Poor Aggies?
Texas A&M just fired the most contract-protected head coach in college football history...what comes next?
Texas A&M went to some lengths to try and obscure the shape of their quarterback room against Mississippi State Saturday night. They sent out a left handed, walk-on quarterback in a #14 shirt, the number worn by Max Johnson, to warm up and throw the ball around in hopes of fostering the impression he was actually going to play.
Really a lot of effort considering the 3rd stringer, Jaylen Henderson, had 210 total yards four touchdowns in a 51-10 romp over woebegone Mississippi State, who fired their coach afterwards.
Athletic director Ross Bjork later clarified that it was a matter of the walk-on (Blake Bost) losing his warm-up and Max Johnson letting him borrow his seeing as how he wasn’t going to be able to play. It wasn’t gamesmanship, nothing to see here in College Station, everything is calm and normal.
One day later Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher is gone, fired. His now former employer owes him about $20 milly within 60 days and then the rest of his $70 million dollar contract over installments. Evidently Texas A&M’s powers that be determined this just needed to happen and to pull the trigger while they had consensus. That’s the way to do things, as we’ll get to in a moment.
Now comes the hard part. The ramifications of this move are going to create reverberations across college football in a number of fashion.
The talent-rich roster in College Station and incoming recruiting class will now be mercilessly poached by anyone who can afford to do so.
Either the Aggies will go try to money whip a big time coach from somewhere else or…
We’ll see the official transition in college football from paying huge money to coaches and facilities to keeping powder dry for player salaries.
Let’s talk about it and save some of the other college football bits for Wednesday after the new playoff rankings drop.
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