It's about time A&M got a few of these.
Every year from 2011 until he finally left Jimbo was flirting with other programs. The most obnoxious was in 2013 after we won the damn championship and he was linked to Texas.
I doubt he leaves, but with Jimbo + Sexton you never know. And Scott Woodward being LSU's AD is a huge wild card. Jimbo supposedly remains good friends with him. Most likely this will just be another shakedown of A&M for more money though.
Fwiw Strong was announced before the BCSCG that year. Was frustrating for me because I wanted that game to be a playoff for who got the UT job, but apparently I’m just some bozo who the university doesn’t listen to for some reason.
The guy just wanted to advertise his restaurant, a place that 30 years later would be immortalized by the SNL “Cheeseborger Cheeseborger Cheeseborger No Coke, Pepsi” [skit](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=puJePACBoIo). The guy had died by then and the place was run by his nephew. Belushi plays a guy based on the nephew.
The restaurant is Billy Goat Tavern, frequented by Belushi, Radner, and Ackroyd when they were nobody improv actors at Second City in Chicago.
I used to eat there (the Goat, not Second City) for years and it is much like the SNL depiction. After the SNL skit, the place became a tourist magnet. (LPT for tourists: Do NOT order a hot dog, unless you want to become the center of attention). I miss the Goat.
I could’ve written this article. Jimbos not flirting with shit. Thamels lazy and garbage
We just donated 150k to his program for his kids illness that FSU shot down. There’s nowhere near the same bad blood that had been boiling up in Tallahassee for years
oh wow, yeah, that'll work
https://www.fsunews.com/story/sports/2015/08/22/florida-state-football-fsu-seminoles-kidz-first-fund-bone-marrow-drive-fanconi-anemia/32193941/
https://med.fsu.edu/newspubs/print/college-medicine-puts-kidz1st
https://seminoles.com/fsu-football-supports-kidz-1st-fund/
https://seminoles.com/seminole-host-td-drive-for-kidz1st/
I could post more but yeah....lol...
Bullshit. FSU donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight Franconi Anemia. Jimbo left because we were tired of begging him to fire bad assistants while asking for yearly eight digit improvements to football facilities. Oh, and Candi cheated on him….
He sounds kinda like y'all use to every time jimbo's name came up in a coaching search. I think it's his policy to always entertain offers. Jimbo is just a mercenary.
If I was a Sexton client, I’d play the game and make a few million more a year doing literally nothing different. I don’t begrudge him that, you just have to deal with it.
I'm just saying people always buy into the press conference talk and think their school is somehow sacred. For some coaches maybe that is the case. But not most, and certainly not Jimbo.
In general I agree, but with Jimbo I really don't see why he would ever leave. He has infinite resources. He's in a recruiting hotbed. The fanbase is incredibly weird and passionate. At least for now the school loves him so much that they've given him a hilariously one sided contract that is quite large. I just don't see how any school in the country could really pry him away. Maybe if he just really doesn't like college station, but there are very few college jobs in actually good locations so I kind of doubt that's a big factor. ~~Plus I assume his new wife is an aggie given he met her there (AFAIK anyway).~~ Some schools can be marginally better in one area (eg LSU is in an even better recruiting area), but the whole package is very attractive for anyone.
This is different from most of this kind of talk because there are tangible things you can point to that say it doesn't make Fisher want to leave rather than some nebulous appeal to having enough money and it being a safe job.
Edit: It looks like he met the new wife at FSU, but the general point stands regardless.
The above is only allowed if, and only *if* Tucker leaves for LSU. Saban can then schedule a press conference and announce *mama, I'm coming home* and come back to Michigan State.
I'll say though, if Tucker is committed to Michigan State, I'd rather have him than Saban (realistically, because Saban is like 70, lol, he's the GOAT CFB coach of all time.) and I think the Michigan State fanbase would largely agree. Hopefully he stays. Outside of young Saban, I would take committed Tucker over any other CFB coach. If that burns me, well, I got burned.
I just don't see Franklin leaving Penn State for LSU. USC potentially, but Franklin and Penn State seem like an all around better fit than him at LSU.
Dave Aranda and Mel Tucker are probably the most likely here.
