Aggie_Jeff said:

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Yeah those playoff appearances under jumbo was great. Wait there wasn't any?

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Are we comparing playoffs with 4 teams vs 12 like they are the same?

Aggie_Jeff said:

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Yeah those playoff appearances under jumbo was great. Wait there wasn't any?

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If they had the same playoff system they do now, Jimbo would've made the playoffs in 2020.

If Elko had the same playoff system that Jimbo had, he would not have made the playoff last year.

QB injuries killed Jimbo

Dan Scott said:

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QB injuries killed Jimbo

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Jimbo's idiocy killed JImbo.

zooguy96 said:

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Aggie_Jeff said:

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Yeah those playoff appearances under jumbo was great. Wait there wasn't any?

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If they had the same playoff system they do now, Jimbo would've made the playoffs in 2020.

If Elko had the same playoff system that Jimbo had, he would not have made the playoff last year.

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This is very true.

And both teams were not good enough to win the championship that year

Lol watching some of ya'll start wishing we had coaches back, and knowing that ya'll were saying the same things about them as ya'll did Elko has been entertaining to the point that the loss doesn't even sting that bad.

This thread is comedy gold.

Frok said:

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Jimbo and Sumlin were both better.

Elko is somewhere around Sherman and Fran

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Year 3 for Elko people. Grow up and get a clue.

Can Jimbo just come be the highest paid OC. Or he'd be free dept on how you look at it.

Can't be worse than Wiggins.

WE WANT JIMBO BACK

By this point we would have won the natty.

So bring Jimbo back and make Elko the DC. We are already paying both. Seemed to work last time. Ha

If Jimbo still getting paid, let's bring him back. He can coach first half and Dr. Elko can coach the 2nd. Let's see who's better!

Seanzy2012 said:

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Y'all won't like this. And I'm ready to be fire roasted for it, but I don't care. We should have kept him and let it play out, especially since he was already paid. At least his QBs improved. And yes, Mond did improve.

As bad as Jimbos offense could be. Wasn't this bad. And Jimbo only had a year with defense this poor.

Go ahead and light me up now.

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jt16 said:

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I didn't want to fire Jimbo, mainly because the idea of paying someone $77mm not to coach is so distasteful to me. But I wanted to find an AD with balls enough to demand a real OC

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Agree with this. Jimbo may or may not have worked out, but now we have another coach that is suspect and may or may not work out, wasted a tin of money, and look pathetic by paying the largest buyout in history by far and still have a suspect coach.

here's the problem...

the wheels came off for Jimbo in year 5

the wheels have come off for Elko in year 3

huge difference

I agree 100%.

Didn't see the point of the buyout unless you've got a really good coach lined up….certainly not to hire Stoops or Elko.

As long as you find someone who doesn't have Jimmy Sexton as their agent, we may have a prayer. Otherwise, we will be paying $12 million annually for six years out of the gate, fully guaranteed, with some BS clause about rolling extensions every time there's a winning season. Because that's the only way you're going to get a name coach here.

Firing Jimbo is one thing. Firing Jimbo for $76mil to go away, without a ****ing plan in place was a nail in the program's coffin. Hell, they almost hired Mike ****ing stoops.

pointer74 said:

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No he wasnt

He was a used car salesman

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He was a great interview…

Appalachian State on line 1

After an 11-2 (6-2 SEC) finish, I had believed that Mike Elko had transformed the team. Before Elko arrived, we had lost 10 consecutive true road games, including 9 consecutive SEC true road games. Jimbo Fisher was responsible for all of those road losses except for a 42-30 loss at LSU on 11/25/2023. Unfortunately, we have lost 6 of our last 8 games against Power 4 teams, including 5 of our last 6 SEC games, dating back to a 27-17 loss to Texas on 11/28/2025. Elko had started 6-2 in true road games, including 5-2 in true SEC road games, but we have lost 4 consecutive SEC road games to Texas, LSU, Missouri, and Alabama by a combined score of 120-49.

If we lose our last 2 road games to South Carolina, and Oklahoma, we will go 0-5 in true road games for the first time since 2003. That would also mean going winless in road games for the 3rd time in 5 years; 0-4 (0-4 SEC) in 2022, 0-4 (0-3 SEC) in 2023, and 0-5 (0-5 SEC) in 2026. Also, we would carry a 6-game road losing streak into next year.

In addition, we will probably be home underdogs to Tennessee and Texas. If we finish 2-7 or worse in SEC, it will be our worst-ever SEC record. Prior to this season, we only had two losing SEC records: 3-5 in 2014 and 2-6 in 2022. We will likely finish 2-7 or 3-6 in SEC play based on the current win probabilities.

Keeping JImbo meant keeping Connor Wiegman.

Hiring Elko who never won a thing was better than Stoops but he was never intended to get 11 Million and become Coach Dad.

