Jimbo Fisher on coaching future: Looking for 'right opportunity' in 2025
Former Florida State and Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher is out of college coaching in 2024. However, he still seems to have some desire to return to coaching.
As Fisher recently opened up about during an appearance on ESPN Radio, he’s still looking at his coaching future, sharing that he is open to the right opportunity in 2025.
“There is only so much you can hunt and fish before you want to get back in,” Jimbo Fisher said. “I’ll be watching a lot of film this year and see if there the right opportunity for me to get back into it next season”
Fisher has been involved in college football going back to 1985 when he played for Salem University in West Virginia. He would also go on to play at Samford and for the Chicago Bruisers before starting his college coaching career at Samford in 1988. From then through the 2023 season, he spent every year as a college coach.
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Most recently, Fisher was the head coach at Texas A&M. He was there between 2018 and 2023, going 45-25 overall and 27-21 in SEC play during that stretch. The Aggies had two AP Top 25 finishes under Fisher but none since the 2020 season.
Texas A&M fired Jimbo Fisher following 10 games of the 2023 season. The school chose to pay his massive buyout — the biggest in college football history, at $77.5 million.
Prior to coaching at Texas A&M, Fisher was the head coach at Florida State for eight seasons. There, it was his job to replace legendary head coach Bobby Bowden, which he was successful at doing. Fisher led the Seminoles to a national championship in 2013 and had seven AP Top 25 finishes there.
By the end of his time at Florida State, Fisher had an 83-23 overall record and a 48-16 record in ACC play.
As an assistant coach, Jimbo Fisher learned the game from several of the legendary coaching figures in the game’s history. While Fisher replaced Bowden, he also spent several seasons coaching under Bowden. Prior to that, he was an assistant under Nick Saban and Les Miles at LSU. Terry Bowden and Rick Minter are also coaches who Fisher worked under.
Jimbo Fisher has a resume that certainly could land him a new job. The question is now about whether or not the job he considers the right opportunity becomes available to him.