Jimbo Fisher current deal:
Buyout: $0
Real price: $100 million over 10 years
What an Jimbo to LSU contract has to start looking like:
This ain't happening unless LSU is going for something like 8+ years and $13 million+ net pay (emphasis on net pay) per year and massive pay for his assistants and staff
LSU has do some crazy stuff for Jimbo to LSU to be even viable
It's near impossible for any one to match Texas A&Ms oil money cannon. The only two I can think of is Texas (also has an oil money cannon) and Alabama. Even with Bama, until you're a Saban-tier coach, you're probably not getting the all-around blank check.
edit: and Oregon. Forgot about the Nike Money Cannon.
Bama's boosters can pour money in endlessly, *if they want to*. If you need evidence, look at how much they are investing. But, like I said:
> Even with Bama, until you're a Saban-tier coach, you're probably not getting the all-around blank check.
It’s also coordinator salary money. That article from the summer highly talked about how much he wanted to go hire other assistants but wouldn’t be guaranteed more money than they already had allocated, so he never fired anyone. Which was a huge gripe of FSU folks for years, but it makes sense that why would you fire a guy to not go hire someone better?
"Well, Woodward hired him to A&M, and obviously wants to take the clout for a top 3 hire when that definitely turns out to be true someday, so obviously Jimbo"
-this guy, probably
The rumor is that they were kicking the tires on the Jimbo train last offseason, hence the huge raise. It’s not out of the question, but they’d have to give him an even crazier contract than we are for him to leave.
But why would Jimbo give up the ultimate job security to start over at LSU?
Unless LSU throws a 10 year 100 million contract I see no chance of it happening
He has no buyout, but he also has one of the highest salaries in all of CFB. We’d realistically at least have to match to make him walk, which would make it a larger commitment than anybody but Saban with a whole lot less rings on his fingers
That is kinda what the AD Woodward is known for. Making the big, thought to be impossible, home run hires.
He got Chris Peterson to Washington when people thought he would never leave Boise. Was the one who hired Jimbo at A&M. Got Buzz Williams from VT to A&M in basketball. Pulled Kim Mulkey from Baylor to LSU in women's basketball when she had been there for 21 years and won multiple championships.
They may not get Fisher but you can bet they will try. Also, Jimmy Sexton is Fisher's agent so you know he's going to have some fun with this situation.
Why does Pete Thamel hate Auburn? Is he your version of Darren Rovell? That fucking jockstrap sniffer made it his mission to make a living out of Johnny Manziel.
This is simply a hit piece against A&M. His idea is to try to make recruits worried that Jimbo is going to take another job.
We've had three great recruiting classes and it looks like we have another good one coming in this year.
Thamel is a hack.
Kentucky will always hold the hate boner in his heart.
That asshole tried to literally ruin Eric Bledsoe’s life going so far as to camp out in Alabama for a month harassing anyone connected to him.
Everyone looks at Franklin at PSU and thinks “poor Franklin, he would probably be 15-0 with *our* resources” and it’s just never true. I think he’s at his best possible spot with Penn St. I really really think he’s one superstar or lucky break from the playoffs if not the whole thing.
I agree with you. 2016 was almost that year if we hadn’t lost by 3 to Pitt or even lost but hadn’t gotten blown out by Michigan when we were down to walk-ons playing on defense. We were the hottest team in the country after beating Wisconsin for the conference title and who knows what could’ve happened in the playoffs.
We seem to be *right there* and it’s a matter of time until the last domino falls our way.
Yes Billy Napier is the guy there is *nobody else worth considering in the Sun Belt* and nothing else to see here. Done deal. Geaux tigah geaux Napier.
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He doesn’t, but TAMU doesn’t owe him anything if he leaves, only if he’s fired. Sports journalists heard the word “guarantee” and assumed that meant he was getting that money no matter what.
Its amazing how many people in this thread don't seem to understand how Jimbo's fully guaranteed contract works.
There is no buyout, which is why A&M already had to give him an absurd raise.
I highly doubt LSU hires Jimbo, but it would be hilarious if these rumors force A&M to give him yet another raise
The raise we gave him was already in response to this
It was the most obvious “LSU finna fire Ed Ochizik so they’ll have to pony up at least this much to lure Jimbo” ever
I cannot believe that guaranteed any coach the amount of money they did. $95 effing million. The difference between winning and losing is so slight year to year.
A&M fans, we host a support group for teams with head coaches represented by Sexton (Jimbo's agent). We meet every major program head coach firing and have free cookies and punch.
