Most fans of Texas A&M football came away from the 2018 season feeling like the program is heading in the right direction. Jimbo Fisher took another coach’s players, went through one of the toughest schedules in the country and came away with a 9-4 record, including a four-game win streak to close the season.
Beating LSU, finishing second in the division and winning the bowl game in dominant fashion were all signs of a changing of the winds.
Winning in year one is hard, and almost never happens even to the best of coaches. Just look at some of the country’s top head coaches and how they fared in year one at their current stop.