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3 Notes One Week into Texas A&M Football’s HC Search

By Graham Harmon

Nov 11, 2023; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher looks on during warm ups prior to the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Maria Lysaker-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 11, 2023; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies head coach Jimbo Fisher looks on during warm ups prior to the game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Kyle Field. Mandatory Credit: Maria Lysaker-USA TODAY Sports /
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Oct 7, 2023; Los Angeles, California, USA; Arizona Wildcats head coach Jedd Fisch watches game action against the Southern California Trojans during the first half at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports /

Search for Next Texas A&M Football Coach Spanning Wide Range

If we’ve learned one thing so far from some of the rumors and notes that have been revealed about this search for Texas A&M football, it’s that AD Ross Bjork is casting a very wide net in his list of interviews. We’ve heard names of sitting college head coaches, high-level assistants, and even coordinators and coaches at the NFL level.

That said, it does seem that Bjork has begun to zone in on sitting coaches at the FBS level of competition. Glenn Schumann, Georgia defensive coordinator, was a very popular name early on in the search among certain fans, but Billy Liucci of Texags said on Texags Radio that Schumann would not be a finalist, bringing on the ire of those fans. It was confirmed that Texas A&M football reached out to alumnus Dan Campbell, now leading an upstart Detroit Lions team to a much-improved record and hopeful playoff berth, but Campbell turned them down. This was always the likely outcome, but you have to do your due diligence there. I’m not sure how much substance was there, but there was a rumor that Todd Monken of the Ravens was getting a look early on—but that has since died down to almost nothing.

Instead, names that we are hearing more and more about are ones like Washington’s Kalen DeBoer, Oregon State’s Jonathan Smith, Arizona’s Jedd Fisch, among others. It’s probably no coincidence that so many names from the PAC-12 are coming up, as the amount of change these schools are undergoing—whether leaving for greener pastures or no—is causing some level of turmoil. One to keep an eye on here is Arizona, given that their athletic department recently announced a budget shortage somewhere in the neighborhood of $240 million. Fisch’s success there is intriguing, and that shortage is imminently material to his future at Arizona.