Texas A&M did not wait till the tip of the season to section techniques with trainer Jimbo Fisher, firing the sixth-year Aggies boss on Sunday with two video games nonetheless last within the common season. While mid-season firings have transform extra common because of the NCAA’s early signing duration and different components, it hasn’t precisely been a celebrated development. Texas trainer Steve Sarkisian mentioned Monday that whilst he understood why a training exchange used to be made via the Longhorns’ in-state rival, he used to be nonetheless eliminate via the timing.
“When you’re firing a coach at this point in the season, you’re telling that current team ‘We’re giving up on you and all we’re worried about is the future,'” Sarkisian mentioned, in line with the Austin American-Statesman. “I think that the young men in our sport work way too hard — 12 months of the year — to be given up on, and the fact that they work so hard, they’re fighting for bowl games and things and futures of their career to say ‘Hey, this season’s a wash.'”
Fisher’s firing got here sooner or later after Texas A&M posted a 51-10 house win in opposition to Mississippi State, transferring the Aggies to 6 wins and bowl eligibility. Nonetheless, a 6-4 mark thru Week 11 had Texas A&M on monitor for some other disappointing end beneath Fisher, who arrived to College Station again in December 2017 with nationwide championship expectancies. The Aggies completed an total 45-25 beneath his watch, by no means successful the SEC West.
Sarkisian additionally emphasised that it isn’t simply the trainer’s livelihood this is impacted when a metamorphosis is made, regardless of the college.
“Everybody wants to just point to the head coach getting fired, when in actuality, a lot of people are eventually out of jobs and need to go find jobs, and they’re getting relocated, and kids are changing schools,” Sarkisian mentioned. “When you live that and you see the effect it has on your kids, that’s a lot. It takes a toll.”
Fisher’s go out made Texas A&M the primary Power Five college to section techniques with a trainer for efficiency this season. The Aggies have been then joined via the very group they beat Saturday when Mississippi State fired trainer Zach Arnett after not up to one complete season. Arnett took over following the dying of Mike Leach in December 2022.
Texas A&M’s training exchange implies that a brand new face will probably be in position for the Aggies when Texas joins them within the SEC in 2024 with the competitors set to sq. off for the primary time since 2011. The Longhorns are lately 9-1 and within the College Football Playoff dialogue of their ultimate 12 months of Big 12 club.