Texas A&M just showed us that schools have the money to pay student-athletes

You can’t keep saying there isn’t enough to compensate players when there’s always enough to buy out bad, fired coaches

Fisher’s failure on the sidelines looks even worse when you compare him to the man he replaced, Kevin Sumlin — Texas A&M’s first Black head football coach. Sumlin was 51-26 during his tenure with the Aggies, and while he was there longer than Fisher, he also had the only 11-win season Texas A&M had enjoyed since 1998. His tenure — with the help of Johnny Manziel and Mike Evans — is what lifted expectations at the school for them to go after a coach with a national championship on his resume like Fisher has — thanks to Jameis Winston.

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