re: Is Texas A&M really a better job than FSU?

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Time will tell if it's really the "sleeping giant" that folks keep making it out to be. I just don't see it tbh.

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Interesting. Reading between the lines I think you meant...

I just don't want to even imagine this working. It would be a living breathing nightmare. Please dear god, make this fall through somehow.

It's all going to be okay. Take a deep breath.

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He will recruit and field better teams than was there previously.

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possible, very possible

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Too bad we have a cheap arse AD could have had a superstar tandem in Jimbo and Aranda.

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well duh

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Texas A&M will be very successfull with him there.

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doubtful they win anymore hardware than they did with sumlin and jimbo has a stacked resume compared to sumlin. IOW it ain't jimbo it is TAMU that is the problem

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Yes. Not even close.

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I don't think anyone actually believes this.

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Fans complaining about over paying Jimbo are just ignorant to market economics

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Sure there is supply and demand, but there is also risk to reward. With every dollar of buyout $ and every year guaranteed on his contract the risk goes up exponentially when compared to the reward. Any person who only considers supply and demand without risk vs reward is foolish. That's the point that's being made. They hired, what i believe, to be a very good coach. However, he is barely gonna finish at .500 this season. Could it be a one off? Yes, but you're paying the guy like he's won multiple national titles at multiple schools. It's very risky, but could pay off if he can replicate it somewhere else.

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Jimbo turned FSU around and won a NC.

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Explain how the program won multiple national titles and conference championships before he got there, but he "turned it around".

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They need their own version of Saban to kick start the program - exactly how he did for LSU. 

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Sure but Jimbo is not Saban or Meyer yet he is getting paid like it. Whatever. It's not my school or money. I really wanted jimbo last year but i would have been upset if we paid what A&M paid for a guy coming off a down season who is playing runner up to Clemson in his conference now. He will do well at A&M i just doubt he lives up to his paycheck.

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Let see what factors make for a better job:

1. short term history of success (0-10 year past)
2. medium term history of success (10-30 years past)
3. long term history of success (30-100 years past)
4. alumni base
5. TV exposure
6. financial resources
7. recruiting base

FSU is clearly superior superior is regards to 1 and 2.
A&M is clearly superior in regards to 4 and 6.
A&M is slightly better in regards to 3 and 5.
7 is a wash.

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A&M is slightly better in regards to 3 and 5.

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Are you serious? FSU went 14 straight years finishing in the top 5. Aside from your bullshite NC claim, has aTm EVER finished top 5 in a single season?

This is like asking whether Arkansas is a better job than LSU. Come on, brah

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Hell no. They just betted their future on jimbo.

FSU bwasnt going to pay that much for a guy who just had a disasterous season

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program vs job rank

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Are you serious? FSU went 14 straight years finishing in the top 5. Aside from your bull shite NC claim, has aTm EVER finished top 5 in a single season?

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program vs job rank

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what risk?
if it doesnt work out, they fire him and hire a new coach. they have the money.

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Well you kinda answered your own question but let me expuound upon it: if they hire him for all this money it means a few things: 1) other top coaches who coach there will be expecting that type of salary. 2) if they fire him and pay all that money out it could negatively impact donations, booster money, perception of program by other top coaches, etc.

Another top level coach could say "well if Jimbo got fired there why would i leave to go there for all that stress if he couldn't even fix it?"

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they were 7-6 in 3 of the 4 years before Jimbo took over. they were mediocre as frick.

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I guess you could say they needed a regime change, but a multi championship/conference title winning school getting a regime change to revitalize it is a little easier than what he's about to take on. Everything will be much more difficult to accomplish at A&M. Recruiting, conference wins, NCs, etc.

If you think hiring a guy like jimbo, paying that amount of money, and then firing him will have zero impact to the program or school, i disagree. What happens if he still gets beat by LSU who has Ed Orgeron . I think there's more risk than you and others are comsidering here.

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You are smoking crack if you think the other top schools in the SEC west : Al,auburn, and LSU are just gonna concede the SEC west

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LSU shouldn't be in this tier as long as the O is around.