As expected, the Texas A&M Aggies have fired coach Kevin Sumlin after his sixth season in College Station. Sumlin failed to make satisfactory progress, and A&M lost at least four games in every subsequent year of his tenure following 2012 and faded from SEC West contention every year.
Sumlin recruited well and consistently stocked his rosters with talent, including a No. 1 NFL pick in defensive end Myles Garrett. He had top-15 talent in each of the last three seasons but didn’t produce results anywhere near that good.
Schools do not pay eight-figure buyouts to head coaches unless they have a major replacement candidate in mind, and in this case, Texas A&M media seems unanimous that the candidate A&M is after is Jimbo Fisher, of the Florida State Seminoles.