EDIT: Baffling journalism professors everywhere, the headline asked a question that could be answered “Yes.” Aggies pulled the trigger.
Just happy that at least one fanbase believes they have it worse than mine. I do have to wonder if the 51 points yesterday changes anything, or if that was an undercover “interim bump”.
Oh snap, this moved fast. Clicked on the article and the headline has been updated to:
Texas A&M fires Jimbo Fisher: Sixth-year coach owed more than $75 million in record college football buyout
From the article:
“After very careful analysis of all the components related to Texas A&M football, I recommended to President [Mark] Welsh and then Chancellor [John] Sharp that a change in the leadership of the program was necessary in order for Aggie football to reach our full potential and they accepted my decision,” said athletic director Ross Bjork in a statement. “We appreciate Coach Fisher’s time here at Texas A&M and we wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
Aggies associate head coach Elijah Robinson will serve as the team’s interim coach for the remainder of the season.
Something tells me they don’t really “appreciate Coach Fisher’s time here at Texas A&M”
Don’t worry Aggie bros, you will always have the 20-- National Championship. No one can take that away from you.
I wish they had left the head football coach’s name blank, that way they could just keep giving it to each new hire and the joke could continue.
Bold of you to assume Texas A&M will win a natty in the next 76 years.
I hate how right this is
The buyout will get all the headlines here, understandably so because of how big it is. But the payout is structured as x% over a certain number of years (I’m too lazy to google it right now), so it really shouldn’t have too much of an impact overall. A&M’s boosters have famously deep pockets.
My postmortem take is that while it’s earlier than I expected, it feels like the right call. A&M paid a ton of money for essentially no improvement over our previous coach (Jimbo’s SEC record was 56%, Kevin Sumlin’s SEC record was 52%). Too many times I was watching games this season and I had to remind myself that this was Year 6 in Jimbo’s tenure, not Year 1 or 2…every season feels like a rebuilding season, every game feels like we’re playing for the moral victory, and the mantra always feels like we’re waiting for next year. Those that follow the A&M program know this is the same old story it’s always been, and Jimbo was hired specifically to change that and he hasn’t. Sure we’ve had bad luck with injuries and other teams in our division are good, but at some point those excuses have to start going away if you want to be a good football program.
We’ve got some really talented players that I’m sure are disappointed and frustrated right now. It will be interesting to see how many of them light up the transfer portal and how many stick it out. Either way, we’re probably stuck in rebuilding seasons again for the foreseeable future.
Any chance we can get Kiffin there? They were made for each other!
It would be funny after all the highly public shit talking Kiffin lobbed at Jimbo this season if Kiffin essentially sold out and became the very thing we was against. Personally I don’t see it happening…Kiffin’s got a great thing going in Oxford and the A&M job doesn’t feel as appealing right now. But I’ve been wrong before, so who knows.
I have to think that at this point, Lane is kind of in the Leach-zone where the top programs just don’t want to deal with him, but he’s going to continue to throw press conference bombs and win more games than he should.
