Before the Messy Exit, Arkansas New OC Bobby Petrino Reveals How Jimbo Fisher Gave Him Sleepless Nights for Months at Texas A&M

Jimbo Fisher‘s $75 million buyout just to leave Texas A&M University is a part of history! It needs to be seen whether the gigantic number would be surpassed for any coaching tenure to walk away from the role. Recently, the previous offensive coordinator at Texas A&M University, Bobby Petrino, disclosed how difficult it was to coach with him.

Bobby Petrino in his recent interview with On3 revealed that Jimbo Fisher’s strategies always kept him awake before their games. Petrino recently took over as the offensive coordinator for the New Arkansas as he brought to light the challenges of the role.

‘It was studying every night’ -Bobby Petrino on difficulties of coaching with Jimbo Fisher 

Jimbo Fisher had a stellar career that came to a sudden halt with a desperate buyout to keep him off the charts saw the coach dominating nearly all of the NCAA sides. Now Bobby Petrino, the newly appointed offensive coordinator for New Arkansas side came up with a stunning revelation. Petrino highlighted how his coaching style differed from Fisher’s and how he used to have difficulties coaching with him. He said, “Jimbo wanted to keep his terminology and I did not sleep for months. It was hard. It was studying every night, trying to figure this out.”

Petrino highlighted, “But I have an offense that I’m very familiar with and understand inside and out. Calling it will be much easier and going quicker. The players are going to have to work hard at understanding it. But we’ll have a processed approach to installing it and learning it. We’ll get it installed three times.” Now, Petrino has rejoined Arkansas to help rebuild their offense after a bad season.

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Back when the 62-year-old multi-year head coach was appointed, he’d said, “[But] that’s not really how it works. Coach is the boss. My job is to try and keep him happy and make sure that everything works the way he wants it to work.” Guess that approach didn’t really work out for him.

The Aggies’ fans had high hopes for his collaboration with Fisher, but ultimately it was not meant to be. Now he looks to seek redemption from the side and work on his offenses to achieve greater results.

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