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Texas A&M Football: 10 best coaches in program history

By Andrew Miller

24 Nov 2000: Head Coach R.C. Slocum of the Texas A&M Aggies watches the action from the sidelines during the game against the Texas Longhorns at the Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. The Longhorns defeated the Aggies 43-17.Mandatory Credit: Brian Bahr /Allsport
24 Nov 2000: Head Coach R.C. Slocum of the Texas A&M Aggies watches the action from the sidelines during the game against the Texas Longhorns at the Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. The Longhorns defeated the Aggies 43-17.Mandatory Credit: Brian Bahr /Allsport /
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You could interchange the final two coaches here, and make a solid case either way. However, since the focus here sits with R.C. Slocum, the most recent huge success with the Aggies, we’ll have a quick take on all that he was able to accomplish over the course of slightly more than a decade coaching up this squad.

Slocum has the most wins of any Texas A&M head coach in history, and also one of the better winning percentages. The level of consistent results he was able to deliver, especially at the beginning of his career with the Aggies, is absolutely unprecedented. No other coach can even come close to touching the standard that Slocum established here in the past 50 years.

His incredible run of winning at least nine games in seven of eight straight seasons is likely not to be matched anytime soon, unless Jimbo can establish quite the level of success with the Aggies in the SEC now. Slocum won three Southwest Conference Championships and one Big 12 Championship during his time with the program. He also managed one Big 12 South Division Title in that same span of time.

It was not until the Aggies replaced Slocum with Franchione that his long tenure with the program came to and end, after the 2002 season. Near the end of Slocum’s career with the team, the Aggies did start to reach more of the mediocre level instead of consistent contention at both the conference and national levels.