Jimbo Fisher and Texas A&M are no strangers to being accused of buying players. Alabama's Nick Saban accused Fisher of buying his recruiting class in May. Now that the beef between the two coaches is supposedly over, Fisher has other fish to fry.
A viral video allegedly shows a recruiter telling recruits that they would “be getting a lot of money from those people behind the suites” if they joined Texas A&M.
Of course, this feeds directly into Saban's accusation from May. Jimbo Fisher spent time during SEC Media Days on Thursday to squash the eerily similar accusation.
“No, that’s not what he said,” Fisher said, according to AL.com. “Those guys pay down there very well, and what he meant was — he was a young guy, been there about a month — the guys behind those seats is what paid for your program. That was the donations and boosters and how he said it and how he spoke. Do we all have NIL? Yes, we do. But that’s what he was meaning.”
He then explained that the recruiter was referencing the top donors for the program.
“It’s a … thing that we say with all recruits. The guys behind those things are the guys who pay for our program, what we do, the donations. That’s what it was. He had been here one month.”
Hopefully, for Fisher and Texas A&M, these serious accusations can finally come to an end. As for the Fisher vs Saban saga, that will be settled when Fisher and the Aggies travel to Alabama to face Saban and the Crimson Tide.
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