Bruce Feldman: Texas A&M Aggies Coach Jimbo Fisher To Be Fired If He Doesn't 'Get it Going' This Year
Texas A&M Aggies football coach Jimbo Fisher's seat has been getting progressively hotter for the last year or so. And rightfully so. Fisher was hired away from Florida State - where he won a national title - to bring A&M to the promised land of their own national championship.
And if anything, he's getting farther away the longer he's here.
The problem with firing Fisher is his tremendous buyout. But as one of the richest schools not just in Texas, but in the country, A&M would find a way. And as Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports and The Athletic reported, Fisher's job is "absolutely" in jeopardy if he doesn't turn things around.
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"I'm told if he doesn't get it going this year, A&M will find that money," said Feldman on social media in September.
It's safe to say, almost two months later at 5-3 and with no chances for a College Football Playoff appearance or even an SEC Championship game visit, Fisher has not "turned things around."
What kind of numbers are we looking at? If A&M fired Jimbo after this season he'd be owed $76.8 million. Not exactly a drop in the proverbial bucket no matter who you are. But if it's necessary to move things along, then so be it.
Fisher's first season was in 2018 and he went 9-4 with a Gator Bowl win. In Year 2, the program went 8-5 with a Texas Bowl championship. In 2020 - the Coronavirus-shortened season - Fisher and the Aggies went 9-1 and won the Orange Bowl.
Since then it's been tough to find anything positive with regard to the program. No bowl games, and a collective record of 18-14 over the past three seasons, including a head-scratching 5-7 tilt last season when the program boasted the "greatest recruiting class of all time."
Even if Fisher wins out in 2023, he isn't getting paid $9+ million per season to go 9-3 and win a New Year's Six bowl game.
Texas A&M will find the money, regardless of how much, to get Jimbo out of College Station. The question is, who's next, and have the higher-ups in Aggieland learned their lesson?
