David Pollack critical of Texas A&M's culture

David Pollack isn’t exactly sold on the resurgence of Texas A&M entering the 2023 campaign.

Evidently, it’s the culture that has Pollack questioning the Aggies following a more than disappointing 2022. Speaking with Greg McElroy on his Always College Football show, Pollack was critical of Jimbo Fisher’s bunch, and explained where his thought-process is coming from.

“I can’t trust A&M,” started Pollack. “Just the way that you’ve got, the way the culture was so bad. When you literally bring in all those five-stars, and bring in all those guys and have such a great class, and your culture can’t accept it, that says something about your culture. When you bring in Bobby Petrino and you still can’t announce whether he’s calling plays, like already? There’s already that little dynamic that I just can’t, I don’t trust A&M.

“Like I know they’re going to have talent, and their back-end on defense is going to be really, really good, and they were a year ago, and to play as good of defense as they did a year ago, with as bad of an offense as they had is pretty impressive. But I don’t know, I don’t trust the offense and the structure and what they are, until you show me. Especially with the culture.”

Alas, it’ll be fascinating to see if David Pollack is right about Texas A&M, or if Jimbo Fisher gets his team moving in the right direction in 2023.

Jimbo Fisher on how he responds to doubters: ‘People doubt you, it makes it fun’

Continuing, there are — understandably — questions surrounding Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M this year. The Aggies missed out on a bowl game last year despite a top-10 ranking and a highly rated recruiting class, raising the temperature on Fisher’s seat this year.

All offseason, he and the Aggies have faced questions about their ability to bounce back. But Fisher is blocking out that noise. After all, it comes with the territory.

“People always doubt you,” Fisher said Monday. “As an athlete, you’re doubted every day. Every team out there’s the same way. People doubt you, it makes it fun. That’s what competition’s about.”

Expectations were high for Texas A&M last year. The Aggies ranked No. 6 in the preseason AP Top 25 and had the No. 1-ranked 2022 recruiting class coming in, according to the On3 Industry Team Recruiting Ranking. That’s why the 5-7 record was such a disappointment. It also marked the first time Texas A&M missed a bowl game since a 4-8 season in 2008.

On3’s Nick Schultz contributed to this article.