Is there even a redemption arc left for Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M?

Jimbo Fisher’s Texas A&M Aggies are the first, and only, SEC team up to this point that has failed to achieve bowl eligibility this season.

This is the worse than the worst case scenario for Jimbo Fisher and the Texas A&M Aggies.

After losing an unbelievable sixth SEC game in a row, the Aggies are on the other side of the asymptote of a complete and unmitigated disaster. Not only has this team hit rock bottom, but the Aggies have called in reinforcements in the form of backhoes to lower the floor even some more. I mean, they just lost on the road to Auburn 13-10 vs. an interim coach, Carnell “Cadillac” Williams.

As unthinkable as it sounds, if Texas A&M were to lose to UMass, Fisher must be fired on the spot.

What else does Jimbo Fisher have to do to show he is not the guy for Texas A&M?

At the start of the season, Texas A&M was the No. 6 team in the nation. Did the Associated Press massively overrate this team? Oh God yes, but we all did. The Aggies had serious College Football Playoff aspirations, despite those in the know shorting them every step of the way because they are an 8-4 program under Fisher and nothing more. Well, they are about to be the inverse of that…

Because LSU is the last game of the season, the Tigers will not want to lay an egg on Kyle Field to keep their fleeting College Football Playoff chances alive before the SEC Championship Game vs. heavily-favored Georgia in Atlanta. Even if Texas A&M beats UMass and stuns LSU at the end of the season, the Aggies will only be 5-7 (2-6) on the year. That means zero bowl game practices.

The only saving graces for Fisher at this point are how well the Aggies have recruited of late and how much his buyout is. But let’s be real for three seconds. If those are the only two reasons for Texas A&M to keep him around, then the athletic department is full of nothing but cowards. Nobody has done less with more than Fisher. He has become college football’s new Scott Frost…

To not make it to a bowl game is so beyond devastating to a program of Texas A&M’s ilk. While a bowl itself is largely meaningless, missing out on those bowl-game practices means the Aggies are not getting better for next season, while seemingly all of their competitors are. This is how you get lapped and go 2-6 or 1-7 in SEC play next year. You are not Vanderbilt, who is still alive at 4-6.

While a UMass win is expected and it would be so cool to beat LSU at home to end the season on a mirage of a high note, there may not be a more dire situation in the Power Five right now than Texas A&M. Sure, bad programs like Colorado and Indiana absolutely stink, but the Buffaloes and the Hoosiers do not have the resources anywhere close to what the Aggies are wasting on Fisher.

Truth be told, Texans are very proud people and care deeply about their football at all levels, high school, college and pro. It matters a ton there, and the fanbase deserves so much better than this festering hot garbage they have had to stomach from this West Virginia snake oil salesman. Sure, he can have success somewhere else, maybe at WVU for all we know, but this has to end already.

Ultimately, the only way this gets better is with an upset win over LSU and salvaging the 2023 recruiting class as much as possible. Texas A&M was a very young team this year, but whose fault is that? This was not Fisher’s first year on the job. Texas A&M is a program that could contend for national champions, but instead, they are not even good enough to collect a participation trophy…

It will get worse before it gets better, but Texas A&M may not be ready to bite the bullet just yet.

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