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3 Best and 3 Worst Ideas for Next Texas A&M Football Coach

By Graham Harmon

Oct 1, 2022; Starkville, Mississippi, USA; Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher walks off the field during halftime of the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Bush-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 1, 2022; Starkville, Mississippi, USA; Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher walks off the field during halftime of the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field. Mandatory Credit: Matt Bush-USA TODAY Sports /
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Kalen DeBoer a possible target for Texas A&M Football
Nov 11, 2023; Seattle, Washington, USA; Washington Huskies head coach Kalen Deboer talks to the media after the game against the Utah Utes at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports /

Good Idea for Texas A&M Football: Kalen DeBoer

DeBoer is another candidate, like Lanning, currently up in the Pacific Northwest and in the thick of the playoff hunt. He, along with OC Ryan Grubb—who the Aggies made a run at this past offseason (imagine how things might have gone differently this year had they landed him!)—have orchestrated one of the top offenses in the nation. DeBoer has an extremely impressive 21-2 record up in Seattle so far (with neither loss being to Lanning’s Oregon, notably), sitting at 10-0 this year alone. He’s 33-8 as a head coach at the FBS level, and ran a dynasty at the NAIA level, compiling a 67-3 overall record as head coach at Sioux Falls, his alma mater.

DeBoer clearly has a championship pedigree. It was at a lower level, but building that kind of sustained culture anywhere is not an easy task. He is beginning to show that it is repeatable at the Power 5 level with what he’s doing at Washington, and for that reason the Aggies should give him a hard look. The question is recruiting—can he run with the top programs on that front down in the SEC, where he has never coached? You can hire a great staff to recruit, but I don’t think that’s quite enough. Can he be that ace recruiter—or at least a plus on the trail? Fisher certainly was one of the top recruiters in the nation—look at the classes he could pull in relative to the results on the field! Despite that big question, I see this as a great hire. DeBoer is a great combination of proven champion and up-and-comer, and I think he would do well at Texas A&M football with the talent the Aggies have on campus and bring in every year.