Objective Tiger

ATM can offer him any amount LSU can offer him. He’s already averaging $9.5 million there. If they have to bump him another $500k, they’ll do it. Hell, if they have to bump him another $2.5 million they’ll do it. They cannot afford the PR nightmare or the hit to their program of losing a head coach to us. They will not let it happen.

You also forget, there’s no state income tax in Texas. They can pay 6% less than whatever we offer.

You’re half right.

I think he did quite a bit of diligence and tree-shaking early in the season and before the season. Now he is just waiting. When the regular season concludes, offer(s) will be made, and there will be some concrete information start to leak out.

In fairness, ATM was not built to even sniff competing for a championship until last year, sort of. Maybe this year if they didn’t lose their QB. Jimbo had to completely remake that roster because Sumlin routinely got the shite kicked out of him by us, Bama, Georgia, Florida, and Auburn on the recruiting trail.

But none of this is relevant. I know people in Houston who know Fisher personally. He’s not coming here just to work with Woodward, which is the only concrete thing we can offer him that ATM can’t. Feldman is a slapdick who is throwing shite against the wall.

Bout $3.50

He's a damn good coach. Now that NIL is legal, he can probably conduct his shenanigans legally without bringing down the wrath of the NCAA. Not that the NCAA can do anything to anyone anymore anyway.

Dude, that is delusion, or maybe hyper-cynicism is the better word. Dabo is a top 5 coach and recruiter in college football, period. Is he a little weird? Yeah. But he is great at what he does. Not good, great. He would be a home run hire.

He's really good friends with the AD. He probably gets a chance to revamp with new coordinators, although he might jump to the NFL. I seriously doubt he'll be fired.

When Texas eventually makes it back (and they will), it will have a catastrophic effect on ATM's recruiting, just as it always has.

My understanding is that it's the opposite. They probably aren't best buddies, but he gets along fine with them, and they stay out of his way and give him whatever he wants.

I get the buyout talking point, but when is the last time a buyout stopped a school from hiring a coach? Dabo's $45 million buyout or whatever for Alabama is basically one of a kind. No other good coach with leverage has a buyout like that. I don't know why Dabo even agreed to it in the first place. It's not like Clemson was going to let him go over it.

The real buyout for Fisher is that he has $95 million guaranteed through 2030 or something very close to that. Woodward could probably offer him $100 million through 2029, but ATM would match that, and they are giving him basically unlimited funding for facilities and assistants and I read yesterday they are giving a bunch of money to his charity for kids that have the same illness as his son.

I think Fisher would recruit lights out and win a championship or multiple championships at LSU, but nothing is guaranteed and there is always some amount of risk when you make a change. Ultimately it comes down whether Fisher is going to abandon a situation where he has it made, without getting a raise, just to work with his buddy Woodward again. I don't think he will do that. In fact, I suspect the overture was already made by Woodward, and that's why Fisher got a raise and extension right before the season.