Yahoo! Sports' Pete Thamel recently wrote a column looking at the biggest winners and losers of the 2017 college football coaching carousel. The losers included some not-so-surprising names like Tennessee and Arizona State, both of which have been frequent punchlines after their respective searches. But he also included Texas A&M for its hiring of Jimbo Fisher.
"Texas A&M paid $10 million to fire a coach, Kevin Sumlin, who went 23-15 the past three seasons," Thamel wrote. "They did so to guarantee $75 million to Fisher, who went 25-12 the past three seasons."
He continued: "After Fisher conceded ACC supremacy to Clemson the past three years, it's hard to imagine him toppling Nick Saban's Alabama empire.