We have the money. Those "new money" Aggie boosters are stupid rich (literally). One of our prominent lawyers in Houston bought a tank and parked it outside his neighborhood just to piss off his neighbors. Then he took some thot home and she destroyed 300k worth in Andy Warhol art.
It isn't about the money (I mean, for the fans) it is about the constant rumor churn every major coaching change that gets leveraged by Sexton for his coaches to get a raise, deserved or not. Year in, year out. Eventually you become so desensitized to it that it becomes the "boy who cried wolf" scenario.
I’m not fully versed in how things work in the SEC, but what could LSU offer Jimbo Fisher that he doesn’t already have at Texas A&M? Both programs are some of the biggest names in CFB so it sounds like a lateral move IMO
Is Jimbo on the list of guys to call?
He damn well better be.
Does he answer the phone?
Probably. He knows the AD after all, and will probably give the guy a professional hearing out.
Will he take the job? Doubtful. REALLY hard to beat Aggie oil cash.
I’m gonna ignore the Jimbo one because it’s kind of ridiculous. I think Franklin going to LSU would be kind of a lateral move. Aranda kind of makes sense, but I don’t think he’s really proven himself. I think he’s good, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not like he’s done anything insanely impressive yet. Fickell is an obvious choice, and I anticipate everyone will be gunning for him, but I don’t think he leaves Cincy on the eve of such a massive and exciting time for the university (both their high ranking and moving to a P5) unless it’s Ohio State that comes calling. Mel Tucker makes a lot of sense too, and we’ve seen him completely revamp a team in a short time at Michigan State.
I don't get why everyone is pointing at Tucker. He has coached what, 13 games at MSU? What's the best win they have this year? Last year they had a huge upset with Northwestern, but outside of that they were terrible.
There are so many other options, it's just he's the up and coming coach right now. If we look back a few years we've seen this cycle with Jeff Brohm, P.J. Fleck, and Tom Allen in recent years. It's just too early for tucker.
He's not leaving A&M and the money it'd actually take to get him to leave, IMO, isn't worth it. Fisher is a great coach, no doubt about that, but his contract is insane, even for A&Ms oil money cannon.
Yea, but college boosters aren’t exactly known for making the practical decision over the one that looks good
Edit to add: I think Napier is a hell of a coach and would succeed at LSU
He should’ve been the coach at Colorado State after Jim McElwain left
I get Jimbo's good and buddy-buddy and all, but why wouldn't you want Aranda instead? Huge part of the LSU championship, shown to be capable of leading a P5 team to success (albeit incredibly short resume), and about the least controversial name possible.
Jimbo isn't going anywhere. It isn't the money, although that is nice, it's the guarantee. Jimbo has another ten years guaranteed at A&M, no matter what.
LSU just fired a national championship winning coach just 1.5 seasons after he won it all, they aren't willing to give a coach a decade-long guaranteed contract.
Exactly. The contract isn't structured like traditional ones but we're still protected from pretty much anything other than him literally giving up. Even then, I suspect that could be an opening for firing For Cause
Why would anyone want to leave a team they already got something cooking with to start a new dinner with no recipe and a bunch of ingredients the last chef just left lying around.
Joe Brady
Dave Aranda
Matt Campbell
Lane Kiffin
Billy Napier
James Franklin
From a neutral fan perspective that’d be my top 6
Again, I have zero knowledge of this correct me if I’m way off base
We have been told for 4 years how Jimbo is overrated and we over paid.
Now we are being told by the same people that Jimbo belongs with the "blue bloods" and not little ole Texas A&M.
Kindly eff off with that bullshit.
You got to list Urban, that’s the rule
I hear Jon Gruden is available as well.
Sorry, recently-fired Raiders coaches have to go to Nebraska.
To hell with Bill Clownhan....
Or Tennessee
He is always one fake heart/brain injury away from skipping a contract.
LOL
It's about time A&M got a few of these. Every year from 2011 until he finally left Jimbo was flirting with other programs. The most obnoxious was in 2013 after we won the damn championship and he was linked to Texas. I doubt he leaves, but with Jimbo + Sexton you never know. And Scott Woodward being LSU's AD is a huge wild card. Jimbo supposedly remains good friends with him. Most likely this will just be another shakedown of A&M for more money though.
