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Gene Stallings scolds Texas A&M athletic director, regent Tony Buzbee for criticizing Kevin Sumlin

Gene Stallings, former Texas A&M player, coach and member of the university's Board of Regents, spoke out against Tony Buzbee's decision to publicly rant about firing Kevin Sumlin on social media.

Stallings didn't refrain from lambasting A&M athletic director Scott Woodward either.

"Anytime we get involved with that, we sort of step out of bounds just a little bit, not that we don't have the authority to do it," Stallings said Friday on WNSP-FM 105.5 in Mobile, Alabama. "That puts tremendous pressure on Sumlin..."

"I think it was a mistake. I think it was a mistake by the athletic director to say winning eight games wasn't enough.