their rival's coach so badly. When it first came across everyone's timelines that Jim Schlossnagle was headed to Texas, the Longhorns seemed content to be smug—until the situation with Richard Zane's question at the presser blew up in their faces.

Facing a media blowback, Texas attempted to swing the idea that Schlossnagle was a sympathetic figure. That also did not work.

There's little doubt that the public narrative surrounding Schloss's departure has had a deleterious effect on the Longhorns' recruiting efforts. In contrast, the Aggies' hire of Michael Earley has looked to be a stroke of genius, as he and his staff have stymied any attempt at momentum from Austin. Not a single major contributor left the Aggies' roster, and A&M has pulled in portal prospects left and right, not to mention snagged both of the top Longhorn pitching pledges over the next two years.

Now, Texas is trying to puff out their chests about this whole thing, despite the failure it has been so far. Hence Anwar Richardson from Orangebloods attempting this shot at Texas A&M:

Aside from the fact that this analogy says more about the person using it than anything else, this... doesn't really make a lot of sense. First of all, if Texas "taking the hot girl home" (odd stand-in for this middle-aged man) means they got him to be their coach, then wouldn't that mean she was seeing the first guy the whole time? He was A&M's coach, and now he's Texas's coach. He's doing the same thing at both places.

It's just not really accurate. It's kind of like saying "revenge is a dish best served cold" when someone gets revenge without regard to the timing or physical temperature of the revenge. It's kind of catchy, but it doesn't really describe the situation. I guess "A&M was buying drinks for this smoking hot baseball coach who is a girl and now Texas is buying her drinks" isn't quite as snappy, though.

It's kind of embarrassing to attempt to approach this with bravado and trip over yourself like this. Especially so against the backdrop of the three or four different media tacks that Texas has tried to take on this whole situation.

Oh well. It's almost football season.