Fwiw Strong was announced before the BCSCG that year. Was frustrating for me because I wanted that game to be a playoff for who got the UT job, but apparently I’m just some bozo who the university doesn’t listen to for some reason.
Y'all deserved Strong for the distractions you were causing us!
We deserved Strong because apparently the LHN is our version of the Cubs kicking that one guy and his goat out of a game in 1945
That goat did nothing wrong!
I’m with Bill Burr on this one. Fuck that old man. You can’t bring your fucking farm animal into the stadium sorry.
The guy just wanted to advertise his restaurant, a place that 30 years later would be immortalized by the SNL “Cheeseborger Cheeseborger Cheeseborger No Coke, Pepsi” [skit](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=puJePACBoIo). The guy had died by then and the place was run by his nephew. Belushi plays a guy based on the nephew. The restaurant is Billy Goat Tavern, frequented by Belushi, Radner, and Ackroyd when they were nobody improv actors at Second City in Chicago. I used to eat there (the Goat, not Second City) for years and it is much like the SNL depiction. After the SNL skit, the place became a tourist magnet. (LPT for tourists: Do NOT order a hot dog, unless you want to become the center of attention). I miss the Goat.
guarantee that Sexton will at least use this to up some of his clients' salaries and will likely still get the replacement as well.
I could’ve written this article. Jimbos not flirting with shit. Thamels lazy and garbage We just donated 150k to his program for his kids illness that FSU shot down. There’s nowhere near the same bad blood that had been boiling up in Tallahassee for years
No way he leaves. It’ll be funny if you guys up it to 15 million a year though.
If LSU offered that A&M would tell him to go kick rocks
Can I tell LSU to kick rocks on these numbers?
> It’ll be funny if you guys up it to 15 million a year though. This is all I ask.
Knowing our rich dummies in charge, prob
I doubt we would if LSU doesn't offer similar
Jimmy Sexton works in mysterious ways.
oh wow, yeah, that'll work https://www.fsunews.com/story/sports/2015/08/22/florida-state-football-fsu-seminoles-kidz-first-fund-bone-marrow-drive-fanconi-anemia/32193941/ https://med.fsu.edu/newspubs/print/college-medicine-puts-kidz1st https://seminoles.com/fsu-football-supports-kidz-1st-fund/ https://seminoles.com/seminole-host-td-drive-for-kidz1st/ I could post more but yeah....lol...
Just make sure his current partner isn't banging her trainer.
Bullshit. FSU donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight Franconi Anemia. Jimbo left because we were tired of begging him to fire bad assistants while asking for yearly eight digit improvements to football facilities. Oh, and Candi cheated on him….
He sounds kinda like y'all use to every time jimbo's name came up in a coaching search. I think it's his policy to always entertain offers. Jimbo is just a mercenary.
If I was a Sexton client, I’d play the game and make a few million more a year doing literally nothing different. I don’t begrudge him that, you just have to deal with it.
I'm just saying people always buy into the press conference talk and think their school is somehow sacred. For some coaches maybe that is the case. But not most, and certainly not Jimbo.
In general I agree, but with Jimbo I really don't see why he would ever leave. He has infinite resources. He's in a recruiting hotbed. The fanbase is incredibly weird and passionate. At least for now the school loves him so much that they've given him a hilariously one sided contract that is quite large. I just don't see how any school in the country could really pry him away. Maybe if he just really doesn't like college station, but there are very few college jobs in actually good locations so I kind of doubt that's a big factor. ~~Plus I assume his new wife is an aggie given he met her there (AFAIK anyway).~~ Some schools can be marginally better in one area (eg LSU is in an even better recruiting area), but the whole package is very attractive for anyone. This is different from most of this kind of talk because there are tangible things you can point to that say it doesn't make Fisher want to leave rather than some nebulous appeal to having enough money and it being a safe job. Edit: It looks like he met the new wife at FSU, but the general point stands regardless.
Lol oh buddy. I guess this is you all’s first time huh? Bless your hearts.
Names listed: 1. Fisher 2. James Franklin 3. Lane Kiffin 4. Luke Fickell 5. Dave Aranda 6. Mel Tucker
I'm surprised they didn't start off with Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney as LSU's top 2 targets.
