Year No. 1 of the Great Jimbo Cash Grab has been a bust, because it has exposed Jimbo Fisher as another coach who looks great when he has an NFL quarterback to tear it up.
It was nearly one year ago when Texas A&M buried Jimbo Fisher in so much money it offended Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith. This, despite the fact that OSU pays head coach Urban Meyer a higher salary this season than A&M pays Jimbo.
One year later, it's become apparent that the only way this expensive experiment is going to work out the way the Aggies want it to is if Jimbo finds himself a big-money, NFL-bound quarterback.
Current Aggies quarterback Kellen Mond is a nice college player. And yes, it's possible he becomes a high-end college passer when he's a senior. Maybe.
Watching Kyler Murray do what he's doing at Oklahoma must make every Aggie only slightly ill; what would their team look like had Murray not transferred from A&M, in part because of how the previous Aggies staff was unable to control Johnny Manziel?
As Arizona is learning, Sumlin isn't a good hire. And while Jimbo may be the right guy in College Station, the Aggies are currently 7-4. That record says they don't look much different than they did under "Coach Dennis Sherman Sumlin."
At times, the Aggies look good, even dominant, but their record remains blah.
