After a tumultuous start to the 2017 season, Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher is drawing interest from Texas A&M.
As one of the worst seasons under Jimbo Fisher wears down, there’s always going to be chatter about whether or not the old ball coach should remain in Tallahassee or find a job elsewhere. Usually when a coach goes from top-five in the preseason polls to potentially not making a bowl, hot seat talk ramps up.
However, the opposite has happened with Fisher. The Florida State football coach has been drawing interest from another Power Five program, according to reports. Texas A&M has expressed interest in the head coach, but what are the odds that the Aggies actually sway him?
That’s a good question and begs to be answered, but at this point in his career, it’d be hard to understand just why he’d make a move from arguably the top ACC football program to the middle of the SEC pack, chasing down Alabama.
The 52-year-old coach has been with Florida State for eight years now as the head man and was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach the three seasons before that. He has developed relationships in Tallahassee that wouldn’t be matched in College Station for at least a decade. This semi-lateral move just doesn’t make sense.
Seminoles fans can rest easy, though. This is purely interest from one side as Fisher hasn’t reached out inquiring about the job. The Aggies want him, the Seminoles don’t want to lose him and he’s in a good place, outside of this past season, with Florida State.
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The move wouldn’t make much sense, which is why it won’t happen. Although Fisher has entertained the LSU job before, he realized that he has the best chance to win long-term with Florida State in the ACC.