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Texas A&M Football: 5 reasons Jimbo Fisher isn’t coming to College Station

By Connor Muldowney

PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 06: Florida State Seminoles head coach Jimbo Fisher holds the Coaches' Trophy after defeating the Auburn Tigers 34-31 in the 2014 Vizio BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl on January 6, 2014 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 06: Florida State Seminoles head coach Jimbo Fisher holds the Coaches' Trophy after defeating the Auburn Tigers 34-31 in the 2014 Vizio BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl on January 6, 2014 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images) /
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PASADENA, CA – JANUARY 06: Florida State Seminoles head coach Jimbo Fisher holds the Coaches’ Trophy after defeating the Auburn Tigers 34-31 in the 2014 Vizio BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl on January 6, 2014 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
PASADENA, CA – JANUARY 06: Florida State Seminoles head coach Jimbo Fisher holds the Coaches’ Trophy after defeating the Auburn Tigers 34-31 in the 2014 Vizio BCS National Championship Game at the Rose Bowl on January 6, 2014 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images) /

4. National championship-winning coaches don’t leave

If Jimbo Fisher were to leave just four years after winning a national title with Florida State, it would be one of the most eye-opening moves in college football history.

Not only would it mean he would be starting over somewhere else after building a perennial national title contender, but it would also be the first time that a head coach who won a title with a program chose another school while still employed by that program.

Technically Urban Meyer left Florida, where he won the national title, for Ohio State, but he had actually retired from coaching first before taking the job in Columbus a couple years later. Nick Saban, too, left LSU for another job, but that happened to be at the NFL level with the Dolphins. He returned to the college ranks three years later with Alabama.

Fisher is just four years removed from his national title and won an Orange Bowl last year. He also has three conference titles, a division title and an 83-23 overall record with the Seminoles. If he left for Texas A&M, that would truly be an unprecedented move.