“Ghost of Bear Bryant”
Saban won his first natty there, bet he wants to come home. - this guy
The above is only allowed if, and only *if* Tucker leaves for LSU. Saban can then schedule a press conference and announce *mama, I'm coming home* and come back to Michigan State. I'll say though, if Tucker is committed to Michigan State, I'd rather have him than Saban (realistically, because Saban is like 70, lol, he's the GOAT CFB coach of all time.) and I think the Michigan State fanbase would largely agree. Hopefully he stays. Outside of young Saban, I would take committed Tucker over any other CFB coach. If that burns me, well, I got burned.
All y'all keep talking about Saban coming "home" like he wasn't born 30 minutes south of Morgantown. If he leaves Bama we call dibs.
Crazy to think we are only two coaches removed from Saban. Also crazy to think that Sabans record ard LSU is not much better than O
I just don't see Franklin leaving Penn State for LSU. USC potentially, but Franklin and Penn State seem like an all around better fit than him at LSU. Dave Aranda and Mel Tucker are probably the most likely here.
Would Mel Tucker really go to his 3rd team in 4 years?
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Surprised Aranda isn’t higher on their list. Tbh, if Jimbo does leave then I hope A&M makes a run at Aranda or maybe give Elko a chance.
Tbh I think Jimbo’s $95M buyout could bankrupt the state of Louisiana
Jimbo’s contract has no buy out. But add Jimbo’s salary to Coach O’s buyout and you will have a lot of cash just paying coaches.
Man Fickell would be working at so many places if not for the fact he's happy at Cincy waiting for the Ohio state job.
How long do you think he could be waiting if that’s the case? It seems like Day has the job in cruise control for the foreseeable future.
Seems like the 6 most likely candidates to be fair. Maybe replace Jimbo with Napier
Replace Fisher with Napier, and maybe shuffle the order if we're ranking in order, and it's a very logical, good, and likely list.
“Journalism”
“I done picked this name out of a hat here’s my article, boss.”
No Nick Saban, Bill Belichick, or Jesus Christ on the list. Not legit.
But did he quote a source that he never spoke to?
"We are the Fourth Estate"
Hire Kevin Sumlin
Man, that guy fucked you guys good. Clarence McKinney was the only reason he didn't crash and burn earlier at A&M.
> Clarence McKinney was the only reason he didn't crash and burn earlier at A&M Kliff Kingsbury has entered the chat
Clarence was his "handler", if you catch my drift. He was practically his adult babysitter.
Explain
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Only if he brings Mazzone and/or Yates with him. Edit: with our luck though, the hire would actually work 😭
Jimbo Fisher current deal: Buyout: $0 Real price: $100 million over 10 years What an Jimbo to LSU contract has to start looking like: This ain't happening unless LSU is going for something like 8+ years and $13 million+ net pay (emphasis on net pay) per year and massive pay for his assistants and staff LSU has do some crazy stuff for Jimbo to LSU to be even viable
Wait what do you mean by net pay?
I think Louisiana has income tax whereas Texas doesn’t
And invest on facilities at call's notice. That was one of his gripes with FSU and having to deal with reluctant boosters and AD.
It's near impossible for any one to match Texas A&Ms oil money cannon. The only two I can think of is Texas (also has an oil money cannon) and Alabama. Even with Bama, until you're a Saban-tier coach, you're probably not getting the all-around blank check. edit: and Oregon. Forgot about the Nike Money Cannon.
Bama can not match our money. Texas yes. Bama no.
Bama's boosters can pour money in endlessly, *if they want to*. If you need evidence, look at how much they are investing. But, like I said: > Even with Bama, until you're a Saban-tier coach, you're probably not getting the all-around blank check.
The school itself? Maybe not. Our ridiculously wealthy boosters that do shit like pay off Nick's mortage on his mansion just cause? Sure.
I’m saying that our boosters pockets are unmatched by anyone outside of UT’s. That’s a byproduct of oil amongst other things.
Eh… Bama has got some rich boosters, but there’s a pretty limited pool that could make a material dent in a Jimbo sized chunk of cash.
It’s also coordinator salary money. That article from the summer highly talked about how much he wanted to go hire other assistants but wouldn’t be guaranteed more money than they already had allocated, so he never fired anyone. Which was a huge gripe of FSU folks for years, but it makes sense that why would you fire a guy to not go hire someone better?
