Nick Saban famously said Texas A&M “bought” a team with money from name, image and likeness, an allegation that looks sillier by the day. How could Texas A&M buy a team if it can’t even buy a coach?
Jimbo Fisher’s Aggies just lost to Miami, 48–33, to eliminate themselves from making their coach’s contract look defensible for the third straight year. But that’s O.K., because Fisher is due for another contract, with a nice raise, as soon as he does something to justify it, like sing the fight song, praise the 12th Man, win a public spat with a Hall of Fame coach or remind Texas A&M fans that nobody in the country loves them like he does.
Fisher is now 40–22 at A&M. He is 14–12 in the past three years. His team finished in the top 15 of the final AP poll once, in 2020. Yet A&M would owe him $76.8 million if it fired him, thanks to a contract and extension that appear to have been negotiated between two parties: Fisher and his agent.
