Former Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher has reportedly taken a job up at ESPN for the upcoming college football season, according to the Worldwide Leader. This is coming off of a year where Jimbo was far more lowkey than many expected, only doing the occasional radio appearance from time to time during the college football season.
Fisher is set to be a studio analyst for the ESPN-owned ACC Network, appearing in the weekly "ACC Huddle" show which airs on Saturdays. He will be a member of a crew tasked with breaking down the marquee ACC game each week, in a comparable format to the SEC Network's "SEC Nation" show.
While most Aggie fans are much more likely to tune into the aforementioned SEC Network show or College Gameday rather than flip over to the ACC Network, it will still disgruntle some fans that Jimbo is on the air at all. The animus towards him from some fans by the end of his time in College Station was pretty profound, after all.
Former Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher set to join ACC Network as college football analyst
It makes sense that Fisher is heading to the ACC Network rather than the SEC Network, too, given that his most halcyon days took place in that conference. The SEC may have been his most recent stop, but outside of the COVID year, he never quite reached the heights that he did in Tallahassee.
There's been a lot of speculation about whether Fisher would return to coaching one day, too— controversial speculation, it should be said. Given that the chief criticism of him during his time with Texas A&M was that his coaching philosophy was outdated, it surely won't have gotten any better apart from a wholesale change— which seems unlikely.
In any case, something like this seemed inevitable. Hopefully, it won't cause too many Aggies to rage— but I'm sure he'll end up making some comment or another about A&M that could be taken the wrong way.