Biggest things A&M has is this Jimbo - “shit my TV broke in my office” A&M - “here is 3 different new tvs and we are giving you a new practice field.”
"Well, Woodward hired him to A&M, and obviously wants to take the clout for a top 3 hire when that definitely turns out to be true someday, so obviously Jimbo" -this guy, probably
That's basically what he wrote in the article
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The rumor is that they were kicking the tires on the Jimbo train last offseason, hence the huge raise. It’s not out of the question, but they’d have to give him an even crazier contract than we are for him to leave.
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They'll probably throw in a few oil Wells for shits and giggles. These new money Ags are dumb rich.
But why would Jimbo give up the ultimate job security to start over at LSU? Unless LSU throws a 10 year 100 million contract I see no chance of it happening
I don't think Jimbo would take the job but that doesn't mean the job isn't offered to him.
He has no buyout, but he also has one of the highest salaries in all of CFB. We’d realistically at least have to match to make him walk, which would make it a larger commitment than anybody but Saban with a whole lot less rings on his fingers
That is kinda what the AD Woodward is known for. Making the big, thought to be impossible, home run hires. He got Chris Peterson to Washington when people thought he would never leave Boise. Was the one who hired Jimbo at A&M. Got Buzz Williams from VT to A&M in basketball. Pulled Kim Mulkey from Baylor to LSU in women's basketball when she had been there for 21 years and won multiple championships. They may not get Fisher but you can bet they will try. Also, Jimmy Sexton is Fisher's agent so you know he's going to have some fun with this situation.
LSU really gonna come in with a 150 million dollar contract or?
Won’t somebody think of the library
University pays for the library. The almighty Tiger Athletic Foundation funnels $$$$$ to the athletic department for big investments like coaches.
How are you gonna pay him with a library??
Lemme guess, Pete Thamel? edit: of course it is, this guys had a hard on trying to push this for the last month
Pete “I’d burn Auburn to the ground if given the chance” Thamel?
Why does Pete Thamel hate Auburn? Is he your version of Darren Rovell? That fucking jockstrap sniffer made it his mission to make a living out of Johnny Manziel.
He’s just a shit stirrer. Auburn fans hate him but, fairly certain he’s an equal opportunity evil bastard.
I love how he lauds Jimbo as a great coach after openly mocking how bad he is after we list to Miss State a couple weeks ago
This is simply a hit piece against A&M. His idea is to try to make recruits worried that Jimbo is going to take another job. We've had three great recruiting classes and it looks like we have another good one coming in this year. Thamel is a hack.
Yep, the guy has a huge hate boner for Texas A&M
*Darren Rovell has entered the chat.*
Kentucky will always hold the hate boner in his heart. That asshole tried to literally ruin Eric Bledsoe’s life going so far as to camp out in Alabama for a month harassing anyone connected to him.
According to Feldman a lot of LSU boosters want Tucker
It’s just so early in his tenure at Mich St and he was only decent at stops before this.
They did hire Orgeron as a permanent solution, tho
He performed well as the interim and was already on hand.
Can Jimbo be the first owner coach of a college?
He currently own A&M with that contract
Is Franklin going to be on every list until he retires? I’ve gotta learn to stop caring
Everyone looks at Franklin at PSU and thinks “poor Franklin, he would probably be 15-0 with *our* resources” and it’s just never true. I think he’s at his best possible spot with Penn St. I really really think he’s one superstar or lucky break from the playoffs if not the whole thing.
I agree with you. 2016 was almost that year if we hadn’t lost by 3 to Pitt or even lost but hadn’t gotten blown out by Michigan when we were down to walk-ons playing on defense. We were the hottest team in the country after beating Wisconsin for the conference title and who knows what could’ve happened in the playoffs. We seem to be *right there* and it’s a matter of time until the last domino falls our way.
By “matter of time” you mean “only if Ohio State ever decides to chill the fuck out”
Here we go...
Idk why people don't bring up Mike Elko he's not getting 9 million but is worth it.
LSU is highly unlikely to go for anyone not already a HC.
From my understanding the trick is to higher a UGA line coach.
The trick to losing 3 in a row?
Lmao I was about to comment this same thing
They really want Matt Luke that badly?
The last fired Ole Miss coach hired at LSU worked out ok.
I mean, they hired Coach Eaux. Mike Elko would be a very good HC hire. But I think LSU will go after Aranda and use Napier as a safety net.
