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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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COLLEGE STATION, TX – NOVEMBER 09: Reveille, the official mascot of Texas A&M, sits near the end zone during the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Kyle Field on November 9, 2013 in College Station, Texas. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images)
COLLEGE STATION, TX – NOVEMBER 09: Reveille, the official mascot of Texas A&M, sits near the end zone during the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Kyle Field on November 9, 2013 in College Station, Texas. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images) /

After J.E. Platt, head coach Charles Moran was the next successful person in that position. Moran has the best winning percentage of any coach who was at the helm for more than 20 games with the Aggies. That type of success is just hard to replicate nowadays. The best hope for someone like Fisher taking over is anywhere close to the record that Moran posted back in the early 1900s.

Taking over in 1909, Moran highlighted a very successful run of head football coaches for the Aggies. He kicked off a six consecutive coaches that all had win percentages above .500, dating all the way up to 1947. Moran’s foundation can be partly thanked for all that success.

Moran was also made famous for a few other things outside of his outstanding winning percentage. At one point, UT refused to play the Aggies until Moran was no longer the coach anymore. And, he later became a very successful head coach for other football programs like Centre and Bucknell. But, his best years as a head coach came with the Aggies and Centre.

He would also later become an umpire in professional baseball. Moran led quite the career in sports, leading to success in the worlds of football and baseball alike. His coaching career really launched after his time in College Station, so there’s no way he shouldn’t be considered among the best Texas A&M head coaches of all-time.