Potential head coach replacements for Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M

The firing of Jimbo Fisher in his sixth season as head coach of the Aggies creates the first big job opening of the 2023-24 coaching carousel and the line of potential suitors should be long and include huge names in the college football world. Fisher was 45-25 in six seasons as the head coach and under .500 in SEC plays since the start of the 2021 season. The Aggies are 7-12 in their last 19 games against P5 teams and haven’t won a true road game in over two years. 

The hiring of a new coach is hampered by one factor – Texas A&M owes Fisher $76 million dollars with 20 percent due within 30 days of termination and the rest to be paid annually for the next eight years. That’ll be roughly $7 million a year for Fisher without factoring in whatever the new head coach makes. That might keep the Aggies from making a similar splash to the one they made late in 2017 by signing Fisher to a now notorious 10-year, $75 million dollar contract.