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His schedule is suddenly freed up, but no, don’t count on it.
You won’t see Jimbo Fisher in Tallahassee Saturday. Sure, it’s a 10-year anniversary, and as part of Senior Day, Florida State is saluting members of its 2013 national championship football team.
The one coached by Jimbo Fisher, remember?
Now that he’s lost his designated parking spot outside Texas A&M’s Kyle Field, he can find Interstate 10 and arrive in Tallahassee with plenty of time to spare. Except it’ll likely be another 10 years before he’d consider such a thing, and frankly, another 10 before the FSU folks warm up to the thought.
Such was Jimbo’s acrimonious relationship with FSU officials and fans before his late-2017 resignation and wagon-ho toward Houston, where he took a right and followed the smell of big riches and equally big possibilities in College Station.
Jimbo Fisher now has plenty of spare time and enough spare change to fill the hours with whatever he desires.
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Six seasons and zero championships later, Jimbo has redrawn the boundaries on severance packages and will someday decide whether to coach again or, who knows, start answering to James and live out life as a well-appointed man about town. The world is your char-grilled oysters rockefeller when you’re due $76 million over the next eight years.
One must normally bankrupt a Fortune 400 company or retire from the Senate Banking Committee to get such a sendoff.
Meanwhile, cue the outrage from all the usual precincts.
Jimbo’s jumbo contract, with its beyond-charitable just in case we fire you provisions, represents “all that is wrong with modern college football,” say many of the…
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Author : Daytona Beach News-Journal
Publish date : 2023-11-16 10:19:37
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