LSU was reportedly prepared to go above and beyond to lure Jimbo Fisher back to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
According to The Action Network’s Brett McMurphy, the program was ready to shell out an eight-year, $125 million contract on the table for the Texas A&M head coach.
Fisher repeatedly said he was not going to leave the Aggies to become the LSU coach.
“We’re gonna recruit an unbelievable class this year,” he told reporters in November. “So I’m the dumbest human being on God’s earth to recruit all these guys to A&M so I can go across over there [to LSU] and go play against them.”
Fisher won a national championship at Florida State in 2013 and served as LSU’s offensive coordinator from 2000 to 2006.
The LSU program eventually landed Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly, who reportedly got a deal worth $100 million over 10 years.
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Lincoln Riley famously stated he had no interest in coaching the Tigers, and he was technically correct, because he was on his way to USC.
Texas A&M hasn’t won more than nine games since Fisher arrived in 2018. The team just finished this year with an 8-4 record. However, they narrowly missed out on the College Football Playoff in 2020 on the strength of an 8-1 record, but the year was weird due to the global pandemic.
