Latest Jimbo Fisher quote shows how far he's fallen as a head coach
When the Texas A&M Aggies hired Jimbo Fisher in late 2017, they thought they were getting a coach that could get them to a national championship. Instead, Fisher is giving the Aggies almost the exact results as his predecessor, Kevin Sumlin. And it doesn't appear that things will be getting better anytime soon in College […]
When the Texas A&M Aggies hired Jimbo Fisher in late 2017, they thought they were getting a coach that could get them to a national championship.
Instead, Fisher is giving the Aggies almost the exact results as his predecessor, Kevin Sumlin.
And it doesn't appear that things will be getting better anytime soon in College Station.
In fact, it feels like it's getting worse.
Earlier this week, Fisher was asked a question about recruiting. And his response sounded like something a first-year coach at Vanderbilt would say.
Fisher was specifically asked about his message to recruits amid the Aggies' 3-4 start this season.
"You're looking at the bad and they see opportunities," said Fisher. "Everybody says if I go somewhere that's winning all the time I may not play for a while."
Fisher is in his fifth year at Texas A&M and his answer to a question about recruiting is "why go to a program that's winning all the time".
This is one of the worst answers I've ever heard to a recruiting question (and I watched every Butch Jones press conference for five years).
For starters, good players aren't afraid of competition. The players that win championships will go to a program where there's talent and they'll win the job. It's that simple. There is no such thing as an easy path to playing time. It's college football. You either compete or you don't play. That's as true at Alabama as it is at an FCS program. Nothing is easy, nor should it be, in competitive sports.
The other part of this that's so bad is that Fisher is just putting it out there — Texas A&M isn't a program that's a consistent winner.
I can't see how this message gets elite recruits fired up. If you take NIL deals out of the equation, how many five-star recruits are going to be fired up to commit to a program where they, according to Fisher, don't have to compete that hard to get on the field to play for a coach that doesn't "win all the time"?
If Fisher didn't have an astronomically high buyout ($86 million if he's fired after this season..I can only imagine this is the most googled question in Texas right now), he'd likely be gone after this season. But that buyout means he'll probably be back for at least another season.
Kudos to Fisher's agent. He robbed Texas A&M blind with this contract.
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