Jimbo Fisher’s buyout is $2.5 million more than the $75-million deal he initially agreed to at Texas A&M six years ago.
Perhaps the best illustration of the escalating price tags in recent years as it pertains to the hiring and firing of football coaches at programs at or near the top of the pyramid, is that Jimbo Fisher’s buyout is $2.5 million more than what he initially signed on for at Texas A&M six years ago.
Fisher left Florida State in December 2017 to accept a 10-year, $75-million deal to lead the Aggies.
The coach’s $77.5-million buyout is the result of a four-year extension that was announced prior to the 2021 season, three seasons into a tenure that had one strong showing to that point, and that was virus-abbreviated 2020 when the Aggies went 9-1 and finished No. 4 in the AP poll.
The extension, fully guaranteed and which ran through 2031, paid him more than $9 million annually effective 2022 and at the time placed Fisher second to Alabama’s Nick Saban ($10.6 million) as the highest-paid coaches in college football.
