Former Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher is again in the information after his Monday evening look at the Little Rock (AR) Touchdown Club. He mentioned many subjects, together with a possible return to teaching and the ever-changing NIL panorama.
For those that might have forgotten, Fisher was fired from Texas A&M only a day after the Aggies’ 51-10 win over Mississippi State with simply two video games left on the 2023 schedule. This resulted in a record-setting $76 million buyout that the University pays for the subsequent decade.
Nowadays, Fisher is targeted on spending time together with his household whereas searching as a lot as time permits, figuring out that the sport will all the time be there if a return is in the playing cards.
However, Fisher can’t perceive the present NIL construction. He notes that the unequal footing amongst the bigger and smaller conferences might get out of management, as subsequent 12 months’s revenue-sharing introduction might exceed $22 million for bigger packages in the SEC and Big Ten. Speaking with CBS Sports’ Brandon Marcello, Fisher had some robust opinions about the future of CFB.
“People don’t realize that Alabama, Georgia and all of them ain’t got that money,” Fisher acknowledged to CBS Sports. “They’re not like Ohio State, Texas. There’s a difference within your own conference, in my opinion. Maybe you make it $16 (million) or $18 (million) so the other mid-level schools have a chance. I just hate taking the Big 12 out of this, the ACC. I mean, it’s crazy to me. You think of the national championship between Miami, FSU, Clemson … it’s still a shame to me.”
However, regarding Texas A&M’s funds after the program landed the highest-rated 2022 recruiting class in 247Sports historical past, Fisher referenced the earlier BroBible accusation that Texas A&M’s 2022-2023 collective was working with over $35 Million, revealing that the quantity was nowhere close to that astronomical worth.
Fisher additional defined to CBS Sports that in the 2022-2023 season, all 20 Texas A&M Athletic packages have been working with beneath $1 million, which led to a flurry of telephone calls from gamers and their members of the family.
“‘Where’s my money?'” was the normal query, he mentioned. “Why I came out and went against it as much as anything was because families were calling and saying, ‘Coach, I wasn’t bought.’ It was the families of the kids they were talking about. You don’t think about that avenue of it because they kept getting questions, too. That’s why I made the statements I made.”
Like him or not, it's important to respect Fisher’s brutal honesty. As the NIL panorama will little doubt proceed to create chaos if extra rules don’t come into play, Fisher feels that College Football ought to undertake the NFL construction if issues proceed down the identical street.
“Here’s what bothers me,” he acknowledged “No one has stepped up and watnt do do what’s right for college football. There needs to be a commissioner.”
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