New Texas A&M assistant hire is going over like a lead balloon with fans

Texas A&M football announced today that they would be promoting assistant John Perry to receivers coach as well as assistant Joey Lynch getting the nod for the vacant QBs coach spot. While these moves are expected, at least one of them is already causing a stir among the fanbase.

Perry's addition was a help this past offseason in developing the pass game to a greater degree from 2024 to 2025, so that hire was not that controversial. The issue for many fans is the promotion of Joey Lynch to the QBs spot, where there were a lot of eyes after this previous year.

Texas A&M fans don't get the new blood they wanted with new quarterbacks coach hire

There were a lot of Texas A&M football fans who were quite displeased with the state of the quarterback position at the conclusion of the 2025 season, as there were a lot of mistakes being made that seemed to be due to coaching. While Mike Elko clearly values continuity on his staff, that section of the fanbase were hoping for a change at that spot in particular— just look at replies to posts like the following.

Joey Lynch has been around for some time, working at Colorado State and at Vanderbilt. Neither spot exactly saw a huge jump in QB play when he was there, of course— these are not exactly places known for dynamic signal callers in the first place, but sometimes a new coach is all you need to get a spark.

That's not what has happened in Lynch's past stops, but it's also fair to say that Mike Elko has earned some trust. The cynics will say that it's a lazy move and evidence that Elko values continuity over the best man available, but that would probably be a rush to judgment.

I think this conversation looks quite different if the end of the season had different results. There's a sense in which fans are being prisoners of the moment here, but this is definitely a risk for the Aggies. We'll see how the QB play develops going forward, and if Joey Lynch can make these fans eat some crow.