When Can Texas A&M Football Fans Expect a Coach to be Hired?

When Can Texas A&M Football Fans Expect A New Coach Announcement?

This has been the biggest question on the minds of every Texas A&M football fans almost since the moment of the announcement that Jimbo Fisher would no longer be the coach in College Station. Part of the reasoning provided by AD Ross Bjork at his presser, and something that has been repeated several times since then, is that the Aggies want to get a coach in place as soon as possible to help maintain the current roster, retain recruits, and start moving in the portal as soon as it opens.

The portal date for FBS is December 4. It will be open for 30 days at that point, but that is the soonest that players for teams that have not had a coaching change will be able to hop in the portal. Assuming that some of the Texas A&M football team will avail themselves of that option—which you have to conclude will happen to a certain degree, given that there is a coaching change happening—you would want to have a guy in place that can either get them to return to the roster or scour the portal himself for replacements at those positions.

The other important date is the early signing period, which runs from December 20 to 22. Texas A&M football currently has a pretty solid class committed, but teams (and certain media outlets, apparently) have begun to make hard runs at several of the top names, trying to get them to reconsider their commitment status. The sooner the better for a coaching hire on this front, as a guy who is hired earlier on will have more time to develop a relationship with the currently committed guys and reassure them of his direction with the program.

That said, when can we expect to hear about Texas A&M football making a hire? Well, Billy Liucci of Texags has maintained that the Aggies should have someone in place a few days after this Saturday’s game against LSU. He recently mentioned, however, that if the Aggies have decided to roll the dice on a guy like Kalen DeBoer—whose Huskies squad will be playing in the PAC-12 Championship game on December 2—that timeline could be pushed up a bit. In fact, any coach in the running who is headed for a conference championship would likely necessitate such a shift in timeline. This line of reasoning would also go for coaches who get into the playoff (for there are a few such coaches on the short list); this would in all likelihood remove them from contention, barring something very out of the ordinary, as those games don’t take place until far after the early signing period has ended.

If I had to guess today, I would say that we hear something sooner rather than later on one of these names. I think Bjork is narrowing things down, and we will have a good idea very soon of who the guy is for the Texas A&M football job.

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