Jimbo Fisher gives hilarious response to ill-advised slide

Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher was in a good mood Monday, coming off a win over division rival Auburn. He joked with the media about plays from the previous week and called for improvement from his offense as they prepare for a shootout against Ole Miss.

One play in particular stood out. Jimbo Fisher recalled a 49-yard completion from Zach Calzada to Caleb Chapman which resulting in a “Dusty Baker school” slide. The Texas A&M coach believed more yards were available if the receiver stayed up.

“I wish (Caleb Chapman) would’ve stayed up on his post route,” joked Jimbo Fisher. “Dadgum, he went to Dusty Baker’s school when I did. I needed (Zach Calzada) to go to Dusty Baker school and I needed the other one to stay up and keep running. But that’s part of it. We’ll learn, we’re getting better and we better because we play a heck of a team this Saturday.”

Dusty Baker, the manager of the Houston Astros, has become a baseball staple down the road from Jimbo Fisher. He led the Astros to the 2021 World Series before losing to the Atlanta Braves.

Jimbo Fisher on coaching changes

Throughout the 2021 college football season, many schools have chosen to make coaching changes during the year – and that has caught quite a few people off guard.

Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher was asked about the coaching upheaval that’s taken place this season during his weekly Monday press conference and offered his feelings on the situation.

“I don’t know the circumstances … I have my own cocoon,” Fisher said. “I’ve got enough problems of my own right here to fix. I don’t get into it. I hate to see it. I’m not going to to say a guy’s wrong or right – I don’t know the circumstances. But I don’t like to see it. I think it’s tough and bad.”

With nearly a full month still left in the college football regular season, there has been nine FBS head coaching changes – Akron, UConn, Georgia Southern, LSU, TCU, Texas Tech, UMass, USC and Washington State.

“It looks like some of the guys that went … I know the guys were great coaches – highly successful coaches,” Fisher said. “That just shows you in this business it’s, ‘What did you do for me lately?,’ because this is a day-to-day, week-to-week business.”

Fisher, in his fourth season at Texas A&M, was also asked if all the coaching changes had an effect on recruiting. He said it possibly could, but Texas A&M is staying focused on the players it has been recruiting all along.

“No … we’re on the guys we’re on,” Fisher said. “We’ve been on the right guys and I think we’re going in the right direction. It may [effect it] a little, but I don’t see it a lot right now. We’re locked in on our guys – been for a while.”