Texas Paper - LSU is a reason why Texas A&M & Baylor are in a coaching contract crisis!

FortWorthStarTelegram

This SEC school is a reason why Texas A&M & Baylor are in a coaching contract crisis!

In the celebrated history of “Brain Dead Guaranteed Buyouts,” Texas A&M has won the national title forever thanks to its deal with football coach Jimbo Fisher.

Paying a person $76.8 million to guarantee they will not work is straight out of the government spending playbook.

For the next few years, the “Jimbuyout” will provide cover for dozens of universities that are contemplating spending millions of dollars to dump a coach.

Baylor athletic director Mack Rhoads and Texas A&M athletic director Ross Bjork should schedule a meeting at the Blue Moon BBQ in Hearne, halfway between Waco and College Station, to bemoan how their respective employers got played by LSU, which is partly responsible for a mess they did nothing to create.

In 2021, LSU was headed towards its second straight losing record under Ed Orgeron, whom they fired in the middle of October of that year. LSU needed candidates, and Aranda served as an assistant in Baton Rouge from 2016 to ‘19.

He made sense.

That season, Aranda led Baylor to a win over Oklahoma State in the Big 12 title game, and Sugar Bowl victory against Ole Miss. The Bears finished 12-2 and fifth nationally that season as Aranda was the third person this century to prove that Baylor football could be successful nationally.

To avoid their head coach leaving for LSU, or USC, Baylor took the A&M route. When Aranda agreed to a six-year extension that is supposed to keep him there to 2029, all of Baylor nation looked skyward and said, “Thank you, Lord.”

Lauded and appreciated for his stoic demeanor and professorial intellect, those same traits in 2023 make Aranda the dumbest man on a sideline. That’s what happens when you’re a “defensive guru” whose unit allows 32 points a game, and ranks 95th in the nation in total defense.
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TTT - In layman's terms, LSU firing Ed Orgeron is the reason why Texas A&M and Baylor are in a coaching contract crisis. LSU living rent-free in the heads of Texas universities.