Iraq2xVeteran said:

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After an 11-2 (6-2 SEC) finish, I had believed that Mike Elko had transformed the team. Before Elko arrived, we had lost 10 consecutive true road games, including 9 consecutive SEC true road games. Jimbo Fisher was responsible for all of those road losses except for a 42-30 loss at LSU on 11/25/2023. Unfortunately, we have lost 6 of our last 8 games against Power 4 teams, including 5 of our last 6 SEC games, dating back to a 27-17 loss to Texas on 11/28/2025. Elko had started 6-2 in true road games, including 5-2 in true SEC road games, but we have lost 4 consecutive SEC road games to Texas, LSU, Missouri, and Alabama by a combined score of 120-49.

If we lose our last 2 road games to South Carolina, and Oklahoma, we will go 0-5 in true road games for the first time since 2003. That would also mean going winless in road games for the 3rd time in 5 years; 0-4 (0-4 SEC) in 2022, 0-4 (0-3 SEC) in 2023, and 0-5 (0-5 SEC) in 2026. Also, we would carry a 6-game road losing streak into next year.

In addition, we will probably be home underdogs to Tennessee and Texas. If we finish 2-7 or worse in SEC, it will be our worst-ever SEC record. Prior to this season, we only had two losing SEC records: 3-5 in 2014 and 2-6 in 2022. We will likely finish 2-7 or 3-6 in SEC play based on the current win probabilities.

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So Elko sucks bad. Real bad

Jimbo not only hired Steve Addazio in the first place but then kept him around for a second season.

Jimbo would have kept escalating such sustained failures until we fired him.

Jimbo got the retirement check from us that Free Shoes U would never write for him.

Demo_Slug said:

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Elko is a defensive coach. The others mentioned are offensive guys with putrid offenses. If Elko could make a good hire on offense… things would be better. But Elko still has a decent defense.

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Elko is too blind to see, or admit, how badly he screwed up having no experienced backup QB's on the roster. Additionally, he's too dumb to adequately assess Reed's accuracy problems which have existed going all the way back to High School. Far too many YAC have been lost with poor passes. It's disgusting.

SteveA said:

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Firing Jimbo for $76mil to go away, without a ****ing plan in place was a nail in the program's coffin.

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you may be more correct than you know.

Elko's tenure may kill the A&M football program in less than a year after a playoff appearance

Agree on the sentiment but go look at records of 1st 4 seasons under Jimbo...all 8+ win seasons, then had his first losing season in year 5 (always had at least 5 wins).

Elko is not only going to have a losing season in 3rd year, but is going to be such a turd thumping downfall that this program now has directional issues and decision making. There's not much proof he'll get over 4 wins this year with remaining schedule.

Texas A&M Aggies (Southeastern Conference) (20182023)
2018
Texas A&M
94
53
T2nd (Western)
W Gator

2019
Texas A&M
85
44
4th (Western)
W Texas

2020
Texas A&M
91
81
2nd (Western)
W Orange

2021
Texas A&M
84
44
T3rd (Western)
Gator [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Fisher#cite_note-Gator_Bowl-127][n 2][/url]

2022
Texas A&M
57
26
T6th (Western)

2023
Texas A&M
64[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimbo_Fisher#cite_note-Fired-128][n 3][/url]
43
(Western)

Texas A&M:
4525
2721

At least his pressers (Jimbo) where much much much more entertaining. So there's that…

No

as an aside...one mistake Jimbo made that had nothing to do with X's and O's or Jimmys and Joes...

insisting on traveling to road games on Thursday nights. The administration and athletic department did not like that at all because it soared travel costs

Definitely not Fran… yet. I think he's overly committed to Marcel. I wonder if part of the reason Marcel is struggling so much is because Wiggins is so bad and the plays just don't work. He also could just suck

PTBaggie said:

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Definitely not Fran… yet. I think he's overly committed to Marcel. I wonder if part of the reason Marcel is struggling so much is because Wiggins is so bad and the plays just don't work. He also could just suck

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Guys have been open every game and he just can't hit them. Wiggins may not be good but Marcel is definitely a bigger issue. Though next year, I'd like to see every coach on the offensive ball side of the ball canned and just start over.

Jimbo needed to execute more.

Pizza said:

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Lol watching some of ya'll start wishing we had coaches back, and knowing that ya'll were saying the same things about them as ya'll did Elko has been entertaining to the point that the loss doesn't even sting that bad.

This thread is comedy gold.

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Unfortunately, this has become the most entertaining part of Aggie football: the ensuing meltdown after another loss.

Don't know if Jimbo was better than Elko or vice versa, but what I do know is I never saw Jimbo's teams look so helplessly lost. Even more lost are the coaches. Watching Elko get up and struggle to answer questions or give explanations is fascinating to watch. He literally has no answers for why we look so inept. I don't remember Jimbo in such dire circumstances.

Yeah but this one talks slower. Win.

StinkyPinky said:

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At least his pressers (Jimbo) where much much much more entertaining. So there's that…

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I miss watching Jimbo pick his boogers