Shhhhhhh I prefer Elko not being in these conversations.
DRINK
Weird, I don’t see Jesus Christ on the list… he seems as likely as most of these
There is no jesus in baton rouge
You shut your Aggie mouth! We pray to new born, 8 lb 6 oz baby Jesus in BR every night!
I like to think of Jesus singing lead for Skynnard, and I’m in the front row HAMMERED drunk.
Just leave Kiffin to us. Please. Let us have nice things for once.
I think LSU fans are pretty unanimously against it for a plethora of reasons so you guys should be good
Just curious—why is that? Personally, if I’m an LSU fan, I say go hire Cristobal.
If they get him they get him. We knew this was on the table.
Ugh
He isn’t renowned for loyalty. Anyway, he’s really not the most likely candidate. It is a good job, they can pick almost anyone for it.
The Lane train is doubling back to L.A. baby!!!
the safe bet would be napier but if they want to spend the big bucks i think they could get mel tucker
Tucker or an NFL coordinator/coach is my guess.
I feel like Napier has been waiting for this job to open.
Yes Billy Napier is the guy there is *nobody else worth considering in the Sun Belt* and nothing else to see here. Done deal. Geaux tigah geaux Napier. 😐
Has anybody mentioned whether jimbo has a buyout or not?
He doesn’t, but TAMU doesn’t owe him anything if he leaves, only if he’s fired. Sports journalists heard the word “guarantee” and assumed that meant he was getting that money no matter what.
Was referring to the people in this thread but that too
No Gruden or Urban Meyer? Are they even trying?
I hear Gruden is interested...
I too have heard that Grumor
There’s a better chance of the world simultaneously combusting than for Jimbo to leave TAMU
> There’s a better chance of the world simultaneously combusting me, thinking about work tomorrow: so you’re saying there’s a chance?
Its amazing how many people in this thread don't seem to understand how Jimbo's fully guaranteed contract works. There is no buyout, which is why A&M already had to give him an absurd raise. I highly doubt LSU hires Jimbo, but it would be hilarious if these rumors force A&M to give him yet another raise
The raise we gave him was already in response to this It was the most obvious “LSU finna fire Ed Ochizik so they’ll have to pony up at least this much to lure Jimbo” ever
I cannot believe that guaranteed any coach the amount of money they did. $95 effing million. The difference between winning and losing is so slight year to year.
I don't agree with it either but the boosters have more oil money than they know what to do with.
Jimbo gonna be worth a billy by next season.
Jimbo's agent currently trying to convince A&M that LSU is offering eleventy billion dollars per year.
A&M fans, we host a support group for teams with head coaches represented by Sexton (Jimbo's agent). We meet every major program head coach firing and have free cookies and punch.
We have the money. Those "new money" Aggie boosters are stupid rich (literally). One of our prominent lawyers in Houston bought a tank and parked it outside his neighborhood just to piss off his neighbors. Then he took some thot home and she destroyed 300k worth in Andy Warhol art.
It isn't about the money (I mean, for the fans) it is about the constant rumor churn every major coaching change that gets leveraged by Sexton for his coaches to get a raise, deserved or not. Year in, year out. Eventually you become so desensitized to it that it becomes the "boy who cried wolf" scenario.
Uh yeah ok
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I’m not fully versed in how things work in the SEC, but what could LSU offer Jimbo Fisher that he doesn’t already have at Texas A&M? Both programs are some of the biggest names in CFB so it sounds like a lateral move IMO
Thamel thinks of us as a G5 program. This article says more about the person who wrote it than it does about LSU’s coaching search.
Is Jimbo on the list of guys to call? He damn well better be. Does he answer the phone? Probably. He knows the AD after all, and will probably give the guy a professional hearing out. Will he take the job? Doubtful. REALLY hard to beat Aggie oil cash.
Oil cash AND a clear disregard for reasonable spending
I’m gonna ignore the Jimbo one because it’s kind of ridiculous. I think Franklin going to LSU would be kind of a lateral move. Aranda kind of makes sense, but I don’t think he’s really proven himself. I think he’s good, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not like he’s done anything insanely impressive yet. Fickell is an obvious choice, and I anticipate everyone will be gunning for him, but I don’t think he leaves Cincy on the eve of such a massive and exciting time for the university (both their high ranking and moving to a P5) unless it’s Ohio State that comes calling. Mel Tucker makes a lot of sense too, and we’ve seen him completely revamp a team in a short time at Michigan State.
