Shortly after Jimbo Fisher’s resolve to settle for Texas A’s mega offering
“I hope to go up a couple!” Fisher responded, provoking loud applause and laughter in many corners of school football.
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However, more than two years later, there would possibly be a new bar for Fisher that would be fairer and more informative than a school president handing out a fake trophy: are you a risk to Alabama’s supremacy in the SEC or not?
Let’s be realistic. The answer to that, as any of the systems prepares to play on Saturday in Tuscaloosa, is not and that does not seem to be close.
In Fisher’s first two seasons, the Aggies lost to Alabama by 22 and 19 points, neither of which was competitive at any point at any time. Despite the current No. thirteen rating in Texas A
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Most of it’s not Fisher’s fault, but he knows he’s generously paid, some would say grotesquely, to fix it.
“You know what they’ve been through, who they are and we have to play ball,” Fisher said this week. “We will have to continue to recruit well and continue to build on the procedure we have. We have had two wonderful categories of recruitment of young people that I am passionate about, we have very intelligent young players and our older players are developing. It’s a measurement tool when you play in Alabama as much as you’re on the national stage, because they’ve been in more sensible for so long. “
But at some point, when you’re guaranteed $75 million for coaching football, the move has to do with the hole narrowing and progressing.
Recruitment ratings recommend that it simply happen. Aggies’ existing first-year student organization ranked No. 6 to 247 Sports, and the existing elegance of sophomores reached No. 4, which in theory is the kind of elite systems. the year-to-year quality you need. Either way, Fisher and his staff are among the few systems they recruit at the highest level.
However, there is a difference between hope and effects, and worth $75 million, the effects will have to begin to come.
From any point of view, adding the established through his predecessor Kevin Sumlin, the quality of Texas A football
If you look at Fisher’s mandate so far, there are more smart defeats than smart wins. In addition to the epic seven-hour overtime victory over LSU in its first season, its 18-9 record is most commonly filled with stuffed animals. they were not among the 25 most sensitive groups last year, and their 17-12 match against Vanderbilt in the first game raised considerations about the progress they made.
That’s not what they’re paying for.
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But they are not immune to the same thing as everyone else: have they made a sensible investment?
At this level, 3 years is enough to find an answer. When Fisher received the contract, what he had built at Florida State was no longer a national championship program and was already in decline. If he had stayed any other year, it is unlikely that anyone would have presented $75 million to a coach who had been overtaken by Clemson at his conference.
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