Scott Woodward left the Aggies high and dry when he bolted for LSU, his alma mater in his hometown state. Now that we’ve had time to process his leaving, it makes a lot of sense. Not just that he would leave for his alma mater, but one could argue he had peaked as the director of athletics. Part of that has to do with his final move to hire Buzz Williams as head coach of Texas A&M basketball.
Woodward had made arguably the two greatest hires in the history of Texas A&M athletics. Not that either coach has produced a national championship with the team, but Jimbo Fisher is the first time a national championship-winning head coach has left a school for Texas A&M, and Williams has had tournament success at every previous stop thus far.