This is a long, but good article on the things that led to Dumbo getting the axe. I found a few things in there that Sling Blade has exhibited consistently. That does not make them right or wrong but a few things that Dumbo sucked at are some of the things that Sling Blade sux at also.
Jimbo Fisher was brought to Texas A&M with a record contract. He now leaves with a record buyout. What went so wrong with the Aggies?
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Meanwhile, Fisher's singular focus on running his program his way didn't endear him to many people on campus. Fisher was the decision-maker on everything, and if you questioned why something was done a certain way, you were likely to be met with an angry response, sources said
There was no hope that this would ever get better because what was going to change?" a staff member said. "He wasn't going to listen to anybody else. It was just going to continue the way that it was."
Fisher's in-game decisions remained a source of frustration. Against Alabama, he chose to punt on fourth-and-1 at the Tide's 45-yard line in the third quarter of a 17-17 game. Alabama scored six plays later and never trailed again. That one call became emblematic of larger issues for a fanbase that felt, even against the best teams in the league, Fisher was playing too conservatively, almost not to lose as opposed to trying to win.
"If it wasn't a full yard, inside a yard, [we] probably would have went," Fisher said.
Fisher runs a complex, pro-style offense and multiple staffers indicated that while Petrino was calling the plays, a large portion of the plays he was calling were still Fisher's offense.
The offense worked when everything clicked, but proper execution became increasingly difficult with the revolving door at quarterback and the transfer portal leading to the addition of new players unfamiliar with the system.
Even when it didn't work, Fisher stayed the course.
But it was Fisher's job to get them to execute, and "just gotta execute" became the defining phrase of his tenure.
"It's too complicated," a former player said. "And that's why I think you saw a lot of struggles with it. It just seemed like all these pieces have to go right for a play to work. There's a lot of thinking. There's not a lot of just going out and playing. And I think that's a big deal."
"A&M has the players but not the scheme," Cook said. "I mean A&M is running like the Wishbone offense. It's cool and all, but if Jimbo opened it up that would be serious."
"The assessment that I delivered was that we are not reaching our full potential," Bjork said at a news conference of a conversation with the Texas A&M's president, Gen. Mark A. Welsh. "We are not in the championship conversation and something was not quite right about our direction and the plan."