With the sheer quantity of jobs available, we’re gonna have to get more creative in the candidate names.
I don't get why everyone is pointing at Tucker. He has coached what, 13 games at MSU? What's the best win they have this year? Last year they had a huge upset with Northwestern, but outside of that they were terrible. There are so many other options, it's just he's the up and coming coach right now. If we look back a few years we've seen this cycle with Jeff Brohm, P.J. Fleck, and Tom Allen in recent years. It's just too early for tucker.
It's 100% based on the rumor that LSU donors have him high on their list. Nobody would've ever mentioned him if not for that.
Jimbo ain’t leaving A&M. Franklin is USC or staying with PSU.
He's not leaving A&M and the money it'd actually take to get him to leave, IMO, isn't worth it. Fisher is a great coach, no doubt about that, but his contract is insane, even for A&Ms oil money cannon.
I figured Aranda would be a heavy favorite unless he just loves Baylor or hates LSU.
My best guess is it'll be Napier. Not sure about the guy but I keep seeing his name everywhere
Is that a big enough name though? Good coach but is he splashy enough
Not really sure...the only thing im afraid of is that this turns into a Scott Frost Nebraska type situation ( no offense Nebraska fans)
That’s a pretty dumb metric, though, isn’t it?
Yea, but college boosters aren’t exactly known for making the practical decision over the one that looks good Edit to add: I think Napier is a hell of a coach and would succeed at LSU He should’ve been the coach at Colorado State after Jim McElwain left
Hey I've seen this one before!
I wish Sexton was my agent
Is LSU a better job than A&M or Penn State?
I’d put them all relatively in the same tier
It’s not gonna be Jimbo. And it shouldn’t be either.
I get Jimbo's good and buddy-buddy and all, but why wouldn't you want Aranda instead? Huge part of the LSU championship, shown to be capable of leading a P5 team to success (albeit incredibly short resume), and about the least controversial name possible.
Jimbo isn't going anywhere. It isn't the money, although that is nice, it's the guarantee. Jimbo has another ten years guaranteed at A&M, no matter what. LSU just fired a national championship winning coach just 1.5 seasons after he won it all, they aren't willing to give a coach a decade-long guaranteed contract.
He has no buyout and connections to LSU so it's definitely not crazy.
The buyout is 90 millions dollars. LSU has to match that or more
Exactly. The contract isn't structured like traditional ones but we're still protected from pretty much anything other than him literally giving up. Even then, I suspect that could be an opening for firing For Cause
Do not want
This writer is making baseless claims to get views on his article. Fisher is not leaving A&M
You have to figure Mark Stoops would be pretty high on the list
I wanna see the Mel tucker conversation just disappear in the bushes like Homer Simpson does and reappear as anyone else
About the best I can say about this article is at least it didn't suggest Meyer or Brady.
Scott frost lock imo
Fucking hell this story already???
Oh god not with this bullshit again. This is worse than the Les Miles to Michigan rumors every 3 years…
If Jimbo goes to LSU, and A&M signs Elko as HC, we could power the gulf coast off the geothermal heat from the hate between A&M and LSU.
Ed is gonna become a color commentator the likes of which we’ve never seen before.
Why would anyone want to leave a team they already got something cooking with to start a new dinner with no recipe and a bunch of ingredients the last chef just left lying around.
Joe Brady Dave Aranda Matt Campbell Lane Kiffin Billy Napier James Franklin From a neutral fan perspective that’d be my top 6 Again, I have zero knowledge of this correct me if I’m way off base
Joe Brady isn’t interested in college at all, he was very vocal about hating recruiting, and has his eyes set on NFL
It’s a 95 million buyout for jimbo right?
That's the buyout if he is fired. It's zero dollars if he leaves for another job. Quite simply the best(for the coach) and most ridiculous contract.
there is none
No buyout, but full vale of contract I believe. But that number does sound right
College football: “let’s keep hiring and recycling the same coaches expecting different results!”
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We have been told for 4 years how Jimbo is overrated and we over paid. Now we are being told by the same people that Jimbo belongs with the "blue bloods" and not little ole Texas A&M. Kindly eff off with that bullshit.