Jimbo Fisher has a ton of experience as a college football head coach. Some of that experience is great, too. He won a BCS national championship with the Florida State Seminoles in 2013 and boasted a 14-0 season.
After Virginia Tech got drubbed on Saturday at home by Old Dominion, 45-26, the Hokies fell to a woeful 0-3 to start the 2025 season. A day later, Virginia Tech announced the firing of head coach Brent Pry.
Jimbo Fisher has not coached college football since he was fired by Texas A&M midway through the 2023 season, but the former national champion does not view himself as being retired.
Despite his love for college football, Fisher sees major flaws that continue to plague the sport, issues he believes must be rectified in order to prevent tampering and widespread cheating.
The Texas A&M Aggies began a new era in November when they fired former head coach Jimbo Fisher following a win over Mississippi State. Later that month, they brought in new head coach Mike Elko from Duke, who has transformed the program and its culture since arriving in Aggieland.
Time to speculate wildly Texas A&M’s uniforms have been exceptionally simple over the past four seasons, wearing just one uniform template and only two color combinations (maroon/maroon/white at home and maroon/white/white on the road) with Jimbo Fisher at the helm.
The Texas A&M Aggies are making moves with quarterbacks. In the Jimbo Fisher era, quarterback was a common issue that plagued the Aggies, and helped keep them from truly contending in the SEC.
Non-conference schedules are great ways of weighing one conference against another. Plenty of attention is paid to the non-conference slates of contenders and pretenders alike.
Two losses occured Tuesday afternoon in College Station. One saw former Texas A&M baseball coach Jim Schlossnagle leave the program for a job 100 miles west of Aggieland in the scorching heat of Austin, while the other saw the coach himself forfeit his status as an Aggie, and not just in a literal sense.
Jimbo Fisher’s net worth in 2024 is $30 million. Fisher has spent over two decades as head coach for major college football programs and even won a national championship.
To take a line from former Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger, “We’re Back.” In this case the "back" being one of college football's best rivalries—the Loan Star Showdown between Texas and Texas A&M.
After a tumultuous few seasons under Jimbo Fisher, the Texas A&M Aggies made a coaching change last November. Fisher was out with a $75-plus million buyout, and interim coach Elijah Robinson completed the season in his place.
The Texas A&M Aggies brought in former defensive coordinator-turned-Duke-head-coach Mike Elko to resurrect their dying football program. And the team has reacted positively both on the field and off.
Texas A&M has seen many players leave the program after Jimbo Fisher was fired. There was a mass exodus of players, but now that the window has closed, teams have a better idea of what their teams will look like in 2024.
The Texas A&M Aggies fired head coach Jimbo Fisher in November, putting an end to a tumultuous tenure that had him on the hot seat in each of the last three seasons.
College Station's nightmare is over. Per ESPN's Pete Thamel, Texas A&M has fired Fisher with two games left in the regular season. What's next for the Aggies?