Texas A&M Football: Grading the Jimbo Fisher hire by the Aggies

Now that days of drama have come to an end, we can finally call Jimbo Fisher the new head coach of Texas A&M football. Let’s grade the hire.

So after a five to six-day odyssey of tracking flights, coaching searches and watching Christmas trees (I wish I were joking), it’s officially official: Jimbo Fisher is headed to Texas A&M.

While I’m still on the fence about what I think about the move for Fisher, I must say that I’m very impressed with the hire by A&M. The Aggie brass needed to make a bold move and shake things up as they were losing ground in the always tough SEC West. Bringing Fisher signals that the Texas A&M program needs to live up to the lofty hype and expectations that come with A&M’s recent upgrades to Kyle Field and the Aggie athletic programs as a whole.

Jimbo is one of a handful of coaches that can walk into any recruits home or school and come out with the kid so he’s automatically contending with the Gary Patterson’s and Tom Herman’s in the state from day one.

When it comes to what happens to this team on the field is where Fisher will be tested the most and there will be no shortage of SEC drama once Fisher is thrust into the spotlight.

You have the Alabama connection with former boss and Alabama head coach Nick Saban, their relationship goes back years and years with stops together in the college and pro ranks. Then you have the LSU connection which is more murky and dramatic when you factor in the long-standing rumors that Fisher was the replacement for Les Miles in 2015 and 2016.

What does Fisher inherit? Well, he would be getting a lot of young talent that managed to get to a bowl game for the ninth straight season. He would have either Kellen Mond or Nick Starkel as his quarterback so there is a decent building block on the offensive front. Add in Trayveon Williams and the incoming reciting class that will most certainly be in the top 10 and an explosive offense will invade College Station come fall 2018.

Oh and the defense, the thing that sunk the Kevin Sumlin regime. It will be better, I mean you can’t sink any lower than they did in the John Chavis era.

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At the end of the day, A&M fired their old coach to get the guy they wanted and in the end, the program has put themselves to compete with Auburn, LSU and Alabama for years to come. In this case, the next 10 years which is the length of the Fisher to A&M deal.

Final Grade: A+