The Texas A&M football program decided to fire Jimbo Fisher and search for another new coach. Despite a 51-10 win on Saturday night, Fisher's time in College Station ended Sunday Morning, and Texas A&M is now on the hook for a whopping $76.8 million buyout. Elijah Robinson was named the interim head coach for the Texas A&M football team, and the job should be a popular one for some of the top coaching candidates in the game.

Ross Bjork, the Texas A&M athletic director, revealed why the program decided to move on from Fisher, even stating that they were “stuck in neutral” (h/t Dave Wilson of ESPN).

“The assessment that I delivered was that we are not reaching our full potential. We are not in the championship conversation and something was not quite right about our direction and the plan. We should be relevant on the national scene.”

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Bjork reveals that he had a meeting with Texas A&M president Gen. Mark Welsh after the Aggies fell to Ole Miss, and that appears to be when the decision was made. It's a tough decision to stomach for the Texas A&M football team, especially with having to pay Jimbo Fisher more than $75 million not to coach.

Fisher's first three years in College Station went well with a 26-10 record, but in the past three years he has gone just 19-15 and is simply not living up to that massive 10-year, $75 million deal, but the Aggies doubled down on Fisher and gave him an extension in 2021 that brought his salary to $9 million per season.

As Bjork says, it just didn't work, and moving on is the best option going forward for the program: “There was something just not clicking to provide confidence for everyone in the program. You have to adapt, you have to evolve. I'm not going to say whether he did or didn't, but it didn't work.”

Nonetheless, the consensus is that a lot of coaches should have an interest in the Texas A&M football opening, and Ole Miss HC Lane Kiffin's name even circulated as one viable option. Let the coaching search begin in College Station.