Never mind that Jimbo Fisher is going to collect approximately $77 million from Texas A&M even if he lands another coaching gig that pays him, say, $77 million. That’s more than three times the amount any other college football program has ever spent to fire its football coach, and if you like Aggie jokes, there’s your all-timer. Until Sunday, Auburn’s $21.45 million payout to Gus Malzahn after the 2020 season had been the highest on record, and once A&M pays off Fisher’s assistant coaches, the final tab will likely cost more than $100 million.It was only six years ago that A&M chancellor John Sharp, when asked why he’d given Fisher a ten-year contract, shot back: “We couldn’t get him to agree to a fifteen-year deal,…
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