The Jimbo Fisher thread
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Aggie dorks have a shload of money too they just spend it terribly.
Only cool thing about A@M is their band. Everything else is weird. I always hoped nobody from a different country went to a game and then reported back to their country that we are all like A@M. I have a fear other countries think we are all like them
The depth of weirdness is astounding…..name a college that is this “special”. Almost like aTm told Stanford to hold their beer.
I don't disagree but I do think CMC is smart enough to not take that job. In the new B1G schools like MSU, Illinois, Purdue, NW , WI, Nebby, Minnesota, and Iowa are all looking up at Michigan, tOSU, Penn St, Oregon, and USC. Jobs at those 8 old B1G schools just got a lot harder. IMO WI is probably in the best spot to succeed and I do think Rhule will make Nebby formidable but time will tell. The days of hiding from the top teams are done and that's gonna be tough on theB1G West schools.
Who would even want Dabo right now? He's basically anti NIL and still recruits like the portal doesn't exist. I don't care how good your program is, that approach isn't going to work anymore if you want to be one of the blue bloods.
Oh those poor players. Having their coach canned before the end of the season is such a distraction. 
I'm guessing it'll be Elko, but selfishly I REALLY want them to bring Prime to town. That would be a wonderfully entertaining circus.
I never have wrapped my head around the suck fest of Jimbo Fisher by the national media and why Texas A&M spent a fortune hiring him. He was a constant under achiever at FSU(based on expectations and talent), other than that two year stretch with Jameis Winston at QB. He was trending downward and I believe had a losing record his last year at FSU. Texas A&M deserves every bit of this disaster that is Jimbo Fisher.
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Well, he might be the most successful person ever to be named "Jimbo"... Not an incredibly long list, but it's something for him to hang his hat on.
Remember a couple years ago when Campbell and Ficklell were some of the hottest coaches "that didn't want to leave" their current school?
Fickell goes to Wisconsin in the division where it's probably the worst its ever been, and is in danger of not going to a bowl game. Next year, Wisconsin will go even farther down the pecking order and won't have the division to help them out. lol...
I've seen similar thinking bandied about by Iowa State fans and the logic doesn't hold that well. Sure, none of those teams are very likely become a national power but for some reason some of you guys think the non-elites of the Big 10 are going to have to play all the blue bloods every year. That's not how any of this works. At most they'll play two of those. To make the playoffs they'll probably either need to beat one of the two or win the other 10 convincingly. That's even assuming the elite schools mentioned are actually elite in the year you play them. Pretty safe assumption with Ohio State. Not sure the same could be said for the rest of them.
That's not that different from the pre-division days. Iowa beat both UM and PSU in 2002 and 2009 and lost to UM but beat OSU and PSU in 2004. You can go back and look at MSU's successful seasons and they'll have beaten two of the three as well. Same for Wisconsin. That's probably where the second tier of Big 10 teams ends (you can add Washington to this tier probably, we'll see on UCLA)
My point is I don't think the additions to the conference impact how many times each of those teams make the playoffs. When those teams have been really good, it hasn't mattered if the elite teams were on the schedule or not. The important thing is hiring the right coach that is actually capable of producing those teams. Fickell is playing a dangerous game completely overhauling Wisconsin's offensive identity but maybe it'll work for him if given enough time. I have my doubts but if he can win in Cincinnati he can win at Wisconsin. We'll see who MSU hires. Dantonio had some really good football teams so if they hire the right guy, no reason to think it can't be done at MSU. As for Iowa, I think Kirk has one more top 12 team in him, but not two. Then we'll see who the next guy is.
The mid level Big 10 teams have never been every year BCS bowl contenders so no reason to think they'll ever get to the point that they'd be every year playoff contenders unless one of them gets a homerun hire. But I also don't see why they won't be what they are now, where two or three times a decade you'll field a team capable of competing for a playoff spot.
