CHARLOTTE — Jimbo Fisher enjoys his new life on camera. He’s spent most of this week on set as part of the ACC Network’s coverage of the league’s media days.“But coaches are coaches,” Fisher told The Athletic on Friday. And he’d still like to scribble out “television analyst” on his business cards and replace it with “head coach.”Fisher would love to get back into coaching, even as the sport he left after the 2023 season has plunged into chaos with an uncertain, ever-changing rulebook.“The relationship with players. The competition. I miss the competition. I miss recruiting. If I can recruit without money, I can recruit with money. I promise you that,” Fisher said. “But I miss the competition, the gameplanning. That was never work to me. That was fun. It was a grind, but it was fun.”Fisher spent a decade as an assistant coach under Nick Saban and Bobby Bowden at LSU and Florida State before taking over in Tallahassee in 2010. He went 83-23 and won the 2013 season’s national title with quarterback Jameis Winston in the middle of a run of three consecutive ACC titles.With the Seminoles scuffling at 5-6 in 2017, he left for Texas A&M and signed an unprecedented fully guaranteed 10-year contract worth $75 million. After going 9-1 in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, he signed an extension that guaranteed him $95 million. He went 8-4 in 2021, 5-7 in 2022 and was 6-4 late in the 2023 season when Texas A&M paid him $77.5 millon — the largest buyout in college football history — to fire him and hire Mike Elko, who led Texas A&M to the College Football Playoff last season.
Jimbo Fisher wants back into coaching: ‘If I can recruit without money, I can recruit with money’
For now, Fisher is prepared for his third season away from the sport and another spent behind a desk on camera.










