Jimbo Fisher was confronted with the largest and most decisive determination of his profession to date: Who to rent at OC. He had gone by means of the method of realizing he had to surrender the offense, and now it was simply who he might belief sufficient to do what he thought he might do at a excessive degree.

And he employed Bobby Petrino.

I say this with out sarcasm or judgment. Additionally, I do not assume Jimbo hit man after man. Two different individuals we noticed legally linked to the enterprise have been Washington Huskie OC Ryan Grubb and TCU OC Garrett Riley, and Petrino’s title was one of many earliest to get thrown in there when Billy Liucci talked about him as a risk. as 15 November

Confronted with the largest determination he has ever needed to make as head coach, Jimbo went with Bobby Petrino. And I’ve combined emotions about it. Let’s speak about that.

Unhealthy

I imply clearly unhealthy. Petrino’s status rests on various missteps and his unimaginable public humiliation. We all know how he left Atlanta, who hasn’t had a bike joke or two amongst us, and we now have just a little bit of data that he was basically kicked out of the runoff in Louisville. For these of us sufficiently old, we bear in mind Petrino being the man who frolicked with some Auburn supporters on an Auburn airplane on the tarmac and, oops, hadn’t instructed coach Tommy Tuberville but that he was going to be fired!

His status advances him. And casting him with guys like DJ Durkin and Steve Addazio… each have their very own reputations… There’s rather a lot to just accept. I perceive this and really feel all of this. Belief me.

Good

Loopy sufficient, there are some advantages to this rental. Petrino has had some fairly good offenses and a few actually good QBs as properly. A&M followers ought to be acquainted with his offense, which began with the ass kicks we received from Petrino whereas we have been in Arkansas. Bear in mind once we have been up 35-17 in opposition to Arkansas in 2011 after which misplaced 42-38? It was an offense led by Petrino that did this to us… and that crew completed the nation 11-2 and fifth!

After which there was the 2015 Music Metropolis bowl with freshman Lamar Jackson. They completed that 12 months in 51st general offensive place, and in 2016/2017 they have been third general in each years. It wasn’t so way back!

Even this 12 months… A&M averaged 22 factors per recreation with an actual plethora of expertise. Missouri State averaged 27 factors per recreation with much less expertise than the remainder of their conferences. An additional 5 factors in a recreation brings us 4 extra wins this 12 months. Possibly that is a low bar, however I am nonetheless searching for the great right here.

The factor is, Petrino has a historical past of placing collectively some fairly prolific offenses that each run QBs and beat QBs. It is cheap to anticipate him to make a superb offense right here in A&M.

Complete

Like I mentioned… a excessive ceiling on what he can do with the expertise at hand, however a low base given his previous violations. There was most likely one other hiring that would present us with comparable offensive manufacturing with out reputational danger… however guess what. Jimbo did not belief these guys to take the cost. I imagine we might have a Phil Longo or a Phil Montgomery earlier than we went to Wisconsin and Auburn respectively, however Jimbo did not need any of those guys. Confronted with an important and decisive determination of his profession, for higher or worse, he trusted Bobby Petrino. And I can see the logic on paper. However I see the destructive aspect within the newspapers.

In the end, Jimbo is paid for one factor: profitable Dadgum soccer matches. This a lot. And this 12 months he did not. And it has to do it subsequent 12 months.

I feel Petrino can win us some soccer video games subsequent 12 months. So possibly now could be the time to make peace with the off-pitch stuff and hope that Petrino can use a few of his on-court success over the previous few years to get the job completed.